Perhaps by now you have seen the clip of Kobe from his visit to the “Jimmy Kimmel Live” show in 2018, telling the world that Gianna bristled any time she heard a fan suggest to her father that he and his wife, Vanessa Bryant, needed to have a boy to uphold Kobe’s legacy. “She’s like, ‘Oy, I got this,’” Bryant said of Gianna, then 12. 29 at Staples Center, he had never looked more joyful. Wearing a bright orange hoodie and a green ski cap to rep his hometown Philadelphia Eagles, Bryant was sitting courtside beside Gianna as they watched - make that studied - the Lakers’ LeBron James and Luka Doncic of the Dallas Mavericks going head-to-head.Īlso in the building that night was God Shammgod, whose extraordinary dribbling ability made him a New York playground legend. playing careers, Shammgod has landed on the Mavericks’ staff as a player development coach - yet he remains so revered for his ball handling that, even in a coaching role, he has his own Puma signature shoe.ĭays after that Lakers/Mavericks game, never realizing the sorrow that was looming, Shammgod told me some moving stories of his workouts with father and daughter - how he had the extraordinary opportunity to coach them both. “He knew me when there was no Shammgod moves.” “I knew him when he wasn’t this Kobe,” Shammgod said. In tribute to Kobe Bryant and his second of two jersey numbers, we present a 24-item assemblage of standout statistics from his career with the Lakers. 18īryant was the youngest player in N.B.A. history when he made his regular-season debut for the Lakers on Nov. ![]() A future teammate with the Lakers, Andrew Bynum, eventually became the youngest player in league history at 18 years and six days old when he made his debut in 2005. Only four players - all big men - made the jump directly from high school to the pros before Bryant and Portland’s Jermaine O’Neal were selected in the 1996 N.B.A. Those four predecessors: Moses Malone, Darryl Dawkins, Bill Willoughby and Kevin Garnett. ![]() Shawn Kemp sat out a year after graduating high school in 1988 before he was drafted in 1989 by Seattle.
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