List of career achievements by Kobe Bryant

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Kobe Bryant

Kobe "Black Mamba" Bryant is a retired American shooting guard who played for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA) for his entire 20-year career. Bryant is the only son of former Philadelphia 76ers player and former Los Angeles Sparks head coach Joe "Jellybean" Bryant.[1] Selected 13th overall by the Charlotte Hornets in the 1996 NBA Draft, Bryant was traded to the Los Angeles Lakers for Vlade Divac a month later.[2][3] He and then-teammate Shaquille O'Neal led the Lakers to three consecutive NBA championships from 2000 to 2002. After O'Neal was traded to the Miami Heat following the 2003–04 season, Bryant became the cornerstone of the Lakers franchise.[4] He led the NBA in scoring during the 2005–06 and 2006–07 seasons.[1] In 2006, Bryant scored a career-high 81 points against the Toronto Raptors, the second-highest number of points scored in a game in NBA history,[5][6] behind only Wilt Chamberlain's 100 point performance. Bryant was awarded the regular season's Most Valuable Player Award (MVP) in the 2007–08 season and led his team to the 2008 NBA Finals as the first seed in the Western Conference.[7] In the 2008 Summer Olympics, he won a gold medal as a member of the U.S. men's basketball team, occasionally referred to as "The Redeem Team".[8] He led the Lakers to two more championships in 2009 and 2010, winning the Finals MVP award on both occasions.


Bryant currently ranks third both on the league's all-time post-season scoring and all-time regular season scoring lists. He has been selected to 15 All-NBA Team (eleven times to the All-NBA First Team) and 12 All-Defensive Team (nine times to the All-Defensive First Team). He was selected to play in the NBA All-Star Game on 18 occasions, winning All-Star MVP Awards in 2002, 2007, 2009 and 2011 (he shared the 2009 award with Shaquille O'Neal). He also won the NBA Slam Dunk Contest in 1997.[9] He has had 1 eighty-point game, 6 sixty-point games (including his final game), 26 fifty-point games, and 134 forty-point games in his career. Kobe is also in a three way tie with Steph Curry and Donyell Marshall for most three pointers (12) in a game. In his final game on April 13, 2016, he became the oldest player to score 60 in a single game (37) and set the highest point score in the regular season 2015-16.

NBA career statistics

dagger Denotes seasons in which the Lakers won an NBA Championship
* Denotes seasons in which the Lakers reached the NBA Finals
^ Denotes seasons in which Bryant led the league
Bold Denotes career-highs

Regular season

Season Team Games
played
Games
started
Minutes
per game
Field goal
percentage
3-point field goal
percentage
Free throw
percentage
Rebounds
per game
Assists
per game
Steals
per game
Blocks
per game
Points
per game
1996–97 L.A. Lakers 71 6 15.5 .417 .375 .819 1.9 1.3 .7 .3 7.9
1997–98 L.A. Lakers 79 1 26.0 .428 .341 .794 3.1 2.5 .9 .5 15.4
1998–99 L.A. Lakers 50^ 50 37.9 .465 .267 .839 5.3 3.8 1.4 1.0 19.9
1999–00dagger L.A. Lakersdagger 66 62 38.2 .468 .319 .821 6.3 4.9 1.6 .9 22.5
2000–01dagger L.A. Lakersdagger 68 68 40.9 .464 .305 .853 5.9 5.0 1.7 .6 28.5
2001–02dagger L.A. Lakersdagger 80 80 38.3 .469 .250 .829 5.5 5.5 1.5 .4 25.2
2002–03 L.A. Lakers 82^ 82 41.5 .451 .383 .843 6.9 5.9 2.2 .8 30.0
2003–04* L.A. Lakers* 65 64 37.6 .438 .327 .852 5.5 5.1 1.7 .4 24.0
2004–05 L.A. Lakers 66 66 40.7 .433 .339 .816 5.9 6.0 1.3 .8 27.6
2005–06 L.A. Lakers 80 80 41.0 .450 .347 .850 5.3 4.5 1.8 .4 35.4^
2006–07 L.A. Lakers 77 77 40.8 .463 .344 .868 5.7 5.4 1.4 .5 31.6^
2007–08* L.A. Lakers* 82^ 82 38.9 .459 .361 .840 6.3 5.4 1.8 .5 28.3
2008–09dagger L.A. Lakersdagger 82^ 82 36.1 .467 .351 .856 5.2 4.9 1.5 .5 26.8
2009–10dagger L.A. Lakersdagger 73 73 38.8 .456 .329 .811 5.4 5.0 1.5 .3 27.0
2010–11 L.A. Lakers 82 82 33.9 .451 .323 .828 5.1 4.7 1.2 .1 25.3
2011–12 L.A. Lakers 58 58 38.5 .430 .303 .845 5.4 4.6 1.2 .3 27.9
2012–13 L.A. Lakers 78 78 38.6 .463 .324 .839 5.6 6.0 1.4 .3 27.3
2013–14 L.A. Lakers 6 6 29.5 .425 .188 .857 4.3 6.3 1.2 .2 13.8
2014–15 L.A. Lakers 35 35 34.5 .373 .293 .813 5.7 5.6 1.3 .2 22.3
2015–16 L.A. Lakers 66 66 28.2 .358 .285 .826 3.7 2.8 .9 .2 17.6
Career 1,346 1,198 36.1 .447 .329 .837 5.2 4.7 1.4 .5 25.0
All-Star 14 14 27.8 .507 .333 .806 4.9 4.5 2.6 .4 20.0
Source:[9]

Playoffs

Season Team Games
played
Games
started
Minutes
per g
Field goal
percentage
3-point field goal
percentage
Free throw
percentage
Rebounds
per game
Assists
per game
Steals
per game
Blocks
per game
Points
per game
1996–97 L.A. Lakers 9 0 14.8 .382 .261 .867 1.2 1.2 .3 .2 8.2
1997–98 L.A. Lakers 11 0 20.0 .408 .214 .689 1.9 1.5 .3 .7 8.7
1998–99 L.A. Lakers 8 8 39.4 .430 .348 .800 6.9 4.6 1.9 1.2 19.8
1999–00dagger L.A. Lakersdagger 22 22 39.0 .442 .344 .754 4.5 4.4 1.5 1.5 21.1
2000–01dagger L.A. Lakersdagger 16 16 43.4 .469 .324 .821 7.3 6.1 1.6 .8 29.4
2001–02dagger L.A. Lakersdagger 19 19 43.8 .434 .379 .759 5.8 4.6 1.4 .9 26.6
2002–03 L.A. Lakers 12 12 44.3 .432 .403 .827 5.1 5.2 1.2 .1 32.1^
2003–04* L.A. Lakers* 22 22 44.2 .413 .247 .813 4.7 5.5 1.9 .3 24.5
2005–06 L.A. Lakers 7 7 44.9 .497 .400 .771 6.3 5.1 1.1 .4 27.9
2006–07 L.A. Lakers 5 5 43.0 .462 .357 .919 5.2 4.4 1.0 .4 32.8^
2007–08* L.A. Lakers* 21 21 41.1 .479 .302 .809 5.7 5.6 1.7 .4 30.1^
2008–09dagger L.A. Lakersdagger 23 23 40.9 .457 .349 .883 5.3 5.5 1.7 .9 30.2
2009–10dagger L.A. Lakersdagger 23 23 40.1 .458 .374 .842 6.0 5.5 1.4 .7 29.2
2010–11 L.A. Lakers 10 10 35.4 .446 .293 .820 3.4 3.3 1.6 .3 22.8
2011–12 L.A. Lakers 12 12 39.7 .439 .283 .832 4.8 4.3 1.3 .2 30.0
Career 220 200 39.3 .448 .331 .816 5.1 4.7 1.4 .6 25.6
Source:[9]

Career ranking

Career– season[9]
Career – playoffs[10]