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The first basket spun around the rim at least four times and dropped in, and the one that pushed him past his former teammate and nemesis was just a smooth Kobe Bryant jumper, the kind that he launches with so much grace and control even as he uncoils like a vicious cobra.
It was 24 points for No. 24 Monday night with 5:08 left in the second quarter of a game in his hometown, the place where his basketball instincts were taught. It was good for fifth in the history of the NBA, 28,597 points over 980 games spanning 16 years.
One more championship than Shaquille O'Neal, and at that moment, one more point, too.
"To say it's a huge honor would be an understatement," Bryant said in the visiting locker room after a...
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