00:00You see people saying he should have stopped at 81 out of respect for Kobe Bryant.
00:04So the New York Times just came out with a piece in The Athletic.
00:07New York Times owns The Athletic, and that's what it says.
00:10Bam's historic night should have ended one basket sooner
00:15as a nod to the legacy of Kobe Bryant.
00:21No, that's dumb.
00:23Because in 20 years, when my grandson's talking about the leading scorer,
00:28everybody's talking about Wilt's 100-point game,
00:31they're not going to talk about the guy that didn't score 82.
00:34They're going to talk about Kobe still.
00:35Now they have to bring up Bam's name in 2090.
00:39Also, and I mean this is going to sound maudlin,
00:43if you want to honor Kobe Bryant, you break the record.
00:47Because Kobe was a killer.
00:49Kobe's the last guy in the NBA that would have said,
00:54oh, wait a second, this guy did that.
00:56Kobe was a straight-up killer.
01:01You want to honor his legacy?
01:03You go for broke.
01:04You know who fouled Bam in the fourth?
01:06Kobe fouled Bam in the fourth to put him on the line.
01:10What are we doing here, though, where Kobe Bryant's record,
01:14that's not even a record, can't be broken out of respect for him?
01:19It's the last thing we have to remember him by.
01:20I mean, there's a weird thing at play there because he died so young,
01:25is like that's the thing that we all witnessed at the end,
01:30and you know what I mean?
01:31Like, you can understand why.
01:34I struggle with that because it wasn't at the end of his career.
01:36That happened in 2006.
01:38That was the most monumental thing towards the end of his career.
01:44But Kobe Bryant, the guy who went up 3-0 in an NBA final series or whatever,
01:51and the reporter's asking him, you're like, why are you not happy?
01:55He's like, job's not finished.
01:56Job's not finished.
01:57The guy only talked about winning titles.
02:00Regular season stuff didn't matter.
02:02MVPs didn't matter.
02:03Regular season accolades didn't matter.
02:04All he wanted, the ultimate winner.
02:06It's why people prop him up as number two behind Michael Jordan.
02:10It's why Kobe fans talk about him, that he'll always be better than LeBron
02:15because of one thing, killer instinct.
02:17He would stop at nothing to win an NBA title.
02:20But we're supposed to put this gravity on his 81-point regular season game
02:27in 2006, a season where his team didn't even come close to winning the NBA title,
02:34and Bam's supposed to decide at that moment,
02:37I'm not going to pass Kobe Bryant's point total.
02:43I don't understand that.
02:45I understand all of that.
02:47I mean, Kobe's a legend, and that's the thing that we always talk about.
02:53I mean, when my son was growing up, his whole thing was 81.
02:57Reminds me of Kobe.
02:59Like, that was a thing.
03:01So, I get that.
03:03I get that.
03:04But I'm just saying, Kobe was a straight-up killer.
03:07So, you really want to honor his legacy.
03:09Go out and break his record because he'd have broken yours.
03:12And no one has any footage or memory of Wilt 100.
03:19They're all dead.
03:20The best scoring night I've ever seen in my life over 42 years
03:26was watching Kobe drop 81.
03:28And now I've watched Bam drop 83.
03:33Wilt.
03:35Bam.
03:37Kobe.
03:38Single name.
03:40Single name recognition makes you something.
03:44Right.
03:45But in other words, if Chris Paul had done it,
03:50does that launch him into single name territory?
03:53They would say Chris and Kobe.
03:55No, it'd be CP3.
03:57It's weird that the names have to be just set
04:00where you can put them as Greg.
04:04Greg out of bio is not making it.
04:09Well, his real name is Edris.
04:11That's right.
04:12Edris is not making it.
04:14I think it's Edris, isn't it?
04:15Edris.
04:16You sure?
04:17Yes.
04:18I'm not certain.
04:19Okay.
04:20Isn't that little cute boy off F1 named Edris?
04:24Edris?
04:25I don't watch F1.
04:26No, the movie F1 with Brad Pitt.
04:30The little cute black dude.
04:31Oh, Brad Pitt.
04:32No, the cute black dude.
04:34Brad Pitt's not black.
04:36Brad.
04:37Edris.
04:38of any
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