PMR成绩

Friday,December 2006
昨天，我去了学校，准备拿我的成绩，终于成绩批发出了，当我拿到了我的成绩，第一眼看了我的成绩，我竟然拿了6As.....马来文和地理拿了B
虽然我有点失望，可是不要紧了。呵呵，拿过后，我想把我的成绩告诉给傻猪....心里想“希望她不会失望吧，祝她拿到全科As"....呵呵，这时她打来了....她说她拿到全科As（我好高兴），我有点犹豫不知道该不该告诉，后来鼓起勇气告诉她（我的成绩），她说她替我高兴，呵呵
谢谢你替我高兴，下次我会更加更加的加油，因为你在支持我！

我是我 孙瑜！

这就是我哦.....在这先向大家说声嗨......

名字：傻瓜吧.....呵呵....网友都叫我SY
年龄：15岁
性别：当然是女啦......没有没有是男 呵呵
生日：22/2/1991
职业：学生
爱好/嗜好：打篮球，学些And1 Style.....出去谈 天....走走....去玩咚咚
国籍：马来西亚
我就爱看历史书了......尤其是中国历史（三国演义....等等吧）我也喜欢听听歌....棒吧？
我是位隐性人....时常都挨人骂尤其是我的大哥就爱骂我.....他都是为我好...在这想跟他说声谢谢.....我终于长大了^^.....
上学期间,我都要你把我叫醒.....你都不厌其烦的一声孙瑜又一声孙瑜...慢慢的把我叫醒....至少要叫我20声吧 才把我叫醒....呵呵对不起...我太贪睡了...请原谅我!
(妈妈谢谢你.....我爱你)

<------贪睡的我





好了....我来介绍些我的冬冬吧....呵呵
首先....呵呵

这就是我代表吉北的证据吧...首次获选吉北...心情非常的开心....我,家荣,伟杰都获选....我三人的心情不知如何形容....!!!爽吧?!!






这是我家的PS2

现在只剩下我大哥在玩(Winning Eleven)吧了....家里我和二哥都不是他的对手....自从我和二哥玩了Dota...我们两兄弟都不动我家的PS2...也许闷吧....








这是我唯一的Pink色的衣服.....

芫芫aka Piggie...送我的....谢谢
我很喜欢~~
不舍得穿....
看哪天...你叫我穿给你看...我才穿~~

谢谢!







More and more coming soon.....

一封信，小猪

星期三，12月，27号（假期）

今天不知为舍那么早起床呢！6点呢，平时的我都没有这么早除非上学，也许做了恶梦吧。看看下闹钟觉得还挺早，所以就呆在床上想些东西，在想我的可爱的Piggie...回想她的笑容，回想我们如何认识，回想我牵她的手，回想她搂着我的手，回想好多好多......
我就去我的书柜拿了她给我的笔记本还有他小时候的照片来看（今年2006年的圣诞礼物）.....笔记本写了些一些爱情故事，她给我的留言....读完了....还蛮感人的嘛.....眼泪都在打滚.....拿起她小时候的照片....看了看，仿佛她就在我旁跟我微笑着，一起分享着童年趣事。她还送我（一棵）仙人掌...当然我每天都有好好地去照顾它，浇水啊等...仙人掌就好像代表等待....就好像等待着我们一起成长，长大.....长大了，想必我们都会各走各的去深造去了，这就好像等待着你的归来，再跟你见面吧了...等待着我们的爱情是否还会继续呢？我真的好想告诉她我们的爱情能永远的维持下去....不分离，仙人掌也代表着时间.....好像要让我记得我们的爱情.....恋爱多久...时间越长我们将会越忙碌....见面的机会都越来越少了....只能在电话上联络....希望这不会令我们的感情越来越淡吧.....反而越来越珍惜对方，想念对方......以前我都不懂得什么是珍惜（谢谢你告诉我你希望我在碰上每个挫折时，都不要忘了你会时时刻刻替我加油）认识了她，我懂得如何去珍惜我身旁的每一人尤其是你^^......看完了她所给我的笔记阿照片啊（礼物），我就起来了.....去刷刷牙洗洗脸.....刚好妈妈买了早餐....吃了一点点 然后就跑去沙发躺着躺着....无所事事的 就拿手机来听歌，听了Waiting For You,梁山伯与茱丽叶等等.....越听就越入神 刚好给了我灵感 就是写了这封（信）....也是想给Piggie第三个圣诞礼物吧.....
这里我先告诉她好多好多事情....可是我有心无力 都不知如何告诉她，不知从哪开始.......也许我是一位不会说话的傻瓜吧，每次都这样的....MSN的时候....有时我们只说了几句话，在这我想告诉她......我有很多很多话题想和她说...........想和她一起分享我的喜悦............可是又怕她忙，就只好说句话 .....对不起，小猪.....对不起....有时不太敢跟她说了太多，怕她认为我是个很烦的人，怕我们的话题渐渐地少了.....说话的机会都少了...对不起
记得圣诞节前一天（24.12.2006），她特地穿了裙子(Dress)给我看.......当我第一眼看到她....很想很想很想告诉她...........倪笠芫，你今天真得很漂亮！！后来想了想迟点那就是等我回到家先才告诉（作为她第二礼物）.....倪笠芫，你今天真得很漂亮！！To Piggie:（可是我说了你今天穿得很漂亮,不用紧吧 别把我kaboom)
哦!!!!!!!!Piggie对不起 我才刚刚看到你写给我的信,谢谢你的三个礼物=....我好傻==,现在才发现.....
至于刚才你问我是否有生气或伤心......... 老实告诉你没有啦.......只是有点失望 呵呵!对不起........

还有你问过我好像都没有跟你"我爱你"这三个字吧......好吧...今天先把这个顶上去....等到某个时候我会跟你说的...请相信我...我(看我的手)你...对不起我有点慢...
我想告诉她别show leng lui给我看,因为我想看到的是我眼前的leng lui那就是Piggie你......我想永远的守护着你,爱你....可以吗?谢谢你明白了解我.....若哪天你离开了我....我希望你能记得我说过的话"I will alwiz waiting for you"你知道吗?

我爱你.....^^拍谢
我的眼泪就完成了这封(信)
谢谢你阅读!

About And1

And1 History

The Mix Tape series and the tour it spawned are the result of a collection of random events that, taken separately, wouldn't have amounted to much-and almost didn't. But accidents happen, and those that produce positive results are given the gloss of serendipity. Thank God for it.

The origin of the AND 1 Mix Tape collection came in the guise of a lowly videotape given to AND 1 in late 1998 by Ron Naclerio, the coach of New York's Cardoza High School team who spent his summers coaching AAU kids, including Rafer Alston, whom AND 1 would soon sign the first basketball shoe endorser to get a deal without a contract from the NBA. The tape was
home-video quality--jerky camera moves, poor resolution and nearly indecipherable audio-showing young Alston on the playgrounds and hardwood in and around New York doing, among a host of insane moves, his own signature move from which he earned his nickname "Skip to My Lou".

At the time Naclerio gave AND 1 the footage of Rafer, the founders and early group of employees at AND 1 were busy plotting the strategy the company would take to sign NBA endorsers for its burgeoning footwear division, and young Rafer was on the cusp of a checkered college career that would turn out to be almost useless in giving him a leg up to the League. To say that the futures of both the company and the scrappy playground legend merged at this point would be untrue, too good a story to be believed, but the fortunes of both certainly collided. The legend goes that the people at AND 1 first used the Skip tape, as it became known around the company's corporate office just outside Philly, merely to amuse themselves and people who came to visit the office. With just one or two tv's in the company's small office, it was easy to gather everyone to watch the tape over and over and over again, accompanied by groans and screams and "no he didn'ts" every time Skip embarrassed a defender. While the marketing people at AND 1 intuitively knew the tape had some value beyond personal amusement, they didn't quite know what to do with it. It wasn't until the company shot a series of commercials and print ads at nearby Haverford College in the summer of 1999 that they fully realized the potential of the footage they owned.

AND 1 gathered its current roster of NBA endorsers at the college to shoot the "Moves" campaign. Over a period of three days, NBA athletes Darryl Armstrong, Rex Chapman and the just-drafted Larry Hughes, Raef LaFrentz, Toby Bailey and Miles Simon came to Philadelphia and labored in a hot gym while the company's advertising agency, Crispin Porter + Bogusky captured their signature moves on film. AND 1 had attempted to make the shoot as comfortable as possible for the players, and created a "green room" in the bowels of the gym where the players could chill out and wait during set-ups. The room was stocked with every snack and beverage imaginable, and was outfitted with a few leather recliners, a Playstation, a big screen TV and a VCR. Interns scrambled the day before the shoot to track down the video games and the movies it was thought the players would like during their down time. Turns out, that was a waste of time and money.

The players, to a man, watched the Skip tape over and over and over again in those three days of the shoot. Shunning the more traditional entertainment, each player grabbed a recliner and started the tape again whenever they weren't needed on the set. And on the set, the players started imitating Skip's video moves and trying to perfect a new skill set. When the legend himself arrived on the commercial set on the last day of the shoot, Skip was essentially anointed king of the court, and the AND 1 onlookers crystallized their thinking about the tape.

With a lot of "what if we..." and "we could...", AND 1 ultimately adopted the successful model of early skate tapes and decided to edit the Skip tape, add some music and give the first Mix Tape away to basketball players all over the country over the summer of 1999. The company printed a limited run of tapes, 50,000, and sent them to camps, clinics, record labels, influencers and hoop heads over a period of about eight weeks. The response was swift and unanimous: give us more! The tape made Skip an overnight sensation with a wider audience and created a scramble among ballers to get their hands on their own copy.

It was then that AND 1 took the Mix Tape property to FootAction. Looking for a wider distribution network and a way to tie the tape to the new footwear, AND 1 partnered with Footaction to do a gift-with-purchase program late that summer. The beauty of the program was that every kid who bought something-anything-in Footaction got a Mix Tape from AND 1. So a kid who bought a pair of Jordans or Iversons would walk away with a free AND 1 Mix Tape in his bag as well. 200,000 Mix Tapes flowed through Footaction stores in less than 3 weeks, the most successful promotion ever for the national retailer.

And then, the truth became painfully clear. AND 1 had used the best footage they had to make this first tape and realized pretty quickly that in order to create a franchise out of this Mix Tape concept, they would need a lot of footage pretty quickly. The best way to get that footage, or at least the kind of footage they needed to make more tapes-full of crazy moves but featuring competitive play-was to find the best games to film or throw a game on their own. AND 1 decided to do both.

Together with its advertising agency, AND 1 sent shooters out across the country like a virus to document summertime ball and find the best moves (and subsequently the best ballers) they could capture on film. In August 1999, AND 1 grabbed local legend Main Event and threw a game in his hometown of Lynden, NJ with the areas best streetballers all coming in to play (Waliyy Dixon). In that game, Main Event leapt over a motorcycle to dunk the ball, one of the earliest such moves captured for posterity by AND 1's film crew. AND 1 immediately reached out to Main Event to get him on board-doing what, at that point, wasn't clear.

What was clear however was that AND 1's had made it's decision: keep the cameras rolling wherever there's great ball that needs to be seen, and start building relationships directly with the heart of what was happening on the streets, the players themselves.

The Mix Tapes were about opportunity. The opportunity to bring a style of ball to people who would have no other way of seeing it, and the opportunity to get great ball players the exposure that they would have no other way of getting but richly deserved.

That same summer, AND 1 announced plans for its own "Platinum Player" game, to be held at the end of October at Hunter College in New York. With just a couple months to plan and execute the event, the marketing team turned to Skip and Main Event to help pull together a squad in New York for the game. At the same time, AND 1 reached out to record labels for entertainment at the game and started thinking of ways to tell people about the game. It's one thing to gather footage of great ball, they realized, but it's quite another to advertise the game, sell tickets, find a rapper for post-game entertainment and fill an arena. Thus was born the AND 1 Mix Tape Tour, really. The group of people at AND 1 who threw the Hunter College game became the same group who put together the first summer-long tour in 2000 and the second, larger tour in 2001.

October 31, 1999 was a cold and gray fall day in Midtown Manhattan and a stiff breeze was blowing by the time the AND 1 crew rolled into town, piled in their own cars or via the train from Philly, to get ready for the game. That early winter chill didn't stop the crowd (sigh of relief that there was one) from lining up hours before the game, a line that eventually stretched down three sides of the Hunter College building that housed the gym, declaring for one and all the success of the game before it even began. Inside, the gym was packed to the rafters, the game went off without a hitch and Mos Def wowed the crowd at the end of the game with an inspired performance.

It seemed that this little basketball company could throw a game after all.

Earlier that same month AND 1 had released the second Mix Tape, again with Footaction as its retail partner, with footage focusing mostly on what were to be AND 1's team of streetballers, including Main, Headache, Future, Air Craft, Half Man, and Shane. Again, the tapes flew out of the stores, leaving both AND 1 and Footaction wondering what was next. Meanwhile, kids from all over the world were calling, emailing, sending letters-doing anything they could to beg a Mix Tape out of AND 1. The supply at Footaction went so quickly that enterprising young ballers starting selling the tapes on EBay, and Dr. Jay's in New York was making $25 off each tape they sold under the counter. By the following June, in 2000, the anticipation for the next tape, Mix Tape 2: The Remix, was so strong that every Footaction in the country was in line to distribute it and reap the benefits of the gift-with-purchase program AND 1 created to introduce its first off court shoe, the Tochillin.

Even with the first couple of tapes and a sold-out game behind them, AND 1 still thought of throwing additional games as essentially a way to gather content for tapes tapes (and discover new players!!), and not necessarily as a potential marketing tool or effective revenue generator for the brand. The tapes, they thought, were the real marketing opportunity, and giving them away reinforced the brand's commitment to its grassroots ideals. With a huge hunger for content and plans for future Mix Tapes (and a curiosity to see if this Streetball style of game was being played elsewhere in the country and by whom), AND 1 started planning what would become the first Mix Tape Tour.

Using rented Expeditions and free interns, a crew of five full-time staffers from AND 1 traveling with the players hit the road in August and put on the first tour, ghetto fabulous-style. In Chicago, Atlanta and Los Angeles, this rag tag bunch (the players were out there promoting as well!!) stapled posters to telephone poles, did radio station call-ins, stopped by local retail stores and dropped off flyers at every barber shop, nail salon, record store and 'hood corner they could reach. They hit off hot girls in the mall and dj's at the local stations. To near capacity crowds they hosted demonstrations at local charities and youth facilities with the players, held open runs and threw a game in each city with the AND 1 Mix Tape Tour players and the best of the local talent culled from the open runs (including current Mix Tape Tour players Hot Sauce and 50, found in ATL). In so doing, players like Headache, Main Event, Shane the Dribblin' Machine, Air Craft and Future were given a much bigger audience and were on their way to becoming legends far beyond their home courts in New York and New Jersey. In addition, AND 1 started meeting new players and bringing them along with the ride, offering them the opportunity to take advantage of this new spotlight that was developing.

In February of 2001 AND 1 released Mix Tape Volume 3 featuring the footage gathered the previous year including new players that were picked up on that year's Tour, AO from Philadelphia and Hot Sauce from Atlanta. There simply weren't enough tapes to satisfy the demands of ballers worldwide, and that's just the way it was supposed to be. Because by now it was clear that a tour was valuable in and of itself, as a way to reach into a community to showcase this unique, and up until now uniquely inner city, style of basketball and build names for the players AND 1 had found. After throwing a game in DC during All Star Weekend, AND 1 announced plans for its second summer tour, with a format slightly different from that of the previous year. The 2001 tour would feature full-length games in four cities but add stops in 18 other cities so the players could host demonstrations and open runs (and AND 1 could gather more footage!).

In June of 2001, the Mix Tape Tour kicked off its second season. Gone were the Expeditions (although the interns were still around), replaced by a big ass tour bus with all the amenities a traveling team of playground legends could hope for, and some we shouldn't mention in print. The bus itself was wrapped with artwork similar to that found on the Mix Tape boxes and nearly impossible to miss as it rumbled through some of the hardest neighborhoods in America that summer, 21 cities in all. Camera crews hired by AND 1 followed the players the entire summer, catching compelling game footage but also the private, behind-the-scenes footage that helped AND 1 expand the content of future tapes and continued to turn players previously known to those lucky few hundred who got into Rucker Park into minor celebrities in their own right---and major celebrities among basketball players and fans. At the end of the 2001 tour, it was clear to AND 1, and its competition, that the burgeoning ball company had the real deal going.

Things got a lot hotter after that second tour. Nike and Reebok both tried to go playground in their advertising and even approached some of the AND 1 players to be in the spots. But despite the many pretenders to the throne, AND 1 was holding it down on the playgrounds and got much love for it from ballers, fans and retailers alike. When AND 1 released a compilation DVD, its first DVD, "Four Volumes One Love", its place as the authentic playground ball company was cemented, and the pressure to bring the tour to more people and places became even more extreme.

In the spring of 2002, the planets aligned. Video game company Activision and AND 1 announced they were collaborating on a playground ball game that would feature the AND 1 street ballers, called Street Hoops which, after its release that summer, would become the third most popular basketball video game to hit the market that year. In June AND 1 announced that ESPN would be creating a show about the tour called "StreetBall: The AND 1 Mix Tape Tour presented by Mountain Dew Code Red" which, when it premiered in September for its 8-week run, was one of ESPN's highest rated original program in the history of the network. And AND 1 began selling its tapes for the first time, in both VHS and DVD format, at retailers Circuit City, Blockbuster and Best Buy. Volume 5, the first to be available at retail, went on to become the #1 selling sports video in the country upon its release in July 2002. When Ball Access was released on video in November 2002 it also reached the number one selling sports video in the country.

The 2002 tour itself was a much more professional affair. Two tour buses now carried the players, camera crews and AND 1 staff through the 24 cities of the tour while ESPN cameras were at each of the five major games shooting the entire thing for the show. The crowds were standing room only no matter where the players went, and fans were asking for autographs, pieces of clothing, game shoes and sweaty headbands from any player on the AND 1 squad. It was controlled bedlam at open runs where ballers who thought they had game had to make it through two hours of the local talent before getting a shot at the Mix Tape players, only to be soundly embarrassed for all the world to see (remember the white dude in Boston on the ESPN show?).

That summer also marked a rite of passage for Skip, who joined the tour at the conclusion of his season with the Bucks and celebrated the launch of a first shoe, named for a playground legend, the Skip Mid was released not during the NBA season but in the summertime to celebrate Skip's legendary role in bringing playground basketball to the masses.

When "StreetBall: The AND 1 Mix Tape Tour" aired on ESPN for the first time in September of 2002 shortly after the tour wrapped for the year, the ratings were through the roof. All eight episodes have since re-aired so many times that fans who've only seen the show and never been to a game feel like they know the players personally, and many more ballers are confounding their coaches with a new repertoire of moves never meant to see the light of day on a high school gym floor. So popular was the series that ESPN renewed it for a second season with a neat little twist. After each show, the AND 1 squad brought along up to five players (players must be 18 years or older) on Tour to . At the end of the tour Grayson Boucher, aka The Professor, walked away with an endorsement deal from AND 1 and a spot on the '04 tour roster.

As the company prepares for its fifth summer on the road, this time hitting 30 cities, it's remarkable that the essence of that first summer still permeates the tour and everything around it. Corporate partners have recognized the impact of the AND 1 Mix Tape Tour and as a result help share what has become astronomical tour costs, but AND 1 has still kept the focus on playground ball and on the universe of hip hop, young kids and self-expression that has informed this style of the game. AND 1 still hosts free clinics in every city it stops in, still holds open runs for kids to showcase their own talent and still makes donations to worthy groups in each tour city. The ghetto fab style of rolling into town in Expeditions and rolling out the same way may be gone, but even with a tour bus and an entourage, the AND 1 Mix Tape Tour is still keeping it real.

Ragnarok Online...^^

My family

wee......what a sweet picture ...miss the funny time...miss u all !!
Althought i quited..bt my heart still at there...Bye Frenzs


I show my peacez to you all....

Here is the picture i took with henry when we was 2nd job..mean we are still noob loLz..
Finally i edi lv 99 huhu...now is the time to change job ...
and both of us wish everyone "Merry Xmas"
Song "Jingle Pau, Jingle Pau, Jingle Char Siew Pau...Lin Yoong Pau, Tau Sa Pau, Siew ai , Loh ai Kai..." Hey

Wishing you a Merry X'mas

I miss our funny time lazt time....my tear...

My clan/guild


Named as legion...


The guild i joined last 2 years....althought it was a small guild...but we all defeat many enemys of us ...yeah!


Xeno...

After legion disbanded...and built this guild...named as xeno
Our chief now is even aka sohai...mic aka nub kia hahaz....
Xeno..all the best



Hoho...XenOdin Santa time....

25 December is the day that all people remember..that is
Xmas Day...
So ..all of us planed to take a photo ....i miss you all

Merry Xmas XenOdin...





Don't Touch Me!!

<------My favourite signature ...i used to put at each and every forum that i played..cuz it is cool....i show gengness to RO aegir server and now..i tired and quit... Farewell my pvp kaki frenzs..... Hup u guys still remember ...=)

Basketball da life...

Trainning of the dayz...

Woooo...coach try to crossover...duuuu
bt i din train at the dayz....maybe lazy? =(

Train hard ya...competition coming..!!!!!
Gogo!! MPP!!!










Coach:Hey! Hey! Both of you jump!!! so that can bcome tall...if not how to rebound the ball...jump jump

Yin Wei: Coach u also shorter than me...follow me jump too...piff off

Coconut Shooter: Im the tallest both of u...diam lar...dun keep ask me jump..i hate!!



p/s: yellow shirt aka coconut shooter
green shirt boy aka yin wei speeder


Our youngest ball maker

hooo...so yeng lar ...he try to pass the ball to his teamates... future geng ball maker...=)

Pendang vs Tokai....hu will win? ....










Result ....

Left refree: hey! luk at me if u wanna know the result....
Right refree: ghek ghek..tot u so handsome im most handsome
Left refree: Ok....the winner is pen...
Right refree: hey stop it!! i say....is dang

Pendang 12x vs Tokai 1x

All people cheer : Hoooo we won them 100 marks...we can
pi sungai petani revenge !!!!





We are the champion represent Kedah under 15age

Bye..KMY..Keak Hwa...we won...
We enjoyed and took picture...
Here special thanks to my coach and all of our supporters
we break da record!!!!! ho!!!!!!!!

Gold medal ^^

Keep goin ya MPP...."jia you"

Here is da ending...bt more will coming soon ~

Bryant,Kobe

Bryant, Kobe

Position: Guard
Height:6ft 6in (1.98m)
Weight: 220lb (100kg)
Team: Los Angeles Lakers
Nationality: United States
Born: August 23, 1978
High school: Lower Merion,PA
Draft: 13th overall, 1996 Charlotte Hornets
Pro career: 1996-present (10years)





Awards: 3-time NBA champion
8-time All Stars
8-time All-NBA Selection
6-time All-Defensive Selection
2002 NBA All-Star Game MVP
1997 NBA Slam Dunk Champion
1996 Naismith Prep Player of the Year

Early life

Kobe Bryant is the youngest child and only son of Joe and Pam Bryant. His parents named him after the famous beef of Kobe, Japan, which they saw on a restaurant menu.

At the age of six, Kobe, his parents and two older sisters, Shaya and Sharia, moved to Italy, where his father began playing professional basketball. He became accustomed to the lifestyle and became fluent in Italian. At an early age, he learned to play soccer and his favorite team was AC Milan. At the age of 7, Kobe got his first leather basketball. It became his constant companion. Bryant even slept with it. Bryant once said that if he had stayed in Italy, he would have tried to become a professional soccer player.

In 1991, the Bryants moved back to the United States. A spe

ctacular high school career at Lower Merion High School in the Philadelphia suburb of Lower Merion, brought Bryant national recognition. While his SAT score of 1080^[2] would have ensured his basketball scholarship to various top-tier colleges, the 17-year-old Bryant made the controversial decision to go directly to the NBA.

Early NBA career

1996 Draft

Even before he was chosen as the 13th draft pick overall by the Charlotte Hornets in 1996, the 17-year-old Bryant had made a lasting impression on then-Lakers general manager Jerry West, who immediately foresaw the potential in Bryant's basketball talent during pre-draft workouts. West stated that Bryant's workout was one of the best he had ever witnessed. West continued his quest to return the Lakers to championship status and startled spectat

ors by offering and completing the trade for starting center Vlade Divac to the Hornets for Bryant.

Growing pains

During his first season with the Lakers, he mostly came off the bench behind guards Eddie Jones and Nick Van Exel. Bryant played limited minutes initially but this changed as the season continued. He earned himself a reputation as a high-flyer and a fan-favorite by winning the 1997 Slam Dunk Contest.

In Bryant's second season (1997-98), he received more playing time and began showing more of his abilities as a talented young guard. He was the runner-up for the NBA's Sixth Man of the Year Award, and through fan voting, he

also became the youngest NBA All-Star starter.

While his statistics were impressive for his age, he was still a young guard who lacked the experience to complement Shaquille O'Neal and significantly help the team contend for a championship.

Championship years

However, Bryant's fortunes would soon change when Phil Jackson became coach for the Los Angeles Lakers. After years of steady improvement, Bryant had become one of the premier shooting guards in the league, a fact that was evidenced by his annual presence in the league's All-NBA, All-Star, and All-Defensive teams. The Los Angeles Lakers became perennial championship contenders under Bryant and O'Neal, who formed an outstanding center-guard combination. Their success gave the Lakers three consecutive NBA champ

ionships in 2000, 2001, and 2002.

End of a dynasty

In the 2002-03 NBA season, Bryant averaged 30 points per game and embarked on a historic scoring run, posting 40 or more points per game in nine consecutive games while averaging 40.6 in the entire month of February. In addition, he averaged 6.9 rebounds, 5.9 assists, and 2.2 steals per game, all career highs up to that point. For the first time in his career Bryant was voted on to both--All-NBA and All-Defensive 1st teams. After finishing 50-32 in the regular season, the Lakers floundered in the playoffs and lost in the Western Conference Semifinals to the eventual NBA champion San Antonio Spurs in six games.

In the following 2003-04 NBA season, the Lakers were able to acquire legends Karl Malone and Gary Payton to make another push at the NBA Championship. With a starting lineup of four potential Hall of Fame players in Shaquille O'Neal, Malone, Payton, and Bryant, the Lakers were able to reach the NBA Finals. In the F

inals, they were eliminated by the Detroit Pistons in 5 games. In that series, Bryant averaged 22.6 points per game, shooting 35.1% from the field, and 4.4 assists per game.

Conflicts and turmoil

Bryant, following his arrest in 2003

In 2003, Bryant's reputation was tainted by the Kobe Bryant sexual assault case, in which Katelyn Faber, a young woman from Colorado, accused Bryant of sexual assault. With his image badly tarnished, the public's perception of Bryant plummete

d, and his endorsement contracts with McDonald's, Nutella, and Ferrero SpA were terminated. Sales figures from NBA merchandisers indicated that sales of replicas of Bryant's jersey fell far off of their previous highs.

Even before being arrested for rape, Bryant was known to publicly feud with his teammates, including Shaquille O'Neal (see Shaq-Kobe feud), Samaki Walker and Karl Malone. In 2004, a dispute between Bryant and former teammate Malone became public prior to Malone's expected re-signing with the Lakers. Bryant claimed Malone had made inappropriate comments to Bryant's wife. Malone claimed the comments were in jest and that Bryant was overreacting . In the subsequent months, rather than re-join Bryant and the Lakers, Malone turned his attention to the possibility of joining another team, but ultimately decided to retire.

Unquestioned leader

When O'Neal was traded, Bryant became the Lakers' unquestioned leader of the team going into the 2004-05 season. As it turned out, however, his first se

ason without O'Neal would prove to be a very rocky one. With his reputation badly damaged from all that had happened over the previous year, Bryant was closely scrutinized and criticized during the season.

A particularly damaging salvo came from Phil Jackson in The Last Season: A Team in Search of Its Soul. The book detailed the events of the Lakers' tumultuous 2003-04 season and has a number of criticisms of Bryant. In the book Jackson also calls Bryant "uncoachable."

Then, midway through the season, Rudy Tomjanovich suddenly resigned as Lakers coach, citing the recurrence of health problems and exhaustion. Without "Rudy T," stewardship of the remainder of the Lakers' season fell to career assistant coach Frank Hamblen. Despite the fact that Bryant was the league's second leading scorer at 27.6 points per game, the Lakers floundered and missed the playoffs for the first time in over a decade. This year signified a drop in Bryant's overall status in the NBA by not making the NBA All-Defensive Team and being demoted to All-NBA Third Team.

2005-06 season

The 2005-06 NBA season would mark a crossroads in Bryant's basketball career. Despite past differences with Bryant, Phil Jackson returned to coach the Lakers. Bryant endorsed the move, and by all appearances, the two men worked together well the second time around, leading the Lakers back into the NBA Playoffs. Bryant also resolved his conflict with former teammate Shaquille O'Neal. The team posted a 45-37 record, an eleven-game improvement over the previous season, and the entire squad seemed to be clicking. In the first round of the playoffs, the Lakers played well enough (3-1 series lead) to come within a game of eliminating the second-seeded Phoenix Suns before finally falling short. Even with Kobe Bryant's remarkable game winning shot in Game 4, the Lakers broke down, falling to the Suns in Game 7. In the following offseason, Bryant had knee surgery, preventing him from participating in the 2006 FIBA World Championship tournament.

Scoring

Accomplishments

In many ways, the team's improvement in 2005-06 was often overshadowed by the individual scoring accomplishments posted by Bryant which resulted in one of his finest statistical season of his career:

• On December 20, Bryant scored 62 points despite playing only three quarters of play against the Dallas Mavericks. Entering the fourth quarter Bryant had, by himself, outscored the entire Mavericks team 62-61, the only time a player has done this through three quarters since the advent of the 24-second shot clock.

• On January 22, Bryant scored 81 points in a 122-104 victory against the Toronto Raptors. In addition to breaking the previous franchise record of 71 set by Elgin Baylor, his point total in that game was second in NBA history only to Wilt Chamberlain's legendary 100-point game in 1962.

• Also in January, Bryant became the first player sin ce 1964, and the only player aside from Chamberlain and Elgin Baylor to score 45 points or more in four consecutive games.

• For the month of January, Bryant averaged 43.4 per game, the eighth highest single month scoring average in NBA history, and highest for any player other than Chamberlain.

• By the end of the season, Bryant had also set Lakers single-season franchise records for the most 40-point games (27) and most points scored (2,832), among others.

• Bryant won the league's scoring title for the first time, posting the highest scoring average (35.4) since Michael Jordan's 37.1 average in 1986-87.

• Bryant finished in fourth-place in the voting for the 2006 NBA Most Valuable Player Award, but also received 22 first place votes — second only to winner Steve Nash, and by far the highest number of first-place votes Bryant had ever received in his career.

Other notable events

• When the Lakers faced the Miami Heat on January 16, 2006, Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal made headlines by engaging in handshakes and hugs before the game, signifying the end of the feud that had festered between the two players since O'Neal's acrimonious departure from Los Angeles. A month later, at the 2006 NBA All-Star Game, the two laughed and joked together on several occasions.
• Late in the season, it was reported that Bryant would change his jersey number from #8 to #24 at the start of the 2006-07 NBA season. #24 was Bryant's first high school number, before he switched to #33. After the Lakers' season ended, Bryant said on TNT that he wanted #24 as a rookie, but it was unavailable, as was #33, retired with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. He said the switch to 24 signified the start of the second half of his career. Bryant took number 8 after his favorite Italian league player, Mike D'Antoni. Kobe Bryant grew up watching D'Antoni as a star point guard in the Italian league, where his father, "Jelly Bean" Bryant, also played.

Player profile

Bryant is a shooting guard who plays small forward on some occasions. As of 2006, he is considered one of the premier players in the NBA, being elected into the All-NBA Teams en bloc from 1999 on and featuring eight NBA All-Star call-ups. Bryant was a vital part of the three most recent Lakers' championships. He is a prolific scorer, averaging 24.0 points per game for his career, and also nets 4.5 assists, 5.1 rebounds and 1.5 steals per game. Aside from this he is also a standout defender having made the All-Defensive 1st or 2nd Team 5 of the last 6 seasons.

Private life

In November 1999, 21 year old Bryant met 17 year old Vanessa Laine while she was working as a background dancer on the Tha Eastsidaz music video " G'd Up " (In the video Vanessa is in the convertible in a silver bikini). Bryant was in the building working on his debut musical album, which was never released.

The two began dating and were engaged just six months later in May 2000, all while Laine was still a senior at Marina High School in Huntington Beach, California. Due to the media, she finished high school through independent study. According to Vanessa's cousin Laila Laine, there was no prenuptial agreement. Vanessa said Kobe "loved her too much for one"

They married on April 18, 2001 in Dana Point, California. There were only about 12 guests at the wedding. Neither Bryant's parents, his two sisters, longtime advisor and agent Arn Tellem, nor Bryant's Laker teammates attended. Bryant's parents were opposed to the marriage for a number of reasons. Reportedly Bryant's parents had problems with him marrying so young, especially to a woman who wasn't African-American. This disagreement resulted in an estrangement period of over two years, during which Kobe Bryant did not have any contact with his parents

The Bryants' first child, a daughter named Natalia Diamante Bryant, was born on January 19, 2003. The birth of Natalia influenced Bryant to reconcile his differences with his parents. Vanessa Bryant suffered a miscarriage due to an ectopic pregnancy in the Spring of 2005. In the Fall of 2005 the Bryants announced that they were expecting their second child. Their second daughter, Gianna Maria-Onore Bryant, was born on May 1, 2006. Interestingly, Gianna was born 6 minutes ahead of former teammate Shaquille O'Neal's daughter Me'arah Sanaa, who was born in Florida

2006-2007 Seasons
Kobe Bryant proved that he is at the top of his career as he scored 53 points in 54 minutes. This way, the Lakers pulled out a 112-101 double-overtime victory over the Houston Rockets on Friday night. Los Angeles Lakers started with a nightmarish 10-point first quarter and finished both regulation and the first overtime with Bryant missing potential winning jumpers. However, Kobe Bryant opened the second overtime still with the hops to shimmy-shake Yao Ming then execute a twisting dunk. In fact, the Lakers' star scored seven points to Houston's two in the second overtime. And when the Rockets missed its final shot, it was Bryant soaring above everyone to own the rebound. "We really had to go to Kobe tonight to get accomplished what we had to do to get a win," said Lakers boss Phil Jackson, who as early as the start of the second quarter moved Bryant to the scoring wing spot and ditched the triangle offense before halftime to run repeated pick-and-rolls for Kobe. And Bryant expressed: "That confirmed for me that my legs are back to be able to dunk like that in the second overtime. You're happy but tired after a game like that. It might be funny, but even when we were down 20, I felt the game was ours." It's important to notice that Bryant's efforts more than offset the best effort of Yao, who had 35 points, 15 rebounds and a career-high eight blocks in 49 minutes. However, Yao Ming saw his last shot of the game in the second overtime cleanly blocked by Lakers center Kwame Brown. The Rockets definitely tired after halftime, when they led by 18 points. They had played to the wire in Oakland the night before, losing on a Baron Davis three-pointer with 1.2 seconds left against Golden State. The chinese player has been notorious for his poor conditioning in his career, but has improved it. Both Yao and Bryant found the strength to hit key shots late in the first overtime. However, whereas Yao ruled the game right from the start - blocking Vladimir Radmanovic's layup just moments after tipoff - Bryant had the greater perseverance. "At some point," Jackson admitted, "he's going to find a way." We must consider that Bryant shot 17 of 38 from the field, 5 of 8 from three-point range and 14 of 16 from the foul line. He also had 10 rebounds, eight assists and five turnovers. It was awesome.


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