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• 62 points. • The 2006 Most Valuable Player Award.
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• Accomplishments • In many ways the team's improvement in 2005-06 was often overshadowed by the individual scoring accomplishments posted by Kobe which resulted in the finest statistical season of his career: • On December 20, Kobe scored 62 points despite playing only three quarters of play against the Dallas Mavericks. Entering the fourth quarter Kobe had, by himself, outscored the entire Mavericks team 62-61, the only time a player has done this through three quarters since the advent of the 24-second shot clock. • On January 22, Kobe scored 81 points in a 122-104 victory against the Toronto Raptors. In addition to breaking the previous franchise record of 71 set by Elgin Baylor, his point total in that game was second in NBA history only to Wilt Chamberlain's legendary 100-point game in 1962. • Also in January, Kobe became the first player since 1964, and the only player aside from Chamberlain and Elgin Baylor to score 45 points or more in four consecutive games. • Kobe won the league's scoring title for the first time, posting the highest scoring average (35.4) since Michael Jordan's 37.1 average in 1986-87. • Kobe finished in fourth-place in the voting for the 2006 NBA Most Valuable Player Award, but also received 22 first place votes — second only to winner Steve Nash, and by far the highest number of first-place votes Kobe had ever received in his career.