The former basketball player left a legacy as the fourth leading scorer in NBA history, as well as won five Larry O’Brien trophies with the Los Angeles Lakers
This Sunday, January 26, Kobe Bryant’s light went out loud, when he lost his life with four other people in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, California. He was 41 years old.
Considered by many to be one of the last idols of world basketball, sharing hurts with absolute legends like Michael Jordan and Shaquille O’Neal, Black Mamba had a successful 20-year career in the NBA.
Two decades of career with the Los Angeles Lakers. Between 1996 and 2016, Bryant wrote his name in gold letters when winning numerous records that today are considered pure history of the best basketball in the world.
In 2006, he became the second top scorer of a game by scoring 81 points for the Toronto Raptors, a feat that is surpassed only by the 100 units that Wilt Chamberlain did in 1962.
Kobe appears in the statistics books as the fourth player with the most points scored, with 33 thousand 643, while LeBron James recently surpassed him with 33 thousand 655 units, while Karl Malone (36.928) and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (38.387) lead the ranking Needless to say, this brand puts him as the historic leader of the Lakers in points.
It was on December 14, 2014 that Bryant entered the points podium and went down to Michael Jordan, until The King James relegated him one day before the Philadelphia native died in the accident. In the 2005-2006 and 2006-2007 campaigns, Bryant finished as the top scorer, in addition to being an NBA champion five times (with a three-time championship from 2000 to 2002 and a two-time championship from 2009 to 2010).
Of those disputed finals, he was named MVP in the last two. His performance in the stave and his cream ability to score earned him 18 calls to the All-Star Game between 1998 and 2016. Eleven of those calls were consecutive, since in 1999 there was no edition of the All-Star, while he was marginalized in 2010 for an injury. It was the MVP in the 2002, 2007, 2009 and 2011 editions.
The only time the most valuable player of the season was proclaimed was in 2008, the year he finished runner-up against the Boston Celtics.
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Kobe is also the youngest player in history to reach 28,000 and 30,000 points in his career, as well as the youngest to win the dive contest at age 18 and 175 days in his second season.
In his last game, Bryant also made history by getting more points in an NBA farewell, by harvesting 60 against Utah Jazz on April 13, 2016.
His career was full of triples, with 936 complete of 2,775 attempts. He also won the gold medal at the 2008 Beijing and London 2012 Olympic Games, as well as the Oscar in 2018 for his animated short. His dorsal 24 was removed from the Lakers.
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The origin of the incident in which the Basketball star lost his life, who lost a legacy as the fourth leading scorer in NBA history, and five Larry O’Brien trophies with the Los Angeles Lakers, continues to investigate. The first hypotheses suggest that the fog that was in the area of the accident could be one of the reasons for the tragedy.
