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All he had j to win the approximately 1,750 square foot house are done the night before was score a mind-boggling 60 points available now. in his farewell game, not getting out of Staples Center until The St. Jude Dream Home Giveaway benefits the around midnight. His staff at Kobe, Inc. were certain they would beat life-saving work of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, their boss to the office that morning. the world’s premier pediatric cancer research center. In They were wrong. He beat everyone there by two its 29th year the St Jude Dream Home Giveaway has hours. “We have a lot of work to do,” Bryant told them. raised over $450 million dollars by building over 500 Even in retirement, Bryant found no substitute for houses nationwide. hard work. For complete information about the St. Jude Dream Kobe Bean Bryant was many things: one of the greatest Home Giveaway, visit dreamhome.org. For $100, you players in basketball history, a five-time NBA champion, have a chance to win this brand new home and other Olympic gold medalist, a fluent speaker of multiple great prizes. languages, a resident of the world, an Oscar winner, the self-described Black Mamba that started as a nickname and All tickets reserved by January 31, 2020 area became his brand, someone so good he had two numbers entered to win a cruise for two courtesy of Carnival retired by the Los Angeles Lakers. Cruise Lines. Winners will be announced Thursday, And he never stopped. Basketball was his obsession for April 23 on KBAK Eyewitness News. We are expected 20 years in the NBA. Storytelling was the obsession for the to sell out! rest of his life. Tears, as would be expected once the news broke of Bryant’s death in a helicopter crash in Southern California on Sunday, flowed freely in the NBA world. LeBron James was inconsolable when he got the news, a day after passing Bryant for No. 3 on the all-time scoring list. Doc Rivers struggled when he tried to put feelings into words. Even from the normally beyond-stoic Kawhi Leonard had his eyes well up when he was talking about Bryant. But the pain was obvious elsewhere: Oregon women’s basketball star Sabrina Ionescu didn’t hide her anguish when she said she was dedicating the rest of her season to FILE - In this March 28, 2016, file photo, Los Angeles Lakers forward Kobe Bryant waves to the fans after his At “The Tower” Bryant’s memory, soccer’s Neymar held up a “24” with his introduction before the start of the first quarter of an NBA basketball game against the Utah Jazz, in Salt 1200 Truxtun Ave. fingers after scoring a goal for Paris Saint-Germain, and Lake City. Bryant, the 18-time NBA All-Star who won five championships and became one of the greatest marquees at the Super Bowl in Miami were lit up in the basketball players of his generation during a 20-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers, died in a helicop02/18/2019 ter crash Sunday, Jan. 26, 2020. He was 41. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File) Lakers’ colors of purple and gold as a tribute. The elite ones, the ones like James and Leonard 6pm to 9pm and Ionescu and Neymar, were all like Bryant. Driven. knee in that same game and played through it because the blathering on about whatever he wanted to talk about but Obsessed with their craft. Those are the sort of people game was so important in the playoff race — swished both with characters talking about how to be a good teammate. -Jr Chamber Launch Bryant enjoyed most. He didn’t have much patience for shots. “We were down two. Had to tie the game first,” He had a franchise of shows called Detail, where he broke anything else. Bryant said years later, when asked why he stayed in the down the nuances of basketball and had other huge names -Launch New Interactive Web Page Teammates were never immune from his criticism; not game. from other sports do the same thing. even Shaquille O’Neal, a fellow all-time NBA great, could His commitment was legendary; there was a game in He wasn’t kidding around when talking to his staff on -Small Business Symposium avoid clashes with Bryant. O’Neal was half-a-foot taller 2011 in Miami where the Lakers lost by six, and Bryant April 14, 2016. Kobe Bryant still had a lot of work to do. and probably an easy 100 pounds heavier than Bryant. was so displeased with how he played that he went back He was just getting started. And now he’s gone. -Many More Announcements Didn’t matter. Bryant wanted to fight one day in practice, onto the court for 90 minutes of uninterrupted shooting The tributes will continue, though eventually fade so they fought. that went on until after midnight. His teammates were on away. The legacy will be forever. His toughness was legendary; Bryant blew out his Miami Beach for dinner. Bryant was working instead. “It’s Achilles on a play in 2013 where he’d been fouled and made my job,” Bryant said. the two free throws knowing that his season would be over His swagger was legendary; during the FIBA Americas a few seconds later. It was against Golden State; the Lakers tournament in 2007, Bryant was less-than-impressed with trailed at the time, and Bryant — who hyperextended a how Brazil thought it had a chance to beat Team USA. So, he tasked himself with guarding Leandro Barbosa, who until that point had been the leading scorer in the tournament. With Bryant blanketing him — making it difficult for him to even dribble at times — Barbosa made one shot all night. The Americans won by 37. “Looking at a great white shark is one thing,” Bryant told teammates, “but jumping into the pool with one is another thing.” New Haven, CT (AP) – The Rev. Al Sharpton He played in Los Angeles, but he was a star everywhere. vowed Sunday to fight for answers for the family of a Everywhere. At the Basketball World Cup in China this 19-year-old Connecticut man killed by a state trooper past summer, Bryant was on the court for a game during earlier this month. the medal round. He said a few words in Mandarin and the ‘’You don’t have a right to take away his life, and if fans in Beijing screamed in more delight than they had for you do, we have an obligation to stand up and question the guy who had taken the floor just before Bryant, a fellow what happened,’’ the 65-year-old civil rights activist said by name of Yao Ming. He was as driven in his storytelling life as he was in at a memorial service Sunday for Mubarak Soulemane his playing days. Kobe, Inc. wasn’t just a cool name. It was A memorial near Staples Center after the death of at the First Calvary Baptist Church in New Haven, his world. He wanted to inspire kids through books that Laker legend Kobe Bryant Sunday, Jan. 26, 2020, in Connecticut. combined the worlds of sports and fantasy. He was toying Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Michael Owen Baker) Soulemane’s relatives, friends and high school A tribute to Kobe Bryant was shown on the screen with the idea of taking his stories to Broadway. He won classmates attended. His uncle, Tahir Muhammad, said before the start of an NBA basketball game between an Oscar for “Dear Basketball,” a short animated film in Sunday police “never took the time investigate that he 2018 that had been converted from a poem that he penned the Orlando Magic and the Los Angeles Clippers in was a son, brother, uncle ... a human being.’’ Orlando, Fla., Sunday, Jan. 26, 2020. (AP Photo/Re- when he decided it was time to retire from playing the State police said Soulemane tried to steal a game. He had a podcast for kids and families, not with him inhold Matay) cellphone and then carjacked a vehicle in Norwalk on Jan. 15 before leading troopers on a chase on Interstate 95 into West Haven. Officials said Soulemane struck two state police cruisers and a civilian’s vehicle before troopers stopped his vehicle by boxing it in. Recordings from state police body cameras show troopers surrounding Soulemane’s vehicle and smashing out the passenger door window before shooting him with a stun gun, which didn’t work. Trooper Brian North then fired his handgun seven times through the driver’s door window when Soulemane displayed a knife, state police said. “Something about this doesn’t smell right to me,’’ Sharpton said Sunday. Relatives, clergy and civil rights advocates have called on federal authorities to investigate and state police to improve training on how to de-escalate tense situations. It was the third fatal shooting by police in Connecticut since the new year began. Soulemane’s family said he was a community college student who had mental health problems. State court records show he had two pending criminal cases. Investigators with the chief state’s attorney’s office recently took command of the investigation from state police. North was placed on administrative duty in accordance with protocols when officers are involved in Gianna Maria-Onore Bryant sits on the shoulders of a shooting. He also cannot have any interactions with her father, Kobe, as they attend the women’s soccer match between the United States and China Thursthe public and is not allowed to drive a marked police day, April 10, 2014, in San Diego. Bryant, the 18vehicle, per conditions worked out between a coalition time NBA All-Star who won five championships and of pastors representing the family and James Rovella, became one of the greatest basketball players of his commissioner of the state Department of Emergency generation during a 20-year career with the Los AnServices and Public Protection, which oversees state Fans of Kobe Bryant mourn at a memorial to him in front of Staples Center, home of the Los Angeles Lakers, geles Lakers, died in a helicopter crash Sunday, Jan. police. after word of the Lakers star’s death in a helicopter crash, in downtown Los Angeles Sunday, Jan. 26, 2020. 26, 2020. Gianna also died in the crash. (AP Photo/
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