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
I don't miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn't that serious in the first place.
He's helping to protect our country, ... It's a chance for me to give back. I'm deeply honored to be here. It goes beyond words. To request my presence to be here, it's unbelievable.
That is experience and age. They are veterans and knowing what they need to do within their system to maximize the whole. They have guys who are extremely talented.
And now the shoe's on the other foot. When I was going through it, I wanted people to be patient with me. I'm just reciprocating.
I think the biggest change is we have a system that we believe in and we trust, ... It's Phil and the system ? absolutely. It's a beautiful system. When everything's clicking, it's a beautiful thing to watch.
I just think it's an accomplishment on this path that we're on to try and get back to the top.
I just imagine the company to be in that class. It's a tremendous, tremendous honor.
Everyone is not jumping for joy with finally making the playoffs but it is a big accomplishment for us being that we didn't make it last year and nobody expected us to make it this year and here we are.
I didn't know that kid had that big of (a heart). I think it was good.
They made a great read defensively. Lawrence Frank sent out all smalls so they were able to switch everything. That kind of took the play away from us.
During the regular season, we were trying to find our rhythm and I had to shoulder the scoring load. We know we can start attacking teams as a unit and not me going out there trying to score 40 or 50 points.
I think you have to represent your city and your organization. Tracy's been a good friend of mine for a long, long time, and I look forward to him putting on a good show.
I think that'll come as camp continues to unfold. You have to have a system, you have to have a structure, everybody falls in line. The thing about this offense is every position is interchangeable.
I don't know if it was the days off or whatever, but we just weren't in rhythm. You can probably blame it on the thong Shaq had. It kind of traumatized everybody in the locker room. But we'll be all right. We'll bounce back the next game.