Each week during the 2020-21 NBA season, we will take a deeper dive into three of the league’s biggest storylines in an attempt to determine whether the trends are based more in fact or fiction moving forward.
[Last week: The fixed Sixers, Kyrie Irving retirement talk and Jerami Grant's All-Star case]
Someone will score 81 points again
Friday marks 15 years since late Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant’s 81-point game. On a seventh-place team starting Smush Parker, Kwame Brown and Chris Mihm, Bryant made 28 field goals on 46 attempts (7-13 3P) and 18 of 20 free throws in 42 minutes of an 18-point win over the Toronto Raptors.