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Originally Posted by Shaft_1971
I'm a big basket ball fan as well as a player. There is one thing that coaches and teams do when they are clearly winning a game - Don't embarrass the opposing team. It's not about Kobe possibly hurting himself. It's more a sense of respect for the other coaches and players.
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This is definitely true too. But I think the other team would understand as well that when potential history is being made, it's not just like rubbing it in under normal circumstances. If he only had 40 and kept him in, that's another story.
The fans do pay to see the game and to take that away from them isn't giving your target audience what they want.
Hell, I'll even go you one further and say that if they were playing AWAY from home, the OTHER teams fans would be wanting to see him play. Okay, perhaps Kobe isn't the perfect example of this, but when a pitcher pitches a perfect game away from home, the audience still usually gives a nice ovation. So imagine if Kobe had gone out and scored 85 points away from home. I think most arenas would give him a standing ovation.