WHY DID KOBE CHANGE HIS JERSEY NUMBER?

[DoubleClutch]

Im not the biggest Kobe or Laker fan so maybe this is common knowledge, but why did he change his number if he never changed teams?

He could've avoided all this drama about 8 vs 24 and had one jersey retired.

 

[Icantspell]

What drama? They retiring both

 

[pete clemenza]

I think it had something to do with him leaving Addias and signing with Nike

 

[No Hook]

Second best SG of all time

 

[DoubleClutch]

What drama? They retiring both

literally all the media has been talking about all day is which "number" or which Kobe was better. And the whole drama has caused Lakers to retire 2 jerseys. Thats not normal.

 

[010101]

something to do with adidas
there are 24seconds on a shot clock and two 24 minute halves in a game
24 is 1up on 23

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kobe said it was cause he worked 24 hours a day

 

[Super Cheech]

Bryant's first high school number was 24 before he switched to 33. After the Lakers' season ended, Bryant said on TNT that he wanted 24 as a rookie, but it was unavailable, as was 33, retired with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Bryant wore 143 at the Adidas ABCD camp, and chose 8 by adding those numbers.

 

[RAX 010]

The Rape stuff

 

[Conscious Pilot]

He wanted to be 3 times the player he was, he wanted that 1 over Jordan ? Who gives a fukk , Hes a GOAT and the first player to get two jersey numbers retired

 

[BXKingPin82]

probably for the number of cheeseburgers Shaq bust down before games.

 

[DoubleClutch]

The Rape stuff

I had a gut feeling that was it

or he just wanted to be like Jordan

 

[iamduval]

Changed it right after the rape case.

It had a lot to do with nothing. Just image repair.

 

[Henry Orbit]

I thought he said he wore #8 because Mike D'Antoni was his favorite player while growing up in Italy

 

[jdubnyce]

Because 24 > 23