Kobe Bryant 2015-16 Signed Ticket PSA/DNA 8/8 Autograph | Last Career Game | 60 Points

Offered is a full ticket to Kobe Bryant’s final NBA game that has been signed by the late Laker legend. 

Contested on April 13, 2016, Kobe and the Lakers defeated the Utah Jazz 101-96, with Kobe turning in a truly legendary performance. Kobe finished the game with a staggering 60 points, four rebounds, four assists, a steal, and a block. This marked Kobe’s seventh 60-point game and the first time in NBA history that a player scored 50 or more in their final career game. 

Kobe Bryant’s final career game on April 13, 2016, became legendary not because it was his farewell — but because of how he chose to exit. At 37 years old, playing on a rebuilding team with nothing at stake, Kobe authored one last impossible performance: 60 points in his final NBA game, the most ever scored by a player in a farewell appearance and the highest total by any player that entire NBA season.

The night began unevenly, with Kobe missing early shots and laboring to find rhythm, but the volume never dipped. He kept calling for the ball, kept rising into contested jumpers, kept attacking as if it were Game 7. By halftime he had 22 points, and the building slowly shifted from celebration to belief. Every made basket drew louder reactions, every possession carrying the quiet question: how far can this go?

Then came the fourth quarter, where the performance crossed into myth. Kobe scored 23 points in the final period alone, singlehandedly dragging the Lakers back from a double-digit deficit against Utah. He hit pull-up jumpers, fading baseline shots, and old familiar footwork combinations that looked lifted from his prime. With seconds remaining and the Lakers clinging to the lead, he calmly sank two free throws — his 59th and 60th points — sending Staples Center into a sustained eruption that felt more like a championship moment than a regular-season finale.

In total, Kobe finished 22-of-50 shooting, 6-of-21 from three, and 10-of-12 from the line — a volume-heavy, defiant performance that perfectly mirrored his career: uncompromising, fearless, and singularly self-driven. It wasn’t efficient basketball. It was personal basketball. It was a last declaration of will.

What made the 60 unforgettable wasn’t just the number — it was when it came, who delivered it, and what it symbolized. In his final competitive minutes, Kobe didn’t fade quietly. He commanded the game one last time, bending it to his personality, and leaving the floor exactly as he had lived on it: dictating the terms.

This ticket is an extraordinary artifact of a transcendent athletic career that was fittingly encapsulated in one final historic performance. Known for his grit, determination, and sheer willpower combined with incredible basketball skill and intelligence, Kobe’s performance in this game exemplified all of the features that made him a legendary player and an idol to so many players in today’s NBA. As millions watched at home, this ticket granted access to an extraordinarily lucky fan to witness a performance that will be talked about decades from now. Sotheby’s is proud to present this piece of basketball history that contributed to the audience which helped make Kobe’s final moments in the NBA so electrifying. 

This ticket has been authenticated and graded by PSA and been awarded a PSA 8. The autograph has been graded by PSA/DNA and received an 8 grade. Out of the 44 signed tickets to Kobe’s last game assessed by PSA/DNA, only one ticket has received a higher ticket grade.

Going Deeper - Mamba Out

In some ways, the game between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Utah Jazz on April 13, 2016 at 10:30 Eastern/7:30 Pacific time, each team’s last of the season, did not matter. The Lakers had gone through a tough season that saw them take sole possession of last place in the West on November 22, 2015 and never relinquish it. The Jazz learned that the Houston Rockets had eliminated them from playoff contention about 10 minutes before tip-off. The game would effectively be an exhibition between the two teams.

In others, this game meant everything to millions of basketball fans around the world. It would be the last time they would have the chance to watch Kobe Bryant play basketball on an NBA floor. 

The journey to this, Kobe’s final game, began months before. Kobe himself said that the realization hit him that it was time to bring his career to an end when, during the national anthem at an early season game against the Kings, he looked up in the rafters and saw the jerseys of once arch-rivals Peja Stojakovic, Vlade Divac, and Chris Webber retired. These players, once contemporaries, had long moved on from NBA basketball and that era had come to a close. He wondered what he was still doing out on the floor. He noticed that when he meditated in the morning, his mind that ordinarily drifted toward the game he loved sometimes did not go there any more. It was time for him to move on. 

On November 29, 2015, Kobe let the world know in a love letter to the game he had loved since childhood, lamenting that while his heart and mind could carry on, his body would not allow him to obsessively pursue basketball at the NBA level past this season. As such, he did not want to belabor his relationship with the game: he simply wanted to enjoy his final ride.

What followed was an outpouring of tributes from around the league. Tribute videos were plentiful and everywhere he went, PA announcers made his player introduction special. Players and figures from throughout his career, from Jerry West who traded for him and was now an executive with the Golden State Warriors, to Michael Jordan who mentored him and thought of him as a little brother and was now the first ex-player to become the majority owner of an NBA franchise with the Charlotte Hornets, to Pau Gasol, the player that Kobe called a brother and had helped revitalize the Lakers with Kobe in the late aughts who was now an All-Star for the Chicago Bulls, made sure that when Kobe came to town, they let him know how special a player he was and his impact on the game. 

As April rolled around and Kobe’s remaining games in the NBA came down to single digits, Kobe seemed keen to leave a lasting memory in the minds of fans. Of the five games Kobe scored 30 or more in during the first 81 games of the season, two had come in the month of April including a 34 point outburst in his last game against the rival Boston Celtics. In game number 82 though, Kobe showed off his Mamba Mentality one final time and kept digging deep to give the basketball world a special career finale.

It took time for Kobe to get going. For over six minutes, Kobe remained scoreless, missing his first five shots. With about five and a half minutes to go in the first, Kobe blocked Trevor Booker’s dunk attempt and came down the other end to score a high-arcing shot from the block for his first bucket. The Black Mamba was off to the races. Kobe scored another 13 straight points for the Lakers and finished the first with 15. Kobe added seven more in the second to go into halftime with 22 points, which would already tie his 15th best scoring performance of the season. Even so, the Lakers were still down 12. 

The third saw Kobe show off many of the moves that had made him the third highest scoring player of all time. Whether it was fadeaway jumpers from midrange, hard drives to the basket, or a heavily contested three, Kobe seemed to turn back the clock and be treating the LA faithful to a curated highlight reel of his best plays. He added 15 in the third to bring his total to 37, one shy of his season high. The Lakers still ended the quarter down nine, 75-66.

The fourth quarter was the stuff of legends. With 9:33 left in the final quarter of his NBA career, Kobe hit a three to bring his total to 40, his season high, and cut a 12-point deficit to nine. Less than a minute later, another three brought him to 43 points. Kobe then scored his 45th point on a contested jumper in the lane with just under six minutes left, cutting the deficit to just three. The Jazz then went on a 7-0 run over the next 2:20, extending their lead back to 10 with just 3:20 left. Despite Kobe’s stellar play, fate seemed to be against the Lakers that night.

Kobe would not let the Lakers fall. For one final time, Kobe put the Lakers on his back, and what followed was high drama. After going down 10 thanks to a Gordon Hayward free throw, Kobe came down the floor and hit a reverse layup to bring his total to 47. 50 seconds later, Kobe hit two free throws to bring his total to 49, one shy of the 25th 50 point game of his career. After a defensive stop, Kobe drove hard down the lane and, much like his first bucket of the game, shot a high arcing shot that cut the Jazz lead to six with 1:45 to go and gave him his 50th and 51st points. One of the most prolific scorers in NBA history had delivered yet again: this was the most he had scored in a game since 2009 and he became the first player in NBA history to deliver a 50 point performance in their farewell game. After the Jazz committed a travel on the other end and the Lakers got the ball back, the LA faithful showered the legend with chants of “Kobe! Kobe! Kobe!” As it turned out, he was not done.

With 1:34 to go and the ball, Kobe quickly came down the floor, split a double team, and rose up for a perfect jump shot for 53 points and to cut the deficit to four. Kobe had gone on a 6-0 run by himself in about a minute and had scored the Lakers’ last 10. The crowd and announcers, Mike Tirico and Hubie Brown, could hardly contain their excitement as they watched this final exhibition of clutch basketball excellence unfolding before their eyes. 

The Staples Center crowd shouted defense at the top of their lungs, and sure enough the Lakers got another stop. Kobe brought the ball up the floor, and with less than a minute to go he rose up and nailed another three to give him his 56th point, extend his personal run to nine unanswered by the Jazz, and cut the deficit to just one. Staples Center erupted as the Jazz called timeout and Hubie Brown let out an amazed “Oh! Oh! Oh ho ho!” 

The Jazz could not end the run. Another missed three gave Kobe the ball down one with 42 seconds remaining and a chance to solidify perhaps the greatest final performance across any professional team sport. He did not miss his chance. 

As Kobe dribbled across the halfcourt line, he utilized multiple screens by Julius Randle to get free and rose up from just inside the three point line, a spot he had scored from so many times before. With 32 seconds left, for the final time in his career, Kobe gave the Lakers the lead by burying a 20 foot jumper for his 58th point and the final field goal of his career. He had scored 11 unanswered points and taken his team from 10 down to a one point lead in less than two minutes. The Jazz called timeout to try and draw up a play, but to no avail. They missed another shot and in an effort to prolong the game, fouled Kobe. With both free throws he would exit the NBA with only the seventh 60 point game in his career. He delivered. He hit both free throws, extending the lead to three and securing a 60-point finale. The Jazz missed again, and with 4.1 seconds left, Kobe recorded his final NBA stat: an assist to Jordan Clarkson who put the Lakers up five and scored the first points by a Laker not named Kobe since the 6:17 mark. 

The Jazz called their final timeout, and this gave Kobe the opportunity to check out of the game to thunderous applause by the Laker faithful. The scale of what they had just witnessed was difficult to comprehend. Kobe’s 23 fourth quarter points would have tied his 14th-best scoring performance of the season alone. Kobe had just completed a personal 13-0 run in just over two minutes that had brought the Lakers from a near-certain defeat to a win in his final career game. He had scored 38 in the second half. He scored more than half of his team’s total points. He left a final memory of his greatness indelibly etched in the minds of the basketball world as he left the court for the final time. 

Kobe took to the mic after the game to briefly address the crowd and took the time to thank the fans, organization, and his family for their support through the highs and lows of a 20 year career. The final words of his address wrapped what almost felt like a Broadway performance and career up perfectly and resonate with fans to this day: “Mamba out.”