Yeah, so Kobe Bryant broke Jerry West’s record for career points scored by a Laker, which is pretty amazing considering that Magic Johnson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and West played in LA for most or all of their careers. But some people are already calling him the greatest Laker ever, which is patently ridiculous. Greatest HIV-negative Laker ever? I would listen to an argument? Greatest Laker-slash-alleged-rapist ever? Now we’re getting somewhere. I don’t know why I spelled out the slash there.

Anyway, I come not to praise Bryant so much as bury another player from the same game. This is a video of the Grizzlies’ Rudy Gay, who recovered a loose ball only to fire it from three-quarters court with six seconds remaining. And of course, the Lakers pull the rebound and fire a downcourt pass to Bryant, who was waiting on the arc to demonstrate the correct buzzer-beating technique. Nice work and congrats to Kobe Bryant, the greatest HIV-negative Laker ever. –Detroit 4 Lyfe.

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