 Welcome to one of the best Kobe Bryant stories that you've ever heard. As you know on this channel we like to go through old interviews, podcasts, clips and piece everything up together, finding the little stories and making it into one big story. This one of Kobe Bryant and Wilson Chandler is a gem. A lot of effort did get put into this video so I really hope you do enjoy it. I don't want to keep you guys waiting, the one thing I love for you to do if you do enjoy this video by the end of it is help me up hitting that like button. If you do enjoy it as well and you think you would enjoy more you should hit that subscribe button and I don't want to keep you guys waiting so without further ado welcome to the day Kobe Bryant taught rookie Wilson Chandler a lesson and dropped 60 on him. When you first got to league and you first started playing who was the first person to bust your ass? I think it was when Kobe had that 61. Like I'm sitting here watching and I'm like yo he's not stopping. It's a competition, my mission is to destroy it. When I came, look I would say coming into league I felt like I was an offensive score right? You know in high school coming I was a score. But then you look at dudes like you, I want to know what is the mentality that when you get alright you got 20, you got 30. What makes in your mind like when you got 30 most people are like alright cool like I'm going 40, now I'm going 50, now I'm going 60, now I'm going like what is happening in your tough process? At some point I know you're tired because people don't understand score buckets like that take energy. So how do you continue to just like go because I was in New York when you got to 60. The previous game the Knicks have been tentative and apprehensive against these elite teams but right now becoming a good home team so the home cooking has given them confidence and they must continue to exude that confidence against the Lakers. Andrew Bynum we just lost the game before. You got an injury against Memphis right? So I'm like we just lost to the Celtics in 0-8 but think we got Andrew is going to make a big difference for us. Now he goes down, we don't know how long he's going to be out for. The team was a little deflated, I was pissed off you know what I mean? Because it's like no we're winning the championship this should come hella high water and my guys were down and going into New York big game I said alright I got to send a message to my guys you know listen we're doing this you understand it's hard you went down but damn it we're getting it done. So it was important to get into that mind frame of no nothing matters and I don't want to talk to nobody I don't want to see the celebrities on the sideline don't dat me don't say hi to me I don't care about none of y'all tonight. Yeah you just focused. That was it. Was that also part of like you was coming into the garden and everybody loved to play well in Madison Square Park? Not that game. It didn't matter. No it was beard in that. Like it was about us winning the championship. Like my guys were deflated and it was like no we're going we're getting it done. I understand Andrew Hatt sucks but we got to keep on moving and I had to find that space. I didn't go out to dinner in New York, I stayed in my room. This is actually the story Rob told that he got confused about the Heath Ledger stuff. I remember just a really quick story there was one time when Kobe who I worked with for 18 years was going back to play Madison Square Garden and he had just seen The Dark Knight. Obviously you guys saw that movie and he's like hey hook me up with dinner with Heath Ledger because he got so locked in to that role. I want to know how he mentally went there. And so he had dinner with Heath and he talked about how he locks in for a role and Kobe used some of that in his game against the Knicks. Yeah because I stayed up watching Batman and watching Heath Ledger and I went and started researching about Heath Ledger and how he got into character and how he just became all-consuming. I was like that inspired me to go into my garden mode while I go in there. I don't want to say hi to the Jan I don't want to say hi to these people. I don't want to talk to nobody. What? Everybody leave me alone. Well the channel was a huge rookie then. Yeah. Right there that first year like this is his first year coming in. Yeah that shit was overwhelming. Yeah it was. It was just so much shit going on with the town that I first got there. I'm like damn. A movie? Yeah it was a movie. For real from day to day it was like you know with the newspapers the media it was just like that's what I was saying like for a young fellas like this is the league. This is the league. Growing up I never watched a lot of basketball outside with my grandma but when Kobe started playing when he got drafted I would faithfully watch. I would watch all Kobe games so that I kind of grew up like out alive with Kobe so that's he's my he's my mic with Jordan like how people like had this nostalgic thing with Mike with Jordan. That's what Kobe is to me. Crazy. I mean we started the game off as shits. I'm coming out the bench at the time so he's killing. As we get underway here at the garden. See the Laker bench is all standing I guess until they make a hoop. Kobe Bryant. And now they will take a seat. Right on. Lakers the number one scoring team in the league. Kobe Bryant. It's a three he's two for two. Kobe Bryant's three for three. Now Bryant like many of the elite players whether it was Michael Jordan or LeBron James. And now with Kobe Bryant they love to play at the garden. All players will say that. Shot clock winding now Bryant comes to the basket. I'm looking. I'm looking at Dan Tony. He looking down kind of like this. I don't want to go in the game today. I sliced down. He called me go in so when I go in it's all good. I score like quick 10 12 points. Chandler drives on one tough shot puts it in. The fact that he's still putting up such good numbers on such a deep team as Chandler knocks it down. Chandler hits a three. And Chandler off the bench three for three. He's got seven points. He slowed down. I used to score about eight. I'm in the game. I'm like I was going good. Make sure your guys there. Kobe helped by Wilson Chandler. Watching film leading into the game. I knew Wilson. I knew he was just going to play sound defense. Wilson Chandler was a rookie then. And the fact that he went into detail about his habits about his mannerisms on defense, his tendencies. He wasn't going gamble. He wasn't going to try to block a shot. He was going to try to play good position defense. So I knew I could get a good look. You know what I mean? They have so much feel. Like how you going to tell me all this about Wilson Chandler and all this and that. But like that goes until like D-Miles said it on the episode. He was like you like gangster when it comes to hoop. And like that was how he was. So from that standpoint I said all right you got to take my time being on balance and knock him down. Chandler right up on him. Chandler blocked one of his shots earlier. Brian fires and hits it through. Kobe Bryant. And the offensive end for his shot. Sets himself puts it up. Pucks it in. Kobe Bryant putting on a show here in the first half. But he's looking to score here in the first half. Pulls up again. Knocks it down. By five. He's got Kobe on the wing. And Kobe flying home. Two-hander. By seven. Twenty-seven for twenty-four. They're getting their money's worth. They're cheering for Kobe in a big way. I thought we were under. Didn't you say we were playing a real game? I'm sitting here watching and I'm like yo. He's not stopping. Blake goes back up by Seth Bryant. Adjusts it up. Pucks it in. Tough shot. As Bryant floats in the air across the lane. Twenty-nine points in the first half. Bryant releases down the other end. Kobe Bryant. Now with thirty-one. Bryant to the basket. Count it. And a chance for one more time. Here's the MVP chance again. Nick fans try to drown it out. But there are a lot of Laker fans. You can see the jerseys throughout the arena. Second half come third quarter same thing. So about another eight points. He don't look like he want to stop. He still want to give a hundred if he can. Like a lot of guys they're going. They'll miss a few shots and it's kind of. They're kind of like taking stuff back. Like let me play the right way. I'm taking too many shots. I ain't making it right now. Now with Kobe. He always a kill mode. We always got the killer instinct at all time. Like where does that mentality come from? Where you see most guys 30 40s and they kind of chill out. Like all right I got this. Yeah. No. It's a competition. My mission is to destroy you. It's not you know I mean like I don't say it. You know like we're playing. I'm not stopping at 30. Like I'm going to keep going until you figure out something else to do. Like I'm going to keep going. On a follow. The flow. The balance. Kobe little uptake on David Lee. The follow. It's his barometer is Bryant gets inside. Tough shot. Oh he puts it in. What a shot from Bryant. He's got 42. Tim Thomas on Gasol. Bryant gets inside and banks it in. You know and like that New York game. I knew Dan Tony's philosophies are never the double guy that's hot because you always get a shot. I knew Dan Tony's philosophies are never the double guy that's hot because you always think they're going to cool off eventually. Yeah. Right. So I understood that. So once I got rolling I knew that was going to be the case. He'll be in good shape. But Kobe says we're not going to lose this one by one because I'm going to continue to be on fire. And that's what he is right now. Man for a quarter come. I just go crazy. I got most of it in the crunch man. Like the last three minutes he just go crazy. I go like 16 18 straight. I'm like this is amazing. Kobe off the bench. Never stop. Never stop. Bro's trying to block the shot. Bryant on Chandler. And fake draws the foul. Bryant for three draws the foul on Chandler. And this will make eight so far in the fourth for total of 54. He's one shy of a tie. Michael Jordan for record. Most points by an opponent here at the game. MVP chance once again. Bryant extraordinary performance. Bryant spins. That was one of those zone moments man. Where like things happen and just led to that big moment. God bless my young boy Wilson Chandler. He recovered. He is good. Everything is well with his life and his career. He's still playing now. So you know he made it through that. Like I'm sitting here watching it and I'm like yo. I was trying to like yo at some point when he catch the ball you got to put him in the first row. Comes Chandler behind him. Chandler stays with him. Bryant foul. And he'll go back to the free throw line. Put him right in fucking Spike Lee's lap. Spike over there pumping him up. He talking. My boy ain't saying nothing. He decided that being a good young boy going to play hard. Spike Lee over here getting them going like how are you going to talk to this man? You ain't got to check him. I was going to be furious like come on dude. You know on top of the fact that it's an electrifying place. And I was a little PO because Big Drew went down. You know and it was something I felt like this was a hump game where we had to have it. You know we couldn't come out here and play so we had to get this game in order to make the rest of the trip a positive one. In my opinion when it get down to just the killer mentality and the killer instinct can't nobody get up in that room with Kobe and they belong in that room by themselves. Can't nobody come up in there. Thanks. Kobe this building opened in February of 1968. Every great player that since then has come through you know hold the scoring record in this building. How does it make you feel? I didn't know that. That's pretty awesome. The opponent record was Jordan. He had 55. The record was Bernard King at 60. You just passed him both. Wow man. That's I don't know what to say. That's awesome. It's a blessing. You talk about the set of what they bring to the table and how I fight you. I scored 60 on you. You know what I'm saying? I lock you down like they by themselves. 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