Kobe Bryant

Why is Kobe wearing #24 this year instead of #8?...
i just saw this on sportscenter the other day because i never keep up with nba basketball until the playoffs come around, but is there any certain reason?

i believe its his high school or college basketball number.

he didn't play college ball, must be high school if it's an old number for him.

24 is the number he wore in his freshman year of highschool

All of the above = wrong.

24 was his father's number when he played pro ball in Italy where Kobe spent most of his childhood. He wanted to go back to his roots. In high school, Kobe wore 33, and we all know who wore 33 for the Lakers before he got to LA back in the day--so he chose 8 because it looked like 2 3's put together.

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so he chose 8 because it looked like 2 3's put together.

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Is that some kind of ebonic math? [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

Nope--he was 18. Young man was youthful and simplistic when he chose his #. Didn't really think it through, just gave that explanation.

dang i forgot he didnt play college..haha..my bad.

i heard something about how the Lakers won 3 championships with him...3x8=24

nahh its his old high school number..

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nahh its his old high school number..

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Are yoe sure about that!!!!!

Picture posted and rebutal via CoeburnCane.

its becasue he wants all the people who have 8 jerseys to buy the new ones

Kobe Bryant has changed his jersey number from 8 to 24. Why? A few of the reasons in circulation:

Sentimental factor

Bryant has said he wore 24 in high school, before switching to 33. The move to 24, he said, signals the beginning of the second leg of his career.

Revenge factor

According to ESPN, Adidas is planning to re-release Bryant's first sneaker, the KB8, and rename it the Crazy 8. But Bryant now works for Nike. What will the number change do to the Crazy 8?

Subtraction by addition

Bryant reportedly wore 8 because it was the sum of the digits of his number at Adidas' ABCD Camp -- 143 -- when he was in high school. Another way to distance himself from Adidas?

Or, it might simply be Bryant's way of one-upping Michael Jordan.

Additional info

There has been a lot of buzz going around about Kobe's switch to the number 24.

Kobe's response to questions about the switch has been that he wanted a new number for the second half of his career.

#24 was Bryant's first high school number, before he switched to #33. Kobe has said that he wanted #24 as a rookie, but it was unavailable, as was #33, retired with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

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<font color="purple"> </font> Kobe changed his number for a number of reasons if yall were true kobe fans you would know this he changed his number because its a new chapter in his career and he wanted it to be in a different number (he wanted #33 because it was his highschool number but as we all know that number is retired by the lakers) so he chose his JV number 24 and the last reason is a pretty neat thing lamar odom is # 7 and kobe is 24 so 24/7 haha

Few friends of mine thinks it is to upstage Michael. Since some people along with Kobe think he is better, he decided to wear #24. Now, take for granted this aint my idea so dont bash me, but it could very well be the true reason behind a lot of false beliefs!