#Dude stop game 666 professional#

But guess what? Even though it didn't seem quite fair that the kid was playing, it was still a moment. In fact, this kid was good enough that everyone in my section feared Rick Pitino would sign him to a $30 million contract after the game. Not only did he score like 20 points in four minutes, I'm convinced to this day that he was the impetus for the recent Johnny Knoxville movie. For instance, at halftime of a Celtics game in the late-'90s, they had a Special Olympics exhibition game and there was one kid involved who seemed a little too, um, competent to be playing in the game. (By the way, it's always fun to watch a basketball player score copious amounts of points, even when he's freezing out his teammates in the process.

#Dude stop game 666 professional#

For the first time in the post-Shaq Era, Kobe has an identity beyond 'Selfish gunner who destroyed a potential dynasty.' He's the most exciting player in any professional sport. On his 666th regular season game (seriously), Kobe scored 66 percent of his team's points. Nobody cared that the last 12 points of the game came during garbage time, or that Kobe took a jaw-dropping 45 shots and 20 free throw attempts in 42 minutes. Heck, he even knocked the NFL championship games off the front page of on Monday. Everyone has been discussing Kobe for two straight days - every Web site, every TV show, every radio show, everybody. Then he dropped 81 against Toronto on Sunday night.Īnd in the process, he indirectly proved my point. That the game symbolized his entire career - memorable, incredible, ultimately a little disappointing - and he would regret the decision some day. That you can't pass up a chance to go down in history, not when the Non-Wilt Scoring Record was at stake. That sports were about the little challenges along the way. I thought it was a once-in-a-lifetime chance. Just three weeks ago, I wrote that Kobe was a fool for passing up an 80-point game against Dallas.