Originally Posted by lazycash

Kobe has a history of swinging his arms wildly right after he releases a shot in an attempt to make contact with part of the opponents body in an attempt to get a foul call. Did he mean to hit Manu in the face, probably not, but he definitely deliberately swung wildly in hopes of making some contact. He did the same thing last year in the Utah game and got the call at the very end of the game from doing that. His shot missed at the buzzer, but he had swung his arms deliberately hard into a player two feet from him and made some contact and got the free throws to win the game, it was the worst call ever.