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Daily Dime: Lakers schooling opponents

By J.A. Adande
ESPN.com

Sunday, November 30, 2008

LOS ANGELES -- You might want to double-check the numbers, because I never was very good at math, but I'm pretty confident that 23 points is better than 81 points. It's impossible to see Bryant wearing the Lakers' white jersey against Toronto and not think of that Sunday night on Jan. 22, 2006, when he went Wilt and scored 81 against the Raptors. But it was impossible to watch Bryant rack up 23 points and seven assists on Sunday and not believe that this version of Bryant is better and these Lakers are better for it, even if the NBA doesn't crank out a bunch of T-shirts to commemorate the occasion.

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