Watch Kobe Bryant Drill Three-Consecutive 3-Pointers In The Fourth Before Going Cold

We should all be at a point where we have accepted current-day Kobe Bryant for what he is — a 37-year-old man whose best days are behind him. So, holding him to his Hall of Fame standards is unfair. It’s better to accept the flashes of greatness when they arrive, and they arrived in the fourth quarter against the Indiana Pacers on Monday night.

With the Lakers trailing 77-73 with a little more than four minutes left on Monday night, Bryant hit three-consecutive 3-pointers to pull his team ahead in the final three minutes. A sizable contingent of visiting Lakers fans cheered raucously in Bankers Life Fieldhouse, and it probably felt like a home game for Bryant with the Lakers up 82-79.

Then Bryant missed his final five shots and the Lakers lost 89-87. “Pulled the rabbit out of the hat and then it disappeared,” Kobe said after the game.

And for Lakers fans, isn’t that the ideal outcome for every game the rest of the season?

This is Bryant’s farewell tour, so you’d like to see him take over as many games as possible, no matter how brief those stretches may be. Then you’d like to see the Lakers lose, because at 11-43, they are still three games behind the Philadelphia 76ers for last place and the largest number of draft lottery balls.

If the final 27 Lakers games go this way, Lakers fans should be ecstatic.

(LA Times)

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