rebounds • Was named MVP of the 2002 All-Star Game after tallying 31 points, 5 rebounds and 5
assists • Made an NBA-record 12 shots from 3-point range, including 9 straight • His 9 straight 3-pointers is also an NBA single-game record • Five NBA championship titles with LA Lakers
• Made his first career start, scoring 12
points, against the Dallas Mavericks on
1/28/97
• Became the youngest All-Star in NBA
history, posting a team-high 18 points and 6
point performance.. .
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Changed his jersey number from 8 to 24 at the start of the 2006–07 NBA season
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He was awarded the season’s MVP in the 2007 to 2008 NBA season after leading his team to the 2008 NBA Playoffs as the first seed in the western Conference.
Kobe Bryant
basketball player
Position: Guard Born: 08/23/1978
Height: 1.98 m Weight: 99.8 kg High School: Lower Merion (PA)
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About Kobe
• Born on August 23, 1978, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania • The son of famed NBA star Joe "Jellybean" Bryant • Attended Lower Merion High School • Went to NBA straight from High School
scored a career-high
81 points against the
Toronto Raptors, the
second-highest
number of points
scored in a game in
NBA history,
behind only Wilt
Chamberlain's 100
rebounds, in the 1998 NBA All-Star Game
in New York
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•Won the Nestle Crunch Slam Dunk during the 1997 NBA All-Star Weekend in Cleveland
and participated in the Schick Rookie Game, posting a rookie game-record 31 points and 8
2007 ,but now it’s 24
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Some pictures from Kobe’s High school days…
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Career Highlights
• Selected by USA Today and Parade Magazine as the National High School Player of the Year as a senior at Lower Merion H.S. • Made his NBA debut at the age of 18 years, 2 months and 11 days old, became the youngest player ever to appear in an NBA game, against the Minnesota Timberwolves on 11/3/1996
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4th All-star MVP 1th season’s MVP 2th finals MVP 5th NBA championship
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What others said about Kobe…
“Kobe plays the best basketball I’ve ever seen,” said Utah’s playmaker Mark Jackson.
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-Won the NBA Slam Dunk Contest in 1997
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Bryant and O’Neal let the Los Angeles Lakers to three consecutive NBA championships from 2000 to 2002.
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-In 2006, Bryant
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-In 2008 ,Kobe and
his teammates won
the Men's basketball
champion of Beijing
Olympic Game
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-After losing in the 2008 NBA Finals Bryant led the Lakers to two consecutive championships in 2009 and 2010 and was named NBA Finals MVP on both occasions.
●13th pick in the First Round of the Hornets
• His first NBA team is Los Angeles Lakers and
he is still there
• He wears a jersey with number 8 on it before