Everyone in the world knew once Kobe Bryant announced his retirement that, if healthy, he would be in the All-Star game. After learning that he leads all players with 719,235 votes as of this morning, Bryant had a priceless reaction:
“Listen, I was making a little coffee run this morning, got some gas and decided to just go on Instagram and peruse and [I] saw the damn votes, and I was like, ‘What the hell?’ Shocked doesn’t do it justice.”
I wouldn’t be shocked, the people love Kobe. Even if there are currently better players than Kobe that could be in the All-Star game, they were never as good as he was, so wait until next year, because this is the year of Kobe.