Vintage Kobe returns, fires 31 in comeback win over Nuggets

This loss puts the Lakers at 5-24 this season, and they face the Clippers on Friday.

On the season, the Oklahoma City Thunder average 107.4 points, 47.8 rebounds and 21.3 assists per game.

“I didn’t do anything”, he said via ESPN.

His offensive numbers were almost overshadowed by his defence.

Kobe Bryant has been in the league for quite a while already and he has seen great players come and go over the years. I think there’s – the game has been skewed a little more towards point guards and there being a tremendous amount of – you know, that being said, I think there’s going to be a player that over the next ten years is going rise above them all, maybe, right? “It felt good to be able to do that”.

Jordan Clarkson scored 19 points and Lou Williams had 17 points and for Los Angeles.

Bryant, who will retire after the season, received a warm reception from the Pepsi Center crowd and tried to give the fans a show early in his penultimate visit to Denver. Ross then closed it out with a couple of free throws.

Bryant, who spent part of his youth in Italy where his father played professionally, also said the time had passed to play overseas.

He had 31 points on respectable 10-for-22 shooting and added five assists in the Lakers’ come-from-way-behind 111-107 victory over the reasonably depleted Denver Nuggets. The Nuggets have lost two straight at home to teams with a combined record of 11-42.

“He’s still Kobe Bryant”, Nuggets guard Jameer Nelson said. He’s got to be a player that comes out and wins more championships than everybody else and maybe they’ll be that player and maybe there won’t be. No doubting that he will go down as one of the greatest to ever play the game, but for someone who has been the focal point of a team and their offense, he has been terrible, according to The Los Angeles Times. He had 13 points in the first quarter, took the whole second quarter off, had seven more points in the third, and with the game in the balance in the fourth, he was on the court making all the plays that mattered.

Hopefully, you enjoyed it because if Lakers head coach Byron Scott has his way, you will never see something like that again. I’m sure they are on top of it and I’m sure they will get the sport back where we all want it to be.

Barton managed just two points on 1-of-5 shooting. He stopped taking a ridiculous amount of 3-pointers (“only” six per game in the recent stretch), hitting them at a decent amount, 33.3%. At the quarter’s final buzzer, Los Angeles led by three, having shot 14-of-19 while doubling Denver’s 16 points.

Not to be overlooked was a defense that shut down Denver in the second half after allowing 64 first-half points to a team without its leading scorer (Danilo Gallinari) and an exciting rookie (Emmanuel Mudiay). What that did in the fourth quarter was allow Bryant to find teammates with passes for baskets while multiple Nuggets defenders had eyes on him.