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Date: February 8, 1998: Arena: Madison Square Garden: City: New York City: MVP: Michael Jordan: National anthem: Cast of 1776 (USA) Robert Cuccioli (Canada): Halftime show: Broadway All-Stars (featuring cast members from Chicago, Bring'n Da Noise Bring'n Da Funk, Phantom of the Opera, Cats, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Jekyll and Hyde, Miss Saigon, Smokey Joe's Cafe, Les Misérables, Titanic)
Kobe Bean Bryant (/ ˈ k oʊ b i / KOH-bee; August 23, 1978 – January 26, 2020) was an American professional basketball player. A shooting guard , he spent his entire 20-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
The Shaq–Kobe feud was the conflict between National Basketball Association (NBA) players Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant, who played together for the Los Angeles Lakers from 1996–2004. O'Neal and Bryant won three consecutive NBA championships ( 2000 , 2001 , 2002 ), and made an additional NBA Finals appearance in 2004 .
It’s Kobe, you know. Everybody knows what he did, how he did it. Respect. Legend,” Ball said. The parallels are probably more coincidental than anything symbolic. Both come from basketball ...
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In 2020, the NBA took the score at the end of three quarters and added 24 points (in honor of Kobe Bryant, who had been killed in a helicopter crash a month prior). With Team Giannis leading Team LeBron 133–124 at the end of the third quarter, the target score was 157 points, and Team LeBron won the contest.
Players choose the numbers they wear for a wide variety of reasons, from trying to match favorite players growing up, to birthdays to "it was all they had to pick from."
Kobe Bryant won the 1997 slam dunk contest and was always a fan favorite. He led the voting 4 times and is considered one of the greatest basketball players of all time. Denotes players who are still active in the NBA