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Photographs and text provide a brief introduction to the life and career of basketball star Kobe Bryant. ... Read more

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cool to remember
it's really Cool remembering Greatness in it's early stages.Kobe Bryant has gotten better&better with each passing season&you are seeing a Guy that is truly gonna Leave His Mark on the Game before His Day is done.Kobe Bryant Is one of the Baddest Players in the League Today&The Guy is a Champion&He had a Dream at being the Best He could&the scary part we haven't even got to His Prime&Peak.Stay Tune for Number #8.

Simply the best!
This author(Wayne R. Coffey), really got to the point.This book told us about the "REAL KOBE BRYANT" and the "ON-THE-COURT KOBE BRYANT.If there is another Kobe Bryant book for kids,it is nothing likethis one!Thanks for reading my review on Wayne R. Coffey's biography on"KOBE BRYANT." ... Read more

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Super Sports Star
This book lets you know about Kobe Bryant. Kobe played against the Chicago Bulls and the lakers won by 16 points in the first season.Thiis book is important because it tells you what a great Basket ball player he is. This book is organized by Chronological order,and it has stories about him as a boy.
Kobe wass born on August 23, 1978. He is a guard on the lakers team. Kobe whent strait from High school to the NBA!
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Biography for young adults on basketball star Kobe Bryant. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Semana, published by Spanish Publications, Inc. on June 15, 2001. The length of the article is 586 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: El agarrón de Bryant y Iverson.(Allen Iverson y Kobe Bryant, jugadores de baloncesto)(TT: Bryant and Iverson's duel.)(TA: basketball players Allen Iverson and Kobe Bryant)(Artículo Breve)
Author: Tay Polo Miranda
Publication: Semana (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 15, 2001
Publisher: Spanish Publications, Inc.
Volume: 7Issue: 433Page: 26

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An all-access look at the Lakers' championship season

"Elizabeth Kaye is a wonderful writer--as a reporter she's like a bulldog--she grabs onto you and doesn't let go until she figures out everything about you. Throughout Ain't No Tomorrow, she discovers and explains the game of basketball in a way that no one ever has. She takes the reader through the mental preparation, coaching strategies, and personal struggles of players--who are part Rocky and part Rambo. If you like to read, you'll love Ain't No Tomorrow."
--Sylvester Stallone

At the start of the 2000 NBA playoffs, the famously underachieving Los Angeles Lakers found themselves the focus of national attention. The team that had limped along since the golden era of Magic Johnson was now endowed with basketball's two most gifted and dominant players, Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant, and was led by none other than Phil Jackson, the most fabled coach in the NBA. By the time the Lakers beat Indiana in game six of the championship series, they showed themselves unstoppable, a team above and apart and blessed with a glamour and facility that made them the obvious franchise to lead pro basketball into the new millennium.

Then everything began to fall apart. Jackson had warned his team that the truly challenging season is the one after an initial big win, and his words were quickly becoming reality as the great team slipped into profound disarray at the start of the new season. Ain't No Tomorrow is an intimate look at the astonishing eight-month roller-coaster ride that became the Lakers' 2000­-2001 season: a time of tumult and drama when impulses toward brotherhood and unity dissolved into petty, ugly battles and bruised egos; when men who previously rose to a great challenge grew greedy and slack.

Combining brilliant reporting and original perspective, Elizabeth Kaye­­--a journalist granted special access to Jackson, Shaq, Kobe, and other major players--­­takes you into the minds and hearts of the team members. She chronicles the unique story of a team that ultimately righted itself, united, and found its way to a second championship title--­­but only after an extraordinary season in which exciting sports drama becomes human drama at its most compelling and complex.

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I LIKED IT
THE AUTHOR OF THIS BOOK HAS NO EXPERIENCE COVERING SPORTS. IN HER FIRST ATTEMPT I THINK SHE DOES A VERY GOOD JOB DESCRIBING THE CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON OF THE 2000 LAKERS. THE DETAILED RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THE PLAYERS IS THE HIGHLIGHT OF THIS BOOK. NOT ONLY KOBE AND SHAQ BUT ALL THE OTHER PLAYERS ARE OF INTEREST IN THIS STORY. FROM ROBERY HORRY TO RICK FOX TO PHIL JACKSON, YOU FIND OUT SOMETHING INTERESTING ABOUT EACH ONE OF THEM. BUT THE MAIN STORY IS THE COMING OF AGE OF KOBE FROM A BALL HOG TO A COMPLETE PLAYMAKER AND PASSER. I RECOMMEND THIS FOR ALL BASKETBALL FANS.

Elizabeth Kaye knows nothing about basketball
I don't care if anybody rates this review as helpful, because all I want to convey about this book is the lack of understanding the author posesses.I have read Phil Jackson's new book, Shaq's latest, and several others about the lakers, but this book basically says that Shaq is a big baby who needs to grow up, and Kobe doesn't care about the media--he doesn't care about reputation.Wrong, and wayyyyyy wrong.Kobe makes me sick because of all the publicity stunts he does, and all the attempts he makes at getting the fan's love back.Shaq has matured in his 13 seasons, and Elizabeth Kaye seems like she just wants to meet Kobe in some colorado resort.A good read if you want to see how dense an unexperienced author can be.

Nothing new for real fans
This is a good book for part-time Laker fans. They get to learn a lot about locker room stories.
But if you're someone who regularly follow the Lakers'exploits during the season, on the internet or otherwise, you're not getting any wiser by reading this book. The author was just repeating articles form the LA Times, OCR and other sources. Reading passages in the book you get the feeling that you've already read that somewhere else.
This ain't a David Halberstram book.

Not Bad
Ain't No Tomorrow offers a unique perspective on the 2000-2001 World Champion L.A.Lakers in that Ms. Kaye is an outsider with very little - if any - previous basketball experience.She develops close relationships with many of the players, coaches, and members of the travelling media.The best aspect of this book is it's commentary on the individual relationships between the players and coaches.From a basketball standpoint, however, it is found wanting.Kaye's basketball terms and descriptions leave much to be desired as she continually uses improper terms and awkward phrases that detract from the flow of the book. A good read for a die-hard Laker fan - but if you're only going to read one Laker book - I'd pick a different one.Lyle Spencer's perhaps.

Really cool Insight to a Great Team
this Book takes on the inside on what got the Lakers to there Championship Level.SHAQ&KOBE are Unstoppable Period as a Duo.this Team really is something else because they have done what no other Teams that have had Championship Runs have done&that is Turn it On&Off whenever they feel like it.in the Words of Blake Carrington this is a Dynasty.and Phil Jackson has Spreaded the Zen&Brought this Team together as One.Mad Props to SHAQ You are The Baddest,Kobe 5 Years from now who is gonna stop you? Rick Fox,D-Fish,Brian Shaw Robert (Big Bucket)Horry&the whole Crew. time for Number 3.then another Chapter continues next Year&so On. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Semana, published by Spanish Publications, Inc. on June 22, 2001. The length of the article is 725 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Esta vez ganó Goliat.(baloncesto)(TT: Goliat won this time.)(TA: basketball)
Publication: Semana (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 22, 2001
Publisher: Spanish Publications, Inc.
Volume: 7Issue: 434Page: 24

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This digital document is an article from Semana, published by Spanish Publications, Inc. on December 9, 1999. The length of the article is 855 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: En busca del trono.(basketbol, Estados Unidos)(TT: Looking for the crown prince.)(TA: basketball, America)
Author: Tay Polo Miranda
Publication: Semana (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 9, 1999
Publisher: Spanish Publications, Inc.
Volume: 6Issue: 354Page: 14

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This digital document is an article from The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), published by Thomson Gale on November 1, 2007. The length of the article is 832 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Lakers' Bryant still losing on his own terms.(Sports Commentary)(HHHH QuickRead goes here quickRead goes here quickRead goes here quickRead goes here)
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This digital document is an article from Semana, published by Thomson Gale on May 14, 2006. The length of the article is 753 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: La NBA cruza los dedos.(playoffs de la Asociación Nacional de Baloncesto)
Author: Tay Polo Miranda
Publication: Semana (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 14, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 12Issue: 689Page: 39(1)

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Title: Juego de Estrellas sin interés.(TT: Games of stars with no interest.)
Author: Tay Polo Miranda
Publication: Semana (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 9, 2001
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For the countless basketball fans who were spellbound by the Los Angeles Lakers’ 2003– 2004 high-wire act, this book is a rare and phenomenal treat. In The Last Season, Lakers coach Phil Jackson draws on his trademark honesty and insight to tell the whole story of the season that proved to be the final ride of a truly great dynasty. From the signing of future Hall-of-Famers Karl Malone and Gary Payton to the Kobe Bryant rape case/media circus, this is a riveting tale of clashing egos, public feuds, contract disputes, and team meltdowns that only a coach, and a writer, of Jackson’s candor, experience, and ability could tell. Full of tremendous human drama and offering lessons on coaching and on life, this is a book that no sports fan can possibly pass up. ... Read more

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Nice try, Phil
This book is fairly well-scribed but definitely lacks the insight/depth that I would have preferred from a coach like Jackson. The most absurd and hypocritical part of it all is that Phil the Moneygrubbing Hippie who only wins when he has starpower, returned to the Lakers a year later---making this book basically null and void. Typical of a person of his pathetic ilk. Not a role model for anyone. And he's a mediocre coach. Phil Jackson is the Joe Torre of hoops.

More than a pennyfor his thoughts
I have always perceived Phil Jackson to be a an introspective and intellectually curious individual. This book has further bolstered that opinion. A fairly easy read, the depth of Phi's candor is perhaps what is most striking. He unabashedly relays his thoughts on how Shaq could be a better overall basketball if he focused on playing defense, his admiration of Karl Malone and Gary Payton for taking on diminished roles yet working hard, and then there's kobe. When this book was publicised back in 2005 in it the media (shocker) gave the impression that Kobe was villified throughout the book. Needless to say that perception is inaccurate. Although this book is about the tumultous 2003-04 season,Kobe hover's heavily over much of Phil's rumination. Phil's thoughts of Kobe are conflicted. On one hand there is the criticism of Kobe ( the aspect o of the book which the media dwelt on)his headstrong, occassional combustible personality, his refulsal to adhere to the triangle, seeming indifference, even ingratitude to the Laker's organization for their support during his rape trial, and feuds with Shaq. Phil's criticism of Kobe is tempered by him deeply analyzing the context in which the various incidents play out, and his (phil) role in agitating or diffusing the situaition. Overall, Phil seems to have a reluctant reverence of Kobe Bryant. This is mostly conveyed by how much he compares Kobe to Michael Jordan. The interpretation of this book should be subject to understading the context in which it is written. Phil's thoughts seem jarringly raw until one realizes that they were entries made into his personal journal. At that point he may be forgiven a little.

Read about what a creep Kobe Bryant really is
I was curious to see just what exactly this book would be like. I mean, the "last season" was not really the kind of season that Phil Jackson was looking for when he decided to write this book. Although the Lakers did have some brewing turmoil going on inside the organization, with the additions of Gary Payton and Karl Malone, it was assumed that they were the ordained NBA Champions. Well, did not turn out that way. But the growing Shaq vs. Kobe feud provides some ammunition. I like Phil Jackson and think he is a good coach and all and I guess this book is pretty good. If you are an NBA junkie and if you are a Laker junkie, it is essential. But if you just consider yourself a casual fan, it might be a tad dry. One thing is clear, Kobe is the creep that you always thought he was and I find it so enjoyable that he is stuck on a Laker team going nowhere, while Shaq has moved on and won another championship.

Bad writing style.
The book is written in a disorderly manner.At times he jumps around so much that it's hard to follow.Entertaining and informative as far as showing life as a coach of Lakers, especially Kobe and Shaq, the two dominant players, and biggest "problem children" on the team.Two players who were just down-right childish at times (especially Kobe).Phil had an especially tough time with Kobe, the ever so narcisitic MJ wannabe.

disapointing lack of depth
As a casual NBA fan and admirer of all Phil Jackson has done, I bought this book hoping to find something which would provide insight into the happenings behind the scenes, how Jackson handled all the chaos, and insight into an interesting season. Unfortunately Jackson's book does not weave a single cohesive theme. It is presented as a series of disjointed diary entries which spend far too much time focusing on recapping the most recent basketball game. Although there are some interesting noted in the book, some of which are highlighted in other reviews (and some of which made the news), they are few and far between, and usually buried in piles of game analysis and box score review. I hope Phil Jackson keeps his day job. ... Read more