Basketball and News:LeBron James over Kobe Bryant
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Yes, the Los Angeles Lakers and Kobe Bryant just lost to the Cleveland Cavaliers and LeBron James, even without Mo Williams.
Cleveland Cavaliers 93 Los Angeles Lakers 87
The Cleveland Cavaliers rose to the occasion
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NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Yes, the Los Angeles Lakers and Kobe Bryant just lost to the Cleveland Cavaliers and LeBron James, even without Mo Williams.
Cleveland Cavaliers 93 Los Angeles Lakers 87
The Cleveland Cavaliers rose to the occasion playing a physical brand of basketball that left the Lakers a little off kilter at the end of the game. Kobe Bryant saw the game as a learning experience that will lead to some needed changes if the Lakers are going to win it all.
LeBron James may be King, but Kobe Bryant scored his 25,000th point
That is all good and well, but not the point we want to get at here. Rather than celebrate for the Cav’s or be sad for the Lakers, it would be more fun to look at some of the top scorers in NBA history, because Kobe Bryant had his 25,000th point.
Kobe Bryant is 15th in total points in NBA history and 19th if we include ABA scoring. Let’s take a look at some of the players ahead of him.
There are only 3 players ahead of Kobe that are not in the Hall of Fame, Karl Malone, Shaq, and Reggie Miller. All 3 players will most likely end up in the Hall when all is said in done with maybe Reggie having the hardest time.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is tops on the list and at 7′2″ tall with a sky hook shot, he was unstoppable. For many years the top attended game was between Kareem and number 7 on the list Elvin Hayes. It was a college game held in the Houston Astrodome with over 52,000 fans as the UCLA Bruins and Kareem lost to Houston and Elvin Hayes in 1968.
Wilt Chamberlain was 4th on the scoring list and once scored 100 points in a single game and once had a quadruple double in a game against the Boston Celtics in a playoff in the first NBA championship year for Wilt. The Stat line?
In the 1967 NBA Playoffs, the Sixers yet again battled the Boston Celtics in the Eastern Division Finals, and again held home court advantage. In Game 1, the Sixers beat Boston 127–112, powered by Hal Greer’s 39 points and Chamberlain’s unofficial quadruple double, with 24 points, 32 rebounds, 13 assists and (unofficially counted) 12 blocks.
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