Kobe Bryant
Kobe Bryant
Kobe Bean Bryantis an American retired professional basketball player. He played his entire 20-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association. He entered the NBA directly from high school and won five NBA championships with the Lakers. Bryant is an 18-time All-Star, 15-time member of the All-NBA Team, and 12-time member of the All-Defensive team. He led the NBA in scoring during two seasons, and ranks third on both the league's all-time regular season scoring and...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth23 August 1978
CityPhiladelphia, PA
CountryUnited States of America
Against them, you have to play hard on defense. You have to rotate hard, rotate quick and rotate well.
This is a big road trip for us. We can't sulk for one game. We have to keep our heads up and move on to the next one.
They are the best team in the league right now. There's not much more to say about what makes them tough --versatility, execution and understanding of concepts.
This is Generation Next coming up to see the game, appreciate the game and know what it's about.
This is such a challenge for both of us. Phil prepares us so well, and wants us to pay attention to the details. We didn't always do that tonight, but we stayed with the system and found a way.
Any player that was going to come down the lane at that point in time, I was going to let him know that he just can't walk through there. I think we as a team have to do a better job of establishing that.
This decision came only after reviewing all the evidence -- testimonial evidence and physical evidence. The standards are the same in this case as in any other case,
This being our home court, people come here and think it's Hollywood and all sorts of stuff, so they think they'll come down (the lane) and look pretty and shoot jump shots and dunk the ball and finger-roll the ball and do all sorts of cute stuff. And we've got to stop that.
They execute the same way. It's just that when Steve and Raja Bell come back, they have more waves to throw at you and they do it for 48 minutes.
They executed much better than we did down the stretch and they got big plays when they needed to, and we did not make the stops when we needed to.
We're playing good basketball. We feel like we can carry it over into the playoffs.
We're playing good basketball, but the playoffs are all about preparation. We're just going to go out there and play.
We've been joking with him because he's gotten extremely close in a bunch of games. He's in a great rhythm. He knows where shots are coming from, he knows where the assists are coming from, how to set the table. It's fun to watch.
We really hustled, we got after them, played with a high energy level and rebounded the ball extremely well.