Kobe Bryant greatest games: 33pts in 2nd half vs Orlando Magic (1999)
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
- (1999) "The Magic touch"
The Lakers team from 1999 included Shaq, Kobe, Rice & Rodman. But in Shaq 1st game back at Orlando, L.A was unable to play well in the 1st half, trailing by 20pts. Then, here came Kobe! KB put on a show in the 2nd half, hitting his first seven shots. For the 1st time I guess, we watched how good Kobe really was. Carrying his team, he scored 33 of his 38pts in the 2nd half on 13/15 shooting! Back to these days, it was Kobe "1st career high". And of course, leading L.A to a great came back, Kobe definitely had the magic touch.
I remember this game on TV. It was the breakout game for kobe. He showed everyone a sample of what's to come. Always will be my favorite player
RIP Mamba and Mambacita
Just a little fact about this game. Magic were up by 26 at half I think and then the mamba was born
this was my first Kobe game i remember watching, i was only nine years old at the time. Been in love every since (pause) Rest In Peace black mamba...🙏🏾👼🏽🐐
97 dunk contest was when I said yea I love this guy lol
haha 3rd year of his career at the age of 20 and he can score 33 points in 2 quarters against an elite team at the time, and makes it look easy. It just goes to show how great Kobe was going to be, a will and drive to keep winning where he could the impossible.
ExileOfSand he was more than capable of leading the league in scoring as a 1# option at 20.
amnesa 💯
yooo young Kobe wasn't scared of no one lol
KOBE=GOAT
Kobe vs penny Kobe with big game
best scorer to play the game
tell that to the 2000s Spurs and Kings, i'm sure they'll see eye to eye with that. first of all, i dont recall any "Kobe fanatics" saying he won by himself. Secondly, if you ever actually watched the Lakers then, you'd know that while Shaq usually won the Finals MVP (against weaker frontlines) Kobe usually got them over the hump in the Western series when Shaq usually got in foul trouble or was clanking free throws down the stretch. Ultimately the TEAM wins, not Shaq or Kobe.
its just like vintage micheal jordan no one can stop him
OBSERVE FIRST BEFORE JUDGING yeah pretty much .. Jordan was slightly better overall .. Jordan had bigger hands and highlight reel ball fakes ... Jordan won defensive player of the year and mvp in the same season..... but i will say this much . Jordan never had to.guard anyone close to kobes level .... Jordan and kobe are easily the best 2 pure scorers I've ever seen ... Jordan's fadeaway is so beautiful.
I love watching this video, this is like music to my ears with that nba/nbc and arena drum going.
"a lob to kobe" miss those words
Jordan missed almost the whole 86 season. So he really started to chamberlained the league when he was 23. At that age, Kobe had already scored 56 in three quarters, drilled 12threes in a game, scored at least 45 in 2 straight playoffs games & being the hero vs Indiana in game 4 of the finals.
So you put Kobe at age 22-23 in this mid-end 80's era, and he would have chamberlained it. Alrigh Punisher?
DAMN those jerseys, I need to buy one
This was the start where you saw what Kobe could do if he was the man.
@chitownmo
lebron is a media's trademark
kobe opened space by himself, by doing it on his own
lebron arrived as a superstar..despite of his mvp's awards i can't see a superstar
career high, 38
lol, he can do that whenever he wants to nowadays...
what a beast!
@@HornWorm8 😭😭
Afro Kobe was so fun to watch
Frobe
Gotta love Shaq's complete lack of enthusiasm at Kobe's amazing performance. Trouble was already brewing way back then.
Nah the whole team thought it was over they basically quit till Kobe went off
I love Kobe. He is the best player in the league. He works really hard and I admire that.
Kobe is the best!
This reminds me of Michael Jordan but there is no comparison. Kobe has his own legacy to create.
Flashforward to 2024; we can say he truly did
"One of the elite teams in the league"
LOVIN THE OLD SCHOOL MUSIC !!!
This was the game where I became Kobe Bryant fan. Man, he could hit from anywhere. So confident. The rest of the Lakers had given up, but not Kobe. He, nearly singlehandedly, brought them back. What a performance.
You can't compare the 80's and the 2000 era. I watched many games from the 80's and WTF?!So many guys you're asking yourself: How the hell they did to play in the NBA. As PEPONATION said, Kobe would have chamberlained the league at his time with a 50% shooting for sure.
mj was a cultural icon, he was IT back then, he was the Beatles, kobe is zeppelin, not the greatest ever but a damn good substitute
Led zeppelin only has one good song lol
too bad the quality isn't better. but nice to see highlights either way!
I remember watching this, being disappointed (I was rooting for Orlando) because of the huge lead and complete collapse. The 20-year old Kobe Bryant was singlehandedly man-handling the Orlando Magic in the 2nd half.
dude he was 20 years old.. Playing against someone who was a great Player (ANfernee HArdaway) How can you not see that? Unbelievable
Kobe's 05-06 PPG and total points is more than just about every Jordan average and total point stat excluding the infamous '86-87 season AND it's ranked #7 all-time. And many people will tell you that MJ is a smarter player while Kobe is better when it comes to pure skill, not necessarily athleticism, but PURE skill.
these are the types of games Kobe had throughout the Shaq and Kobe run which is the reason I get pissed at the people who say Shaq won by himself. When it was many games every year that Kobe strapped the team up on his back and went to work.
@xsalvioutlawx He's past his physical peak. His athleticism at this time '96-'06 was unbelievable.
i remember looking at this game at home. damn i was still in high school lol but damn you just knew kobe was going to be spacial. i was glad when they got rid of jones and from then kobe took off and never looked back. this was and still is ONE BAD DUDE!
Just listen to the announcer call kobe's name each time he scores. He' sounds frustrated/annoyed lol
I forgot Kobe was teammates with Reuben "Kobe stopper" Patterson for like 1 season lmao
ya..heart of a champion by nelly...awesome music
HE was only 20 years old you should note... I remember this game, this was the year tha Penny Hardaway was considered one of the best, and Kobe a 20 year old dominated..
Kobe
Magic
Kareem
West
Worthy
Shaq
I agree with you on that.
kobe is going to be at the top two players of all time. kobe is second to mike. but soon he might be better than mike.
Do you have the end of regulation for the game in Orlando the next season? The one where Shaq intercepted a pass at half court on an inbounds pass and threw down a dunk to tie it with last than 20 seconds left. That was amazing.
I remember that play but I don't have it.
no i am not disputing that Shaq was the most dominant player during that phase. maybe i didn't make that clear enough, but i meant to say that in those difficult series, Kobe usually came through as much as Shaq did. what i object to is the implication that Shaq got Kobe those rings, as though he were just a benchwarmer or something. oh, and saying "which big man doesn't" as a rebuttal to free throw problems is a cop out. that's the classic "he does it too" fallacy. again, the TEAM won it all.
Again, MJ did not just score. The Triangle offense was run THROUGH JORDAN. MJ would often get his teammates involved in the offense in the first half of games then go off and take over. As to the first question you asked, Shaq was the man in the LA. Kobe HAD TO BE THE FACILITATOR at times not because Kobe is so UNSELFISH but because he was the SECOND BEST player in his own team when Shaq was there in his prime. And Yes, Jordan never did lead the league in Assists, I misspoke.
I remember thinking Kobe was a good young player back in the day, but once this game happened I knew at that point he was going to be one of the greatest Lakers of all-time. It was the first time I remember him taking over in that MJ kind of way.
Greatest laker? More like greatest player
@utfanatic2000 thoguht you said it was subjective earlier? so which is it? im confused...:/
Do you also get pissed when Kobe fanatics say Kobe won by himself? Take a look at Shaq's playoff numbers, not to mention the 3 straight finals he was in with Kobe & you'll see why People credit Shaq more. Phil Jackson himself said he'd have the team rely more on Kobe throughout the better part of the regular season to have a fresh and dominant Shaq in the playoffs. And if you look at kobe's career minutes played, you'd agree. Most teams would rather lock down on Sha & let kobe go nuts.
@josette5
1- Well DUH! Of course he's getting older.
2- He didn't have extreme clutch ability back then? What video were you watching?
i just uploaded this full game lakers vs magic from the 1998-99 season
props
1. Michael Jordan
2. Kareem A. Jabbar
3. Magic Johnson
4. Bill Russell
5. Kobe Bryant
6. Wilt Chamberlain
7. Larry Bird
8. Tim Duncan
9. Oscar Robertson
10. Jerry West
11. Shaquille Oneal
12. Hakeem Olajuwon
13. David Robinson
14. Julius Erving
15. Moses Malone
16. Isaiah Thomas
17. Lebron James
18. Karl Malone
19. John Stockton
20. Scottie Pippen
SpcMedia21 terrible list
It was at this moment that Shaw started hating kobe
@utfanatic2000 how do you determine determination? :P
Ruben Patterson sighting at 3:27. If you can't beat 'em (and he wasn't even close), join 'em.
Of course Kobe was not and is not just a benchwarmer. What amazes me though is many kobe fans or fanatics as i call them, act as if Kobe was the sole reason why he has 5 rings when for the better part of his career, he wasn't even the best player on his own team. Secondly, what i said about big men is not a cop out, big men have historically and notoriously struggled at the line.
you're wrong, the triangle offense was run through Pippen, not MJ. If you were to compare, MJ played the role of Shaq while Kobe played the role of Pippen in the offense. When Shaq left, Odom played the role of Pippen while Kobe played the role of MJ.
@Rustaveli2k7
Kobe is not past his prime, his game has just changed with age. He can still score when he wants, whenever he wants.
i completely agree with you. now you try telling that to the lakers and kobe fanatics and see how far you'd get. Especially the part when you said he wouldn't have his first 3 championships rings had he been the man all along in LA. it's funny how phil jackson gets to LA and feeds the media a bunch of bullshit about how kobe reminds him so much of MJ and how Kobe was a better shooter and had more skills but when it was time to win chmpionships, he wanted Shaq to lead the team.
listen to the announcer guy when kobe makes it lol
Idiot. When I watched some games with MJ in his earlier season, you can see mutiples guys who shouldn't play basketball with their limited skills. You can score easily vs those guys?Jordan was too athletic for them.
Are you really disputing the fact that Shaq was simply the most dominant player in those 3 championship runs the Lakers had from 2000-2003? Yes, Shaq has his problems at the free throw line, what big man doesn't, right? But it should go unquestioned that Shaq was so dominant that he simply overcame his weakness at the free throw line with sheer offensive and defensive low post dominance.
It's gonna always be people who give all the glory to the person they want to the most. But it's like "accepted" around the basketball community that Shaq carried Kobe. Only idiots will discredit Shaq, Phil, Pau, and the rest of the gang.
why do you have Bill Russell ahead of Wilt?
This Kobe guy might turn out to be something special???
You're trying to downplay Kobe 06 season with your #42. But we're talking about scoring right now. And Kobe 06 season ranks 7th on the all-time single-season list (2832pts). Only Chamberlain & Jordan scored more pts in a season..and Jordan did it just once.
@BeefPapa Yea I think he started that "Kobe stopper" nonsense when he joined Portland which was the year after this I believe.
I got the biggest kick out of Orlando's PA Announcer, Paul Porter watching this...In certain clips he's like "Kobe Bryant" but in an annoyed Ben Stein-like voice...Kobe makes fans, players, PA Announcers on the opposite team all miserable. LOL!
@utfanatic2000
stats lie when you compare people sometimes though...
just because someone gets better stats doesn't ALWAYS mean they are the better player.
they could just have the ball in their hands more and/or more opportunity
Kobe's first "great" game. Wouldn't be his last.
I think you're confusing Kobe's impact on his teammates with Shaq's impact. When the Diesel was on the floor back in 2001 Shaq was the absolute BEAST IN THE ENTIRE LEAGUE. He was fresh off an MVP season and when he was on the floor the lanes to the basket for Kobe and the rest of his teammates opened up like a fucking high way. The reason Fisher, Horry, and Fox knocked down all those shots in the playoffs wasn't because of Kobe, are you smoking? It was the big DIESEL down in the low post.
Did anyone at the time imagine that his career high would end up to be (hint: 81)?
Matt Harping got OWNED at 5:12. U can her Bob Costas say, "Harpring tryin' to deal with him *Kobe makes the shot*, "But nobody can" Kobe shitted on every magic player on the floor at one time or another. And this was only his 3rd year in the league
@nineonmychest No its Magic Johnson, Karreem Abdul-Jabbar then Kobe.
@Rustaveli2k7 : only in the minds of his fans
either ur inLove with jordan or ur obsessed in hating kobe? if you think kobe cant be compared to mj, why do you keep on posting ur comments fuLL of stats on kobe videos? why dont you post ur comments on tmac vids or iverson vids or LeBron vids? its Like ur trying to show that kobe is the onLy PLAYER worthy to be compared to JORDAN.. think about it.. i know that you didnt reaLize that before.. btw.. nice video mamba 9831..
@utfanatic2000
ok well im telling you, stats are deceiving, and i never said anything about kobe or jordan.
but i do agree with you on all of your points, except im just gunna throw in that kobe is a better 3pt shooter than jordan, while taking more shots from the arc, which may skew kobes regular fg percentage down a bit.
but yeah i do not disagree that there is absoutely nothing wrong with being the closest thing to jordan, since jordan.
uh kobe avg 29 6 6 at 21-22 the season they repeated...kobe was no avg player...but with that said he is not the second coming of mj but he is and has always been an incredible talent....mj is an original that anot and will not be duplicated. but dont downplay kobe to build up any body else tho
Jordan is just better than Kobe in every category. He is an all around better scorer, rebounder, passer, defender, "Championship-winner", then Kobe. Face the facts Kobe lovers, the closest Kobe ever comes to Jordan is being a jersey number above Jordan's.
yes he was no average player i know that. still wasnt as good as he is today.
Thats my bad. Wilt should be number 4 and Bill russell should be number 6.
@BodyHeatQ Kobe is not a substitute he is the IT guy too. MJ who?
Ma man Penny getting schooled lool
Larry Hoover Yeah, injuries or not, I have to laugh at the people who said Penny would've been better than Kobe. Kobe would've outworked him, then take him to school.
Kobe “THE BLACK MAMBA” taking one of the so called upcoming GREATs “PENNY” (speaks for itself) “1 cent” Hardaway to school with pure dominance and confidence.... “MAMBA”, There goes that man (THE GOAT)!!! This ERA was full of thee so called nxt MJ and THE BLACK MAMBA solidified “THEE 1 & ONLY KOBE” aka HYBRID MJ!!!
Kurt was way over in his head 😂
Afro Kobe from the end of the 90's, he was so fun to watch, not very good shot selections, but was a remarkable player. I prefer Kobe 08-10, less athletic but more intelligent.
@Rustaveli2k7 nah kobe aint out of his prime cuz he's still winning championships
yea but it was all media bs..cuz if u think back kobes game wasnt as good as todays...he coulnt score at will or get his teamates involved. dont believe the hype.
@xsalvioutlawx nope, you don't know basketball. Kobe's been past his prime since 2008/09. a player that's been in the NBA for 15 seasons is not prime, regardless of who it is & how great that player still performs.
TwoThreeForever kobe was still in his prime up until his first major injury... kobe was robbed of 2 mvps easily... Injuries cost us 2-3 high level seasons from kobe ... there's good scorers today like harden but kobe from 03-2010 was the closest thing to Jordan ever ... kobe could've started as a rookie in 97 and easily averaged 20 plus a game ... kobe was averaging 34-7-7 in the early 00s playoffs but Shaq was putting up 39-19 at 60 percent thats hard to top .... LeBron or kobe or Durants best finals numbers don't beat shaqs 2000 finals mvp stats .... it's absurd that people use to compare Dwight Howard to.shaq lol .... did Howard ever average over 25 a game??? Shaq was a 25-14 guy from his rookie year ... if he wasn't lazy shaq could've averaged 40 and 20 easily
why are you comparing the stats of a perimeter player to a low post player?...jordan got more stls, & assist than kareem, wilt & russell...his 3pt & free throw shooting was better than theirs & it should be. just like they should get more rebs, blks & field goal % although MJ's field goal % is better than russell's...you can compare robertson with jordan but in roberston's time the game was faster so players got more opportunities to rebound.
how anyone in their RIGHT MIND could ever compare le fake to this guy is beyond me....not even close. kobe can shoot lights out in his teens. give me a fuckin break
every body allways says take away 3pt shooting u can't take that away. in that case take away michael going to the paint
@RTR9 MJ above all of them.
MJ is better, legacy wise, public image, and Stats wise. Individual talent and skills, no one knows. Maybe KB24 is more talented, but luck, fate, and timing are very important in professional sports. And oh yea, Kobe did score on MJ, numerous times, for ur info.
i remember this kobe bryant. that's when he was 100% a photo copy of jordan. did you see that little licking of the fingers when he hits that shot? guess who he got it from? yep, jordan. and the media didn't help either with the endless comparissons of kobe to jordan. every single move kobe did was from jordan. the only thing original in kobe's game at that time was maybe his three point shooting because he is a better long range shooter than jordan was. but jordan was over all better.
MJ who? Thats a new one.
My first sentence makes plenty of sense. It goes straight to the heart of your entire argument. You said MJ never had to be a "Facilitator as well as a scorer" as Kobe had. And I told you that MJ never wasn't a facilitator for the most part because he never had the most physically dominant center in the history of basketball on his team like Kobe had. And that is a false statement anyway to say that "MJ NEVER HAD TO BE A FACILITATOR". MJ once led the entire league is Assists per game.
kanguesso no he didnt jordan never lead in assist
Physically dominant. Yes. Skill wise. No. Still has same deficiencies. Kobe does not. Kobe's weakness is his ego, not his skills.
OK, let me just destroy your faulty argument for a second. First of all, Jordan never had to do that because MJ never played with THE MOST DOMINANT BIG MEN IN THE HISTORY OF THE GAME like Kobe did with Shaq. You know who Jordan's center was? Bill Wennington. Are you kidding me? How about Luc Longley? Secondly, most teams that played the Lakers had the kind of mentality that said, "we are going to double and triple team Shaq and let Kobe and the rest of the gang beat us".
yo utfanatic!! theres a video caLLed "LeBron James, The Next Jordan" i dont see your comments fuLL of stats in there.. ur saying that nobody is in mj's LeveL.. but why are you posting your comments on kobe vids onLY? theres aLot of pLayers of players being compared to mj.. yea thats what i thought.. YOU ARE NOTHIN BUT A KOBE HATER!!
@utfanatic2000 Kobe has been to the finals 7 times in his career and won 5 of them, that's average? Then Dirk is got to be mediocre compared to Kobe.
@utfanatic2000 o yeah, people only remember the best parts of what a certain person does because of natural selection. Kenny Smith does mention stats being of 2 lies that can mislead folks...
@Rustaveli2k7 Yeahhh. I mean you cant say anthing about that. Kobe would make james look dumb at 24