The Minneapolis Star Tribune recently interviewed former Augsburg College basketball player and retired NBA star Devean George ’99 about the upcoming retirement of legendary Los Angeles Lakers player Kobe Bryant. George, who retired in 2011, played his first seven seasons in the NBA alongside Bryant.
George said that he knows Bryant is ready to retire from professional sports because he has seen familiar signs from his own retirement. “What I鈥檝e seen him go through this year, you can see the flame is not there and he knows it鈥檚 time,” he said. “It鈥檚 the old clich茅: Father Time, no one can beat it. There comes a time where no one wins. Basketball is a young man鈥檚 sport. It鈥檚 that simple.”
Read George: When it’s time, it’s time on the Star Tribune site.
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