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Showboat : the life of Kobe Bryant / Roland Lazenby

by Lazenby, Roland.

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Little, Brown and Company, 2016.

796.323092 B915L

Bryant, Kobe, 1978-2020.

Basketball players, Black -- United States -- Biography.

Basketball players -- United States -- Biography.

Athletes, Black -- United States -- Biography.

9780316387248 (hc.)

xiii, 625 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

Foreword -- Introduction: Only the lonely -- Part I: Gotta be Jelly 'cause jam don't shake -- The bust -- Fatherhood -- Pimps of joytime -- Pam and Jelly -- The bomb squad -- Part II: Prodigy -- Kobe Bean -- The funny guy -- Italia -- The red bicycle -- Lower Merion -- The vibe -- Part III: The chosen one -- Summer love -- The rising -- The bad, bad boy -- Come together -- Team Bryant -- Off to the stars -- Part IV: California stars -- Pacific Palisades -- On with the fable -- Chaos theory -- California stars -- Wedding-bell and other blues -- Broken ankles, shattered hearts -- Part V: Mamba -- Rocky Mountains -- The damage -- Rise up -- Legacy -- The man

Seventeen-time all-star; scorer of 81 points in a game; MVP and a shooting guard second only to Jordan in league history: Kobe Bryant is one of basketball's absolute greatest players, a fascinating and complicated character who knew when he was a mere boy that he would be better than Jordan on the court. The debate about whether he achieved that is a furious one - but Kobe has surpassed Jordan on the all-time scoring list and has only one less championship than Jordan (5 to Jordan's 6). He played his entire 20-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). In 1996, he entered the NBA directly from high school at age 17. The Lakers are the flashiest team in all of sports, and the context in which Bryant played is salacious and exciting. On April 13, 2016, Bryant played his final NBA game. Provocative stories - on his childhood with a domineering dad; his complicated personal life; and his explosive relationships on the court - mixed with good old fashioned basketball reporting make for a riveting read for any hoops fan.

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