Tip-Off Timer: Kobe's 81 Points

no defense on the opposing team. MJ could have scored more.

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funny how they let kobes biggest nut hugger brett write this article. Probably made his week.

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I'm not a Kobe fan to say this least (neither am I a hater so don't bash me!!) but even the biggest Kobe-hater has to appreciate the talent that this guy has. I doubt anyone will even scratch 70 anytime soon. He lets off for 81?! That's crazy as hell. As I said before, I'm not a fan or hater of Kobe. That being said, I still view him as the second best shooting guard of all time. First ballot hall of famer!

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Damn why is it that everytime something is written about Kobe Bryant some dickhead has to bring up Michael Jordan?

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkyXavxgdt0

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What does Michael Jordan have anything to do with Kobe, give him a credit for his game. Bone head give give MJ a rest, unless you really hate Kobe that much.

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This was the best single game performance of all time...when Wilt scored his 100 goal tending was legal...all he had to do was stand by the basket and get his point in a way that wouldn't count in todays basketball...Jordan (the best ever) had plenty of bad defenses to do this against...still never did it...Kobe is the next best thing...like him or not...Kobe was on fire that night and just about everything he threw up was falling...anyone who wants to talk smack about it is just a Kobe hater that can't give credit when credit is due...

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I think a healthy gilbert areanas would be the only active player to try and challenge this

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As Golden State showed against regular season mvp Dirk Nowitzski a couple of playoffs ago, a quick defense can make life miserable for a low post player if the can get away with disrepecting his teammates. An odd looking thing Wilt used to do trying to counter that was to bend over to dribble, which made it easy to climb on top of his back. Wilt set the record for most free throws made in a game, 28, since tied by Adrian Dantley, March 2, `62, same year, against the same team as the 100 point game, the Knicks. Wilt shot 28 of 32 that game from the line. He shot even more attempts, the association record, against the St. Louis BlackHawks, 34 attempts, who have since moved to Atlanta. Named for the BlackHawk wind in Chicago, and the native american tribe. Wilt averaged 50.3 points that year. No offensive goal tending permited. Walt Bellamy also started scoring a lot from the middle distance, but there are more offensive rebounds under the basket than mid range, and higher percentange shots, so both were relunctantly coaxed into going inside, though they loved proving they could score well from mid range. Russ slightly edged Big Dipper in playoff rebounds, 2.49 to 24.5 and total 4,104 to 3,913, but Wilt out rebounded him in the regular season. Russ had more playoff assists, passing to the greatest small ball team in nba history. Wilt was a stammerer. Needed a rhythm to get words out, but still had a hit single record as a singer. Stammered, in effect, at the line, too, but on the rare occiassion when he got a rhythm there, he was an excellent mid range shooter.

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At this time in the NBA, there is no one better
than KOBE...........And everyone knows it, whether they are a Kobe fan or not.

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Oh, and since this article is nominally about Jelly Bean Joe Bryant`s little boy Kobe, I suppose I would be remiss not commenting on the second best single game scorer in nba history. I don`t really know who a would pick at forward on an all time team. I would probably consider Chambelain, Jabbar, as starting posts, Jordan, Robertson as starting guards, O`Neal, K. Malone at back up posts, Bryant, Havlicek at back up guards, and it probably wouldn`t be a team without Russell, West. But forward? Earvin Johnson, though not his nominal position? Julius Erving? Larry Bird? Elgin Baylor? Rick Barry? In a dozen years, maybe LeBron James, but not now. And that leaves out so many greats, Gilmore, Issell, Hayes, Stockton, Wilkins, M. Malone, Gervin, Cousy. Bryant is not a perfect husband, but he`s a pretty good basketball player. Glad the racists haven`t discovered this article, and started making up nasty stuff about him, like they usually do. The truth was bad enough, he commited adultery with a total stranger. Could have died of STDs. Idiot. But very savvy with the media and on the basketball court, and other than the one mistake, seeminly a reasonably nice guy. But his wife has forgiven him, and she`s the only one whose opinion matters. Except about his basketball. Some of us know a bit about that, and our opinions matter about that. We`ll see if he can beat out Jordan. His scoring average is still climbing, since he started slow, straight out of high school. Hope he gets his assists up. He leads the Lakers, but while a better defender he is no where near as good a rebounder or assister as Oscar was.

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hey kobie baby it me ron ron........hurry and get over here quick honey.......you gotta help me scrub your poop off my dick......thanks lover

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