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
When I was 14 or 15 he started cheating. He'd elbow me in the mouth, rip my lip open.
We're playing good basketball. We feel like we can carry it over into the playoffs.
We're playing good basketball, but the playoffs are all about preparation. We're just going to go out there and play.
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 really hustled, we got after them, played with a high energy level and rebounded the ball extremely well.
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.
It feels good to finally get one of these close games.
It feels good to be mentioned among the elite players who have ever played the game.
It feels good. It lets me know they appreciate what I do out there on the floor.
It doesn't really seem like we're overly jumping for joy, but it is a great accomplishment for us. We came from last season when we didn't make it. This season nobody expected us to make it and here we are.
It doesn't matter whose team it is. But this is his team, so it's time for him to act like it,
I think Lamar is a great facilitator in orchestrating the offense a little bit, which frees me up a lot more to attack and do some of the things I've been doing.
Play defense. Don't stink it up on the defensive end or you will not win.
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.