Kobe Appreciation Best Game vs. Each Opponent

[LakersLegacy]

Best Games vs. Each Opponent

76ers 48-10-2-2
Blazers tie - option 1 last game of the season w/ home court on the line double buzzer beaters to force OT and win or option 2 65-7-3-3 during the streak
Bucks 43-5-2
Bulls Kobe goes at MJ in '97 scores 33-2-2 and earns MJ's respect or option 2 43-6-3-2
Cavs 47-5-3-3-1 or game winner over LeBron
Celtics many 40+ games probably 43-8-8 or game winner over Ray Allen
Clippers 50-8-8-1
Grizzles tie option 1 60-5-4 lakers win by 2 or option 2 56 DNP 4th quarter (Kobe's bookend game to the DNP 4th quarter Mavs game)
Hawks 41-8-3-5 or game winner
Heat 42-6-3-1 or that game winner over D-Wade from deep
Hornets 44-9-2 or Kobe's 2013 3 point assault all kinds of buzzer beaters
Jazz tie option 1 53 shooting 75% from 2 and 67% from 3 or option 2 the perfect quarter 27 points block ok AK-47 at the rim 100% shooting or 9 other 40+ games. Best play-off series 33-7-7
Kings 3 way tie option 1 51 2 360 dunks in the same game or option 2 game winner on New Years day or option 3 game saving 3 to force OT then game winner over Divac
Knicks 61 w/ some spectacular footwork
Magic option 1 41-7-8 option 2 41-8-3 or option 3 Dwight get baptised best play-off series Finals averaged 32-6-7
Mavs 62 points in 33 mins outscore the entire team - did not play 4th quarter or option 2 other 50 point games
Nuggets wrap around the back 360 dunk and drops 51 best play-off series WCF 34-6-6
Nets 46-3-3-2 or option 2 game winner over Kenyon Martin or old Kobe dunks on 2 Nets at the buzzer
Pacers 45-10-5-1
Pistons 40-5-5 or 40-5-4 with some clutch shots
Raptors 81 points
Rockets 3 way tie option 1 53-10-8-2-1 option 2 52-8-7-3 some killer shots option 3 53-2-2 Yao Ming facial dunk
Sonics 50-8-3-2
Spurs Kobe's best play-off series 45-10-3-1-1 best play-off series WCF 33-7-7
Suns 3 way tie option 1 double buzzer beaters in the play-offs to force OT and win the game option 2 game winner over Marion or more than 10 other 40+ point games ! best play-off series WCF 34-7-8
TWolves 50-6-6-3
Thunder 50-7-1
Warriors 51-7-8-1
Wizards farewell to MJ double nickel 55-5-3-3

Kobe's best streaks
averaged 40 for an entire month when Shaq got injured
4 straight 50+ point games

most game winners in a season 6 championship year 2009-2010

36 game winners!

Kobe scored 40+ in over 10% of his games
best rebounding guard of his generation
lead the Lakers in assists many years

Thanks for a great 20 years and 5 championships.

Sincerely,
Laker fans

[TheHartBreakKid]

Here are some of the standouts off the top of my head;

West

Clippers- 50 point game, crazy hot second half while making a come back
Suns- Game 6 2010 wcf, numerous tough shots to ice the game
Nuggets- game 2, 2008, 49 points and 10 assists if I remember correctly. Owned trash talking Jr smith numerous times
Jazz- 27 in third quarter against Kirilenko
Mavs- 63 in 3
Grizzlies- 56 in 3
Spurs- 2008 game 1 WCF comeback
Sonics- 12 threes in 2003
Blazers- 65 in OT, 3 clutch threes to force OT
Thunder- None off the top of my head
Hornets/Pelicans- None that I remember
Kings- not one stand out game but numerous worthy ones
T-Wolves- Same
Warriors- Same
Rockets- Destroyed Ron Ron in the fourth after him trash talking? Surely there's a better one but that's the one I remember right now. Or Overtime game with huge Dunk over Yao in 2003


East
Raptors- 81
Celtics- game in 07 where he got MVP chants, maybe game winner over Ray
Knicks- Garden Record
Sixers- One of the finals game from game 3-5
Nets- 36 Game three 2002 finals

Pacers- OT Finals Takeover
Pistons- Game 2 2004 finals, 37 points and sends game into OT with a clutch 3
Bulls- Not one performance stands out...maybe I'm just missing it
Bucks- same, I guess 2010 buzzer beater? not sure how he played the rest of that game
Cavs- 3 straight clutch shots and buzzer beater over Lebron

Heat- Bank 3 over Wade
Magic- 40 points Game 1 2009 finals
Hawks- can't remember a standout game. Maybe 2013 game where he dunked on Josh Smith and got the game winner in OT?
Bobcats- None, our kryptonite. Had a buzzer beater against them though IIRC
Wizards- Last game vs MJ

[Tee212]

good call on the record 3p, you would think curry would have such thing by now already.

[LakersLegacy]

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnHyhCYOgTI[/youtube]

[gts1]

This looks like a good place to drop this... Really great in-depth article on Kobe's 81 point game with interviews from those who were there/involved

http://espn.go.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/14609380/how-los-angeles-lakers-kobe-bryant-made-history-81-point-game