American professional basketball player kobe Bryant

Kobe Bryant (August 23, 1978 -), American professional basketball player, since 1996, played for the NBA Los Angeles Lakers, the functional point guard. Kobe Bryant is a former NBA basketball player Joe Bryant's son. Bryant is the NBA's best scorer, breaking, shooting, free throws, three-pointers he very much at home, almost no attack blind, single-game record of 81 points on a strong personal proof of this. In addition to crazy score, but Bryant's outstanding organizational skills are also often served as the team's first offensive sponsor. Another Bryant still the league's best defensive one, personal defense is very oppressive.

Childhood
Kobe Bryant Childhood
  Childhood Bryant
Bean Bryant (Kobe Bean Bryant) on August 23, 1978 Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is a former NBA player and former Los Angeles Sparks head coach Joe "Sweet Pea" Bryant (Joe "Jellybean "Bryant) and Pamela Cox Bryant (Pamela Cox Bryant) the youngest of three children and the only son. [1-2] His parents named him before his birth Kobe - one kind of Japanese steak [3] name, is on the menu in a restaurant to see. [1] Bryant has two sisters, Celia and Sanga. Bryant's father, Joe, eight seasons in the NBA, respectively, for the Philadelphia 76ers, San Diego Clippers, Houston Rockets. [1] When Bryant 6 years old [4], Joe left the NBA and the family moved to Italy to continue professional basketball career. [5] Bryant adapted to the new way of life and learn to speak Italian and Spanish fluently. [5-6] He started playing at age 3, [7] in his favorite team growing up was the Lakers. [8] Bryant's grandfather would give him sent NBA video game, and Kobe Bryant will study these video games. [8] Bryant was young, he learned to play football, his favorite team is AC Milan football club. [9] He has said that if he stay in Italy, he will try to become a professional soccer ball players; [9] Bryant is a former FC Barcelona coach Frank Rijkaard (Frank Rijkaard) and former Barcelona Ronaldinho's hardcore fans, he is still admire Barcelona's Lionel Messi. [10] 1991 [11] When Joe retired, he called the family moved back to the United States

In suburban Philadelphia
Bryant high school
High school, Bryant (7) of the Lower Merion Lower Merion, Kobe Bryant with amazing high school career earned All-American recognition. As a rookie, Bryant at school (third grade and fourth grade) basketball team as the starter. [13] Bryant is a sophomore in high school by his father coached. Although in his first year the team was mediocre, but in the next three years Bryant played in all five positions, and the team has made a record 77 wins and 13 losses. [13] In adidasABCD training camp, Bryant won the MVP award in 1995 high school students, and and later fought alongside teammate Lamar Odom. [14] In high school, when he was the 76ers coach John Lucas (John Lucas) invited Bryant workout and train with the team, where Bryant and Jerry Stackhouse for a pair a game. [15] In his fourth year high school, Bryant led the team in 50 years to get the first state-level championship. High school senior, Bryant averaged 30.8 points, 12 rebounds, 6.5 assists, 4.0 steals and 3.8 blocks per game, he led the Lower Merion get 31 wins, 3 losses record. After Bryant high school career, surpassing Wilt Chamberlain (Wilt Chamberlain) and Leon Simmons (Lionel Simmons), to 2883 points broke the southeastern Pennsylvania high school scoring record. [13] [16] by virtue of the performance of fourth-grade high school, Bryant received several awards, including the Naismith high school player the Year, Gatorade nation's best high school players in the annual McDonald's All-American, USA Today nation's No. a team player. Bryant's high school basketball coach Gregg Downer (Greg Downer) on his evaluation was "a dominant all-around player." 1996 Bryant invited R & B singer Brandy Norwood (Brandy Norwood) to participate in their own prom, [17] even though they are just friends. Bryant graduated Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) to get 1080 points [18], which is sufficient to ensure that he got into a good college basketball scholarship. However, the final 17-year-old Bryant decided to go directly into the NBA, NBA history 6 directly from high school to enter the NBA draft players. [13] Since entering the NBA directly from high school is not common (Kevin Garnett is 20 years, the only exception), Bryant decided to get a lot of attention. [13] Bryant once said if go to college after graduating from high school, he will choose Duke University...