One year ago today, Kobe Bryant poured 81 points on the Toronto Raptors. Sure, he took 46 shots, but when you convert on more than 50% of your field goals and three-pointers, and lead your team back from an 18-point deficit to a convincing victory — who can deny that Bryant’s effort matches that of Wilt Chaimberlain’s 100-point monument 45 years ago.Kobe Bryant, by no means the most humble player in the NBA, couldn’t believe his accomplishment.“It really hasn’t, like, set in for me. It’s about the ‘W,’ that’s why I turned it on. It turned into something special. To sit here and say I grasp what happened, that would be lying.”January 22, 2006, saw an impressive record fall in another game. The Seattle Sonics and Phoenix Suns combined for 301 points in a double-overtime game that broke the combined record for three-pointers in a game, and was the most points scored in one game for over 10 years.
