Top 20 Best Sports Moments of the 2000s | News, Scores, Highlights, Stats, and Rumors

Wilt Chamberlain holds the record for most points scored in a single NBA game with 100. Wilt posted that record in 1962, and it is not likely to ever be broken. 

At home against the Toronto Raptors, Bryant needed just 42 minutes of game time to move into second place on the single-game scoring list with 81 points. 

After the game, Bryant told reporters (via ESPN.com), “It really hasn't, like, set in for me. It's about the ‘W,’ that's why I turned it on. It turned into something special. To sit here and say I grasp what happened, that would be lying.”