It was a few years ago now, and with all the negativity the media and public likes to spin toward the mighty Los Angeles Lakers, and of course their star player, Kobe Bryant, some may have forgotten about one of the best individual performances of all-time in NBA history.

BYU’s Jimmer Fredette scoring 52 points against New Mexico on March 11, 2011 got us thinking about some of the greater performances we’ve seen in a while, and made us create this new section at NBA Soup.

Here we’ll display the best performances on a basketball court, regardless of who the player is, the team they play for, or how irrelevant it may be to today’s basketball.

However, going back to the whole “individual performance” thing, most NBA fans don’t realize that the late, great Wilt Chamberlain only scored over 81 points once in his career, the NBA’s leading point total for a game, his classic 100 points, decades ago.

It is Kobe Bryant’s amazing 81-point game against the Toronto Raptors a few years ago that is arguably the best indivudual scoring performance we’ve ever seen, considering his position and the difference in the game of basketball over all of those years.

But I digress. Here’s the damn footage, already: