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Happy Birthday, Kobe Bryant

It’s Kobe Bryant’s 35th birthday today! Let’s enjoy some dinner and vino with everyone’s favorite Achilles rehab patient!

by Andrew Garrison

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You’ve had a great 17 years in the league, Kobe Bryant. All of us here at SB Nation just want to say happy 35th birthday. We went ahead and invited a few of your “friends” over for dinner, but one of them decided to leave early. Sorry!

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