Kobe Bryant 2000-01 • 51 points, 8 assists, 7 rebounds vs Golden State Warriors

[bleacherbum102]

Iverson's team did not have the best record, Nash team did both seasons, and as good as Tony and Manu have been they where never at Shaq and Kobe's level.. Meaning you never said as a player, fan, or insider, you could build a team around them.. The kings had the best record when KG won but had more talent so Webber and Kobe who had better stats that year got Shat on lol... Hell through in Tracey for that matter that year. The lakers hosted the 01 finals as a thrid seed when AI won MVP sooo

[jd55192]

Jordan never had a mini-fro. Let's see Jordan grow a mini-fro. Didn't think so. Kobe > MJ

[ydp90]

sometimes i dont get all these lebron lovers. they claim how amazing lebron is he had 50 point 10 reb 10 assists he is so amazing blah blah blah. its crazy but they forget kobe had a similar game like while he was just 21 YEARS OLD. SO PLEASE DONT bring up this stats crap again. its offensive to the truth

[JulianPerry2008]

IS YHUU FUCKIN STUPID KOBE IS NICE as shit..and lebron had a fucking squad. and when kobe was lebrong age that nigga alredi had 3 motherfucker rings...fuck yhuu tlkin bout,,,yhuu shoudnt even come out yhuur mouth tlkin dum like dhAT @ ALL KOBE HATER HOPP OF LEBRON DICK...CUS KOBE WAY BETTER THAN HIM REAL RAPP...AND TOO ALL KOBE FANS WIDH US LUCK THIS YEAR

[JulianPerry2008]

WHOOOOOOOOO STOP @MANHBX96

[TheMaku]

lol porter's afro is hilarious

[manhbx96]

KOBE BRYANT IS FUCKING GOD ALMIGHTY AT 22 HE WAS GETTING RINGS AND MAKING HISTORY WHAT WAS LEBRON DOING GOING TO THE FINALS GETTING SWEPT LIKE A LITTLE GIRL SCOUT

[imsljr420]

@manhbx96 : difference was lebron was CARRYING his team to the finals while kobe was getting CARRIED by shaq to the finals.....kobe had SHAQ to carry him, lebron's never had anyone better than him on his team to help him out like kobe's had.

[kikeazul70]

@imsljr420 Both Kobe and Shaq carried their team to the finals. That year they both were averaging 28 points a game. Both leading their team to the finals.

[imsljr420]

@kikeazul70 : I disagree but even if you want to look at that way that was 2 players lebron is only 1 guy.....they both might have averaged 28 pts but it guarantee you shaq was scoring more efficiently while kobe was just shot jacking to get his points.

[kikeazul70]

@imsljr420 Interesting points there. But when it would come down to late game situations and the Lakers needed to score, they would go to Kobe to get them the victory.

[imsljr420]

@kikeazul70 : google " kobe and the clutch playoff performance myth"

[kikeazul70]

@imsljr420 People can say all the numbers they want. Even Jordan has missed game winners. Are you gonna go out and say Jordan's clutch is a myth too? I've seen Kobe hit dozens of game winners. Kobe's clutch is not a myth it's a fact.

[imsljr420]

@kikeazul70 : if they over hype jordan and act as if he's made more game winners than he's missed then yeah i would say it's a myth......btw what's up with this black background i hate it.

[kikeazul70]

@imsljr420 The black background is for Earth hour where people participate by turning off their lights for one hour hence the black background. Theirs even a cool feature where you could ''turn on the lights'' making the background white again by clicking on the power switch below the youtube logo. Kinda neat if you ask me.

[alejandrothefader]

@imsljr420 let's be sincere, kobe is clutch and a 4th qtr performer, say what you want but he closes games, they trust him most over anybody else cause he's proven he can do it better than anybody else.... of course you miss sometimes, but that is the risk, but clutch starts from 3 min before the end not only last shots... kobe turns games arround. si did jordan PERIOD. don't twist facts!! btw i hate the bacgrownd too :P

[MW2Addiction]

@imsljr420 Thats wrong. They only count shots within 24 or less seconds which is absolutely horrible. You have to count shots also where there was 3 minutes left or 2 minutes left or even 1 minute left. Kobe has proven over and over again that he makes shots when it matters. Kobe has made clutch 3s and 2s when there is 2-3 minutes left which changes the whole momentum of the game and dictates whether they will win or not. Gtfo wit that bullshit.

[MW2Addiction]

@imsljr420 Ever since Kobe and shaq havent been playing together shaq only got 1 ring and 1 finals mvp. Kobe got 2 rings and 2 finals mvp. If anything shaq needed Kobe more than Kobe needed shaq.

[imsljr420]

@MW2Addiction : well first your wrong shaq didn't get finals MVP wade did.......during the 3peat years lakers were 31-10 without kobe....shaq wasn't as dominate after the 03 season, he was still good up 06 but then he declined big time....kobe on the other hand got carried by shaq & got carried by gasol & by carried i mean they were more efficient than kobe.

[MW2Addiction]

@imsljr420 Kobe won game 1 3 and 6 by himself hitting big shots in 1 and 3 and in game 6 dropped 41 points 10 assists 7 rebounds 2 steals and 1 block. Gasol averaged 15 points and 11 rebounds for that series. The 09 finals Kobe averaged 30ppg 6 rebounds 5 assists and 2 steals per game. In 2010 he dominated the suns in the conference finals single handedly. So please tell me how the HELL did Kobe get carried by Gasol? Exactly, there is absolutely no explanation.

[imsljr420]

@MW2Addiction : look at the boston series.

[MW2Addiction]

@imsljr420 Shut your ass up didnt I? Thats why you gotta go to boston lol. Did you finally realize that gasol didnt carry Kobe? Whoever thinks that is a fucking idiot.

[imsljr420]

@MW2Addiction : EFFICIENCY...gasol is more efficient than kobe.

[MW2Addiction]

@imsljr420 EFFICENCY Does not mean ANYTHING! Do you not get it?! Kobe carried the team period. He literally lead the team in scoring, assists, and steals! The only thing Pau Gasol averaged more than Kobe was REBOUNDS. Pau gasol averaged like 15-20 points LESS than Kobe. And on TOP of that Kobe would hit CLUTCH shots that dictated the momentum of the game which lead to WINNING GAMES.

[imsljr420]

@MW2Addiction : efficiency means A LOT....to the kobe homers it doesn't because kobe isn't an efficient player or scorer....to you guys the only thing that matters is if he can score a lot of points which he does so you guys use that but he's not an efficient scorer.......& kobe hits clutch shots?..... i guess you mean like last year in game 6 vs thunder oops he missed & GASOL tipped it in...or against suns game 6 oops again artest grabbed his air ball & put it back in.

[MW2Addiction]

@imsljr420 Thats the only 2 times you could possibly ever think of Gasol ever carrying Kobe. Goes to show that Gasol never carried Kobe. If you call carrying by just hitting 1, 2 or even 3 shots then that's retarded.

[imsljr420]

@MW2Addiction : i was just talking about his "clutch" shots dummy not about when gasol out played kobe.....here's the thing we saw how poorly gasol played in the mavs series & they got swept, kobe played great except gm 4 which i guess he figured "ah fuck this im doing all i can & we're still losing"...but that just shows pau is more valuable to the teams success than kobe..if gasol played great & kobe played like he usually ( which is brick shots) lakers can still win

[rowdyalejandro]

@imsljr420 You are obviously retarded.

[imsljr420]

@rowdyalejandro : the fact that you can't point out where im "wrong" means im right...don't just post like a pussy, back up what you say with PROOF....oh wait you're kobe nut hugger you guys never have proof.

[rowdyalejandro]

@imsljr420 How can you possibly say that Kobe was carried by Pau, don't get me wrong I luv Pau but, he was not the best player in those two champiomships teams. You're obviously a Kobe hater, therefore you speak nonesense. Kobe's been the best player in the league for the past decade period, just look at his game, if you play basketball you would know. By the way writers agreed with Kobe being the MVP, not Pau, sorry you didn't have a vote.

[imsljr420]

@rowdyalejandro : why did the best player in the past decade let shaq, duncan, pierce, wade & billups win finals MVP before him?...why did he let shaq, iverson, duncan, KG, nash, dirk, win league MVP before him?...why did he let iverson win 4 scoring titles while he only has 2?...a radio host from LA & skip bayless said kobe didn't deserve finals MVP..."kobe bryant continues to be over hyped & overrated" youtube it.

[rowdyalejandro]

@imsljr420 How can someone be overrated with 5 championships and 7 finals. Go figure, Kobe's game has blurred your sight, hatred blindness is not letting you to enjoy pure greatness. Must be hard to hate someone and see him win so much.

[imsljr420]

@rowdyalejandro : 3 of his rings he wasn't even the best player on his team & that to me makes a HUGE difference.......i've seen kobe fail so much in fact lakers are actually better without him than they were without shaq or pau (winning percentage wise). no kobe they can still win games ....no pau or shaq they go on losing streaks

[rowdyalejandro]

@imsljr420 Fail so much????? Only less than the rest of the league, yes and watched him carry the Lakers trough the loaded Western Conference at 22. Do you remember Kobe against the Spurs in 01? He embarrased the Spurs frontcourt with dunks after dunks after layups after winning shots off offensive rebounds and that to me makes a HUGE difference. And stop with that nonesense argument of his first 3 rings you know that the threepeat happen because Shaq and Kobe not only Shaq.

[imsljr420]

@rowdyalejandro : i'll give him credit he played great against the spurs in 01 but who guarded him? antonio daniels, derek anderson?....duncan & robinson concerned with shaq so kobe got to the rim because of that....ok 4get all that he played great in that series i hate to come off as a kobe hater im just a realist...& the reality is he wasn't the best player on his team during the 3peat he was a sidekick...put the team around him at 22 & they don't even make the playoffs.

[bleacherbum102]

@imsljr420 That is simple the voters at the time felt Shaq and Kobe because they played together didn't deserve to be MVP's of the regular season. ( Shaq for all his greatness has 1)The system then was; give it to the player who had less to work with. Iverson, Duncan, KG. Then Shaq is out of LA and the voters changed the system yet again. It went to the best player on a team who had the best record. Dirk, and Nash. While Kobe was getting a trash team to the offs. (in the west mind you)...

[imsljr420]

@bleacherbum102 : no when iverson, duncan & kg won it their teams had the best record (or 2nd best)....so it almost always been the best player on the team that has the best record (or at least best in their conference)....& then nash & the suns didn't have the best record when he got the 2nd MVP....also duncan had parker & manu so how can you say he had "less to work with"?

[jd55192]

@imsljr420 Not being called out for being wrong doesn't make you right. Terrible logic.

[imsljr420]

@jd55192 : terrible comment....doesn't even make sense.

[jd55192]

@imsljr420 "DERP, ME NO GET IT." Here, little guy, I'll break it down for you in little words even you'll understand. You said to @rowdyalejandro, "the fact that you can't point out where im "wrong" means im right." I said, "Not being called out for being wrong doesn't make you right." OK? Just because he didn't point out your error(s)—for whatever reason—does NOT mean what you said was right. Still lost? Here: it's like cheating and not being caught. You still cheated, even though you got away

[RTR9]

Kobe's last Year he needs to Rock #8 and the Fro.

[TheJerzeyboi]

man kobe was really selfish back then he had ron harp wide open on the left at 6:12

[freesuraj]

@TheJerzeyboi are u kidding me ? they've only 2.5 sec to shoot the ball.. there was not enough time to make the pass..

[XBlackRose023X]

Kobe's best season was 2006-07. Even though he didn't win MVP but he won scoring title (35.6ppg) many records, allstar, nba 1st team, 81pts, etc.

[Disposable5]

@XBlackRose023X That was the 2005-2006 season when he averaged 35

[MRmatthieu49]

his jumpshot is soo smooth

[Jumpman1989]

he was trying to play like 35 years old Michael even though he was 21 or sth back then that was stupid.

PAUSE at 6:12- example how Kobe has forced his shots. He takes three with two guys on him, Grant open, Harper wide open. I've said it many times, Kobe loves tough shots but on 10attempts he make3-4.

There was hundreds of this type situations when he should've passed the ball but he didnt. Its sad cause his fans see only the tough shots he makes but its not hard to make one on so many attempts

[neofkm]

@Jumpman1989 so true. that's why we call him one of the best in the business, cause he takes tough shots. But i wouldn't say he's a very good team player though.

[bfahren]

@Jumpman1989 Do you realize he catches the ball with only 2.2 seconds left on the game?. You can accuse Kobe of being selfish, but he did nothing wrong on that play.

[KobeConfidence]

@Jumpman1989 He had to shoot that shot there was only 2.2 and it was a tough pass so he didn't have control of the ball untill 1.5 seconds and if he passed they wouldn't have even got a shot attempt.

[phattown213]

he souldve turned those assists into points. heading almost to 70 pts in a game

[omeedm]

I miss Chick Hearn...

[torou]

i miss the old school kobe bryant the number 8 back in time if kobe's speed is like this in the present season they will get a easy buckets to stun the entire league

[youngrizzle2003]

i meant auburn my bad

[ajwiz1013]

damn jamison use 2 be weak. he has gained at least 20 pounds

[ajwiz1013]

antawn's a beast cause he scored 51 pts on consecutive nights i think dis was the second 1

[wesmillz]

antawn jamison was one hell of a player eventhough everybody knows that kobe is better.too bad that most of antawn's early and more athletic years in the nba he spent being injured

[aebecedeone]

He didn't miss a game between 2000 - 2004

[SSrepskb24]

@aebecedeone yeah he did

[aebecedeone]

@SSrepskb24 i ment antawn jamison, not kobe

[Laker99Joseph]

@aebecedeone LoL. He did.

[Manx17]

I love the announcing.

[jsbs84]

WTF happen to Porter.

[youngrizzle2003]

yea i still remember the dunk he did at aauburn jumped over like 3 people and shit....

[route539]

he needs to bring back the mini fro

[RTR9]

@route539 lol he was asked that at one of his camps said he cant even grow hair anymore lol

[darkspiderman3]

@route539 yea lol someone asked him to at his basketball camp,but he cant cause he said " i tried but my hair doesnt grow "

[victorlopez07]

dude kobe was sick....tough loss tho.....u shud try to find and upload kobe's 1st 20 point and 1st 30 point games....they wud be like the rarest vids on youtube...

[TheShooter227]

kobe was on fire

hughes is crap

[fsc125]

Niceeeeeeeeeeeee

[9k5]

i love this game kobe killed... to bad they lost though :(