Remembering Kobe Bryant's lowest moment in Utah

With only nine games remaining in his Hall of Fame career, Kobe Bryant will take the floor in Utah for the final time on Monday.

The 33,000 career points, five championships, and countless other accolades Bryant has accumulated in his 20 seasons as a pro make it easy to forget that 19 years ago, Salt Lake City played host to one of the lowest moments of Bryant's career.

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With the Delta Center - one of the 1990s' most hostile hoops environments - rocking and jeering the rookie, an 18-year-old Bryant bombed away on four airballs during the final seconds of the fourth quarter and overtime in what would turn out to be the deciding game of the 1997 Western Conference semifinals.

Though the Lakers would be swept by the Jazz in the West Final the following year, given the career Bryant has gone onto and the perennial heartbreak the Jazz have endured, it's safe to say the Black Mamba got the last laugh.