KOBE FRIDAY. 

I was watching Spike Lee’s new Netfilx series “She Gotta Have It” a few days ago and it made me think of another film he made about Kobe Bryant called, “Kobe Doin Work”. 

The short documentary debuted on ESPN back in 2009 and was kind of overlooked. Still a must watch for any Kobe/Laker fans who hasn’t seen it yet.

It’s 2007 and the Nuggets are blowing out the Lakers and Kobe Bryant sees Carmelo Anthony laughing on the sideline. At the time Melo was leading the league in scoring by a healthy margin with 30+ PPG (to Kobe’s ~28 PPG). Kobe takes exception to Melo’s light-heartedness and lets him know that even though the Nuggets were going to win the game, Melo wasn’t going to win the scoring title.

Sure enough, on 03/15/2007, the Nuggets blew out the Lakers in Denver by 27 points.

Kobe then followed up that Denver game with a 5 game stretch where he scored 65, 50, 60, 50, and 43 points.

With 12 games left in the season, Kobe went on to have a 53, 46, and 2 more 50 point games.