Miami Heat shooting guard Dwyane Wade says Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant set an “unbelievable, impossible bar” with his final performance in the NBA back in 2016.

In Bryant's last game ever, The Black Mamba scored a whopping 60 points at Staples Center against the Utah Jazz. It was a performance which captivated the NBA world.

Wade, who could possibly play in his final game against the Brooklyn Nets next week, says he's going to go out the D-Wade way and not try to score 60 points like Bryant.

“I'm gonna go out the way D-Wade's supposed to go out. You know what I mean?” Wade told Rachel Nichols of ESPN. “And like, I think it helps, too, that we are in this playoff battle. ‘Cause I'm just trying to win.”

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Wade and the Heat are in a fierce playoff battle right now.

Miami enters Friday in the ninth spot in the Eastern Conference standings. They trail the Orlando Magic by just a half game for the eighth and final playoff spot in the East.

Wade is right. What Kobe Bryant did back in 2016 was inhuman. To score 60 points in your final game in the NBA is something only Kobe could do at 37-years-old.