Remembering the life and career of Kobe Bryant

    
Kobe Bryant, born Aug. 23, 1978, in Philadelphia, Penn., spent his entire 20-year NBA career playing for the Los Angeles Lakers before his retirement on 2016. During his time in the American basketball league, Bryant won five NBA championships. 

On Jan. 26, 2020, Bryant's life was tragically cut short at 41 in a helicopter crash, killing all nine people on board, including his 13-year-old daughter Gianna. Take a look back at his prolific life and career cut tragically too short.


Kobe Bryant

Kobe Bryant was posthumously elected into the Basketball Hall of Fame less than three months after his tragic death in a helicopter crash. 

Bryant, along with Tim Duncan, Kevin Garnett and six others, will live out as basketball legends in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass. To celebrate, take a look back at the legendary player's career. (Ronald Cortes/Getty Images) 1996


Kobe Bryant, 17, jokes with the media as he holds his Los Angeles Lakers 
Jersey during a news conference in Inglewood, Calif. on July 12, 1996.
 (SUSAN STERNER/AP)

Kobe Bryant dunks the ball at his Lower Merion, Pa. high school gym
During a practice Friday, Jan. 19, 1996.
(RUSTY KENNEDY/ASSOCIATED PRESS)


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