{"id":865644,"date":"2026-08-23T15:24:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T15:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/865644\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T15:24:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T15:24:17","slug":"kobe-bryant-honored-by-sports-world-to-celebrate-birthday-of-late-lakers-icon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/865644\/","title":{"rendered":"Kobe Bryant Honored by Sports World to Celebrate Birthday of Late Lakers Icon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">On what would have been his 48th birthday, the sports world honored late Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Several sports-related accounts and fans took to X on Sunday to celebrate the life and legacy of Bryant through a series of posts:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Bryant died in January 2020 at the age of 41 in a helicopter crash that also took the life of his 13-year-old daughter Gianna.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Nicknamed The Black Mamba, Kobe established himself as one of the greatest players in NBA history during his 20-year run with the Lakers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Bryant was an 18-time All-Star, 15-time All-NBA selection, five-time NBA champion, four-time All-Star Game MVP, two-time scoring champion, two-time NBA Finals MVP and one-time NBA MVP.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">He is also fourth on the NBA&#8217;s all-time scoring list with 33,643 points, placing him behind only LeBron James, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Karl Malone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Kobe even transcended the world of sports in 2018 when he won an Oscar for best animated short film with Dear Basketball.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On what would have been his 48th birthday, the sports world honored late Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":865645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-865644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=865644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/865645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}