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1978年8月23日，科比.布赖恩特出生在美国宾夕法尼亚州的费城。那时，他的父母——乔和帕姆，已经有了两个女儿——谢利亚和谢亚，科比是他们的第三个、也是最后的一个孩子。从出世的那一天起，就注定了我们的小科比会有不同于常人的生活轨迹，因为他的父亲乔——这位费城约翰.巴特兰姆高中的传奇球员正处在他飘忽不定的职业生涯中期，他先后去了三个国家的不同球队效力。

1975年，完成在拉萨尔大学出色的三个赛季后，乔被金州勇士队选中，从而开始了他的职业篮球生涯。作为6英尺9的前锋，“果冻豆”乔拥有控球后卫的技术，但他却始终找不到自己在NBA的位置。当续约的要求被勇士队拒绝之后，乔辗转来到费城，至此，也开始了他随处漂流的生活：几年间，他先后效力于76人、快船和火箭队，在总共参加的606场比赛中，乔平均每场得到8.7分。之后，他又飘洋过海去了欧洲的职业联盟发展。不过，无论乔去到何处，他的妻子——善良的帕姆总是陪在身边。因为两人的祖父母是生活在同一个街区的邻居，所以他们自小青梅竹马。到了大学时代，乔和帕姆“重燃战火”，并很快走进了婚姻的殿堂。

我们的小科比是在浓厚的篮球氛围里面长大的，似乎他的一切都跟篮球密切相关。就在他出世后一年，乔被球队交换到了圣地亚哥快船队，因此，年幼的科比也随父亲来到了阳光明媚的南加州，他很喜欢那里，那里的人们非常友好。在那里，小科比对篮球天生的喜好很快就被激发了出来，才刚满三岁，他就经常告诉周围的人们，他将来一定会成为NBA球星。

1982年夏天，乔一家又辗转来到休斯顿。这时的科比已经能够理解他父亲所做的一切只不过是为了生计，他开始认真的看NBA球赛了。当时的小科比最喜欢的球星是“魔术师”约翰逊——一个拥有大前锋身材的组织后卫（这一点上有点像他父亲乔），他痴迷于“魔术师”华丽的球风和胜利的方式，他也把湖人队作为自己最喜欢的NBA球队。

但是，乔一家只在休斯顿作了短暂的停留。一个赛季后，球队拒绝了乔提出的续约要求，无奈之下，他只得继续飘泊，他最终选择了意大利一家俱乐部作为自己的新东家，科比也随之去了意大利。异国他乡的生活是艰难的，但这对于科比和他的两个姐姐来说却意味深远。因为语言的障碍，他们只能彼此相互依靠。每天放学回家，他们都会在一起练习新词和一些短语，几个月下来，聪明的科比就已经能说一口地道的意大利语了。

与此同时，乔也终于在新的球队中找到了自己的位置，他那过人的天赋和华丽的球风很快使他成了联盟的新球星，他的薪水也随之猛涨。乔的一家都受到了他们所在城市的热情对待。

科比的生活总是随着他父亲的安排而定。他经常跟着他父亲一起训练，很少会错过一场比赛。科比喜欢模仿他父亲的动作，然后在中场休息时跟一些球迷一起比赛投篮。在没有球赛的日子里，如果他们不出去旅行的话，他们就会去拜访一些别的在意大利发展的美国球员，其中包括哈维.卡钦斯——他的两个女儿，塔乌贾和塔米卡现在都是WNBA球员。

就这样，看着他父亲整天的单枪匹马然后大力灌筐或者那些神鬼莫测的传球，科比开始梦想着有一天自己能够站在NBA的舞台上。但是疯狂迷恋足球运动的意大利人却希望他能走另外一条路，他们不只一次地告诉科比，他会成为世界级的门将，因为他有着很宽的臂展、很快的速度和很强的弹跳能力。

科比后来能走上NBA之路绝对得感谢他的祖父母。远在美国的他们总是每个星期帮乔父子俩寄去他们亲手录制的NBA球赛。然后，父子俩就会一起观看，当然，其中还包括一些是乔从美国球探那里要来的录象资料。在乔的独家指导下，科比开始学习如何观察全场，如何展开进攻等等。

每个夏天，当布赖恩特一家飞回费城探亲访友的时候，乔都会给小科比一个磨练技术的机会。从科比10岁起，他的父亲都会安排他参加费城的萨尼.希尔篮球训练营，在那里，他有机会和同龄的或者稍微年长的孩子一起竞技，他的父亲和舅舅约翰则会待在场边对他进行指导。

1991-92年，乔再次更换了球队，一家人也不得不随着来到法国。对科比和他的两个姐姐来说，这一次是最为艰难的，因为他们每天必须去一个远在瑞士的国际学校学习两个小时。一年之后，乔终于宣布了退役，他和帕姆觉得是时候回美国了，因为谢利亚和谢亚已经到了上大学的年龄，而科比也该上高中了。

在乔被拉萨尔一家俱乐部聘任为球队助理教练后，布莱恩特一家回到了美国，并在费城东北部的阿德莫富人区买了一套房子。当时的科比内心喜忧参半，由于成长环境的不同，和那些美国孩子的交流成了他的难题，他担心自己将无法融入其中。

但是在篮球场上，科比的转换却游刃有余，1992年，他依然是萨尼.希尔篮球训练营里最好的球员之一。接着，他进了马里昂高中就读，并直接成为校篮球队的成员。到了第二年，他经常去坦普尔大学的体育馆看比赛，这那里，他跟很多人成了朋友，其种一个就是艾迪.琼斯。球场外的生活对于科比来说却依然艰难，他依然努力着希望跟同学能融为一体。在欧洲，他不需要面对那些美国青少年所要面对的诱惑和压力，他不习惯现有的生活，因此总是显得比较安静。

到了第三年，他总算慢慢适应了环境，而他在篮球场上的表现也是突飞猛进。长到6英尺5英寸之后，科比觉得自己将来在场上的位置应该是后场，所以他开始朝着后卫的方向来训练自己。当马里昂高中主教练格雷格.道纳尔发觉这些之后，他表示很喜欢科比的这种“错位”。事实上，当时的很多专家都认为这个年轻人从他父亲和他参加的费城地区最强的训练营那里学了很多东西，并终将成为防守者的噩梦。

科比真正闪光是在1994-95赛季，三年级的他平均每场狂揽31.1分、10.4个篮板和5.2次助攻，最终被评为宾夕法尼亚州年度最佳球员。科比那破坏性极强突破能力在场上尽显无余。而他的这种技术则是“偷师”于他夏季训练营的队友高德。

一年之后，全美各地大学的招聘人员纷至沓来，即将成为四年生的科比学业成绩非常突出，因此没有任何障碍，很多名校力邀他就读，其中包括：杜克、北卡、密歇根大学等等。但是，当听到芝加哥高中生凯文.加内特将在95年选秀大会上第一轮被NBA球队选中之后，科比也希望自己能够直接进入NBA。就在那个夏天，乔安排科比跟费城76人队的球员一起训练，科比表现的非常突出。然后，他在新泽西ABCD全美训练营里的表现也给那些球探留下了非常深刻的印象。

作为四年生，科比的优异表现让马里昂高中一跃成为全美高中球队中的佼佼者。32胜3负的战绩也为他们带来了42年来第一个州冠军。那时，学校的名字经常出现在报纸上，许多大学教练也经常出现在有马里昂高中参加的比赛中，主教练道纳尔更是受到许多高等联赛的邀请。这一年，科比平均每场得到30.8分，把他四年的总得分提升到了2883分，这一成绩也打破了宾夕法尼亚州封存了40多年的由张伯伦创下的总得分记录。

真正有趣的事情发生在这个赛季结束后。当时，有一家意大利的俱乐部力邀乔加盟，希望他成为球队的主教练，但是条件是乔的儿子——也就是科比，必须同前往。同时，考虑到已经有其他高中球员宣布参加选秀，比如新泽西的蒂姆.托马斯、路易斯安那的莱斯特.厄尔以及南卡罗莱纳州的杰梅因.奥尼尔等，科比并没有拒绝那些媒体报道他要参加选秀的传言。

接着，一次在马里昂高中体育馆举行的记者招待会上，科比证实了那些传闻。在众多媒体记者面前，他正式宣布自己将直接参加当年的NBA选秀大会，当时前去助威的还有男孩·男人乐队（Boyz II Men）的成员。之后不久，他就雇了威廉姆斯.莫里斯作为他的经纪人，随后便与阿迪达斯以及雪碧签下了长年合同。

对于科比的提前出位，当时舆论褒贬不一。有些评论员把科比比作同年龄的格兰特.希尔和安芬尼.哈达威，只是他的进攻更为犀利，他们坚信这个孩子已经作好了一切准备。还有一些媒体则开始谴责起乔和帕姆，他们认为是他们两个迫使年轻的科比作出了这个错误的决定。科比对后者的观点表示非常的愤怒。

随后的争论便是科比是否会出现在当年的区新秀名单里面，因为前一年的高中生加内特是以五号顺位被森林狼选中的。当时舆论普遍认为马库斯.坎比、艾伦.艾弗森、斯蒂芬.马布里和雷.阿伦将锁定前四号位置，而之后的大学球员便出现严重的断档现象。

总经理杰里.韦斯特掌权的湖人队是当时少数几支坚信科比日后必成大器的球队之一。在湖人队的一次秘密试训中，科比超强的弹跳能力和多样的进攻手段给他们留下了深刻的印象。球队要求他跟达迪.琼斯作一对一对抗，他轻轻松松就击败了这位来自密西西比州的明星球员。球队同样认为科比所受的教育也是他的一大优势，作为一个NBA球员的儿子，他将能比其他新秀更快的适应联赛。

随后的选秀大会上，韦斯特展现了他的魔力：首先，他以首轮第24顺位选中了来自阿肯色州的德里克.菲舍尔——一个防守型的组织后卫；接着，他打电话给夏洛特黄蜂队，经过一返讨价还价，最终达成协议，拿全明星中锋迪瓦茨交换由黄蜂以第13顺位选中的科比.布莱恩特，这一笔交易也为后来湖人签下已经成为自由球员的魔术中锋沙克.奥尼尔腾出了足够的薪金空间。当奥尼尔来到洛杉矶之后，新王朝的构架基本完成。

当科比得知自己将成为湖人队一员时，他显得欣喜若狂，因为他将在自己最喜欢的球队开始自己的职业生涯。除了沙克之外，当时的湖人队还有很多有天赋的球员，像尼克.范.艾克塞尔、艾尔顿.坎贝尔还有科比的旧友艾迪.琼斯等，然后就是他们的主帅戴尔.哈里斯——乔效力于休斯顿时的主教练。

科比和湖人队签了三年总共350万的合同，然后，他在球队的夏季联赛中平均每场拿下25分。接着，科比在洛杉矶买下一套住宅，他的父亲乔便辞掉了在拉萨尔的工作，全家搬到了阳光明媚的加州。然而在那年的五一期间，科比在威尼斯的一次对抗比赛中不幸腕关节断裂，尽管伤势不是太严重，这依然使他休息了整整五个星期，并且错过了球队的大部分训练营计划。常规赛开始后，球队和主教练一致决定不急于求成，打算慢慢培养这位年仅18岁的天才球员。

1996年11月3日，在一场迎战由加内特领衔的森林狼的比赛中，科比完成了他的处子秀：上场6分钟，1投0中，得到0分、1个篮板、1次盖帽，外加1次失误，成为NBA历史上最年轻的球员。96-97赛季前半段，科比仅得到了有限的上场时间，因为目标直指太平洋赛区冠军的湖人队不想让他过早陷入混局之中。

到了一月份，球队伤兵满营的局面不得不让主教练哈里斯作出一些调整，于是18岁零5个月5天的科比.布莱恩特就这样成了NBA历史上最年轻的首发球员。几个星期后的全明星周末上，科比在新秀挑战赛中独取31分，并拿下了扣篮冠军——成为湖人历史上第一位有此成就的球员，那也是他这个赛季最为闪光的表现。随后的季后赛中，伤病摧毁了整支湖人队，第二轮，他们便被犹他爵士队4-1轻松击败。科比也以平均每场8分的成绩结束了他的处子赛季。

接下去的98-98赛季，韦斯特和哈里斯商议将科比作为球队第六人使用，科比很快就适应了这个位置，在平均每场26分钟的出场时间里，他把他的场均得分提升到了15.4分。科比给球队提供了火力援助，他们也以11连胜开始了赛季征程。即使在奥尼尔无法上场的情况下，湖人依然强大无比，范.艾克塞尔、坎贝尔和艾迪.琼斯都发挥着各自的作用，再加上角色球员，霍里、福克斯和菲舍尔等的稳定表现，湖人依然一路高奏凯歌。

赛季中期，当湖人和超音速在竞争太平洋赛区头把交椅的时候，球迷把科比选进了1998年全明星赛的首发名单，联盟也把这次比赛宣传成为乔丹和他的接班人之战。但是，这位联盟历史上最年轻全明星球员显然没有摆正位置，他前三节比赛的过分粘球和比赛中对卡尔.马龙的不敬引起了队友的不满，以至于教练乔治.卡尔不得不在关键的第四节把他摁在场下。

科比在这次全明星比赛上的表现也显示了他必须改正的一个缺点——过分粘球，乔丹也当面指出了科比的这个缺陷。事后证明问题是严重的，因为到了三月份，哈里斯明显减少了科比的上场时间。好在科比慢慢理解了教练的意图，到了季后赛，他已经能够完全融入球队整体了，并且在防守端也开始有所贡献。

拿到赛区冠军的湖人队季后赛第一轮以3-1击败开拓者，到了第二轮，对手变成了强大的超音速，赛前预测双方势均力敌，结果却是湖人在先输一场的情况下连下四成，轻松击败了常规赛中的主要竞争对手。但是在随后的西区决赛湖人却完败盐湖城，像前一年一样被更为强大的爵士4-0横扫出局。

1998年的夏天，由于劳资纠纷，联盟经历了罢工风波，只剩下50场比赛的缩水赛季让各支球队都陷入了混战。而湖人则在此期间完成了三个重大举措，首先是签下7届篮板王丹尼斯.罗德曼，然后是助理教练科特.兰比斯取代哈里斯执教，最后，在三月份球队又把琼斯和坎贝尔打包送到黄蜂，换来格林.莱斯，JR里德和BJ阿姆斯特朗。

科比也终于锁定了他的首发位置，并且表现十分抢眼，成为球队的抢断王和第二得分点，共完成9次两双，并最终入选赛季最佳阵容三队。更为重要的是他在关键时刻的得分能力也开始在这个赛季慢慢展现出来，尽管当时他的投篮协调性还不是很好。球队总是喜欢在关键时刻让他来控制比赛——而大部分时候，他都能不辱使命。

常规赛取得31胜19负的战绩之后，所有人都把目光瞄准了总冠军，一切似乎水到渠成：罗德曼给球队提供了足够的经验，莱斯的外线杀伤力也给科比和奥尼尔提供了足够的火力援助，但是事实并非预料的那么简单。“奥尼尔嫉妒科比”的传言一度笼罩了整个洛杉矶，为此，球队曾专门举行会议，但是留下的阴影却难以彻底驱散。

幸好场外的不和没有一下子阻止洛杉矶前进的步伐，季后赛首轮，他们以一个3-1轻松击败休斯顿火箭队。接下来的对手是当时炙手可热的马刺，湖人在先失一局的情况下，本来有机会扳平比分，但是第二场比赛科比最后时刻的两罚不中葬送了湖人的领先优势，并最终以3分惜败。接着的比赛就完全落入了马刺队的节奏，0-4，湖人又一次惨淡出局。

面对这样的结果，一个重大的调整在所难免。于是，韦斯特请来了曾经带领公牛队6夺总冠军的菲尔.杰克逊出任球队新主帅，希望他能带领球队重塑辉煌。同时，杰克逊还带来了他的三个助理教练克莱门斯、汉伯伦和温特，当然还有那个著名的“三角进攻”体系。韦斯特清楚他必须找到一个能让科比和奥尼尔和睦共处的办法，而这一次他把宝压在了杰克逊身上，因为在芝加哥那边，他也曾执教过两个超级巨星——乔丹和皮蓬。

科比用什么颜色篮球

超级巨星

当属联盟顶级的身体素质，精熟而华丽的个人技巧。心理素质极其坚韧，投出绝杀被视为理所当然。能针对自己的弱项不断补强，直至今日，其各项技巧已臻完美。拥有超强进取心，对胜利的渴望极其强烈。历久弥香的“乔丹接班人”，攻守兼备，综合能力敢与历史任一名人堂球员相提并论。经过04-05赛季的调整后，其领袖气质和个人能力在之后的赛季不断得到证实。凭借出色的赛场表现和积极的言传身教，目前是球队当仁不让的王牌核心和精神领袖。

Superstar

The NBA's top physical fitness, personal mastery of the skills and gorgeous. Mental quality is extremely tenacious, for a victory was taken for granted. Can address their weaknesses constantly reinforced, until today, the various techniques Yizhen perfect. Super owned enterprise, the desire to win is extremely strong. The long-Mi "Jordan successors", in both attack and defense, comprehensive ability as a dare and the history of the Hall of Fame players mentioned in the same breath.

科比的英文介绍

回答:黑色，蛇皮纹路是对科比著名的“黑曼巴”绰号的体现，如此限量款的科比篮球以黑色为主，搭配科比紫金生涯的**文字点缀，冷峻且庄重，自然是令球迷极为期待，并且不少球迷已经纷纷表示准备付款购买了。

篮球选用金色和黑色拼接,表面印有科比2010年总决赛夺冠后庆祝的经典照片、黑曼巴蛇、KOBE BRYANT以及“ hall of fame”和“class of 2020”等字样。

科比 功绩、

Early life

Kobe Bryant is the youngest child and only son of Joe and Pam Bryant. His parents named him after a kind of steak: the famous beef of Kobe, Japan, which they saw on a restaurant menu. At the age of six, Kobe, his parents and two older sisters, Shaya and Sharia, moved to Italy, where his father began playing professional basketball. He became accustomed to the lifestyle and became fluent in Italian. At an early age, he learned to play and his favorite team was AC Milan. Bryant once said that if he had stayed in Italy, he would have stuck with and would have tried to become a pro player. In 1991, the Bryants moved back to the United States. A spectacular high school career at Lower Merion High School in the Philadelphia suburb of Lower Merion, brought national recognition. While his SAT score of 1080[2] would have ensured his basketball scholarship to various top-tier colleges, the 17-year-old Bryant made the controversial decision to go directly to the NBA.

Early NBA career

1996 Draft

Even before he was chosen as the 13th draft pick overall by the Charlotte Hornets in 1996, the 17-year-old Bryant had made a lasting impression on then-Lakers general manager Jerry West, who immediately foresaw the potential in Bryant's basketball talent during pre-draft workouts. West stated that Bryant's workout was one of the best he had ever witnessed. West continued his quest to return the Lakers to championship status and startled spectators by offering and completing the trade for starting center Vlade Divac to the Hornets for Bryant.

Growing pains

During his first season with the Lakers, he mostly came off the bench behind guards Eddie Jones and Nick Van Exel. Bryant played limited minutes initially but this changed as the season continued. He earned himself a reputation as a high-flyer and a fan-favorite by winning the 1997 Slam Dunk Contest.

In Bryant's second season (1997-98), he received more playing time and began showing more of his abilities as a talented young guard. He was the runner-up for the NBA's Sixth Man of the Year Award, and through fan voting, he also became the youngest NBA All-Star starter.

While his statistics were impressive for his age, he was still a young guard who lacked the experience to complement Shaquille O'Neal and significantly help the team contend for a championship.

Championship years

However, Bryant's fortunes would soon change when Phil Jackson became coach for the Los Angeles Lakers. After years of steady improvement, Bryant had become one of the premier shooting guards in the league, a fact that was evidenced by his annual presence in the league's All-NBA, All-Star, and All-Defensive teams. The Los Angeles Lakers became perennial championship contenders under Bryant and O'Neal, who formed an outstanding center-guard combination. Their success gave the Lakers three consecutive NBA championships in 2000, 2001, and 2002.

End of a dynasty

In the 2002-03 NBA season, Bryant averaged 30 points per game and embarked on a historic scoring run, posting 40 or more points per game in nine consecutive games while averaging 40.6 in the entire month of February. In addition, he averaged 6.9 rebounds, 5.9 assists, and 2.2 steals per game, all career highs up to that point. For the first time in his career Bryant was voted on to both--All-NBA and All-Defensive 1st teams. After finishing 50-32 in the regular season, the Lakers floundered in the playoffs and lost in the Western Conference Semifinals to the eventual NBA champion San Antonio Spurs in six games.

In the following 2003-04 NBA season, the Lakers were able to acquire legends Karl Malone and Gary Payton to make another push at the NBA Championship. With a starting lineup of four potential Hall of Fame players in Shaquille O'Neal, Malone, Payton, and Bryant, the Lakers were able to reach the NBA Finals. In the Finals, they were eliminated by the Detroit Pistons in 5 games. In that series, Bryant averaged 22.6 points per game, shooting 35.1% from the field, and 4.4 assists per game.

Conflicts and turmoil

Bryant, following his arrest in 2003In 2003, Bryant's reputation was tainted by criminal charges, in which Katelyn Faber, a young woman from Colorado, accused Bryant of sexual assault. With his image badly tarnished, the public's perception of Bryant plummeted, and his endorsement contracts with McDonald's, Nutella, and Ferrero SpA were terminated. Sales figures from NBA merchandisers indicated that sales of replicas of Bryant's jersey fell far off of their previous highs.

Even before being arrested for rape, Bryant was known to publicly feud with his teammates, including Shaquille O'Neal, Samaki Walker and Karl Malone. In an isolated incident, he allegedly punched teammate Walker in the face outside of the team bus.[citation needed] In 2004, a dispute between Bryant and former teammate Malone became public prior to Malone's expected re-signing with the Lakers. Bryant claimed Malone had made inappropriate comments to Bryant's wife. Malone claimed the comments were in jest and that Bryant was overreacting [1]. In the subsequent months, rather than re-join Bryant and the Lakers, Malone turned his attention to the possibility of joining another team, but ultimately decided to retire.

Unquestioned leader

When O'Neal was traded, Bryant became the Lakers' unquestioned leader of the team going into the 2004-2005 season. As it turned out, however, his first season without O'Neal would prove to be a very rocky one. With his reputation badly damaged from all that had happened over the previous year, Bryant was closely scrutinized and criticized during the season.

A particularly damaging salvo came from Phil Jackson in The Last Season: A Team in Search of Its Soul. The book detailed the events of the Lakers' tumultuous 2003-04 season and has a number criticisms of Bryant. In the book Jackson also calls Bryant "uncoachable."

Then, midway through the season, Rudy Tomjanovich suddenly resigned as Lakers coach, citing the recurrence of health problems and exhaustion. Without "Rudy T," stewardship of the remainder of the Lakers' season fell to career assistant coach Frank Hamblen. Despite the fact that Bryant was the league's second leading scorer at 27.6 points per game, the Lakers floundered and missed the playoffs for the first time in over a decade. This year signified a drop in Bryant's overall status in the NBA by not making the NBA All-Defensive Team and being demoted to All-NBA Third Team.

2005-06 season

The 2005-06 NBA season would mark a crossroads in Bryant's basketball career. Despite past differences with Bryant, Phil Jackson returned to coach the Lakers. Bryant endorsed the move, and by all appearances, the two men worked together well the second time around, leading the Lakers back into the NBA Playoffs. Bryant also resolved his conflict with former teammate Shaquille O'Neal. The team posted a 45-37 record, an eleven-game improvement over the previous season, and the entire squad seemed to be clicking. In the first round of the playoffs, the Lakers played well enough (3-1 series lead) to come within a game of eliminating the second-seeded Phoenix Suns before finally falling short. Even with Kobe Bryant's remarkable game winning shot in Game 4, the Lakers broke down, falling to the Suns in Game 7. In the following offseason, Bryant had knee surgery, preventing him from participating in the 2006 FIBA World Championship tournament.

Accomplishments

In many ways the team's improvement in 2005-06 was often overshadowed by the individual scoring accomplishments posted by Bryant which resulted in the finest statistical season of his career:

On December 20, Bryant scored 62 points despite playing only three quarters of play against the Dallas Mavericks. Entering the fourth quarter Bryant 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, Bryant 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, Bryant became the first player since 19, and the only player aside from Chamberlain and Elgin Baylor to score 45 points or more in four consecutive games.

For the month of January, Bryant averaged 43.4 per game, the eighth highest single month scoring average in NBA history, and highest for any player other than Chamberlain.

By the end of the season, Bryant had also set Lakers single-season franchise records for the most 40-point games (27) and most points scored (2,832), among others.

Bryant 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.

Bryant 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 Bryant had ever received in his career.

Other notable events

When the Lakers faced the Miami Heat on January 16, 2006, Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal made headlines by engaging in handshakes and hugs before the game, signifying the end of the feud that had festered between the two players since O'Neal's acrimonious departure from Los Angeles. A month later, at the 2006 NBA All-Star Game, the two laughed and joked together on several occasions.

Bryant's jersey.Late in the season, it was reported that Bryant would change his jersey number from #8 to #24 at the start of the 2006-07 NBA season. #24 was Bryant's first high school number, before he switched to #33.[3] After the Lakers' season ended, Bryant said on TNT that he wanted #24 as a rookie, but it was unavailable, as was #33, retired with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. He said the switch to 24 signified the start of the second half of his career. Bryant took number 8 after his favorite Italian league player, Mike D'Antoni. The Lakers guard grew up watching D'Antoni as a star point guard in the Italian league, where his father, "Jelly Bean" Bryant, also played.[4]

Player profile

Bryant is a shooting guard who is also capable of playing small forward. As of 2006, he is considered one of the premier players in the NBA, being elected into the All-NBA Teams en bloc from 1999 on an featuring eight NBA All-Star call-ups. Bryant was a vital part of the three most recent Lakers' championships.

He is a prolific scorer, averaging 23.9 points per game for his career, and also scores 4.5 assists, 5.1 rebounds and 1.5 steals per game. The 1997 NBA Slam Dunk Champion Bryant is capable of both dunking on opposing big men or scoring with his fadeaway jump shot, able to hit the shot from mid-range to long three pointers (.335 from beyond the arc). His versatility was especially showcased in the 2005-2006 NBA season, where Bryant averaged 35.4 points per game to secure the first NBA scoring title of his career, including his 81-point game and his 62 points in 3 quarters-game. In addition, Bryant also maintains a reputation for clutch performances in games, able to rise to the challenge and hit the difficult shot.

On his own half of the hardwood, Bryant plays tenacious defense. He has made the All-NBA Defensive Team a total of 6 times, and has established himself as one of the best perimeter defenders of his generation.

A controversial side of his game is his tendancy to show the behaviour of a ball hog: in his record-setting season, he racked up 2173 shot attempts in 80 games (avg. 27.1). However, fans and experts widely agree that Bryant is one of the best two-guards of his generation.

Private life

In November 1999, 21 year old Bryant met 17 year old Vanessa Laine while she was working as a background dancer on the Tha Eastsidaz music video[5] " G'd Up " (In the video Vanessa is in the convertible in a silver bikini). Bryant was in the building working on his debut musical album, which was never released.

The two began dating and were engaged just six months later in May 2000,[6] all while Laine was still a senior at Marina High School in Huntington Beach, California. Due to the media, she finished high school through independent study.[7] According to Vanessa's cousin Laila Laine, there was no prenuptial agreement. Vanessa said Kobe "loved her too much for one". [8].

They married on April 18, 2001 in Dana Point, California. There were only about 12 guests at the wedding. Neither Bryant's parents, his two sisters, longtime advisor and agent Arn Tellem, nor Bryant's Laker teammates attended. Bryant's parents were opposed to the marriage for a number of reasons. Reportedly Bryant's parents had problems with him marrying so young, especially to a woman who wasn't African-American[9]. This disagreement resulted in an estrangement period of over two years, during which Kobe Bryant did not have any contact with his parents.

The Bryants' first child, a daughter named Natalia Diamante Bryant, was born on January 19, 2003. The birth of Natalia influenced Bryant to reconcile his differences with his parents. Vanessa Bryant suffered a miscarriage due to an ectopic pregnancy in the Spring of 2005. In the Fall of 2005 the Bryants announced that they were expecting their second child. Their second daughter, Gianna Maria-Onore Bryant, was born on May 1, 2006. Interestingly, Gianna was born 6 minutes ahead of former teammate Shaquille O'Neal's daughter Me'arah Sanaa, who was born in Florida.[10]

科比球风,和性格。要英文，

Early life

Kobe Bryant is the youngest child and only son of Joe and Pam Bryant. His parents named him after a kind of steak: the famous beef of Kobe, Japan, which they saw on a restaurant menu. At the age of six, Kobe, his parents and two older sisters, Shaya and Sharia, moved to Italy, where his father began playing professional basketball. He became accustomed to the lifestyle and became fluent in Italian. At an early age, he learned to play and his favorite team was AC Milan. Bryant once said that if he had stayed in Italy, he would have stuck with and would have tried to become a pro player. In 1991, the Bryants moved back to the United States. A spectacular high school career at Lower Merion High School in the Philadelphia suburb of Lower Merion, brought national recognition. While his SAT score of 1080[2] would have ensured his basketball scholarship to various top-tier colleges, the 17-year-old Bryant made the controversial decision to go directly to the NBA.

Early NBA career

1996 Draft

Even before he was chosen as the 13th draft pick overall by the Charlotte Hornets in 1996, the 17-year-old Bryant had made a lasting impression on then-Lakers general manager Jerry West, who immediately foresaw the potential in Bryant's basketball talent during pre-draft workouts. West stated that Bryant's workout was one of the best he had ever witnessed. West continued his quest to return the Lakers to championship status and startled spectators by offering and completing the trade for starting center Vlade Divac to the Hornets for Bryant.

Growing pains

During his first season with the Lakers, he mostly came off the bench behind guards Eddie Jones and Nick Van Exel. Bryant played limited minutes initially but this changed as the season continued. He earned himself a reputation as a high-flyer and a fan-favorite by winning the 1997 Slam Dunk Contest.

In Bryant's second season (1997-98), he received more playing time and began showing more of his abilities as a talented young guard. He was the runner-up for the NBA's Sixth Man of the Year Award, and through fan voting, he also became the youngest NBA All-Star starter.

While his statistics were impressive for his age, he was still a young guard who lacked the experience to complement Shaquille O'Neal and significantly help the team contend for a championship.

Championship years

However, Bryant's fortunes would soon change when Phil Jackson became coach for the Los Angeles Lakers. After years of steady improvement, Bryant had become one of the premier shooting guards in the league, a fact that was evidenced by his annual presence in the league's All-NBA, All-Star, and All-Defensive teams. The Los Angeles Lakers became perennial championship contenders under Bryant and O'Neal, who formed an outstanding center-guard combination. Their success gave the Lakers three consecutive NBA championships in 2000, 2001, and 2002.

End of a dynasty

In the 2002-03 NBA season, Bryant averaged 30 points per game and embarked on a historic scoring run, posting 40 or more points per game in nine consecutive games while averaging 40.6 in the entire month of February. In addition, he averaged 6.9 rebounds, 5.9 assists, and 2.2 steals per game, all career highs up to that point. For the first time in his career Bryant was voted on to both--All-NBA and All-Defensive 1st teams. After finishing 50-32 in the regular season, the Lakers floundered in the playoffs and lost in the Western Conference Semifinals to the eventual NBA champion San Antonio Spurs in six games.

In the following 2003-04 NBA season, the Lakers were able to acquire legends Karl Malone and Gary Payton to make another push at the NBA Championship. With a starting lineup of four potential Hall of Fame players in Shaquille O'Neal, Malone, Payton, and Bryant, the Lakers were able to reach the NBA Finals. In the Finals, they were eliminated by the Detroit Pistons in 5 games. In that series, Bryant averaged 22.6 points per game, shooting 35.1% from the field, and 4.4 assists per game.

Conflicts and turmoil

Bryant, following his arrest in 2003In 2003, Bryant's reputation was tainted by criminal charges, in which Katelyn Faber, a young woman from Colorado, accused Bryant of sexual assault. With his image badly tarnished, the public's perception of Bryant plummeted, and his endorsement contracts with McDonald's, Nutella, and Ferrero SpA were terminated. Sales figures from NBA merchandisers indicated that sales of replicas of Bryant's jersey fell far off of their previous highs.

Even before being arrested for rape, Bryant was known to publicly feud with his teammates, including Shaquille O'Neal, Samaki Walker and Karl Malone. In an isolated incident, he allegedly punched teammate Walker in the face outside of the team bus.[citation needed] In 2004, a dispute between Bryant and former teammate Malone became public prior to Malone's expected re-signing with the Lakers. Bryant claimed Malone had made inappropriate comments to Bryant's wife. Malone claimed the comments were in jest and that Bryant was overreacting [1]. In the subsequent months, rather than re-join Bryant and the Lakers, Malone turned his attention to the possibility of joining another team, but ultimately decided to retire.

Unquestioned leader

When O'Neal was traded, Bryant became the Lakers' unquestioned leader of the team going into the 2004-2005 season. As it turned out, however, his first season without O'Neal would prove to be a very rocky one. With his reputation badly damaged from all that had happened over the previous year, Bryant was closely scrutinized and criticized during the season.

A particularly damaging salvo came from Phil Jackson in The Last Season: A Team in Search of Its Soul. The book detailed the events of the Lakers' tumultuous 2003-04 season and has a number criticisms of Bryant. In the book Jackson also calls Bryant "uncoachable."

Then, midway through the season, Rudy Tomjanovich suddenly resigned as Lakers coach, citing the recurrence of health problems and exhaustion. Without "Rudy T," stewardship of the remainder of the Lakers' season fell to career assistant coach Frank Hamblen. Despite the fact that Bryant was the league's second leading scorer at 27.6 points per game, the Lakers floundered and missed the playoffs for the first time in over a decade. This year signified a drop in Bryant's overall status in the NBA by not making the NBA All-Defensive Team and being demoted to All-NBA Third Team.

2005-06 season

The 2005-06 NBA season would mark a crossroads in Bryant's basketball career. Despite past differences with Bryant, Phil Jackson returned to coach the Lakers. Bryant endorsed the move, and by all appearances, the two men worked together well the second time around, leading the Lakers back into the NBA Playoffs. Bryant also resolved his conflict with former teammate Shaquille O'Neal. The team posted a 45-37 record, an eleven-game improvement over the previous season, and the entire squad seemed to be clicking. In the first round of the playoffs, the Lakers played well enough (3-1 series lead) to come within a game of eliminating the second-seeded Phoenix Suns before finally falling short. Even with Kobe Bryant's remarkable game winning shot in Game 4, the Lakers broke down, falling to the Suns in Game 7. In the following offseason, Bryant had knee surgery, preventing him from participating in the 2006 FIBA World Championship tournament.

Accomplishments

In many ways the team's improvement in 2005-06 was often overshadowed by the individual scoring accomplishments posted by Bryant which resulted in the finest statistical season of his career:

On December 20, Bryant scored 62 points despite playing only three quarters of play against the Dallas Mavericks. Entering the fourth quarter Bryant 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, Bryant 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, Bryant became the first player since 19, and the only player aside from Chamberlain and Elgin Baylor to score 45 points or more in four consecutive games.

For the month of January, Bryant averaged 43.4 per game, the eighth highest single month scoring average in NBA history, and highest for any player other than Chamberlain.

By the end of the season, Bryant had also set Lakers single-season franchise records for the most 40-point games (27) and most points scored (2,832), among others.

Bryant 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.

Bryant 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 Bryant had ever received in his career.

Other notable events

When the Lakers faced the Miami Heat on January 16, 2006, Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal made headlines by engaging in handshakes and hugs before the game, signifying the end of the feud that had festered between the two players since O'Neal's acrimonious departure from Los Angeles. A month later, at the 2006 NBA All-Star Game, the two laughed and joked together on several occasions.

Bryant's jersey.Late in the season, it was reported that Bryant would change his jersey number from #8 to #24 at the start of the 2006-07 NBA season. #24 was Bryant's first high school number, before he switched to #33.[3] After the Lakers' season ended, Bryant said on TNT that he wanted #24 as a rookie, but it was unavailable, as was #33, retired with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. He said the switch to 24 signified the start of the second half of his career. Bryant took number 8 after his favorite Italian league player, Mike D'Antoni. The Lakers guard grew up watching D'Antoni as a star point guard in the Italian league, where his father, "Jelly Bean" Bryant, also played.[4]

Player profile

Bryant is a shooting guard who is also capable of playing small forward. As of 2006, he is considered one of the premier players in the NBA, being elected into the All-NBA Teams en bloc from 1999 on an featuring eight NBA All-Star call-ups. Bryant was a vital part of the three most recent Lakers' championships.

He is a prolific scorer, averaging 23.9 points per game for his career, and also scores 4.5 assists, 5.1 rebounds and 1.5 steals per game. The 1997 NBA Slam Dunk Champion Bryant is capable of both dunking on opposing big men or scoring with his fadeaway jump shot, able to hit the shot from mid-range to long three pointers (.335 from beyond the arc). His versatility was especially showcased in the 2005-2006 NBA season, where Bryant averaged 35.4 points per game to secure the first NBA scoring title of his career, including his 81-point game and his 62 points in 3 quarters-game. In addition, Bryant also maintains a reputation for clutch performances in games, able to rise to the challenge and hit the difficult shot.

On his own half of the hardwood, Bryant plays tenacious defense. He has made the All-NBA Defensive Team a total of 6 times, and has established himself as one of the best perimeter defenders of his generation.

A controversial side of his game is his tendancy to show the behaviour of a ball hog: in his record-setting season, he racked up 2173 shot attempts in 80 games (avg. 27.1). However, fans and experts widely agree that Bryant is one of the best two-guards of his generation.

Private life

In November 1999, 21 year old Bryant met 17 year old Vanessa Laine while she was working as a background dancer on the Tha Eastsidaz music video[5] " G'd Up " (In the video Vanessa is in the convertible in a silver bikini). Bryant was in the building working on his debut musical album, which was never released.

The two began dating and were engaged just six months later in May 2000,[6] all while Laine was still a senior at Marina High School in Huntington Beach, California. Due to the media, she finished high school through independent study.[7] According to Vanessa's cousin Laila Laine, there was no prenuptial agreement. Vanessa said Kobe "loved her too much for one". [8].

They married on April 18, 2001 in Dana Point, California. There were only about 12 guests at the wedding. Neither Bryant's parents, his two sisters, longtime advisor and agent Arn Tellem, nor Bryant's Laker teammates attended. Bryant's parents were opposed to the marriage for a number of reasons. Reportedly Bryant's parents had problems with him marrying so young, especially to a woman who wasn't African-American[9]. This disagreement resulted in an estrangement period of over two years, during which Kobe Bryant did not have any contact with his parents.

The Bryants' first child, a daughter named Natalia Diamante Bryant, was born on January 19, 2003. The birth of Natalia influenced Bryant to reconcile his differences with his parents. Vanessa Bryant suffered a miscarriage due to an ectopic pregnancy in the Spring of 2005. In the Fall of 2005 the Bryants announced that they were expecting their second child. Their second daughter, Gianna Maria-Onore Bryant, was born on May 1, 2006. Interestingly, Gianna was born 6 minutes ahead of former teammate Shaquille O'Neal's daughter Me'arah Sanaa, who was born in Florida.[10]

用英语 写篇关于科比和詹姆斯的对比 英语课要用 简短点吧5分钟时间俩人表演

我英语烂，不能原创。。。。

Early life

Kobe Bryant is the youngest child and only son of Joe and Pam Bryant. His parents named him after a kind of steak: the famous beef of Kobe, Japan, which they saw on a restaurant menu. At the age of six, Kobe, his parents and two older sisters, Shaya and Sharia, moved to Italy, where his father began playing professional basketball. He became accustomed to the lifestyle and became fluent in Italian. At an early age, he learned to play and his favorite team was AC Milan. Bryant once said that if he had stayed in Italy, he would have stuck with and would have tried to become a pro player. In 1991, the Bryants moved back to the United States. A spectacular high school career at Lower Merion High School in the Philadelphia suburb of Lower Merion, brought national recognition. While his SAT score of 1080[2] would have ensured his basketball scholarship to various top-tier colleges, the 17-year-old Bryant made the controversial decision to go directly to the NBA.

Early NBA career

1996 Draft

Even before he was chosen as the 13th draft pick overall by the Charlotte Hornets in 1996, the 17-year-old Bryant had made a lasting impression on then-Lakers general manager Jerry West, who immediately foresaw the potential in Bryant's basketball talent during pre-draft workouts. West stated that Bryant's workout was one of the best he had ever witnessed. West continued his quest to return the Lakers to championship status and startled spectators by offering and completing the trade for starting center Vlade Divac to the Hornets for Bryant.

Growing pains

During his first season with the Lakers, he mostly came off the bench behind guards Eddie Jones and Nick Van Exel. Bryant played limited minutes initially but this changed as the season continued. He earned himself a reputation as a high-flyer and a fan-favorite by winning the 1997 Slam Dunk Contest.

In Bryant's second season (1997-98), he received more playing time and began showing more of his abilities as a talented young guard. He was the runner-up for the NBA's Sixth Man of the Year Award, and through fan voting, he also became the youngest NBA All-Star starter.

While his statistics were impressive for his age, he was still a young guard who lacked the experience to complement Shaquille O'Neal and significantly help the team contend for a championship.

Championship years

However, Bryant's fortunes would soon change when Phil Jackson became coach for the Los Angeles Lakers. After years of steady improvement, Bryant had become one of the premier shooting guards in the league, a fact that was evidenced by his annual presence in the league's All-NBA, All-Star, and All-Defensive teams. The Los Angeles Lakers became perennial championship contenders under Bryant and O'Neal, who formed an outstanding center-guard combination. Their success gave the Lakers three consecutive NBA championships in 2000, 2001, and 2002.

End of a dynasty

In the 2002-03 NBA season, Bryant averaged 30 points per game and embarked on a historic scoring run, posting 40 or more points per game in nine consecutive games while averaging 40.6 in the entire month of February. In addition, he averaged 6.9 rebounds, 5.9 assists, and 2.2 steals per game, all career highs up to that point. For the first time in his career Bryant was voted on to both--All-NBA and All-Defensive 1st teams. After finishing 50-32 in the regular season, the Lakers floundered in the playoffs and lost in the Western Conference Semifinals to the eventual NBA champion San Antonio Spurs in six games.

In the following 2003-04 NBA season, the Lakers were able to acquire legends Karl Malone and Gary Payton to make another push at the NBA Championship. With a starting lineup of four potential Hall of Fame players in Shaquille O'Neal, Malone, Payton, and Bryant, the Lakers were able to reach the NBA Finals. In the Finals, they were eliminated by the Detroit Pistons in 5 games. In that series, Bryant averaged 22.6 points per game, shooting 35.1% from the field, and 4.4 assists per game.

Conflicts and turmoil

Bryant, following his arrest in 2003In 2003, Bryant's reputation was tainted by criminal charges, in which Katelyn Faber, a young woman from Colorado, accused Bryant of sexual assault. With his image badly tarnished, the public's perception of Bryant plummeted, and his endorsement contracts with McDonald's, Nutella, and Ferrero SpA were terminated. Sales figures from NBA merchandisers indicated that sales of replicas of Bryant's jersey fell far off of their previous highs.

Even before being arrested for rape, Bryant was known to publicly feud with his teammates, including Shaquille O'Neal, Samaki Walker and Karl Malone. In an isolated incident, he allegedly punched teammate Walker in the face outside of the team bus.[citation needed] In 2004, a dispute between Bryant and former teammate Malone became public prior to Malone's expected re-signing with the Lakers. Bryant claimed Malone had made inappropriate comments to Bryant's wife. Malone claimed the comments were in jest and that Bryant was overreacting [1]. In the subsequent months, rather than re-join Bryant and the Lakers, Malone turned his attention to the possibility of joining another team, but ultimately decided to retire.

Unquestioned leader

When O'Neal was traded, Bryant became the Lakers' unquestioned leader of the team going into the 2004-2005 season. As it turned out, however, his first season without O'Neal would prove to be a very rocky one. With his reputation badly damaged from all that had happened over the previous year, Bryant was closely scrutinized and criticized during the season.

A particularly damaging salvo came from Phil Jackson in The Last Season: A Team in Search of Its Soul. The book detailed the events of the Lakers' tumultuous 2003-04 season and has a number criticisms of Bryant. In the book Jackson also calls Bryant "uncoachable."

Then, midway through the season, Rudy Tomjanovich suddenly resigned as Lakers coach, citing the recurrence of health problems and exhaustion. Without "Rudy T," stewardship of the remainder of the Lakers' season fell to career assistant coach Frank Hamblen. Despite the fact that Bryant was the league's second leading scorer at 27.6 points per game, the Lakers floundered and missed the playoffs for the first time in over a decade. This year signified a drop in Bryant's overall status in the NBA by not making the NBA All-Defensive Team and being demoted to All-NBA Third Team.

2005-06 season

The 2005-06 NBA season would mark a crossroads in Bryant's basketball career. Despite past differences with Bryant, Phil Jackson returned to coach the Lakers. Bryant endorsed the move, and by all appearances, the two men worked together well the second time around, leading the Lakers back into the NBA Playoffs. Bryant also resolved his conflict with former teammate Shaquille O'Neal. The team posted a 45-37 record, an eleven-game improvement over the previous season, and the entire squad seemed to be clicking. In the first round of the playoffs, the Lakers played well enough (3-1 series lead) to come within a game of eliminating the second-seeded Phoenix Suns before finally falling short. Even with Kobe Bryant's remarkable game winning shot in Game 4, the Lakers broke down, falling to the Suns in Game 7. In the following offseason, Bryant had knee surgery, preventing him from participating in the 2006 FIBA World Championship tournament.

Accomplishments

In many ways the team's improvement in 2005-06 was often overshadowed by the individual scoring accomplishments posted by Bryant which resulted in the finest statistical season of his career:

On December 20, Bryant scored 62 points despite playing only three quarters of play against the Dallas Mavericks. Entering the fourth quarter Bryant 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, Bryant 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, Bryant became the first player since 19, and the only player aside from Chamberlain and Elgin Baylor to score 45 points or more in four consecutive games.

For the month of January, Bryant averaged 43.4 per game, the eighth highest single month scoring average in NBA history, and highest for any player other than Chamberlain.

By the end of the season, Bryant had also set Lakers single-season franchise records for the most 40-point games (27) and most points scored (2,832), among others.

Bryant 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.

Bryant 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 Bryant had ever received in his career.

Other notable events

When the Lakers faced the Miami Heat on January 16, 2006, Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal made headlines by engaging in handshakes and hugs before the game, signifying the end of the feud that had festered between the two players since O'Neal's acrimonious departure from Los Angeles. A month later, at the 2006 NBA All-Star Game, the two laughed and joked together on several occasions.

Bryant's jersey.Late in the season, it was reported that Bryant would change his jersey number from #8 to #24 at the start of the 2006-07 NBA season. #24 was Bryant's first high school number, before he switched to #33.[3] After the Lakers' season ended, Bryant said on TNT that he wanted #24 as a rookie, but it was unavailable, as was #33, retired with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. He said the switch to 24 signified the start of the second half of his career. Bryant took number 8 after his favorite Italian league player, Mike D'Antoni. The Lakers guard grew up watching D'Antoni as a star point guard in the Italian league, where his father, "Jelly Bean" Bryant, also played.[4]

Player profile

Bryant is a shooting guard who is also capable of playing small forward. As of 2006, he is considered one of the premier players in the NBA, being elected into the All-NBA Teams en bloc from 1999 on an featuring eight NBA All-Star call-ups. Bryant was a vital part of the three most recent Lakers' championships.

He is a prolific scorer, averaging 23.9 points per game for his career, and also scores 4.5 assists, 5.1 rebounds and 1.5 steals per game. The 1997 NBA Slam Dunk Champion Bryant is capable of both dunking on opposing big men or scoring with his fadeaway jump shot, able to hit the shot from mid-range to long three pointers (.335 from beyond the arc). His versatility was especially showcased in the 2005-2006 NBA season, where Bryant averaged 35.4 points per game to secure the first NBA scoring title of his career, including his 81-point game and his 62 points in 3 quarters-game. In addition, Bryant also maintains a reputation for clutch performances in games, able to rise to the challenge and hit the difficult shot.

On his own half of the hardwood, Bryant plays tenacious defense. He has made the All-NBA Defensive Team a total of 6 times, and has established himself as one of the best perimeter defenders of his generation.

A controversial side of his game is his tendancy to show the behaviour of a ball hog: in his record-setting season, he racked up 2173 shot attempts in 80 games (avg. 27.1). However, fans and experts widely agree that Bryant is one of the best two-guards of his generation.

Private life

In November 1999, 21 year old Bryant met 17 year old Vanessa Laine while she was working as a background dancer on the Tha Eastsidaz music video[5] " G'd Up " (In the video Vanessa is in the convertible in a silver bikini). Bryant was in the building working on his debut musical album, which was never released.

The two began dating and were engaged just six months later in May 2000,[6] all while Laine was still a senior at Marina High School in Huntington Beach, California. Due to the media, she finished high school through independent study.[7] According to Vanessa's cousin Laila Laine, there was no prenuptial agreement. Vanessa said Kobe "loved her too much for one". [8].

They married on April 18, 2001 in Dana Point, California. There were only about 12 guests at the wedding. Neither Bryant's parents, his two sisters, longtime advisor and agent Arn Tellem, nor Bryant's Laker teammates attended. Bryant's parents were opposed to the marriage for a number of reasons. Reportedly Bryant's parents had problems with him marrying so young, especially to a woman who wasn't African-American[9]. This disagreement resulted in an estrangement period of over two years, during which Kobe Bryant did not have any contact with his parents.

The Bryants' first child, a daughter named Natalia Diamante Bryant, was born on January 19, 2003. The birth of Natalia influenced Bryant to reconcile his differences with his parents. Vanessa Bryant suffered a miscarriage due to an ectopic pregnancy in the Spring of 2005. In the Fall of 2005 the Bryants announced that they were expecting their second child. Their second daughter, Gianna Maria-Onore Bryant, was born on May 1, 2006. Interestingly, Gianna was born 6 minutes ahead of former teammate Shaquille O'Neal's daughter Me'arah Sanaa, who was born in Florida

Name： Kobe Bryant

Early life

Kobe Bryant is the youngest child and only son of Joe and Pam Bryant. His parents named him after a kind of steak: the famous beef of Kobe, Japan, which they saw on a restaurant menu. At the age of six, Kobe, his parents and two older sisters, Shaya and Sharia, moved to Italy, where his father began playing professional basketball. He became accustomed to the lifestyle and became fluent in Italian. At an early age, he learned to play and his favorite team was AC Milan. Bryant once said that if he had stayed in Italy, he would have stuck with and would have tried to become a pro player. In 1991, the Bryants moved back to the United States. A spectacular high school career at Lower Merion High School in the Philadelphia suburb of Lower Merion, brought national recognition. While his SAT score of 1080[2] would have ensured his basketball scholarship to various top-tier colleges, the 17-year-old Bryant made the controversial decision to go directly to the NBA. -

Early NBA career

1996 Draft

Even before he was chosen as the 13th draft pick overall by the Charlotte Hornets in 1996, the 17-year-old Bryant had made a lasting impression on then-Lakers general manager Jerry West, who immediately foresaw the potential in Bryant's basketball talent during pre-draft workouts. West stated that Bryant's workout was one of the best he had ever witnessed. West continued his quest to return the Lakers to championship status and startled spectators by offering and completing the trade for starting center Vlade Divac to the Hornets for Bryant. -

Growing pains

During his first season with the Lakers, he mostly came off the bench behind guards Eddie Jones and Nick Van Exel. Bryant played limited minutes initially but this changed as the season continued. He earned himself a reputation as a high-flyer and a fan-favorite by winning the 1997 Slam Dunk Contest.

In Bryant's second season (1997-98), he received more playing time and began showing more of his abilities as a talented young guard. He was the runner-up for the NBA's Sixth Man of the Year Award, and through fan voting, he also became the youngest NBA All-Star starter.

While his statistics were impressive for his age, he was still a young guard who lacked the experience to complement Shaquille O'Neal and significantly help the team contend for a championship.

Championship years

However, Bryant's fortunes would soon change when Phil Jackson became coach for the Los Angeles Lakers. After years of steady improvement, Bryant had become one of the premier shooting guards in the league, a fact that was evidenced by his annual presence in the league's All-NBA, All-Star, and All-Defensive teams. The Los Angeles Lakers became perennial championship contenders under Bryant and O'Neal, who formed an outstanding center-guard combination. Their success gave the Lakers three consecutive NBA championships in 2000, 2001, and 2002.

End of a dynasty

In the 2002-03 NBA season, Bryant averaged 30 points per game and embarked on a historic scoring run, posting 40 or more points per game in nine consecutive games while averaging 40.6 in the entire month of February. In addition, he averaged 6.9 rebounds, 5.9 assists, and 2.2 steals per game, all career highs up to that point. For the first time in his career Bryant was voted on to both--All-NBA and All-Defensive 1st teams. After finishing 50-32 in the regular season, the Lakers floundered in the playoffs and lost in the Western Conference Semifinals to the eventual NBA champion San Antonio Spurs in six games.

In the following 2003-04 NBA season, the Lakers were able to acquire legends Karl Malone and Gary Payton to make another push at the NBA Championship. With a starting lineup of four potential Hall of Fame players in Shaquille O'Neal, Malone, Payton, and Bryant, the Lakers were able to reach the NBA Finals. In the Finals, they were eliminated by the Detroit Pistons in 5 games. In that series, Bryant averaged 22.6 points per game, shooting 35.1% from the field, and 4.4 assists per game.

Conflicts and turmoil

Bryant, following his arrest in 2003In 2003, Bryant's reputation was tainted by criminal charges, in which Katelyn Faber, a young woman from Colorado, accused Bryant of sexual assault. With his image badly tarnished, the public's perception of Bryant plummeted, and his endorsement contracts with McDonald's, Nutella, and Ferrero SpA were terminated. Sales figures from NBA merchandisers indicated that sales of replicas of Bryant's jersey fell far off of their previous highs.

Even before being arrested for rape, Bryant was known to publicly feud with his teammates, including Shaquille O'Neal, Samaki Walker and Karl Malone. In an isolated incident, he allegedly punched teammate Walker in the face outside of the team bus.[citation needed] In 2004, a dispute between Bryant and former teammate Malone became public prior to Malone's expected re-signing with the Lakers. Bryant claimed Malone had made inappropriate comments to Bryant's wife. Malone claimed the comments were in jest and that Bryant was overreacting [1]. In the subsequent months, rather than re-join Bryant and the Lakers, Malone turned his attention to the possibility of joining another team, but ultimately decided to retire.

Unquestioned leader

When O'Neal was traded, Bryant became the Lakers' unquestioned leader of the team going into the 2004-2005 season. As it turned out, however, his first season without O'Neal would prove to be a very rocky one. With his reputation badly damaged from all that had happened over the previous year, Bryant was closely scrutinized and criticized during the season.

A particularly damaging salvo came from Phil Jackson in The Last Season: A Team in Search of Its Soul. The book detailed the events of the Lakers'