Kobe Bryant Career Shot Chart With Over 30,000 Interactive Dots Is Mesmerizing

Kobe Bryant scored 60 points on 50 shots in the final game of his NBA career, TBL can non-exclusively report. The theatrics of when he went off in the fourth quarter were something to behold. I was pretty much locked in on the Warriors, but what began as a flurry of tweets quickly became a tempest and made the switch to ESPN2 impossible to resist.

And Kobe inexorably continued chucking up contested shots or layups in traffic, and hitting them. Twitter may be a ghost town a lot of the time now, and the memes can get really irksome, but it’s still a great spectacle during big events. This was almost like the Super Bowl, where you couldn’t keep up with your timeline if you also wanted to watch what people were commentating upon. That is when Twitter is at its best, because reflexive filtration kicks in, and you manage to catch most of what’s funny, important, or insightful.

If you open up the interactive shot chart from the Los Angeles times up-top, you are greeted with something that is a marvel of computer programming or took an inordinate amount of manual labor to complete or both. Every dot you move your mouse over is its own mini-story including the date, distance, and opponent in all of Kobe’s career shots.