17 Year Old Kobe Bryant's 1st Pro Game as a Los Angeles Laker (www.thebasketballchannel.net)

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Congratulations to the 2010 NBA Champion Los Angeles Lakers. In honor of the back to back 2009/2010 NBA Champion Los Angeles Lakers and their victory over their hated rival, the Boston Celtics, and NBA Finals MVP Kobe Bryant, we thought we'd bring you not just Kobe's first 2 points as a Laker, but video of all 27 points he scored in his first pro game on July 13, 1996 against the Detroit Pistons in the LA Summer Pro League. This was the 4th game played by the Lakers summer league team and Kobe's first as a Laker. Wearing #32 and adidas shoes, Kobe joined the team in Long Beach after he and his parents Joe and Pam signed his pro contract (Kobe was only 17). Just a few weeks earlier he attended his high school prom with singer Brandy at Lower Merion HS. Saying he was nervous with butterflies in his stomach before playing in front of a sellout crowd of 4000 at the Pyramid, Kobe showed several flashes of what was to come along side fellow rookies Derek Fisher and George Lynch. Kobe finished with 27 points, most of them from the free throw line where he went 18 for 20. He grabbed 5 boards and commited 5 turnovers in 27 minutes of action for Laker SPL coach Larry Drew. ENJOY!

1996 Summer Pro League (Lakers -113 vs Pistons - 123)
Kobe Bryant
Points - 27
Rebounds - 2
Assists - 0
Minutes - 26
Turnovers - 5

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[quandercom]

KOBE FANS, TAKE NOTE This was Kobe Bryant's first "pro" game as a Los Angeles Laker in the 1996 Los Angeles Summer Pro League at Cal State Long Beach. The day before, his parents Joe and Pam signed his first pro contract (as he was only 17) and actually played his first game the next day with Derek Fisher, George Lynch, David Booth and others under then asst. coach Larry Drew. Just a couple weeks earlier he went to his Senior Prom with singer Brandy. He told me he had butterflies in his stomach!

[mrceltics4444]

at first you think, which pixel is kobe? then you see the jump shot and you know

[luvxbum15]

KOBE BRYANT IS THE MICHAEL JORDAN OF THIS ERA" DENNIS RODMAN SAID!

[Ronsam2006]

Wonder what that guy at the end was telling him...."you are gonna go far in the league.....MAMBA"

[qwerty12400]

6:36 The Mamba gets ready to strike

[qwerty12400]

Those are badass referee uniforms

[koreamoku]

The beginning of the Kobe D Fish bond.

[BlazerWaves]

@BrentWilliams710 why is 710?

[freshfade28]

Whats amazing is that he worked hard at a lot of the same moves and shots he's missed and now does them with ease



[YungLean87]

and thus begins the transformation into the Black Mamba!

[streethustla24]

kobe had better game when he was 17 than lebron at his prime.

[BrentonAkoname]

the way he shoots never changed