Saturday 13 December 2014
Kobe Bryant just 9 points behind Michael Jordan
Kobe Bryant scored 22 points for Lakers against defending champs Thunder defeating them 112-110 in overtime on their home ground.
Had Bryant played for the record, he would have easily secured it by the end of the night, but instead he went for the win and played the sort of team game that was required.
Kobe may have missed 15 of 22 shots, but he had ample opportunity to gun for Jordan’s scoring mark several times in this contest, but instead chose to make the intelligent and proper basketball play that suits his basketball genius – obvious passes he often ignores in order to launch yet another shot. He is now just 9 points behind MJ on the all-time high-scorers list.
Kobe Bryant returned to practice for the first time this month and called his teammates "soft" on Thursday.
Bryant and Nick Young were already trading barbs during the scrimmage with Young telling Bryant, "Nobody in the world can guard me one-on-one," and Bryant telling Young, "You're going exactly where I want you to go."
Later Bryant said, "You motherfuckers are soft like Charmin in this motherfucking. God damn, is this the type of shit that's going on in these practices? Now I see why we've lost 20 fucking games. We're soft like Charmin. We're soft like shit."
Bryant was also getting on Jeremy Lin during the scrimmage, daring him to shoot whenever he had the ball, yelling, "This motherfucker don't got shit. He ain't got shit right now. Shoot! Shoot!" After Lin missed a pull-up jumper, Bryant said, "I talked his ass right into that bullshit. I talked his ass right into that bullshit."
By the end of the scrimmage, which the starters won, Bryant said, "Practice gets real uncomfortable when I'm in this motherfucker."
After the team gathered together at center court to close practice, Bryant passed Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak and said, "I'm supposed to practice and get better, Mitch. I'm supposed to practice and get better. These motherfuckers ain't doing shit for me."
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