why did kobe bryant change his number to 24?
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He changed it to one of the numbers he wore in high school. The two numbers he wore in high school were 24 and 33 (33 was his fathers number when he played pro ball). When he was drafted by the Lakers, he obviously couldn't have 33 (it was Kareem's number and was retired). He wanted 24, but another player was already #24 so he chose #8.\n\nHe has said the switch to 24 signified the start of the second half of his career.
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24 is better than both of them combined.
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Because it's no longer 49-49-2.  It's 51-49.
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NBA rules state that no player may wear a uniform number that has been retired. Since #23 was retired by the Bulls (the first time MJ quit), he was actually not allowed to wear it, even though it was his own number...\n\nHe did choose 45 because it was his number in baseball.\n\nHe went back to #23 when he figured out the the NBA would not enforce its own rule.  And, of course, they never did.
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The thing is that a player has to decide when its time to hogg the ball and when itz time to play team ball. Like d wade. when he had to he took all da shots for miami when they were down by 13, but u can see that at the beggining of each game he takes less shots then in later quarters. Maybe kobe was telling the truth. He jsut made a bad decision. Thier wus a point when he had to tell himself hey these guys jsut arent gonna get this time ama have to be 81 point kobe. Unfortionately for the lakers he didnt. He stayed to hes gameplan and in basketball thats bad. You have to constantly make adjustments. Just shows that shaq was THE MAN at LA.  Kobe is one of the greatest in scoring but he decision making sucks thats why he needs another star on hes team, but u know when they were down 45-60 at halftime kobe must have looked into those guys eeys and realized that he was gonna lose. Frustration could of been a factor. The phoenix are like that. They just dun stop scoring. He did take them to 7 games , but at the end hes decision making cost him the game.
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LeBron has 20 years left, he will pass kobe in every statistical category. Kobe will never win another title, if he does he will be the second man (like the other 3 titles he won) and LeBron is only 21 and he is averagin numbers that havent been seen since bill russel and MJ! kobe just scores. LeBRon jame will win more titles, and be the best once he retires. and wats all this bullshit that lebron started younger?!?! kobe came out of highschool to u fags.
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No. it's fome mad weird sequencing, but if your first term is 34, and your 23rd term is 9 times your 21st, there is no concievable way that 24th could be one, as for w = 9u, both w and u would have to be <1, which implies that x must also be <1. Or maybe this was a joke. Or maybe it just imvolves a really twisted function.
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24-25\n\nFive-time NBA Most Valuable Player (1987-88, 1990-91, 1991-92, 1995-96, 1997-98)
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I believe this works.  Players numbered 1-24\n\nFirst day\n\n1-2-3-4\n5-6-7-8\n9-10-11-12\n13-14-15-16\n17-18-19-20\n21-22-23-24\n\n\nSecond day\n\n1-6-11-16\n5-10-15-20\n9-14-19-24\n13-18-23-4\n17-22-3-8\n21-2-7-12\n\nThird day\n\n1-10-19-8\n5-14-23-12\n9-18-3-16\n13-22-7-20\n17-2-11-24\n21-6-15-4
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Ivàn Zamorano of Chile wore a jersey with 1+8 on it but the plus was really tiny so it could also be read as an 18 , as officially was...\nthis was to indicate that he was the main forward of the team (who usually wears N° 9) but also that he had twice the skills of the player who wore 9 at that time...
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The set {1, 2, 3, ...,} has been closed under multiplication, because any product belongs to that set.\n24 and 25 belong to {1, 2, 3, ...,}. 24 x 25 = 600 as well.\n\nThe identity of the multiplication is 1, because n x 1 = 1 x n = n.\n\nAll numbers n have the inverse 1/n except n=0.\n\nAll the precious answers have no sense.
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kobe bryant born on august 23 (1978)
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Bryant began his career at Lower Merion High School in Ardmore, Pa., wearing No. 24. But by 1996 -- the year he led the school to the state championship -- he had switched to No. 33, the number his father Joe "Jelly Bean" Bryant wore in high school. \n\nIn order for a player to change jersey numbers at will, he either has to change teams or have the team inform the league of the decision more than six months in advance. Players who stay with the same team must have worn the same number for four seasons or longer. Sources say the Lakers informed the league of Bryant's wish to change his number by this year's March 3 deadline.\n\nCalls placed to Bryant's agent Rob Pelinka and the Lakers were not immediately returned.\n\n \n\nOver the past few months, Kobe Bryant's popularity has been on the rise again. His jersey was the fourth-best seller this season, up one spot from last year's position, according to sales at the NBA Store in Manhattan and on NBA.com.\n\nWhen Bryant came into the league, he couldn't take the No. 33 because it had been retired seven years earlier by the Lakers in honor of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. \n\nBryant arrived at the No. 8 for two reasons. It was the number he wore when he was a kid playing in Italy. It also tied into the number he wore at Adidas' ABCD Camp, 143. The numbers add up to 8.\n\nBryant's switch is the NBA's most significant jersey number change since the 1994-95 season, when Michael Jordan came out of retirement wearing the No. 45 for the final 22 games of the season. Jordan's No. 23 had been retired by the Bulls in his honor. For the next three seasons, Jordan went back to the No. 23.\n\nLeague veteran Jim Jackson, who signed with the Lakers in March, now wears No. 24.
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I saw the number 23 on a Dr.Pepper soda can. Does that mean anything. I don't have the number 23 in anything like phone, ss number, ect.
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40,,haa,haa,haa...Step the hell up,Shaq like a diesel he;ll get his.KOBE if you want rocket science that young bro can rise up.Bout 80 plus on the mutha ,,,,scoreboard.What you got for that.
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would like to know what this is for.  Please e-mail me pwacheri777@sbcglobal.net\n\n03, 07, 17, 23, 24, 27, 28 These numbers are significant to my family.\n\nBut I also like: 99, 77, 53, 16, 21, 70, 37
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To honor Kirby Puckett, one of the greatest Minnesota Twins to ever play. 34 was his number. He died in March.