Even Westbrick knows his limits. Kobe's on a whole 'nother level of "Ball-hoggery" (if that's even a word)!
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Didn't LeBron just say a couple days ago that he couldn't see himself shooting 40 shots a game? Let me dig up that quote...
Edit: Eh, 46 shots... quote's not a big deal.
http://espn.go.com/nba/truehoop/miam...job-miami-heat
Quote:
When a reporter brought up the fact that Bryant took 46 shots when he scored 81 points, James laughed and said he wouldn't be able to do that on this Heat team with Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh also needing the ball.
"There's only a couple guys in the league that can do that, shoot 46 shots and Kobe is one of them," James said with a smile. "Melo, KD, maybe when he's feeling it. Monta (Ellis). Wow, 46 shots. I don't know."
lebron knows he has time on his side to run down any of kobes records, so theres actually no need for him to stat padd or chuck hero mode...
since 1985 Kobe has had 8 >40 shots games.
MJ had 4. 4 other people (including The Admiral) have had 1.
So he's had as many as everybody else put together.
TBH, if our Mr. Hero Ball played 44 minutes in a single game and got the green light by Pop, he probably wouldn't do much different than Kobe.