81 points to kill the dragon. After O Neal ran away from Miami, Kobe No. 8 held up the strongest offensive firepower!

Under the Staples Center Dome on January 22, 2006, the scoreboard scarlet 49:63 pierced the Los Angeles Cold Night. The exit passage is filled with fans who are tightly wrapped in coats, and no one knows that they are passing by the most crazy lonely miracle in basketball history. In the middle of the court, the Lakers No. 8 jersey was soaked in sweat - Kobe rubbed his tingling knees, and the cold touch of 1 of 5 shots from outside the three-point line was still spreading on his fingertips. In the abyss 18 points behind the Raptors, the gears of fate began to roar in the backward whistle in the third quarter.

The Raptors, the fourth-last in the East, took the lead, and forced the seventh-ranked Lakers in the West to a desperate situation. Chris Bosh's hook pulled the score difference to 73:55, and the booing and the crowd of people leaving the field engulfed the stadium. Knee injury pain wrapped around Kobe's pace like iron chains. His smile for celebrating his daughter's birthday last night has not yet faded, but now he is facing the frozen city alone. When Jaylen Ross' fingertips blocked his eyelashes for the 17th time, Kobe intercepted the sideline to save the ball, and the fast break gliding and cracked the sound of the sound - this ball scored the 51st point in the game, igniting the turbulent flames of 38:14 in a single quarter.

Raptors coach Sam Mitchell's roar was transformed in the heat wave: "Let him score 100 points! We want to win!" The five-man joint defense iron formation was cut open by a mid-range jump shot like a scalpel. In the wheel defense of Peterson, Bonner and Graham, Kobe scored 27 points in the third quarter. The moment the Lakers overtook by 2 points, Jaylen Ross covered his face on the bench: "Later I just wanted him to make a quit due to injury..." The timer in the fourth quarter turned into a quenching furnace. In the first 9 minutes and 22 seconds of the final game, Kobe scored a three-pointer and pierced the Nets, and his personal 60th-point milestone was born amid the boos. Odom whispered and excitedly: "You can't get 70 points!" Kobe sneered and raised his hand, and the basketball fell like a sword of judgment - 70 points! When the Zen master wanted to make a substitution, the assistant coach held it tightly: "He has 77 points, you can't end history!" When the free throw 1.7 seconds before the end of the game, the 81-point legend freezes. As Staples shouted "MVP!", the generals of the Raptors were ashamed. Bosh's murmur penetrated the locker room door panel: "Last night was a nightmare..." Outside the spotlight, the cracks of fate quietly spread. After 62 points in the third quarter against the Mavericks in the previous three weeks, Kobe left calmly: "I want to get high scores at a real critical moment!" The 81-point night was his bloodthirsty fulfillment of his promise. McGrady's sour sarcasm came to the newspaper the next day: "46 shots are his patent!" Iverson said: "Next time I will also score 100 points on the Raptors!" The Pacers rookie Danny Granger's sneer was even more harsh: "The seventh place in the West to the 13th in the East requires 81 points? Kobe can't do it!" These sounds drowned out a cruel fact: 28 of 46 shots (60.9% shooting percentage), 7 of 13 three-pointers (53.8%), 18 of 20 free throws (90%) - 55 points in the second half actually surpassed 29 teams in the league to score in half.

When the lens focuses on Kobe's roars at the sky, the inscription in the shadow is silently etched. The counterattack base built by Lamar Odom with 17 points and 12 rebounds has become a vague footnote under the 81-point light. Jaylen Ross was branded with a "background board" for the rest of his life, but he redeemed himself with black humor: "I limit Kobe to below 100 points!" Thirteen years later, on the Raptors' championship night, Lowry swung his sword and slashed 33 points to wipe out the Lakers. Bosh's text message shocked the Toronto night sky: "You pay off the debt of 81 points!" Between the two retired jerseys hanging high on the dome of Staples, there was a No. 24 jersey whispering silently in the private house in Los Angeles. Nineteen years later, when the teenagers in the wild court roared "KOBE!", they replicated not only a backward jump shot, but also a paranoid of tempering their body into a fire when they jumped into the abyss. These 81 points are like the two-faced god Janus - on the one hand, illuminating the peak of human will, while reflecting the sadness of the famous backlash. When Kobe scored only 25 points in hatred against the Raptors the next year, Jaylen Ross's revenge smile hid the deepest metaphor of the God of Basketball!

"Pain is the medal of the warrior, and 81 points are the epitaph of the paranoid. It allows mortals to see miracles and also allows gods to learn humility."

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