Kobe Bryant comes away from Tuesday night's 107-102 loss to the Memphis Grizzlies with a distinction that only seems fitting at the outset of the Los Angeles Lakers' now 1-6 season.
The 36-year-old passed John Havlicek's all-time NBA mark for missed shots, reminding us that those nearly 32,000 points have come at a bit of a cost.
To put that in perspective, a relative few have even attempted as many shots as Bryant has missed.
And still fewer have attempted more field goals than Bryant himself.
Bryant finished Tuesday's game with 28 points on 26 attempts from the field—16 of them misses, including the one in the fourth quarter that earned him the record.
Havlicek—a sixth-man pioneer who won eight titles with the Boston Celtics—missed 13,417 field-goal attempts from 1962 to 1978.
Though it's not a record anyone was racing to beat, Bryant finds himself in fine company. He's taken a high volume of shots since he was drafted in 1996, but he's also been called upon to carry the scoring load—as recently evidenced by the 37 shots he took in a 11 ...
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Kobe Bryant Breaks All-Time NBA Record for Most Missed Field Goals
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