How many more games do the Lakers give Kobe Bryant to demonstrate he has something left?

How many more games does Kobe give Kobe?

He was 1-for-14 with four points last night in the 111-77 humiliation at the hands of the champion Golden State Warriors, who set an NBA record by winning their 16th game to open the season.

Kobe is 37 and in the past few years he has had surgery to repair a ruptured Achilles tendon and a torn rotator cuff in his right shoulder. Each a major injury that can end careers.

Kobe, typically, has come back after each of those major injuries.

But we just don’t see any sense of progression, and with guys who are 37, you don’t give them the benefit of a doubt.

If anything, Kobe is establishing himself as one of the worst players in the NBA. A few weeks ago he said he was the 200th best player in the league.

Sadly, he may have been giving himself too much credit.

The Lakers are 2-12. They are going nowhere and Kobe is leading them there.

He is shooting a disastrous 31.1 percent from the field and 19.5 percent from three. Those are numbers that would get anyone else waived.

I understand the Lakers’ sentiment, presumably shared by Kobe, to see his career end as a one-club guy. That is a special designation afforded only a few really good and loyal players — Bill Russell, Tim Duncan, John Stockton …

But the Lakers seem to have a thing for it, and that’s fine. Jerry West, Elgin Baylor, Magic Johnson, James Worthy, Michael Cooper …

And, presumably, Kobe Bryant. Though he is killing the Lakers (they were outscored by 20 by the Warriors while he was on the floor) in what should be the final season of his career — one in which he is making a league-high $25 million.

Perhaps he would have retired already if he were not due another $20 million or so if he limps to the end of the season.

And he may try to do that.

The Lakers are so bad, they may as well give the young guys … any young guys … the minutes Kobe is eating up — 30.5 per game. They could hardly play worse.

I feel badly for Kobe, and I don’t.

He had a fine run, with five championships spread over 20 seasons, and in most of those the Lakers were a title-contending team. He won the MVP once, and probably should have won one or two more.

Michael Jordan ended with six titles, one more than Kobe, and that seems to bother him some, but maybe he should have thought through those rifts with Shaquille O’Neal, more than a decade ago.

On a personal note, I can say with complete confidence that I watched Kobe Bryant play basketball more often than any other player. I saw the Lakers in person regularly during the first 15 years of his career, and I was there for all six games against Indiana when he won his first ring, in 2000.

A long time ago.

If Kobe isn’t embarrassed sufficiently by his play, then here is what the Lakers do: They sit him down and talk about how they want him well-rested for every appearance the rest of the year, and play him once a week.

If he wants, they invent injuries for him. Not that they really need to, given all the things he has broken, sprained or tweaked in 20 years.

His will to overcome is laudable, and has served him well in the past, but he was never 37, and he was never on a team this bad, and let’s have an announcement that he is done at the end of this season — while the Lakers arrange some sort of “special assistant to the president” role for him.

It’s time. It catches up to all of us, even Kobe Bean Bryant.

He was one of the best three players of the past 30 years, along with LeBron James and Jordan. We don’t want to remember him this way, and he shouldn’t, either.