Kobe Bryant has had one hell of a summer. It started with the acquisition of new teammates Steve Nash and Dwight Howard. He won another gold medal playing with Team USA in the 2012 London Olympics. Over the weekend he capped it off by scoring 68 points in 15 minutes.

15 MINUTES!

Maybe we should mention that it wasn’t a NBA game yet a charity game in China and the mere feat wasn’t anything reminiscent of when he went off for 81 points against the Toronto Raptors, which coincidentally comes on today on NBA Tv at 3:30pm EST but it was self-calculated and all in fun as Kobe was in China on a promotional tour.

Kobe virtually dismantled a team filled with local celebrities and entertainers who’s only thrill came with just being on the same basketball court with the future Hall of Famer.

Bryant gave a detailed account on his Facebook page explaining that he used the game as a test of his stamina after his team was down double digits after the first half.

 Here is how Kobe explains it:

We played two 15 min halves with a running clock. I watched from the bench for the first half. We were trailing by 9 when I was notified that fans via text can choose a team to add 20 additional points to their tally!!! We were now down 29!! I wanted to play it cool but what the heck, the place was packed with fans who’d sang an early happy birthday to me and really wanted to watch me go to work. My teammates were down. They are all singers/actors and do not play ball much AT ALL, but they are very successful at what they do hence they are VERY competitive. They asked if I could bring them back in the second half..

I didn’t want to disappoint them or the fans that had paid their hard earned money for a show so I took the challenge of really using the second half as a training session for my stamina. I ran and ran and ran. I wound up scoring 68 in the 2nd and we won. Like I said, they are not basketball players by any stretch of the imagination. I was just having fun with all of them and loved hearing the crowd enjoy the show we put on.

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