Right with them, step for step, for the bulk of the evening, the Raptors had no answer when Kobe Bryant stepped on the gas.

With the Raptors' lead at five and about seven minutes remaining, Bryant took the game over. He scored 14 of the final 20 Lakers points, going through first Antoine Wright, then Sonny Weems and finally Jarrett Jack to do so as the Lakers beat the Raptors 109-107.

Bryant wound up with 32 points on the night on 11-of-20 shooting and if any of his teammates were complaining about him being a volume shooter after this one, they were doing it awfully quietly.