Kobe scores 58 points in triple-OT loss to Charlotte Bobcats
December 29, 2006
Charlotte Bobcats Arena
Charlotte, NC
Los Angeles Lakers (19-11) - 124 pts
Charlotte Bobcats (8-21) - 133 pts
Triple OT
Kobe Bryant, who shot 22-of-45, scored 58 points in 55 minutes, but the upstart Charlotte Bobcats outlasted the Los Angeles Lakers in three overtimes. Bobcat center Emeka Okafor had 22 points and pulled down a career-high 25 rebounds. G/F Gerald Wallace, who guarded Bryant down the stretch, scored 28, and journeyman forward Matt Carroll added a career-high 27 points. It was the Charlotte franchise's first triple-overtime game in its history.
For trivia fans, Carroll's previous first claim to fame was that he scored more points in Pennsylvania high school basketball history than anyone else but Bryant.
Bobcats guard Raymond Felton, who had 22 points and 15 assists in 57 minutes, stated that he believed that it was one of the best games in franchise history. Incidentally, the win snapped a three-game team losing streak.
For the Lakers, no one else scored more than 14 points or took more than 10 shots, not providing Bryant much help. It also frustrated coach Phil Jackson, who complained that the called offense was not being run, with players instead deferring too much to Bryant.
Kobe missed two jumpers at the end of regulation, including a 20-foot jumpshot at the buzzer, and Felton clanked two shots in the final seconds of the first overtime for the Bobcats. When Wallace fouled out late in the first overtime, picking up two fouls in 15 seconds trying to guard Bryant, he was replaced with little-used reserved Bernard Robinson, who scored four points in the third overtime.
The Lakers' last real chance to win the game eroded when Bryant picked up his sixth personal found with 38.2 seconds left in the third overtime. At the time Charlotte was in the lead, 129-124.
Boxscores
Los Angeles Lakers
| Players | MP | FG | FGA | FG% | 3P | FT | FTA | FT% | TRB | AST | STL | PTS |
| Kobe Bryant | 54 | 22 | 45 | 0.489 | 4 | 10 | 12 | 0.833 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 58 |
| Luke Walton | 50 | 5 | 10 | 0.500 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 1.000 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 14 |
| Smush Parker | 46 | 5 | 10 | 0.500 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1.000 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 12 |
| Kwame Brown | 45 | 4 | 10 | 0.400 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 0.375 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 11 |
| Brian Cook | 23 | 4 | 7 | 0.571 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.000 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 9 |
| Maurice Evans | 38 | 2 | 6 | 0.333 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 0.667 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| Sasha Vujacic | 13 | 2 | 3 | 0.667 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.000 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Andrew Bynum | 18 | 1 | 2 | 0.500 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1.000 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Jordan Farmar | 6 | 1 | 2 | 0.500 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Vladimir Radmanovic | 19 | 0 | 5 | 0.000 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1.000 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Ronny Turiaf | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Team Totals | 315 | 46 | 100 | 0.460 | 5 | 27 | 36 | 0.750 | 56 | 16 | 8 | 124 |
Charlotte Bobcats
| Players | MP | FG | FGA | FG% | 3P | FT | FTA | FT% | TRB | AST | STL | PTS |
| Gerald Wallace | 47 | 11 | 20 | 0.550 | 0 | 6 | 8 | 0.750 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 28 |
| Matt Carroll | 40 | 8 | 16 | 0.500 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 1.000 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 27 |
| Emeka Okafor | 51 | 10 | 15 | 0.667 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1.000 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 22 |
| Raymond Felton | 57 | 7 | 24 | 0.292 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 0.750 | 4 | 15 | 2 | 22 |
| Jake Voskuhl | 19 | 4 | 6 | 0.667 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.000 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| Bernard Robinson | 11 | 3 | 7 | 0.429 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.000 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| Melvin Ely | 15 | 1 | 3 | 0.333 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 0.750 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| Derek Anderson | 30 | 0 | 1 | 0.000 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 1.000 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| Primoz Brezec | 12 | 2 | 4 | 0.500 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1.000 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| Adam Morrison | 28 | 1 | 15 | 0.067 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1.000 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| Walter Herrmann | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0.000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Team Totals | 315 | 47 | 112 | 0.420 | 6 | 33 | 38 | 0.868 | 64 | 26 | 6 | 133 |
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