- Kobe Bryant is one of the greatest scorers in NBA history
- Bryant revealed the first time he scored 60 points in a game was when he was just eight years old
- It was after he realized that the other kids couldn’t dribble with their left hand
When it comes to scoring the basketball, few in NBA history could match Kobe Bryant. His arsenal of scoring moves combined with his intellect and mentality made him an absolute nightmare for opposing defenses.
It turns out Kobe was giving his opponents nightmares even when he was a kid, as he once spoke about his scoring exploits when he was just eight years old.
“I scored my first 60-point game when I was eight,” Bryant said. “Yeah, I had 63 when I was eight.
“It was something very simple that I figured out at eight years old is that other eight-year-olds can’t dribble with their left hand,” Bryant continued. “So it was something that simple for me and so when I was guarding the ball— I always made sure I guard the ball during the game — I would always just let them have a couple of dribbles with their right hand and then jump on their right hand and make them change over to their left. And they would bobble the ball and fumble the ball. I’d pick it up and go lay it up. I just did this all game and so, I wound up with 63.”
Kobe talking about how he dropped 63 points when he was 8 years old;
“It was something very simple that I figured out at 8 years old is that other 8-year-olds can’t dribble with their left hand.”
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Kobe was actually ambidextrous, so he was adept at using both hands, but he was obviously the exception, not the norm. One can only imagine how frustrated those kids would have been as he kept using the same tactic to get the ball from them and score.
Kobe Bryant’s Insane Scoring Feats In The NBA
During his 20 seasons in the NBA, Bryant racked up 33,643 points, which sees him rank fourth in the all-time scoring charts. A closer look at his feats as a scorer shows just how great he really was.
Kobe won two scoring titles, averaging an impressive 35.4 PPG in the 2005-06 campaign. In his career, he had 25 50-point games and six 60-point games, with only Wilt Chamberlain having more of the latter.
Bryant’s zenith as a scorer would, of course, come against the Toronto Raptors in 2006, as he put up 81 points, which to this date, remains the second-most points scored in a game in NBA history.
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