Welcome to Deadcast, a podcast taking you through the week of sports lunacy.

Here are Deadspin, editor-in-chief Tim Marchman and columnist Drew McGarry.

Oh, it's Kobe's last night, Marchman.

Well, after this post, Kobe Ryan will have played his last game.

Do you have any emotional delicacy right now because you know it's all over

for beloved Kobe Bryant?

You know, I actually feel a little bad because he's been such a villain

to me for so long. I'm a Kobe hater. So seeing him go out

with such a terrible team playing so poorly.

It makes me a little bit sad because you want the villain to go out, you know, flipping people off and doing cool stuff.

Him being a broken down mummy, it's hard to hate him the way I've hated him

for the last 20 or so years.

Is it though?

But isn't this exactly what he deserves?

And by the way,

the whole Nike thing with the villain and the hero shit,

where they're like branding him off of the off of the darker side of their interpretation.

Yeah, they're trying to use, they're trying to use the fact that, you know, a lot of people can't stand him, in many cases for very good reasons.

As like, you know, they're trying to own it and have it help his branding.

So yeah, you know, I guess on paper, just seeing him limp around like a, like fucking

mumrah for a team this bad is good and it's kind of how he deserves to go out.

But emotionally, I would kind of more enjoy seeing him get his heart broken in in Game 7 of the Western Conference Finals or something like that.

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