The Greatest Playoff Comeback

Hard!

Kobe's road to cutting the deficit was exceptionally difficult.

At the start of the fourth quarter, Kobe drove inside and shot from outside right in front of Bill Russell, scoring repeatedly.

On the other end, Malone was also in an unstoppable state.

Bowen had done his best. With O'Neal retreating to defend the paint, he guarded two men by himself, but it was no use at all. Malone threw around those huge elbows of his, doing whatever he pleased in front of Bowen.

"Carl! Too strong!"

"This is Salt Lake City's tough guy!"

"Show those little Black punks from Italy what we're made of!"

The commotion from the sidelines fired Malone up even more! His eyes were bloodshot, as though he had been pumped full of adrenaline.

"Fuck." Kobe cursed under his breath. It was only because he couldn't leave Stockton that he hadn't gone over to trap Malone to death already! All he could do was wait for the right chance—a moment when both Malone and Richmond let their guard down.

A scoring duel.

The scoring duel between Kobe and Malone became the main theme of the fourth quarter!

Since neither of them could be stopped, Kobe wanted to see just who was harder to score against—him or Malone!

Malone had played almost the entire game, while Kobe had only started turning it on in the third quarter!

If Kobe still couldn't outscore Malone under those circumstances, then something would really be wrong.

"An ultra-deep three! It's in again! Kobe has already blasted out 17 points in the fourth quarter!"

"The Lakers have scored just 20 points in total! Kobe has 17 of them!"

"Lakers 20, Jazz 14 in the fourth quarter! There are still 3 minutes left, and the overall score has been cut to 111:121! Only