Kobe Bryant scored 46 points tonight against the Toronto Raptors in Toronto and made it look easy in the process. Kobe looked young tonight, throwing down several dunks and giving us some old school flash backs. The Lakers won the game 121-101 largely due to a 38 point 4th quarter where the bench stepped up the scoring.

3rd Most 40+ Point Games in NBA History

Kobe Bryant passed Elgin Baylor to become 3rd all time with the most games of 40 points or more, trailing of course only Wilt Chamberlain and Michael Jordan. Another amazing stat considering most of these 40 point performances have been only in the past 3 seasons. Kobe Bryant now has a total of 89 40+ point games in his career. Check out the numbers by season over the past 3 1/2 seasons including this one:

2004-2005 = 10

2005-2006 = 27

2006-2007 = 18

This season = 4

That’s a total of 59 40+ point games in just 3 1/2 seasons of play! Incredible work by Kobe Bryant!