KOBE BRYANT A.K.

A BLACK MAMBA
Hello,
Today I am going to talk about one of the greatest players you have ever seen in the NBA
(National Basketball Association) and in world sport history: Mr. KOBE BRYANT.
First, I am going to talk about his life and the way he died.
Then I will focus on his accomplishments that he is done during his career.
And finally, I’ll talk about the legacy he left to the future generations.

Whenever you talk about basketball, you got to speak his name. He is Basketball, you can’t
have a basketball conversation without Kobe BRYANT and Michael JORDAN.
He was the best player in game, It’s just that simple. There is nothing that Kobe BRYANT
can’t do. He will defend your best player; He will shoot from the perimeter. He will jump
over you. He dunked on dunkers. He will do whatever it takes.
He was the most complete basketball player in a game, far none. He has an assassin’s
mentality.
Who starving more for an NBA Championships more than Kobe BRYANT?
There is no one. This guy was highly motivated.
No such thing as exhaustion, no time for resting, Because He didn’t take breaks. He just broke
records.
Let’s begin with his life
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➢ HIS LIFE AND THE WAY HE DIED:
Kobe Bean Bryant was a American basketball player. He was born 23 August 1978 in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and died 26 January 2020 in Calabasas, California. He played in
the NBA franchise of the Los Angeles Lakers for twenty seasons, between 1996 and 2016.
Originally from Philadelphia, United States2, Kobe Bryant was raised in the Catholic religion.
The son of basketball player Joe «Jelly Bean» Bryant4 and Pamela Cox Bryant5, he spent part
of his childhood in Italy, where his father played in the Italian basketball championship. He
followed his father during a short visit to France during the 1991-1992 season at FC
Mulhouse Basket. He nevertheless joined the United States during his adolescence and
continued his studies at a high school in Philadelphia, the Lower Merion High School (in),
where on the sidelines of his studies he completely dominated the basketball championship: in
his final year, he brings his team to a record of 31 wins for three losses and is named best high
school player of the year (Naismith High School Player of the year.
Selected in 13th position in the 1996 NBA draft by the Charlotte Hornets, while he is a high
school student (thirteen years old).

MAIGA Youssouf
KOBE BRYANT A.K.A BLACK MAMBA
Bryant married Vanessa Laine, 19, in April 2001. The couple became the father
of four daughters: Natalia Diamante (born 2003), Gianna Maria-Onore (born 2006, d. 2020),
Bianka (born 2016) and Capri (born 2019).
On January 26, 2020, Kobe Bryant died in a helicopter accident at the age of forty-one in
Calabasas, California. His 13-year-old daughter Gianna Maria-Onore also died in the
accident.53 The basketball world was in shock. Players Michael Jordan, LeBron James and
many athletes from other disciplines immediately pay tribute to him, as well as US President
Donald Trump and his predecessor Barack Obama.

Let’s begin with his accomplishments

➢ HIS ACCOMPLISHMENTS :
He won:
✓ 5 times the title of NBA champion with the Los Angeles Lakers.
✓ Gold medal, America Gold medal at the Americas Championship in 2007.
✓ 2 times Gold Medal, Olympic Games Gold Medal at the 2008 and 2012 Olympic
Summer Games.
✓ NBA Most Valuable Player of the regular season in 2008.
✓ NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award in 2009 and 2010.
✓ 18 Selections at NBA All-Star Game.
✓ 4 times NBA All-Star Game Most Valuable Player Award.
✓ 11 times All-NBA First Team.
✓ 9 All-NBA Defensive First Team.
✓ Slam Dunk Contest winner in 1997.
✓ 2nd best game performance in history: 81 points on January 22, 2006 against the
Toronto Raptors.
✓ 4th highest total of points in an NBA regular season career: 33 64374.
✓ 4th highest total of points in an NBA playoff career: 5,640.
✓ 2nd best total of points in history in one half: 55.
✓ Awarded the Naismith High School Player of the Year of the year 1996.
✓ Best NBA Player ESPY Award in 2008 and 2010.
✓ Voted player of the decade.
✓ Oscar for Best Animated Short for Dear Basketball in 2018.
✓ Kobe Bryant is the only player in the history of the NBA to have two numbers
exposed to the ceiling of a single franchise.
✓ In May 2021 he was inducted hall of fame.

➢ HIS LEGACY :
For just over a decade, Bryant was arguably the greatest basketball player on the
planet. Bryant’s incredible basketball story was already legendary in itself, but it took
everyone coming together after his death to finally tell the whole story.
His Black Mamba Mentality has inspired and will continue to inspire athletes but also
artists, entrepreneurs and people around the world. [He turned it into a book] and
worked to pass on and help young people to progress.

MAIGA Youssouf
KOBE BRYANT A.K.A BLACK MAMBA
As far as I am concerned, to sum up the Mamba Mentality is to be able
to constantly strive to be the best version of yourself. It’s a constant quest to try to be
better today than it was yesterday.

MAIGA Youssouf