{"id":14712,"date":"2025-01-22T11:32:44","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T10:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theplayoffs.news\/en\/?p=14712"},"modified":"2025-01-22T13:08:39","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T12:08:39","slug":"on-this-day-kobe-bryant-drops-81-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theplayoffs.news\/en\/on-this-day-kobe-bryant-drops-81-points\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day: Kobe Bryant drops 81 points, second-highest point total of all time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The month of January brings emotions for Kobe Bryant fans. The legendary <a href=\"https:\/\/theplayoffs.news\/en\/nba\/\" class=\"trk-cta-link\" data-cta-trk='{\"ctaType\":\"Link\",\"ctaSubType\":\"main\"}'>NBA <\/a>star passed away on Jan. 26, 2020, in a helicopter crash in California. Meanwhile, Kobe Bryant has produced extraordinary performances in his 20-year-long career and this month is also special for his all-time outburst. <\/p><p>Kobe Bryant scored 81 points on Jan. 22, 2006, against the Toronto Raptors to create an NBA history. Los Angeles Lakers legend guided his team to a 122-104 win over the Raptors. It was one of the most incredible moments in the history of the NBA.<\/p><p>Then-Lakers owner Jerry Buss described the Lakers-Raptors game in 2006 as <em>&ldquo;like watching a miracle unfold.&rdquo;<\/em> As per the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/news\/history-top-moments-kobe-bryant-81-points-2006\" class=\"trk-cta-link\" data-cta-trk='{\"ctaType\":\"Link\",\"ctaSubType\":\"main\"}'>NBA<\/a>, Bryant&rsquo;s 81-point game was the first and only professional game his grandmother had ever seen him play live.<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Mamba mentality &#128013;<br><br>Here&rsquo;s all of Kobe&rsquo;s 81 points vs. Toronto <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GYn7KwXZZI\" class=\"trk-cta-link\" data-cta-trk='{\"ctaType\":\"Link\",\"ctaSubType\":\"main\"}'>pic.twitter.com\/GYn7KwXZZI<\/a><\/p>&mdash; NBA TV (@NBATV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBATV\/status\/1297926641071554561?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\"trk-cta-link\" data-cta-trk='{\"ctaType\":\"Link\",\"ctaSubType\":\"main\"}'>August 24, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure><p><strong>Also Read: <\/strong><\/p><ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/theplayoffs.news\/en\/on-this-day-kobe-bryant-passes-wilt-chamberlain-as-youngest-player-to-complete-25000-points\/\" class=\"trk-cta-link\" data-cta-trk='{\"ctaType\":\"Link\",\"ctaSubType\":\"main\"}'>On This Day: Kobe Bryant passes Wilt Chamberlain as youngest player to complete 25,000 points<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/theplayoffs.news\/en\/i-would-rank-kevin-durant-above-kobe-former-nba-star-makes-shocking-remark-on-lakers-legend\/\" class=\"trk-cta-link\" data-cta-trk='{\"ctaType\":\"Link\",\"ctaSubType\":\"main\"}'>&ldquo;I would rank Kevin Durant above Kobe&rdquo; &ndash; Former NBA star makes shocking remark on Lakers legend<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Second-highest total in NBA history<\/h2><p>Kobe&rsquo;s 81-point performance created history as it was the NBA&rsquo;s second-highest point total of all-time, trailing only <a href=\"https:\/\/theplayoffs.news\/en\/on-this-day-kobe-bryant-passes-wilt-chamberlain-as-youngest-player-to-complete-25000-points\/\" class=\"trk-cta-link\" data-cta-trk='{\"ctaType\":\"Link\",\"ctaSubType\":\"main\"}'>Wilt Chamberlain<\/a>&lsquo;s 100-point game. On March 2, 1962, Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points for the Philadelphia Warriors in a 169-147 win over the New York Knicks.<\/p><p>Toronto Raptors had a 14-point lead at halftime and they stretched it to 18 points in the third before Bryant&rsquo;s outburst. Kobe scored a staggering 55 points in the second half, the second highest point total in a half in NBA history behind Chamberlain (59). His last 23 points came in the final nine minutes of the game. <\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Chris Bosh tells us a story about Kobe Bryant and his 81 point game.<br><br>Hes an underrated story teller, up there with Iman Shumpert and Chandler Parsons. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QAsov0e3xI\" class=\"trk-cta-link\" data-cta-trk='{\"ctaType\":\"Link\",\"ctaSubType\":\"main\"}'>pic.twitter.com\/QAsov0e3xI<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Brandon (@clickthatfollow) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/clickthatfollow\/status\/1779569980025315653?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\"trk-cta-link\" data-cta-trk='{\"ctaType\":\"Link\",\"ctaSubType\":\"main\"}'>April 14, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure><p>There is another interesting story behind the Lakers-Raptors game. Kobe scored 62 points in three quarters against the Dallas Mavericks one month back. The Los Angeles superstar wasn&rsquo;t allowed to play in the fourth quarter as the Lakers were ahead in the game. Kobe Bryant predicted to break his record in future and the legend completed the task within a month.<\/p><p>Kobe Bryant shot 28-for-46 (60.9 percent) from the field, 7-of-13 (53.8 percent) from the three-point line, and 18-for-20 (90.0 percent) from the free-throw line. He also tallied 6 rebounds, 2 assists, 3 steals and one block over 42-minute stay.<\/p><p><em>&ldquo;Not even in my dreams,&rdquo; <\/em>Bryant said after the game.<em> &ldquo;That was something that just happened. It&rsquo;s tough to explain. It&rsquo;s just one of those things.<\/em> <em>It really hasn&rsquo;t, like, set in for me. It&rsquo;s about the `W,&rsquo; that&rsquo;s why I turned it on. It turned into something special. To sit here and say I grasp what happened, that would be lying.&rdquo;<\/em><\/p><p><em>Image Credit: Jayne Kamin-Oncea-USA TODAY Sports<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"mm-layout mm-layout-type-post mm-layout-slot4\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cNot even in my dreams,\u201d Bryant said after scoring a staggering 81 points on Jan. 22, 2006.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":14734,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_mux_skip_reasons":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2910,422,19,690],"class_list":["post-14712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","tag-kobe-81-points","tag-kobe-bryant","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-nba-history"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>On This Day: Kobe Bryant drops 81 points, second-highest point total of all time<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Kobe Bryant&#039;s 81-point game created a history. 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