Is Kobe Bryant's 81 points overrated(2nd highest scoring NBA game)?

My opion is that Kobe's 81 is very overrated. You Kobe fans act like Kobe scored 101 %26amp; broke the record. His 81 points comes in SECOND! I mean do you see this years Chicago Bears fans %26amp; last years Dallas Mavs fans walking around bragging about how their teams season ended? That'll be a BIG FAT NO! Why? Because those teams lost %26amp; had to settle for SECOND! and so do Kobe's 81. The RECORD is 100!( Kobe's 81 SETTLES FOR SECOND!)......and it also was a non-televised game(unless you lived in L.A. or had the NBA Package) against a non-contending team that was rated in the bottom 3 teams for defense.....and yes, being non-televised makes a difference. Because when it's LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION TIME, everywhere you look you see the media, the stadium is sold out, everyone is playing hard for a title, %26amp; the world is watching. That'll be considered the BIG STAGE! And their's been alot who chokes on the BIG STAGE(including Kobe, 2006 Game 7, Kobe scores 1 point in the 2nd half %26amp; lose) The BIG STAGE!

Is Kobe Bryant's 81 points overrated(2nd highest scoring NBA game)?nba 08

Oh I see you still at it, I bet you got a Kobe poster on your wall, you need to dedicate your life to something more productive, or at least get a life.

Please read all of this guys questions, its dedicated to hating on Kobe...Shaq will never win another ring because he can barely walk.

Is Kobe Bryant's 81 points overrated(2nd highest scoring NBA game)?nba finals ,nba teams

haters stop hating!!did lebron james or steve nash or ray allen score 81 points.........i didnt think so.....if i was kobe i would have been bragging every single day! 2nd most scoring!!!!!!!dats incredible!!!HATERS STOP HATING!! KOBE ROX ..KOBEFAN ALL DA WAY Report It


when was the last time anyone scored 80 points? 1978?

Its big because no one has seen something like this in over 30 years. People will celebrate

Dont forget this happened the year after Shaq left, so it has to be a lift for the franchise
First, Kobe is a selfish player.

BUT, take this from someone who has played the game at a high level... 81 is an event. The guy ahead of him was 7 feet playing around guys about 6-8 trying to guard him. He got the ball nearly every posession. Hell I think he had like 30 rebounds that game.

Thats an absolutely great game that we will NEVER see in the NBA again.

Kobe is 6-7. If you youtube the game theres a "81-in 2 minutes" clip showing how he did it. It is amazing because he did a lot of it from the perimeter. AND they were actually behind for a part of it and he brought them back for the win.

Like him or not, I'd like to see any of you score 81 in a rec league game against a bunch of stiffs. This guy did it against NBA players trying to hold a lead.

GIve the man his respect. He's one of the top 5 players in the NBA. Second in single game scoring? Yes. But remember, even the GOAT (MJ) never hit for 81.
Well try to score 81 with the defense of the NBA then u will see.And oh yeah he shot it not like chamberlain he just stood int he paint without 3 seconds
Quit hating Kobe. It's the 2nd highest out of over 6,000,000 individual games. The Mavs and Bears came in second out of 30 to 32 teams. That makes the number of people beaten... Mavs- 28, Bears- 30, Kobe- over 6 million. Hater or not, you cannot say that Kobe's second is equivalent to the Mavs or Bears second. Oh, and by the way, Kobe didn't choke... He should have taken over, but he didn't shoot because he wanted to keep his teammates involved and he had been struggling.

And Makara makes a good point about Chamberlain, just towering everyone and laying it in instead of making tough shots like KB24.
Very Overrated!

Kobe is a selfish ball hog!

We all saw Lebron James show him a clinic this past week!

The Lakers are done this year because Kobe can not get other players involved.

I blame Phil Jackson as well for not changing the game plan!
Kobe does try to get his players involved, but when you got guys like Radmanovic and Smush Parker missing wide open jump shots and fumbling passes on the break, sometimes he has to take over. Remember too, before Kobe really got going on his way to 81, the Lakers were trailing.
'jdwj....you make about as much sense as James W. ( and believe me, that's not saying a whole lot ). I swear you must be brothers.

I think I know why you feel this way. It's because your and James W's boy, Michael Jordan, was unable to score that many points in a game. As a matter of fact, Jordan never even scored as many as 70 points in one game, despite having MANY non-televised games.

'Raptor fan", don't let it bother you. I've put the truth before James W. MANY TIMES, and the idiot STILL doesn't get it! Jordan was one of the biggest chokes EVER on "the big stage." These guys just refuse to admit it.

So, the typical "Jordan fan" response is too put down someone elses accomplishments, so "their boy" Jordan doesn't look as bad. Especially when someone goes after the ONLY thing that Jordan was good at (scoring).These guys freak out at the possibility that someone might be a better scorer than Jordan.

Trust me on this. If it was Michael Jordan who scored the 81 points, it would have been the greatest moment in sports history (as opposed to James W's vote for MJ's 63 points in a double overtime LOSING CAUSE). At least Kobe's team won the game!
kobe acts like a gay and get excited like little girl everytime he scored a basket... yeah he love to act like that all time and thrist for more ball hogging a lot

No wonder shaq is grateful to be in a champion miami instead of gay LA.
Is just shows how Kobe is not a team player.
With the way the NBA runs today, it's impossible for anyone to score that many points unless it was a deliberate plan. The only way someone can score that many points is if the coach orders the entire team to give him every shot. This kind of thing DOES NOT happen naturally. And considering what kind of guy Phil Jackson is, I'm positive that's exactly what he did. So scoring 81 was not really Kobe's accomplishment, it was a team accomplishment.

Wilt's 100 may have been a different story. The entire season he'd been putting up scores in the 60s and 70s. It's possible that his teammates wanted to see if he could break 100, and helped set him up for that by choice. I don't know for sure.
here is the thing .. and up front I am not a Kobe fan he scored the 81 on my team.

Any way the thing is when teams come in second i happens every year but to come in to a record from like 50 years ( I am not sure ) its a big thing an amazing show of talent ... you can hate all you want but either way its still incredible.

Hey James W

a. Don't respond to me you don't know me.

b. Do you see ppl scoring 81 every day my maybe in you imaginary world weed head.

Also 81 pts pissed me off on my team but i can admit it when i see talent unlike some ppl and I admit it when i see something that might occur only once in my life time.
OVERRATED???? are you kidding me?? ok i wana see you go out and TRY to score 81 points at a pick up game! Try scoring 81 against your little brother doing it one on one within the time limit! Let me tell you something it wont happen! You say he's selfish because he scores 81 and yet Wilt scores 100 and he's a hero? ok you may argue that Wilt had a poor supporting cast and he needed to do it in order to win the game. Well, you know what? so did KOBE they were down the WHOLE game! kobe had to go for as many points as possible in order to win the game. you see what you are simply trying to do is somehow prove that Kobe Bryant is not that good and it's not working! i ask you why do you harbor so much hate for this player? Why? it doesn't make any sense! And you only have one example of Kobe "choking" in the big stage and never mention the many times when he's been clutch! Like lets say ohh maybe last year Western conference playoffs 1st round game winning shot against the Suns?? or the countless amount of game winners that he's had since he's been in the NBA! It's sad that you hold so much hate for the best player in the NBA today. please stop hating and congradulate. Kobe scores 81pts on the raptors and drops 62 on the Mavs a few weeks earlier outscoring the whole Mavs team. if it wasn't for phil benching him in the fourth quarter kobe would've had two 80 plus games last year! think about that! and i hope you cry when Kobe kills your team in the playoffs whatever lame team you may claim to be yours! KOBE MVP! 'NOUGH SAID!

P.S. Azzuri man WTH are you even trying to say?? "kobe gay, me no like kobe" listen buddy you're juvenile remarks only help solidify that ppl are just out there hating on Kobe for no reason! "kobe gay" give me a break! A** HOLE!
overrated he is the biggest ball hog in the NBA. He only cares about himself. Maybe if he passed the ball around a little bit they would be a better team. He's nothing without Shaq
Overrated,,,, YES!!! That just means that he was the only player on his team the coach or himself would allow to take a shot. I can't say the 81 means he is great or not with no doubt. But I can say without a doubt, his other 4 team mates out there with him, were Not.