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 wouldn't say I'm a ball hog. I'm a shooter.
I'm more than comfortable just sitting back and scoring 21, 22 points or whatever and getting 10, 11 assists whatever the case might be. More than comfortable with that. It's just a matter of the pieces that you have around you and what you can do to elevate everybody else.
Isn't the basis of a democracy to send somebody to Washington to bring something back for you? ... It isn't?
I won’t react to something just because I’m supposed to, because I’m an African-American
Thank god, I'm not from this world,
I don't talk trash often, but when I do, I go for the jugular.
We've been allies for a long time, ... We've had our public battles, but we know each other so well. When pressure situations came, he knew I'd be able to orchestrate the offense exactly how he wanted it.
We have to understand that we're not playing for right now; we're playing for the long haul. It's important to be patient. It will come.
We didn't execute. Tonight they stepped up their pressure.
We're a really young team that comes into this hostile environment playing against a championship contender. And we didn't play well. I mean, at all. And we found ourselves in a position where we should've won this ballgame.
We really hustled, we got after them, played with a high energy level and rebounded the ball extremely well.
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're playing good basketball, but the playoffs are all about preparation. We're just going to go out there and play.
We're playing good basketball. We feel like we can carry it over into the playoffs.