{"id":129512,"date":"2020-01-27T01:29:39","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T00:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/01\/27\/basketball-legend-kobe-bryant-inspired-a-generation-of-players\/"},"modified":"2020-01-27T01:29:39","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T00:29:39","slug":"basketball-legend-kobe-bryant-inspired-a-generation-of-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=129512","title":{"rendered":"Basketball legend Kobe Bryant inspired a generation of players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The iconic superstar\u2019s tragic death is a seismic loss with his contribution instrumental in raising the sport\u2019s global profileKobe Bryant, who died on Sunday in a helicopter crash in California at the age of 41, was one of the most accomplished players in league history, an 18-time All-Star, a two-time NBA Finals MVP and the 2007-2008 league MVP. As a member of Team USA he won gold medals at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics. His 81 points against the Toronto Raptors in 2006 is the second-highest single-game total in NBA history. In his final game in 2016 he scored 60 points against the Utah Jazz, the most of any player in his last contest. Related: Kobe Bryant: NBA legend dies in helicopter crash at age of 41 Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2020\/jan\/27\/kobe-bryant-basketball-nba\" target=\"_blank\">Basketball legend Kobe Bryant inspired a generation of players<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The iconic superstar\u2019s tragic death is a seismic loss with his contribution instrumental in raising the sport\u2019s global profileKobe Bryant, who died on Sunday in a helicopter crash in California at the age of 41, was one of the most accomplished players in league history, an 18-time All-Star, a two-time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}