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Kobe Bryant factfile

April 13, 2013 21:45
Factfile on 15-time NBA All-Star Kobe Bryant after the Los Angeles Lakers star suffered a torn Achilles. Name: Kobe Bryant Team: Los Angeles Lakers Position: Guard Born: August 23, 1978 Height: 6feet, 6inches, 1.98m Weight: 220lbs, 99.8kg - Bryant is the son of Joe "Jelly Bean" Bryant, who played eight seasons in the NBA - Bryant spent eight years of his childhood with his family in Italy - Bryant has two sisters, Sharia and Shaya

Basketball: Bryant out for up to 9 months with torn Achilles

April 13, 2013 20:30
Kobe Bryant underwent surgery to repair a torn Achilles tendon which could sideline the Los Angeles Lakers star for up to nine months, the NBA team announced Saturday. The 15-time all-star Bryant left the court in agony toward the end of Friday's 118-116 win over Golden State and later declared his season over. Bryant chose to have immediate surgery to repair the damage to his torn left Achilles, undergoing an operation on Saturday.

Basketball: Bryant out for up to 9 months with torn Achilles

April 13, 2013 19:30
Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant faces up to nine months on the sidelines after his season-ending injury was confirmed as a torn left Achilles, the NBA team said Saturday. The 15-time all-star Bryant had left the court in agony toward the end of Friday's 118-116 win over Golden State and later declared his season over. The Lakers confirmed he now faced between six and nine months on the sidelines following the injury.

Basketball: Bryant out for up to 9 months with torn Achilles

April 13, 2013 18:30
Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant faces up to nine months on the sidelines after his season-ending injury was confirmed as a torn Achilles, the NBA team said Saturday. Bryant had left the court in agony toward the end of Friday's 118-116 win over Golden State and later declared his season over. The Lakers confirmed he now faced between six and nine months on the sidelines following the injury. Bryant was scheduled to have surgery on Saturday to repair the damage, said Lakers head trainer Gary Vitti, who described the torn tendon as a "third rupture."

Judge frees man after 38 years behind bars

April 13, 2013 18:30
A US man convicted of murdering a young girl -- a crime he always denied committing -- is enjoying his first weekend of freedom in 38 years after a New York judge freed him. David Bryant was 18 when he was found guilty of beating, raping and killing Karen Smith, an eight-year-old girl found dead in an apartment stairwell in the Bronx in March 1975. After initially confessing, the teenager, who knew the family of the victim, pleaded not guilty. This week, after years of trials and appeals, Bronx Judge Seth Marvin ordered his release.

NBA: Bryant suffers 'probable' torn Achilles

April 13, 2013 03:30
Kobe Bryant declared his season over after scoring 34 points before leaving the game with a likely torn Achilles tendon, as the Los Angeles Lakers kept their playoff hopes alive with a 118-116 win over Golden State. Bryant said he felt a "pop" as he tried to beat Harrison Barnes to the outside with just over three minutes left in the fourth quarter of Friday night's tight National Basketball Association contest. "I felt like I got kicked. It is a move I make a million times and pop," Bryant said. "Just a freak situation I guess."

Bryant scores 47 as Lakers bash Blazers

April 12, 2013 15:05
Kobe Bryant scored a season-high 47 points as the Los Angeles Lakers pulled closer to a playoff berth with a 113-106 NBA victory over the Portland Trail Blazers on Wednesday.The Lakers moved a game ahead of the Utah Jazz for the eighth and final playoff spot in the Western Conference. Portland, missing the playoffs for the second straight season, has lost nine straight games, the most since an 11-game skid in the 2005-06 season.

Lakers hang Shaq's No. 34 jersey in the rafters

April 4, 2013 13:18
Although Shaquille O'Neal rarely finds himself speechless, he says he's thrilled beyond words to see his jersey in the Los Angeles Lakers' rafters. The Lakers planned a halftime ceremony Tuesday to honor O'Neal.They'll hang his No. 34 jersey in the Staples Center collection including Wilt Chamberlain, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Magic Johnson. O'Neal is the sixth-leading scorer in NBA history. He played eight of his 19 NBA seasons with the Lakers, winning three championships and reaching four NBA finals during his basketball prime.

NBA: Bryant shines as Shaq honored by Lakers

April 3, 2013 03:15
Kobe Bryant's 19th career triple-double lifted the Los Angeles Lakers to a 101-81 triumph over the Dallas Mavericks on Tuesday in a duel between teams fighting for a Western Conference playoff spot. On a night when the Lakers honored former center Shaquille O'Neal by retiring his jersey No. 34 in an extended halftime ceremony, Bryant and his current teammates showed their minds were firmly fixed on the future and not the past.

NBA: Bryant passes Chamberlain for fourth on scoring list

March 31, 2013 02:45
Kobe Bryant passed Wilt Chamberlain for fourth on the NBA's all-time scoring list Saturday to help the Los Angeles Lakers to a much-needed 103-98 victory over the Sacramento Kings. Bryant's jump shot with 7:54 to play in the first half gave him 31,421 career points, taking him past Chamberlain's total of 31,419. Bryant, who went into the game trailing Chamberlain by four points, is behind only Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (38,387), Karl Malone (36,928) and Michael Jordan (32,292).
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