Sometimes, I wonder what our kids must think of us. Whether we're simply pathetic or completely full of fertilizer. You know: us. Parents, teachers, coaches. Everyday people who do everyday things, bereft of celebrity and acclaim, who work diligently and attempt to impart lessons ...

That get totally undone by what they see on television.

Another sad case in point carried the day Friday in the sports media.

While many of us preach concepts of selflessness to our kids — cooperation, collectivity, sharing, sacrifice and team — we endured maddening, if not absurd, coverage of history that happened early Friday morning.

And so while we idealistic cattle are awash in "we," there's ESPN and other media compadres trumpeting the "I" first. The individual accomplishment (Kobe Bryant's 60 points in his final game) over the team accomplishment (the Golden State Warriors and their record 73rd win.)

It is the sports media's job to bring a sense of proportion to these stories. And we get it: Bryant's 20-year career, capped by a 60-point night — is a doozy of a storyline. It's just not as significant as 73 regular-season wins. How is it possible that the sports media, giddy over the potential of 73 wins for some time now, suddenly believed the narrative had a co-star?

You may disagree. But this I believe to my soul: No accomplishment by one man whose team is 17-65 — a crisp 56 games behind the Warriors — trumps the achievement of a team, especially one that espouses everything team sports should represent.

Of course, you say this and you are deemed a "hater" by people whose last bout with originality appeared in the toilet bowl a few hours earlier. It has nothing to do with hating Bryant. He's an all-time NBA great. He just picked the wrong night to end his career. And he didn't even own the night's greatest individual achievement, not that anybody else cares.

Somewhere in the postscript came Steph Curry's 46 points in 30 minutes. He required 24 shots to score 46 points. Bryant needed 50 shots to score 60. Again: coaches go hoarse trying to get their guys to share the ball, understand that the person who shoots is the person who's open ... and their players see all the glory going to the guy who jacked up 50 shots.

And so what are they really supposed to think?

Listen to the coach, the guy nobody outside town really knows, when the rest of the country is gaga over the guy who scored 60 and shot more than a confetti gun?

Lest we forget Curry established an NBA record Thursday night. He made 10 3-pointers and finished with 402 for the season. Nobody ever made 300 in a season until this year. Steph Curry has 402. Let the record show that Larry Legend made 642 3-pointers in his entire career.

Not relevant, apparently, when the glitz of Hollywood meets with a few dim bulbs in the media. Their job to carry responsible narratives is harder to do when they're breathing into brown paper bags.

I can't stand it. Headlines everywhere scream how Bryant "upstaged" the Warriors. Know why? Because the media let it happen. Not because the story is more relevant. It's not. It's not close. But it's pretty clear what sells. It doesn't matter if your team finishes 56 games behind another team that happened to set a record on the same night.

Kobe got 60! He needed 50 shots? Who cares? Quite the uplifting message that's being sent. The individual over the team. And the next time one of us starts howling at our kids about being unselfish? About the team? They're going pat us on the head and think, "silly, silly, people. Don't you watch TV?"

This is the opinion of Day sports columnist Mike DiMauro.