Kobe Bryant Fast Facts
Photos: Kobe Bryant's life in pictures
Kobe Bryant, pictured in 2007, spent his entire 20-year NBA career with the Los Angeles Lakers.
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Bryant's youth basketball team poses for a picture in the early 1990s in Reggio Emilia, Italy.
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Bryant dunks the ball in his high school gym in Lower Merion, Pennsylvania, during a practice in 1996.
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Bryant jokes with the media as he holds his Los Angeles Lakers jersey at a news conference in Inglewood, California, in 1996.
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Bryant eyes the basket during the 1997 NBA Slam Dunk contest in Cleveland. Bryant was the youngest player to win the contest.
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Michael Jordan of the Chicago Bulls eyes the basket as he is guarded by Bryant during a 1998 game in Los Angeles.
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Bryant sits on the sidelines during the Euro ABC camp in Berlin in 1999.
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Shaquille O'Neal and Byrant sit on the bench before a game in 1999 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
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Bryant hugs his fiancee, Vanessa Laine, in the locker room in Los Angeles after the Lakers defeated the Indiana Pacers in Game 6 of the 2000 NBA Finals to win the series 4-2. Bryant later married Laine, and they had four children.
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Bryant goes in for a slam dunk against the New Jersey Nets in January 2001.
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Bryant appears on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" at NBC Studios in 2001.
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Bryant stands for the National Anthem at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
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President Bush holds up a Lakers jersey that Bryant gave him at a ceremony for the 2001 NBA World Champions in the East Room of the White House in January 2002.
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