Kobe Bryant 

Kobe Bean Bryant was born august 23, 1978 and is a American retired professional basketball player. he played his entire 20 years with the Los Angeles lakers of the NBA. he entered the NBA directly from high school and won five NBA championships with the lake rs. Kobe had also recently played his last game about a week ago and won allot of people were sad that Kobe had finally retired. Kobe would help the team win lots of championships and he made most of the points because he played as a shooting guard. At 34 years and 104 days of age, Bryant became the youngest player in league history to reach 30,000 career points. He is also the all-time leading scorer in Lakers franchise history. kobe was a really great player and we all miss him being on the field but everybody has to retire some time.