Sunday, January 9th, 2011 at 12:39 am  |  128 responses

Kobe Bryant Passes Oscar Robertson on Career Scoring List

Hate him or love him, you have to applaud Kobe Bryant’s on-court accomplishments. The 31-year-old’s latest feat, passing Oscar Robertson on the career scoring list, took place on Friday night. Former SLAM contributor, Arash Markazi breaks it down:

Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant made a running jump shot with 1:11 remaining in the third quarter against the New Orleans Hornets to move him past Oscar Robertson for ninth place on the NBA’s all-time scoring list.

Bryant finished with 25 points in the Lakers’ 101-97 win over the Hornets on Friday and now has 26,720 points. Next on the list is Hakeem Olajuwon with 26,946 points.

“It’s a huge honor,” Bryant said after the game. “So much of my game is built on those that came before me, Oscar in particular. It’s a huge honor to be moving up that ladder.”

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“I don’t know, we’ll see what happens,” Bryant said when asked how high he will go on the all-time scoring list. “The ladder I’m more focused on climbing is Bill Russell’s ladder, so we’ll see.”


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  • Jackie Moon

    Does someone have a time machine so we can settle this once and for all?

  • http://slamonline.com Allenp

    Droid. Lol

  • http://NBA.com EJ

    One thing you gotta consider when you talk about Big O playing today, is that back in the 60s he didn’t have many idols he could’ve learned the game from. Today the fundamentals and everything are much more advanced. New stuff has been invented, and Oscar didn’t have that in the 60s. So if he found a time machine, and came to play here today with his 60s skills, he wouldn’t be THAT good, but if he was born at the same time as Kobe, he would’ve had MJ and Magic and others to look up to.
    So players back then didn’t have the same chance to fulfil their potential as they do today.

  • http://www.need4sheed.com Tarzan Cooper

    Looks like allen and someone else made my point for me.

  • http://gmail.com z

    Allenp for president

  • http://gmail.com z

    Allenp your patience in dealing with guys who let their personal biases cloud analysis of players&the game is admirable. I can honestly cosign basically everything you’ve written since your pieces on centers of the 90s and ai. So as a fan of the game to another I’m very curious about your opinion on wilt and how he would do in the modern game which is more star friendly than the bush league he played in (IMO)

  • 3John3

    Well I think he is a good player and all but Kobe I can’t stand. Yea, i know he is climin his way up, but Lakers is just not my team. i don’t lie his attiude is basicly a cry baby, what i mean like when they played the Bucks he thought he got the foul but he didn’t. Then he helled at the ref, then had to leave the game but good job!

  • http://www.slamonline.com Eboy

    Defintley wasn’t me.

  • http://www.facebook.com/joe.l.brewer3 BlackPhantom

    Allenp won this thread, and to Jackie Moon, I agree. Where’s Doc Brown when you need him??

  • LBCaliKush

    Fukkkk all yall niggggassss!!!!!

  • nyemah2k

    I will take the Big O Over Kobe if i had to choose. look at Kevin love how he dominates the boards w/ not being very athletic. Oscar could still average a triple double if he work hard at it in this NBA era. you forgot Lebron crazy numbers in 2009- 29.7ppg, 7.3rpg, 8.6apg.some people say if Oscar was playing in today NBA he wouldn’t be as skill. why? he would have the same advantage as everyone. if Kobe played back then he would conform to the norms of his era. he wouldn’t be as skilled as he is right now.remember too it was more physical back then. I’ll take the Big O and I think Kobe would too since he copies and studies his moves

  • datkid

    cosign allenp I personally think the big O could be just as good as kobe if he grew up today. Especially because back then they didn’t credit assists like they do today,he would’ve had the benefit of modern training not to mention we have a 3 point line now… I just feel like he’d be ridiculous today. but that’s me though. And honestly I’m far too young to have seen Oscar play so Idk for sure.

  • http://slamonline.com Allenp

    Z
    I never saw him play except vrainy highlights a short snippets of games but dude was massive, agile skilled and intelligent. He would have likely ben as good if not better than shaq since there was no defendeor on russell’s level or team on bostons level. Dude was initially about 270 a high jump champ soft touch, counters and jumpers. He understood the nuances of scoring and had all his.physical gifts. People always say he played against midgets but agile, athletic 7-footers have alwAys been a rarity. He would have dominated in any era but not 50 and 25 dominated. A wild guess is like 30 and 12 with 4 or 5 assists.

  • http://thetroyblog.com Teddy-the-Bear

    Bushleague, z? Why..?

  • JTaylor21

    Looks like LeBron is finally embracing the bad guy role and had on his Darth Vader suit tonight. Dude hit a deep three in ot and started taunting the Por crowd. Away crowds need to keep on booing him because no one plays better when the crowd gets hostile.

  • http://slamonline.com Ugh

    This conversation is about Wilt? Again? Can’t we debate how well Kobe would do playing on the moon, or some other relevant and important conversation?

  • http://gmail z

    Well Teddy I realize that might sound presumptuous of me but the league didn’t favor stars back then like it does now. As a rook wilt actually got a tooth dislodged in his mouth so bad that it MAY have played a role in his death 40 years later! And the (white) player who did that 2 him went unpunished! That brings me 2 my other point: the league was populated with racists back then and with the best players bein black…and no superstar protection…you figure it out.and needless to say, cosign allenp those are the exact stats I estimated him getting 2days game! Seriously I feel smarter knowing that you and I think along the same lines so much basketball wise. Jw: do you read nietzche?

  • DR. NICK

    HIII EVEERYBODDY!!!!!!!!

  • http://gmail z

    Sorry ugh. I’m a huge Kobe fan but I just watched bron in Por and I gotta put in my 2 cents: lbj is Bettre @ this point. But regular season only! He’s gotta prove it with a ring b4 I say it hands down. And as 4 Kobe vs Oscar? Gotta go with Kobe on this. Never got to see O play but Kobes bigger which is sumthin O never had 2 deal with in a guard. But o did have tremendous numbers. Don’t discount that

  • http://slamonline.com Krishan

    Wait, Z is a huge kobe fan??? How long was I away from these boards?

  • http://thetroyblog.com Teddy-the-Bear

    Wow, I totally misunderstood what you meant when you said bushleague. Sorry Z, I thought you were saying something else, like the league being worse back then or something like that–I totally misread what you were saying. Good point.
    Although, I prefer the lack of superstar treatment. Not to THAT extent though, lol…

  • http://thetroyblog.com Teddy-the-Bear

    @ Krishan: That’s a different “Z” you’re thinking of (specifically, uppercase Z), who now posts as T-Money, I think. Lowercase z is a different person (if I’m not mistaken).

  • DR. NICK

    KOBE LITTLE PINKY STILL HURT! UGH OOOOHHHH!!!!

  • http://sjfklfsl.com Jukai

    @AllBall247: Sorry it took me so long to respond. But my response is going to be similar to Allenp’s.
    If you abduct Big O from his time zone and put him in here, I say he still competes. He was fast, his shot was top 10% in the league TODAY, he had a post-up game (not strength, legit post moves) in an era with no D3 and was 6’5 so he could ABUSE smaller guards today. As allenp mentioned, he was getting 11-12 assists in an era where taking a step meant losing an assist, so god knows how many assist he’d get today (probably 13-14 a game, Rondo style. I think a website took the difference percentage wise between handing out assists then and now and gave like, 15-16 assists, but I guess pace too was also faster back then).
    So I think if you took him out of his timeline and put him here, he’d be able to compete at an all-star level every night.
    Give him the same innovation and training and advantages that Kobe had? We’re talking immense all time great.
    And I feel even STRONGER about that for Chamberlain (who, by all accounts, was one of the most athletic players to EVER play in the L, even back then).
    I’m not docking too much on Kobe now. I said I’d probably have Kobe a SPOT behind Big O. -A SPOT-
    And why is someone talking about Kobe and Oscar going one-on-one? Oscar was a point, he would not have guard Kobe and Kobe would not guard him.

  • 3John3

    yall suck balls

  • freddie freeloader

    If the league is so much easier in the 60s than it is today, how come Kobe just matched scoring numbers of his counterpart from that era? Same amount of time, and Kobe has ALWAYS been on better teams, except for the end of Oscar’s career when he had KAJ.

    Answer: the league has changed, but it isn’t any better.

  • joe moma

    the only reason kobe has passed big o is he came out of high school to the pros oscar had 4 years in college where each year he avg over 30 points kobe was not better at all

  • joe moma

    see the problem is these videos with him with the bcks dont do justice for him teens think he was fat and slow no ture he was fast and a beast

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