On this day, 16 years ago, Kobe Bryant, the legendary Los Angeles Lakers basketball player, had his best scoring night in the NBA league.
It was the night between January 22 and 23, 2006. The Lakers welcomed the Toronto Raptors.
Bryant scored 81 points that night, which is the second best individual performance of a basketball player, behind the 100 points of Wilt Chamberlain.
Kobe shot 46 times at the Toronto Retpors basket and was accurate 28 times, while he scored 7 three-pointers and 18 free throws.
He was guarded by Jalen Rose, who was considered a good basketball player, but he couldn’t do anything to him that night. Later, the two of them recorded an advertisement in which they joked about Jalen’s expense.
