Kobe Bryant Biography E-Book

Alexander Cooper

• Herausgeber: Ben Business Group LLC
• Kategorie: Sachliteratur, Reportagen, Biografien
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2022

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Kobe Bryant Biography - The Complete Life Story and Biography of Kobe Bryant

Kobe Bryant was an American Professional Basketball Star Player who played for the Los Angeles Lakers of the NBA for his entire 20-year career.
Dubbed the “Black Mamba” for his agility, aggressiveness, and ability to strike with deadly scoring accuracy, Bryant was a lot of things to the world both on and off the court. He was a doting father to four daughters, as well as one of the greatest players in basketball history, an Academy Award winner, Olympic gold medalist, five-time NBA champion, a fluent speaker of multiple languages, and most importantly, someone so great he made the Los Angeles Lakers retire two different numbers (8 and 24) in his honor.
Bryant died on January 26, 2020, at the age of 41 as a passenger in a helicopter crash in the city of Calabasas, California. The accident also claimed the lives of his 13-year-old daughter Gianna Bryant and seven other people.
The group was heading to a basketball game at Bryant’s Mamba Sports Academy in Thousand Oaks, where Bryant was supposed to coach his daughter’s team.

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BIOGRAPHY

Kobe Bryant

The Complete Life Story and Biography of Kobe Bryant

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Alexander Cooper

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Kobe Bryant Introduction and Background

Bryant’s Early Life (0-13 yrs. 1978-1991)

High School (13-17 yrs. 1993-1996)

Kobe Bryant’s NBA Career

1996 NBA Draft (17 yrs.)

Hitting the NBA and Winning a Slam Dunk Contest Competition (17-18 yrs. 1996 – 1997)

The Rookie Mistake (18 yrs. 1997)

Phil Jackson Arrives and Bryant Wins his 1st NBA Title with Lakers (20-21 yrs. 1999 – 2000)

Two More Championships and First All-Star game MVP (22-23 yrs. 2001 – 2002)

Hitting Rock Bottom (24-25 yrs. 2003 – 2004)

The Rise of the Black Mamba (26 yrs. 2005)

Phil Jackson Returns (26 yrs. 2005)

The Comeback (27 yrs. 2006)

Dominance Continues (28 yrs. 2007)

Bryant Becomes an Olympic Gold Medalist (29 yrs. 2008)

Return to the Championships (29-31 yrs. 2008 – 2010)

Final Olympic Medal (33 yrs. 2012)

Kobe Bryant’s Injury

Iconic Achilles Injury (34 yrs. 2013)

Kobe Bryant’s Retirement

Jersey Retirement (38 yrs. 2017)

Kobe Bryant’s Life After Retirement

Books (39 yrs. 2018)

Kobe Bryant’s Mamba Sports Academy, His Death and Legacy

Funeral Services (2020)

Kobe Bryant Introduction and Background

Kobe Bryant was an American Professional Basketball Star Player who played for the Los Angeles Lakers of the NBA for his entire 20-year career.

Dubbed the “Black Mamba” for his agility, aggressiveness, and ability to strike with deadly scoring accuracy, Bryant was a lot of things to the world both on and off the court. He was a doting father to four daughters, as well as one of the greatest players in basketball history, an Academy Award winner, Olympic gold medalist, five-time NBA champion, a fluent speaker of multiple languages, and most importantly, someone so great he made the Los Angeles Lakers retire two different numbers (8 and 24) in his honor.

Bryant died on January 26, 2020, at the age of 41 as a passenger in a helicopter crash in the city of Calabasas, California. The accident also claimed the lives of his 13-year-old daughter Gianna Bryant and seven other people.

The group was heading to a basketball game at Bryant’s Mamba Sports Academy in Thousand Oaks, where Bryant was supposed to coach his daughter’s team.

Here is a look at the life of the basketball legend.

Bryant’s Early Life (0-13 yrs. 1978-1991)

Kobe Bean Bryant was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on August 23, 1978.  He was the last born and only son of Joe “Jellybean” Bryant, a former NBA Player, and Pam Cox Bryant, sister of former NBA player John “Chubby” Cox. Bryant also has two sisters, Shaya and Sharia, and is the cousin of professional basketball player John Cox IV through his mother, Pam. Bryant was raised catholic.

His parents called him Kobe after a type of steak they saw on a cafeteria menu. The steak is from a unique species of cattle called wagyu, found in the Kobe region of Japan. Bean, his second name, was taken from his father’s nickname, Jellybean.

When Bryant was born, his father was still an active NBA player for the Philadelphia 76ers. But a year after his son was born, Joe was traded to San Diego. It was there on the West Coast that Bryant developed an unmatched love of hoops. By the time he turned three, he was already proclaiming he would be an NBA star.

His favorite player was Magic Johnson, a point guard, and his favorite pro team was the Lakers.

When Bryant was six, his father retired from the NBA and relocated his family to Rieti, Italy, so he could continue playing professionally in the Italian basketball league.

Question: What would you do if you moved to a foreign country where you had no friends?

Well, at first, this transfer proved to be an essential bonding experience for Bryant and his sisters because they were now living in a foreign country and couldn’t speak the national language, which meant they had to stick together to get by.

Meanwhile, Joe had blossomed into a star, and Bryant’s world started revolving around his dad’s basketball program. He would often follow his father to practice and hardly missed his games. He even started studying his father’s moves and tried mimicking the way he was playing.

Joe’s no-look passes and thunderous dunks were inspiring Kobe to envision a successful career in the NBA.

The Italian soccer-crazed neighbors, however, started pushing Kobe in a different direction. They convinced him that he would make a world-class goalkeeper due to his leaping ability, quickness, and long arms. He played a bit as a goalkeeper before moving to the midfield position to better use his athleticism.

That said, thanks to his grandparents back in the USA, Bryant still closely watched what was going on in the NBA. International cable sports feed did not exist at the time, so his grandparents would record the games and send him the tapes every week.

Bryant and his father would then watch the videos together. And with Joe honing his skills, Bryant felt confident enough to fly back to the United States during summers and play in the basketball summer leagues.

Unfortunately, it was also in Italy that Bryant experienced racism the most. He even attributed his killer instinct that developed on the court to this experience.