{"id":68944,"date":"2021-01-25T17:06:38","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T00:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=68944"},"modified":"2021-01-25T19:53:41","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T02:53:41","slug":"the-ten-1-26-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=68944","title":{"rendered":"One Year Ago: The TEN: 1\/26\/2020 &#8211; Kobe Bryant Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?attachment_id=51887\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-51887\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-51887\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/THE-TEN-NEW--e1455684777760.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a><strong>(&#8220;The TEN&#8221; is not a top ten but ten items worth being included in &#8220;The TEN&#8221;) Kobe Bryant Edition: <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>With the tragic death of Kobe Bryant at the age of 41 and his daughter Gianna last January 26th in a helicoptor crash our &#8220;One Year Ago&#8221; series is dedicated to the LA icon in this edition of &#8220;The TEN&#8221;. <\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>1. Kobe Bryant won five NBA championships with the Lakers, the last being in 2010 in seven games against the Boston Celtics. Bryant won his second straight NBA Finals MVP.<\/p>\n<p>2. Bryant won one NBA MVP Award &#8211; in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>3. Bryant scored 33,643 points in his career which is currently fourth on the NBA all-time list.<\/p>\n<p>4. Bryant played 20 years with the Lakers &#8211; from 1996 to 2016.<\/p>\n<p>5. Bryant made the NBA All-Star team 18 times in his 20 year career and was the MVP of the All-Star game four times.<\/p>\n<p>6. On January 22, 2006 Bryant scored 81 points in a 122-104 win over the Toronto Raptors, which was the second-highest point total in NBA history, surpassed only by Wilt Chamberlain&#8217;s 100 point game in 1962.<\/p>\n<p>7. In his last NBA game on April 13, 2016 Bryant scored 60 points in a 101-96 win over the Utah Jazz. He became the oldest player to score 60 or more points in a game at 37 years and 234 days old.<\/p>\n<p>8. In 2018 Bryant won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for his film &#8220;Dear Basketball&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>9. Bryant has numbers 8 and 24 retired by the Los Angeles Lakers.<\/p>\n<p>10. &#8220;The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.&#8221; &#8211; Kobe Bryant.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?attachment_id=68945\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-68945\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-68945\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/kobe-bryant.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/kobe-bryant.jpg 640w, http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/kobe-bryant-70x45.jpg 70w, http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/kobe-bryant-400x259.jpg 400w, http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/kobe-bryant-150x97.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(&#8220;The TEN&#8221; is not a top ten but ten items worth being included in &#8220;The TEN&#8221;) Kobe Bryant Edition: With the tragic death of Kobe Bryant at the age of 41 and his daughter Gianna last January 26th in a helicoptor crash our &#8220;One Year Ago&#8221; series is dedicated to the LA icon in this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-10s"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68944"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70741,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68944\/revisions\/70741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}