Highlight Reel: Kobe Bryant scoring 43 points in high school game
Look, I hate Kobe Bryant as much as the next Celtics fan. My qualms with him are many, mostly having to do with the fact that he’s as phony a person as you’d never want to meet. But I respect the hell out of the way he plays basketball, and his indomitable desire to improve himself, to win.
These highlights of Kobe scoring 43 points during a high school game, as incredible as they are, only highlight his fierce will to perfect his craft. As ridiculous as his moves were even in high school, it’s weird seeing Kobe Bryant play when his footwork wasn’t absolutely pristine, when his game still contained some wasted motion, when not every single move he made was perfectly calculated to score a bucket. Kobe was amazing even in high school, but his game had flaws. You can see how hard he’s worked to remove those small inadequacies and become the most fundamental basketball player to ever walk the planet.
Okay, now that I’ve slobbered all over Kobe’s nuts for a little while, please excuse me while I go puke for the next 10-12 hours.
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y’all hear about ron artest raffling of his championship ring?
well i know who is buying 1000 tickets , lebrick – with the celtics in this league how else would he get a ring!
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HAHAH. I love it.
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NOBODY COULD MATCH WILT’S High school career NOBODY
As a player for the Overbrook Panthers, Chamberlain averaged 31 points during the 1953 high school season and led his team to a 71–62 win against the Northeast High School of his future NBA teammate Guy Rodgers. He scored 34 points, won Overbrook the Public League title and a berth for the Philadelphia city championship game against the winner of the rival Catholic league, West Catholic.In that game, West Catholic triple-teamed Chamberlain the entire game, and despite the center’s 29 points, the Panthers lost 54-42.
In his second Overbrook season, Chamberlain continued his prolific scoring, among them scoring a high school record 71 points against Roxborough. The Panthers comfortably won the Public League title after again beating Northeast in which Chamberlain scored 40 points, and later won the city title by defeating South Catholic with 74–50. Chamberlain scored 32 points and had led Overbrook to a flawless 19–0 season.
During summer vacations, Chamberlain worked as a bellhop in Kutsher’s Hotel. Red Auerbach, the coach of the Boston Celtics, spotted the talented teenager there and had him play 1-on-1 against Kansas University standout and national champion, B. H. Born, elected the Most Valuable Player of the 1953 NCAA Finals. Chamberlain won 25–10; Born was so dejected that he gave up a promising NBA career and became a tractor engineer (“If there were high school kids that good, I figured I wasn’t going to make it to the pros”),and Auerbach wanted Chamberlain to go to a New England university, so he could draft him as a territorial pick for the Celtics, but Chamberlain did not respond
In Chamberlain’s third and final Overbrook season, he continued his high scoring, once logging 74, 78 and 90 points in three consecutive games.[19] The Panthers won the Public League a third time, beating West Philadelphia 78–60, and in the city championship game, they met West Catholic once again. Scoring 35 points, Chamberlain led Overbrook to an easy 83–42 win.After three years, Chamberlain had won Overbrook two city championships, logged a 56–3 record and had broken Tom Gola’s high school scoring record by scoring 2,252 points, averaging 37.4 per game.
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ok….
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