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
It's my job to pick us up when we are down. I had to sharpen my focus.
It feels good to finally get one of these close games.
That felt good. That's basketball. That's how basketball was in the '80s. You see Isiah Thomas and Magic Johnson standing, talking in the tunnel, and that's basketball.
If Phil and Tex feel like making a change would be better for the team, that's what we will do. We trust them wholeheartedly.
It's cool to be a part of history having two great coaches go head-to-head.
It was a big game for us, ... We are a young team and we had to battle back to get the win.
I went after it a little bit more aggressively and the team did a good job looking for me. I felt we had to get something going in the third quarter.
It gives us confidence. It shows that our play is not a fluke. We move the ball consistently and play defense consistently. This bodes well for our confidence.
I think that from the start of this series we have just been playing extremely well and we are moving the ball around really well. We have just evolved into this from the start of the season, it has been process. We are just playing so well together.
In the second half they looked to stop everybody else, and I got going. I picked up the momentum and was able to break the game open.
He's my man here. Every time I'm in Houston he comes out and checks out the game and I hook him up with stuff.
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.
It was a very frustrating loss. We need to regroup and get back home and get back on the right track.
The arrival of our new daughter ... is such an incredible blessing for me and my family. We are all full of beautiful emotions after such an incredible day.