It's Kobe Bryant's most famous 81-points game against the Toronto Raptors at Staples Center on January 22, 2006 NBA Regular Season 2005-2006, the second highest point total in NBA history. Wilt Chamberlain had scored 100 points in a single game in 1962.
"I just remember we were down 16 points to a bad Raptors team and we had just lost I think to Houston the game before and it was just kind of doom and gloom. We needed to win and I just got hot," Bryant said Friday after shootaround in preparation for the Lakers' game against the Denver Nuggets.
The Lakers ending up winning the game 122-104 against a Toronto team that had a record of just 14-26. Los Angeles actually trailed the Raptors by 18 points early on in the third quarter before Bryant really went off, scoring 51 of his 55 second-half points from that point on. Bryant scored 14 points in the first quarter, 12 in the second, 27 in the third and 28 in the fourth.
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