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Favorite Kobe moment
Redbonebandit
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When he drained a 3 while getting fouled in the gold medal game against Spain. Hits the free throw essentially ending the game.
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No flinch Kobe from ball fake by Matt Barnes was definition of black mamba. He was relentless
He and Shaq and the western conference 4th qtr comeback against Sacramento down by 15. Still brings chills watching it.
This. He put up the six shooters. He was close to the end of his career at that point, but that competitive fire never dimmed.
I always thought Kobe's style reminded me of MJ but the similarities between the two shown in this video are crazy...
R.I.P. Kobe Bryant.
I’ll never forget when Kobe his that three in the playoffs against the suns before commercial break, smacking the Suns coach on the butt. Classic Mamba
Rookie year playoffs when he throws up a couple of air balls. Then stories come out about his work ethic over the summer and how that flop didn’t break him, but made him want to be great even more. All that at 18. Terrific player with a ton of talent, but he also just wanted it more.
We all know the saying “Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.”
Kobe Bryant is what happens when talent works hard.
In 2010 I was working for an NBA team, it was my first season there and this was the height of the Lakers second title run with Kobe. One of my favorite things about the job was pre-game and watching how different guys warm up and when Kobe came this was a can't miss opportunity for me.
Most guys start trickling into the GYM for their workouts around 6 for a 7 30 game, doors open at 6:30. . I'll never forget walking into the arena around 5:15 to run an errand and at 5:30 I'm walking back through and who is there, by himself, fully dressed and ready to go but Kobe. I had never seen any other NBA player in the GYM that early working out.
Watching him shoot around just me and him you could tell you were witnessing something different. The way he moved, the way he was locked in. I counted him and he made 38 straight shots and these were all going into the same place in the middle of the basket same arc, same sound as it went through. I've never seen anything like it and I've been around the NBA for 20 years.
I remember the Lakers came in before the Heatles that year and so I got to the GYM at 5:30 before the Heat games because I knew that if Kobe was out at 5:30 that Lebron and D. Wade probably did the same. Lebron and D. Wade never came out to warm up until the team ran lay up lines.....
I have a friend whose dad used to work the production booth for SportSouth or whatever it’s called nowadays; he basically ran the game-to-game operations in the studio for the Hawks and Braves.
So I got the awesome chance to “shadow” him for a night in March 2013 when the Lakers came to town. I went into the Hawks’ locker room, got to hang out in coach Larry Drew’s office with my little press pass, and caught Pau Gasol putting up jumpers in a side gym before the game. Quick note: if you’ve never stood next to NBA players, they are massive human beings. You know a 7-footer when you see a 7-footer.
Anyways, the Lakers were on a roll and had won 17 of their last 22 heading into the game. Kobe was averaging 27 ppg. The Hawks jumped out to a double digit lead in the 3rd quarter before Kobe started to heat up. We knew it was coming at some point, but that’s the thing about vintage Kobe; he would just start hitting shots out of nowhere. I was watching the game on the flat screen TVs under the arena, but you could hear the crowd groan each time as Kobe hits four straight shots.
I’ll never forget this; Dominique Wilkins is sitting at the same table next to me watching, and mumbles out loud something like “holy %$&^, here comes Kobe”. So after a few misses, Kobe starts to take over. Midrange bucket, two free throws, layup plus the foul, then two more jumpers. It takes only two minutes of game time, and the Hawks call timeout with the lead cut to one. We ended up winning, and Kobe came down on somebody’s foot at the end of the game and badly sprained his ankle.
I’ll never forget watching Kobe in his last great season. He was dragging his team to the playoffs, and then he tore his Achilles and was never the same. Just hearing the way Dominique talked about him, the respect and healthy fear of Kobe catching fire, stuck with me. The man was put on Earth to play basketball, and it’s tragic that his story ended so young.
How can one say that MJ is better than Kobe or visa versa? Both were a joy to behold on the basketball court.
To the original question... I don't have a particular game or play... perhaps the game where Kobe scored 82 points. For me it was about how many buzzer beaters Kobe scored. When the game was on the line he was money!
Great story!!!
This . I’ll never forget that game and big shot Robert Horry. The Lakers and Kings rivalry was short lived but fierce and the games were amazing.
I can't remember when but I can remember announcers pointing out the fact he was playing left handed. Kobe was a righty! Dude still dropping buckets on those fade a ways. Just something special of an athlete.
It’s was like 2011. He broke his right index finger and took the last shot of the game left handed and drained it from midrange.
Gosh I must be older than I thought. I've been shooting wads of paper into the trash can for a long time, but I never knew I was supposed to say "Kobe" when I did it? (Not dumping on the guy, just genuinely never heard of that before the last couple of days.)
Watched my son do it at least a thousand times over the years and probably way more. Sometimes it would take 8 tries to simply get trash in to the trashcan. But he loved every second of it. He did it so much his younger sister started doing it and she had no idea why. It was contagious caught myself doing it occasionally too