号码： 24(以前为8号）
位置：得分后卫
外号：小飞侠
国籍：美国
生日： 1978年8月23日
身高： 2，01米
体重： 98 公斤
童年时代在意大利生活8年，熟谙意大利语；父亲乔-布赖恩特(绰号“黑豆”)曾打过606场NBA比赛，平均每场得18.7分。 1996年，科比-布赖恩特高中毕业直接进入NBA。他在首轮选秀中以第十三顺位被夏洛特黄蜂队选中，后被黄蜂队交换转让给洛杉矶湖人队。 1997年夺得全明星周末扣篮大赛冠军。
1998年在第二个赛季就入选全明星赛首发阵容，成为历史上最年轻的全明星球员。六次入选全明星阵容，当选2002年全明星赛MVP 01-02、02-03、03-04三次入选NBA年度最佳阵容。
随湖人队于2000年、2001年、2002年三夺NBA总冠军。
2003年被控，2004年9月2日该案因女原告不愿继续作证而不了了之。
入选2004-2005年NBA西部全明星阵容。
单场技术统计赛季纪录/生涯纪录
项目 NBA生涯纪录 05-06赛季纪录
得分 56 vs. 孟菲斯灰熊队 01/14/02 81 vs 猛龙 01月23日
命中球数 21 vs. 孟菲斯灰熊队 01/14/02 28 vs 猛龙 01月23日
投篮数 47 @ 波士顿凯尔特人队 11/07/02 46 vs 猛龙 01月23日
3分命中数 12 vs. 西雅图超音速队 01/07/03 7 7 次
3分投篮数 18 vs. 西雅图超音速队 01/07/03 15 vs 快船 01月08日
罚球命中数 23 @ 克里夫兰骑士队 01/30/01 23 vs 尼克斯 02月01日
罚球投篮数 26 @ 克里夫兰骑士队 01/30/01 26 vs 尼克斯 02月01日
进攻篮板 8 @ 达拉斯小牛 04/18/00 4 vs 黄蜂 03月09日 防守篮板 13 vs. 西雅图超音速队 01/17/00 10 vs 76人 01月07日
总篮板 15 2 次 10 4 次
助攻 15 vs. 华盛顿奇才队 02/12/02 10 7 次
抢断 6 4 次 7 vs 爵士 02月14日
盖帽 5 3 次 2 3 次
出场时间 54 vs. 休斯顿火箭队 02/18/03 50 vs 篮网 11月28日
入选1999-2000赛季NBA第二阵容
入选1999-2000赛季NBA第一防守阵容
以平均每场29.7分、7次助攻和6个篮板入选一周最佳运动员（4/10-4/16）。
在2000年4月10日通过加时赛以106-103战胜超音速队的比赛中，科比共得33分，10个篮板和6次助攻。 在2000年3月26日以90-89险胜国王队的比赛中，科比共得24分和14个篮板。
在2000年3月24日以109-101战胜太阳队的比赛中，科比共得28分，7次助攻和6个篮板。
在2000年3月12日以109-106战胜国王队的比赛中，科比获得了生涯中的最高分-40分，同时有10个篮板和8次助攻入帐。
在2000年3月9日以109-92战胜勇士队的比赛中，科比独得30分。
在2000年2月27日以101-85战胜火箭队的比赛中，科比独得31分。
在2000年全明星赛中作为首发出场，共得15分。
在2000年1月19日以95-86战胜骑士队的比赛中，科比共得25分和13个篮板。
在2000年1月19日以130-95战胜丹佛金块队的比赛中，科比共得30分，而其中的27分是在第一节得到的。
在2000年1月8日以110-100战胜超音速队的比赛中，科比共得31分。
在2000年1月5日以118-101战胜快船队的比赛中，科比共得26分、10个篮板和6次助攻。
在1999年12月17日以97-88战胜森林狼队的比赛中，科比共得28分、12次助攻和7次盖帽。
在1999年12月16日以95-88战胜鹰队的比赛中，科比共得30分和7个篮板。
在右手第四节掌骨骨折错过赛季初的15场比赛后，于12月1日复出，并在复出的首场比赛中得了19
分和6个篮板。
以每场比赛得19.9分（湖人排名第二，NBA排名15）和罚球命中率（83.9%，列NBA第20位）入选1998-1999赛季NBA第三阵容。
在1999年3月21日以113-104战胜魔术队的比赛中，在下半场科比共得33分，同时有4次助攻和3个篮板。
在1999年2月22日对丹佛金块队的比赛中，科比共得26分，抢了生涯中最高次数的篮板--13个，以及9次助攻。
在纽约进行的1998NBA全明星赛上，以18分和6个篮板，成为NBA历史上最年轻的全明星队员。
在1997年12月17日对芝加哥公牛队的比赛中，获得生涯最高分33分，三分球5投三中，并有三个篮板。
以平均每场比赛7.6分和出场15.5分钟入选1996-1997赛季NBA最佳新人第二阵容。
1997年1月28日对小牛队的比赛中以首发上场，得了12分。
1996年11月3日首次出现在NBA赛场上，成为NBA历史上最年轻的球员。
1996年在NBA选秀大会上被黄蜂队首轮选中，7月11日，湖人用迪瓦茨交换科比，科比转入湖人队。
科比语录
关于总决赛时雷杰.米勒的表现———
“雷杰是那种总是喜欢充当终结者的家伙，每当比赛最后一刻，他就杀机顿现。所以在第6场比赛还剩
不到30秒的时候，他那记30英尺外的三分球一点不让我吃惊。但是让我吃惊的是他竟然没有投中？他经常在比赛结束以前那样给对手致命的一击，但是我们现在却为胜利而庆祝了。”
关于在比赛中奥尼尔的表现———
“我认为菲尔给我们带来了一整套的打法，这使我们非常非常容易地围绕他来进行比赛。奥尼尔去年肚子上有伤，你知道，那可是一个十分令人紧张的事情。但是今年，奥尼尔已经痊愈，他可以从今年赛季一开始就发动他的进攻。这一年来，他是我们中表现最伟大的球员。”
关于自己在比赛中的任务———
“去攻击他们，那就是我脑子里所有的想法，在四节比赛中我给对手制造问题，给他们增添麻烦，让他们不知道什么地方换防，但是每当我一发现人中露出缝隙和破绽时，我就会发动进攻。”
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Early life
Kobe Bryant is the youngest child and only son of Joe and Pam Bryant. His parents named him after a kind of steak: the famous beef of Kobe, Japan, which they saw on a restaurant menu. At the age of
six, Kobe, his parents and two older sisters, Shaya and Sharia, moved to Italy, where his father began playing professional basketball. He became accustomed to the lifestyle and became fluent in Italian. At an early age, he learned to play soccer and his favorite team was AC Milan. Bryant once said that if he had stayed in Italy, he would have stuck with soccer and would have tried to become a pro soccer player. In 1991, the Bryants moved back to the United States. A spectacular high school career at Lower Merion High School in the Philadelphia suburb of Lower Merion, brought national recognition. While his SAT score of 1080[2] would have ensured his basketball scholarship to various to p-tier colleges, the 17-year-old Bryant made the controversial decision to go directly to the NBA.
Early NBA career
1996 Draft
Even before he was chosen as the 13th draft pick overall by the Charlotte Hornets in 1996, the 17-year-old Bryant had made a lasting impression on then-Lakers general manager Jerry West, who immediately foresaw the potential in Bryant's basketball talent during pre-draft workouts. West stated that Bryant's workout was one of the best he had ever witnessed. West continued his quest to return
the Lakers to championship status and startled spectators by offering and completing the trade for starting center Vlade Divac to the Hornets for Bryant.
Growing pains
During his first season with the Lakers, he mostly came off the bench behind guards Eddie Jones and Nick Van Exel. Bryant played limited minutes initially but this changed as the season continued. He earned himself a reputation as a high-flyer and a fan-favorite by winning the 1997 Slam Dunk Contest.
In Bryant's second season (1997-98), he received more playing time and began showing more of his abilities as a talented young guard. He was the runner-up for the NBA's Sixth Man of the Year Award, and through fan voting, he also became the youngest NBA All-Star starter.
While his statistics were impressive for his age, he was still a young guard who lacked the experience to complement Shaquille O'Neal and significantly help the team contend for a championship.
Championship years
However, Bryant's fortunes would soon change when Phil Jackson became coach for the Los Angeles Lakers. After years of steady improvement, Bryant had become one of the premier shooting guards in the league, a fact that was evidenced by his annual presence in the league's All-NBA, All-Star, and All-Defensive teams. The Los Angeles Lakers became perennial championship contenders under Bryant and O'Neal, who formed an outstanding center-guard combination. Their success gave the Lakers three consecutive NBA championships in 2000, 2001, and 2002.
End of a dynasty
In the 2002-03 NBA season, Bryant averaged 30 points per game and embarked on a historic scoring run, posting 40 or more points per game in nine consecutive games while averaging 40.6 in the entire month of February. In addition, he averaged 6.9 rebounds, 5.9 assists, and 2.2 steals per game, all career highs up to that point. For the first time in his career Bryant was voted on to both--All-NBA and All-Defensive 1st teams. After finishing 50-32 in the regular season, the Lakers floundered in the playoffs and lost in the Western Conference Semifinals to the eventual NBA champion San Antonio Spurs in six games.
In the following 2003-04 NBA season, the Lakers were able to acquire legends Karl Malone and Gar
y Payton to make another push at the NBA Championship. With a starting lineup of four potential Hall of Fame players in Shaquille O'Neal, Malone, Payton, and Bryant, the Lakers were able to reach the NBA Finals. In the Finals, they were eliminated by the Detroit Pistons in 5 games. In that series, Bryant averaged 22.6 points per game, shooting 35.1% from the field, and 4.4 assists per game.
Conflicts and turmoil
Bryant, following his arrest in 2003In 2003, Bryant's reputation was tainted by criminal charges, in which Katelyn Faber, a young woman from Colorado, accused Bryant of sexual assault. With his image badly tarnished, the public's perception of Bryant plummeted, and his endorsement contracts with McDonald's, Nutella, and Ferrero SpA were terminated. Sales figures from NBA merchandisers indicated that sales of replicas of Bryant's jersey fell far off of their previous highs.
Even before being arrested for rape, Bryant was known to publicly feud with his teammates, including Shaquille O'Neal, Samaki Walker and Karl Malone. In an isolated incident, he allegedly punched teammate Walker in the face outside of the team bus.[citation needed] In 2004, a dispute between Bryant and former teammate Malone became public prior to Malone's expected re-signing with the Lakers. Bryant claimed Malone had made inappropriate comments to Bryant's wife. Malone
claimed the comments were in jest and that Bryant was overreacting [1]. In the subsequent months, rather than re-join Bryant and the Lakers, Malone turned his attention to the possibility of joining another team, but ultimately decided to retire.
Unquestioned leader
When O'Neal was traded, Bryant became the Lakers' unquestioned leader of the team going into the 2004-2005 season. As it turned out, however, his first season without O'Neal would prove to be a very rocky one. With his reputation badly damaged from all that had happened over the previous year, Bryant was closely scrutinized and criticized during the season.
A particularly damaging salvo came from Phil Jackson in The Last Season: A Team in Search of Its Soul. The book detailed the events of the Lakers' tumultuous 2003-04 season and has a number criticisms of Bryant. In the book Jackson also calls Bryant "uncoa chable."
Then, midway through the season, Rudy Tomjanovich suddenly resigned as Lakers coach, citing the recurrence of health problems and exhaustion. Without "Rudy T," stewardship of the remainder of the Lakers' season fell to career assistant coach Frank Hamblen. Despite the
fact that Bryant was the league's second leading scorer at 27.6 points per game, the Lakers floundered and missed the playoffs for the first time in over a decade. This year signified a drop in Bryant's overall status in the NBA by not making the NBA All-Defensive Team and being demoted to All-NBA Third Team.
2005-06 season
The 2005-06 NBA season would mark a crossroads in Bryant's basketball career. Despite past differences with Bryant, Phil Jackson returned to coach the Lakers. Bryant endorsed the move, and by all appearances, the two men worked together well the second time around, leading the Lakers back into the NBA Playoffs. Bryant also resolved his conflict with former teammate Shaquille O'Neal. The team posted a 45-37 record, an eleven-game improvement over the previous season, and the entire squad seemed to be clicking. In the first round of the playoffs, the Lakers played well enough (3-1 series lead) to come within a game of eliminating the second-seeded Phoenix Suns before finally falling short. Even with Kobe Bryant's remarkable game winning shot in Game 4, the Lakers broke down, falling to the Suns in Game 7. In the following offseason, Bryant had knee surgery, preventing him from participating in the 2006 FIBA World Championship tournament.
Accomplishments
In many ways the team's improvement in 2005-06 was often overshadowed by the individual scoring accomplishments posted by Bryant which resulted in the finest statistical season of his career:
On December 20, Bryant scored 62 points despite playing only three quarters of play against the Dallas Mavericks. Entering the fourth quarter Bryant had, by himself, outscored the entire Mavericks team 62-61, the only time a player has done this through three quarters since the advent of the 24-second shot clock.
On January 22, Bryant scored 81 points in a 122-104 victory against the Toronto Raptors. In addition to breaking the previous franchise record of 71 set by Elgin Baylor, his point total in that game was second in NBA history only to Wilt Chamberlain's legendary 100-point game in 1962.
Also in January, Bryant became the first player since 1964, and the only player aside from Chamberlain and Elgin Baylor to score 45 points or more in four consecutive games. For the month of January, Bryant averaged 43.4 per game, the eighth highest single month scoring average in NBA history, and highest for any player other than Chamberlain.
By the end of the season, Bryant had also set Lakers single-season franchise records for the most 40-point games (27) and most points scored (2,832), among others.
Bryant won the league's scoring title for the first time, posting the highest scoring average (35.4) since Michael Jordan's 37.1 average in 1986-87.
Bryant finished in fourth-place in the voting for the 2006 NBA Most Valuable Player Award, but also received 22 first place votes — second only to winner Steve Nash, and by far the highest number of first-place votes Bryant had ever received in his career.
Other notable events
When the Lakers faced the Miami Heat on January 16, 2006, Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal made headlines by engaging in handshakes and hugs before the game, signifying the end of the
