Whenever the Los Angeles Lakers play against the Toronto Raptors and Kobe Bryant is in uniform, the first thing most longtime fans of the purple and gold flash back to is the time Kobe nearly drove the purple dinosaurs into extinction with an 81-point barrage in 2006. It was the exclamation point on a year in which Bryant averaged a career high 35.4 points per game, the second highest scoring game in NBA history, and the only one in the top-five by a player not named Wilt Chamberlain.
The Lakers lost 102-91 to the Raptors yesterday and Kobe scored "just" 10 points, but it did not stop his wife, Vanessa Bryant, from posting quite possibly one of the top-five best #FlashbackFriday posts in the history of Instagram.