{"id":13471,"date":"2020-01-27T17:19:39","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T14:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=13471"},"modified":"2020-01-27T17:19:41","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T14:19:41","slug":"1978-2020-heres-probably-what-you-didnt-know-about-kobe-bryant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2020\/01\/27\/1978-2020-heres-probably-what-you-didnt-know-about-kobe-bryant\/","title":{"rendered":"1978-2020: Here’s Probably What You Didn’t Know About Kobe Bryant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Name:<\/strong> Kobe Bryant<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Former Team:<\/strong> Los Angeles Lakers (1996-2016)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Position:<\/strong> Guard<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Birthplace:<\/strong> Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born:<\/strong> August 23, 1978<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Died:<\/strong> January 26, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Height:<\/strong> 6feet, 6inches, 1.98m<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Weight:<\/strong> 212lbs, 96kg<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Bryant was the son of Joe “Jelly Bean” Bryant, who played eight seasons in the NBA<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Bryant spent eight years of his childhood with his family in Italy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Bryant married Vanessa Laine, April 18, 2001. Daughter Natalia was born in January, 2003; daughter Gianna was born May, 2006; daughter Bianka was born December, 2016 and daughter Capri was born June, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Awards\/career highlights<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Bryant won five NBA championships — 2000, 2001, 2002, 2009, 2010<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Named NBA Finals Most Valuable Player in leading Lakers to titles in 2009 and 2010<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Earned Olympic gold medals with USA at 2008 Beijing Olympics and 2012 London Olympics<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Named NBA regular-season MVP in 2007-08 season and a record-tying four-time NBA All-Star Game MVP — 2002, 2007, 2009 and 2011<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– On January 22, 2006 scored a career-high 81 points in Lakers’ 122-104 victory over Toronto, second-most points in a game in NBA history<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– In 2018, his movie “Dear Basketball” won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Selected with 13th overall choice by Charlotte Hornets in 1996 NBA draft, becoming the 27th player to join NBA straight from high school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Acquired by Lakers shortly after draft<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Named an NBA All-Star 18 times – 1998 and 2000-2016<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Two-time NBA scoring champion – 2006 and 2007<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– 1997 NBA Slam Dunk Contest winner<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Had both his jersey numbers, 8 and 24, retired by the Lakers, an unprecedented move<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Scored 33,643 points, grabbed 7,047 rebounds and passed off 6,306 assists over 1,346 career NBA games<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Scored a season-high 60 points in his last NBA game on April 13, 2016 in a 101-96 Lakers’ victory over Utah, becoming the oldest player in NBA history to score 60 points at 37 years and 234 days<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some of the significant injuries that affected Bryant during his career:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Broken metacarpal bone in right hand, 1999-00 season<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Right index finger laceration, sprained right shoulder, 2003-04<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Severely sprained right ankle, 2004-05<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Index finger avulsion fracture, right knee swelling, sprained left ankle, 2009-10<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Torn left Achilles tendon requiring surgery, 2012-13<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Broken bone in left knee, 2013-14<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Torn right shoulder rotator cuff, 2015\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Name: Kobe Bryant Former Team: Los Angeles Lakers (1996-2016) Position: Guard Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Born: August 23, 1978 Died: January 26, 2020 Height: 6feet, 6inches, 1.98m Weight: 212lbs, 96kg – Bryant was the son of Joe “Jelly Bean” Bryant, who played eight seasons in the NBA – Bryant spent eight years of his childhood with his family in Italy – Bryant married […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":13473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,102],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-13471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13474,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13471\/revisions\/13474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}