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He was born on August 23, 1978 in Pennsylvania
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He entered the NBA directly from high school. In 1996. Bryant was the youngest player in NBA history at that time, at 18, 2 months and 11 days.
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November 3, 1996 is the date of the official debut of Kobe Bryant in the NBA, Lakers faced the Minnesota Timberwolves
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In November 1999, Bryant, 21, met Vanessa Laine, 17, while she worked as a dancer in the music video for the song "G'd Up" of the rap group Tha Eastsidaz. 160 Bryant was working on her first musical album, which never saw the light.
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On April 18, 2001 he married Vanessa Laine Bryant
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In 2003 his first daughter, Natalia Bryant, was born
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In 2003, the sheriff of Eagle (Colorado) arrested Bryant for being charged with a crime of sexual assault against Katelyn Faber, an employee of he hotel where he was staying while recovering from an operation on his knee
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On January 2, 2006 kobe scored 81 points in a single match
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On May 1, 2006, his second daughter Gianna Maria-Onore Bryant was born
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He helped the Lakers obtain two other consecutive championships in 2009 and 2010, where he won both the Bill Russell Award to the MVP of the NBA Finals
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Her daughter bianka bella bryant was born in 2016
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He retired on April 13, 2016, at the end of the regular season, where his team did not qualify for the playoffs, in a game against Utah Jazz
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-In 2018 Kobe Bryant won an Oscar for his work in the animated short film "dear basketball" in which he talked about his passion for sports
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his last daughter, Capri Kobe Bryant was born in 2019
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On January 26, 2020 he died in a helicopter accident with his daughter Gianna-Maria