Mamba Mentality: Last High School Player Coached by Kobe Bryant Explodes for 61 Points

Amalia Holguin, the last high school player that Kobe Bryant coached as part of his youth girls basketball team before his tragic death, scored 61 points on Tuesday night.

The Sage Hill High School senior played alongside Kobe’s late daughter, Gianna, on the team before their deaths and is now “the last active high school player he coached,” per the New York Post.

So it was only fitting that the Lightning senior channeled her inner mamba mentality and struck for 61 points — yes, sixty-one — burying an Orange County single-game record 14 three-pointers in a 101-26 dismantling of visiting Laguna Beach. By the time the third quarter ended, the record books were already smoldering. By the time she checked out, history had been rewritten.

Holguin’s shooting