Wolves will stop game to honor Kobe

[coin24]

Not only that, but Chamberlain COULD have scored MUCH more in his career. In his 66-67, 67-68, and 68-69 seasons, he basically did what his COACHES asked of him (and yes, it was mostly successful), but even in those years he would occasionally go out and throw up a few huge games (e.g. 52, 53, 53, 58, 60, 66, and 68 point games) just to let everyone know that he still could.

And then, in his 69-70 season, his new COACH asked him to become a scorer again, and he was leading the league in scoring at 32.2 ppg (on a .579 FG%) when he blew out out his knee in the ninth game.

Even after the injury, he would still go out an hang a 30-30 game every so often.

And just watch this footage, taken in the clinching game five of the '72 Finals, when a Chamberlain, with BOTH wrists badly injured, scored 24 points on 10-14 shooting. I think it is pretty clear, that as easily as he was scoring in that game, that he could have had yet another 40 point game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvPQV1WHtsU


And, of course, the big one...Chamberlain had to wait FOUR YEARS after High School to play in the NBA. Given the fact that he scored 43 points in his very first NBA game, you can safely assume that he would have probably added at least 8,000+ points to his career totals, had he been able to jump right to the NBA.

Let it go bro, its not healthy..

Wilt hasnt played for like 30 years. Is that what Jordan stans are going to look like in another 15 years?

[JohnFreeman]

Timberwolves stay beta

[SugarHill]

aside from the no rangz, Malone unlike the other guys never led the league in scoring, not even total points. Had one season of 30ppg, has only five 50+ point games in his career.

so he never really stood out like MJ, Kobe & Kareem

He was still a model of consitency and the greatest scoring power forward in NBA history in the regular season, which is the only thing that matters for the list. The reason Jordan matters aside from being a guard who played similar to Kobe is that he's the consensus GOAT and Kareem holds the record. That's it. Malone is stuck in the middle and doesn't make a story. It has little to do with his scoring prowess.

[ImKobe]

[plowking]

That is a cool pic.

[DCL]

Kobe's scoring is full of garbage points in meaningless games in meaningless seasons.

[G0ATbe]

My new screensaver.