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Starting from the 1984–85 NBA season, the NBA's first salary cap was introduced. The NBA salary cap is the maximum dollar amount each NBA team can spend on its players for the season. However, the NBA uses a "soft" salary cap, which allow NBA teams to exceed their allotted amount in order to sign players through significant "salary exceptions ...
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] As a member of the U.S. men's basketball team , Bryant was a two-time Olympic gold medalist starting with the 2008 Summer Olympics ("The Redeem Team" [ 8 ...
Kobe Bean Bryant ( / ˈkoʊbi / KOH-bee; August 23, 1978 – January 26, 2020) was an American professional basketball player. A shooting guard, he spent his entire 20-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of basketball, Bryant won five NBA ...
The NBA All-Star Game Kobe Bryant Most Valuable Player[ 1] ( MVP) is an annual National Basketball Association (NBA) award given to the player (s) voted best of the annual All-Star Game. The award was established in 1953 when NBA officials decided to designate an MVP for each year's game. The league also re-honored players from the previous two ...
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar retired in 1989 with a then-record of 20 seasons played. Kobe Bryant was the first guard to play 20 seasons. Jason Kidd had two stints with Dallas in his career, retiring tied with a then-record 19 seasons as a guard. John Stockton spent all 19 years of his NBA career with the Utah Jazz, from 1984 to 2003.
28. Kobe v. Hawks, November 1, 2009 41 points (15-29 FG), 8 rebounds, 5 steals, 10-11 FT. This was the Lakers' third game back as defending champions, having soundly beaten the Orlando Magic in ...
College. USC (2021–2024) UCLA (2024–present) Career highlights and awards. 2× Pac-12 All-Defensive Team ( 2023, 2024) Kobe Johnson (born January 15, 2003) is an American college basketball player for the UCLA Bruins. He previously played for the USC Trojans.
At $17.5 million per season, Kerr will receive a salary higher than all but five of the Warriors' players this season. The deal comes in Kerr's 10th season as Warriors head coach, and two years ...