Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant recently sat down with Shams Charania of Yahoo! Sports for a wide-ranging discussion. During the one-on-one interview, Bryant, who will see his jersey hoisted to the rafters inside the Staples Center on Monday night, was asked to look back on his 20-year career in the NBA.

As most hoops fans know, Kobe Bryant, now 39 years of age, was one of the greatest players to ever step foot on a basketball court. This is a man who has five championship rings, 18 All-Star nods, 11 All-NBA First Team selections, and two scoring titles to his credit. Though he has loads (and loads) of accolades, the former 13th overall pick in the 1997 Draft told Charania that he has two regrets.

“When you look back 20 years, are there any regrets in your mind over anything?,” Charania asked Bryant during the interview.

“Yeah,” Bryant replied, folding his arms and looking off in thought. “The Finals versus the (Detroit) Pistons and the one versus the (Boston) Celtics. I feel like they could've been avoided. I feel like there could have been things that I could have and should have done better as a leader to put my guys in a better position to be successful that I missed.”

“Different things for (the two) different series',” Bryant continued. “With Detroit, it was ensuring that we understood how to go deeper into our automatics when we were facing pressure from the Pistons, and we weren't prepared to do that. As a result, it cost us. It cost us the Finals.”

“And with the Celtics (series), it's not driving my teammates as hard as I should have,” Bryant said. “Everything was easy-going. We had a free-flowing team. I didn't want to be as strict or as combative with them. As a result, we weren't as tenacious. And we ran into a buzz-saw with the Celtics, who were that. And we fell short because of that.”

“So those are two things that I could have fixed,” Bryant said in closing.

Bryant, one of the fiercest competitors the NBA has ever seen, once said that the loss to the Celtics in the 2008 Finals bothered him so much that he listened to particular songs that were played inside TD Garden to be reminded of the feeling.

“I remember when we were losing, they played that Journey song and the whole arena started singing,” Bryant told Mike Bresnahan of the L.A. Times in December of 2015. “I hated that song for two years. I listened to the song every single day just to remind me of that feeling. Same thing with the Dropkick Murphys — I listened to the Dropkick Murphys all the time just because I wanted to remember that feeling.”

Kobe Bryant had his revenge on the Celtics in 2010, when L.A. defeated Boston in the Finals, 4-3. Despite shooting 6-of-24 from the field, Kobe led the Lakers from the depths of a thirteen-point third quarter deficit in Game 7 to win the championship. For his outstanding play in the series, Bryant was awarded with his second consecutive Finals MVP award.