The 2015-16 season will forever be known as the Kobe Bryant farewell tour and the year in which the Golden State Warriors made history.

Tonight, the Los Angeles Lakers' legend will say goodbye for good, while the Warriors will have the opportunity to break the single-season wins record. While everyone knows April 13th, 2016 will be a historic day for the NBA because of those two events, it means a lot more beneath the surface.

Kevin Jones of KNBR has an interesting article on Bryant passing the torch to the Warriors. Here is a tidbit from Jones' article:

“The early 2000's generation of basketball that was dominated in part by Allen Iverson and Shaq, two notorious players who fooled around in practice and could just show up and dominate. Bryant was the polar opposite and became a symbol young basketball players desperately needed. Kobe made being a ‘gym rat’ cool again.”

Jones also includes a quote from the Warriors' Klay Thompson, where he discusses Bryant's impact on his generation of players:

“What I tell people (about Kobe) is yeah, the athleticism and the talent for the game is amazing, but his work ethic is what I really tried to learn from him. He really matched his potential. And not a lot of guys can say that. He gave this game everything he had, and that’s what motivates a lot of us.”

This is an interesting transition of eras for one major reason—Bryant and the 2015-16 Warriors couldn't be any more different from one another.

Yes, Kobe could light up the scoring board and it's hard to argue that he's the greatest scorer of his generation. The Warriors can relate, because they lead the league in scoring for the second straight year.

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However, that is where many of the similarities end. Whereas the Warriors thrive on ball movement and high percentage shots, Bryant was the face of the isolation basketball generation in the post-Michael Jordan era.

In an age that now favors analytics to determine the value of basketball players, Bryant was always a moderate field goal percentage shooter who never led the league in player efficiency rating or win shares.

In contrast, the Warriors lead the league in every major advanced statistical category, including the face of their franchise, Stephen Curry.

While Wednesday night marks the conclusion of the 2015-16 regular season, it will also mark the complete transition of the NBA from the isolation basketball era to the small-ball, advanced statistics period that the Warriors have made famous.