12-06-2006, 05:46 PM
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And here we go!
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Kobe's 3rd Quarter Against Utah - Best Ever?
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Bryant treated the home crowd to a quarter for the ages, scoring 30 points in the third in a blowout win over the Jazz.
Bryant tied the Lakers' franchise record for most points in a quarter held by ... you guessed it ... Kobe Bryant.
How special was it?
Think of the thousands and thousands of NBA regular season and playoff games. Three times (on just two different days) has a player ever scored more than 30 points in a quarter. They were previously done in much more advantageous times and situations.
But to clarify, in the history of the NBA, there have been only two other days on which players have scored more points in a quarter.
On the final day of the 1978 season, George Gervin was battling David Thompson for the scoring title.
Thompson, with the Denver Nuggets, played first and scored 73 points in his final game of the season, thinking that this would be enough to win the scoring title. In the process, he set an NBA record by scoring 32 points in a single quarter.
The record didn't last 24 hours.
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More in link - http://msn.foxsports.com/nba/story/6...0813162&ATT=73
I thought it was an interesting read, and I would say I have to agree with him, but only because he's the only person that I've actually seen score 30 in a quarter...everyone else, I've only heard of them doing it or read about it.
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Kobe's 3rd Quarter Against Utah - Best Ever?
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