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#MambaDay: Kobe's final game literally broke the internet

Kobe Bryant's farewell NBA game was always going to gain worldwide attention and fans flooded social media all day with #MambaDay tributes and #MambaMemories.

Then, at the moment Kobe took the court for the final time, that came to a grinding halt.

Twitter didn't completely go down, but scheduled tweets failed to send and some users experienced difficulties.

But later in the game, the Lakers' official Twitter account disappeared completely.

Here's just a taste of the kind of tributes that flooded in during the legend's final game: