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#3 Kobe Bryant
Regular season points tally: 33643
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Playoff points tally: 5640
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If you are a basketball fan who didn't grow up on a staple of Kobe Bryant going to work on a nightly basis against the rest of the league, it really is hard to grasp what the Black Mamba meant to a lot of people, and still does to the NBA. For heaven's sakes, the league is filled with players who grew up idolizing him and copying every move of his.
As psychopathic a competitor as the NBA has ever seen, the Black Mamba is an embodiment of how a person can "squeeze every ounce of juice out of the orange that they could". That's how he evolved from a high-energy dunker in his first season into the most complete guard to play the game since Michael Jordan, and even those comparisons are a heavy undersell given what Kobe did on a nightly basis.
If you don't shout out "Kobe!" while punting a crumpled up paper ball into a trash can, do you even watch basketball?
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