It says a lot that so many are worked up all over social media about this.
It contradicts the narrative many Kobe stans have been parroting about how Kobe was only about winning and championships. And while I’m happy to concede that was perhaps HIS entire focus as a basketball player, it clearly was not what his stans cared about. Otherwise they wouldn’t be so passionate about this Adebayo achievement.
For a group of people who bash stats at every turn, they’ve held this particular stat as their own personal tablet, as if Moses came down Mount Sinai with it himself.