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Today Kobe Bryant announced his retirement. Kobe is a controversial player for so many reasons and in particular because of the sexual assault case (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobe_Bryant_sexual_assault_case). If I have to look beyond all this and just consider his game, I really like Kobe as a player. But unfortunately I can't look beyond the other things :(

Nonetheless, Kobe is one of the greatest NBA players, few would disagree with that. I find it interesting that not a lot of positive words were associated with his announcement today (on Twitter at least). I see "MVP", "legendary", and "greatest" showing up but at a much lower frequency than "Lakers", "retire", and "NBA".

The sentiment was neutral for the most part but positive bar is also quite tall.


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