short story of Kobe Bryant (科比简介).doc

Kobe Bryant was born with basketball already in his blood. His dad was former NBA star Joe Jellybean Bryant, who played for the 76ers, Clippers and Rockets. When Kobe was six years old, Joe started playing basketball in Europe, so the Bryant family moved to Italy. The family stayed there for seven years. While living in Italy, Kobe learned to speak fluent Italian and started playing basketball.The Bryant family moved back to the United States when Kobe was 13 and he started playing high school basketball in Philadelphia. In Kobes senior year of high school, he led his school to the Pennsylvania State Championship and was named the Naismith Player of the Year.Kobe figured he was already good enough to play in the NBA, so he skipped college and was drafted right after high school by the Charlotte Hornets in the first round of the 1996 NBA Draft. In a trade the Hornets are still crying about, they sent Kobe to the LA Lakers for center Vlade Divac. Bryant became the youngest player in NBA history at the age of 18 and has played his entire professional career for the Los Angeles Lakers. He made it through to becoming an elite player in the NBA, even though that mans world presented many challenges for a person of Bryants age. Despite not going to college, Kobe was a quick learner on the courts of the NBA. He played in the NBA All-Star Game for the first time in 1998 and by 2000, Kobe had developed into one of basketballs best players. Kobe and Shaquille ONeal teamed up to lead the LA Lakers to three straight NBA Championship Titles from 2000 to 2002. Bryant has two Olympic gold medals for mens basketball and was ranked fourth on the NBA all-time scoring list with 31,700 points. He has also won five NBA championships.Throughout his career Bryant has been saddled with inevitable comparisons to the great Michael Jordan. Regardless of whether those comparisons have been fair, they are now largely irrelevant. Bryant is w