Data visualizations of Kobe Bryant
Everything negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise.
Kobe Bean Bryant (born August 23, 1978) is an American retired professional basketball player and businessman. He played his entire 20-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He entered the NBA directly from high school and won five NBA championships with the Lakers. Bryant is an 18-time All-Star, 15-time member of the All-NBA Team, and 12-time member of the All-Defensive team. He led the NBA in scoring during two seasons, and ranks third on the league"s all-time regular season scoring and fourth on the all-time postseason scoring list. He holds the NBA record for the most seasons playing with one franchise for an entire career, and is widely regarded as one of the best basketball players of all time. Bryant is the first guard in NBA history to play for at least 20 seasons.[1]
Kobe is the one of the best NBA players we have seen and somebody even cliam that his is the greatest NBA player of all time. And sure, Kobe can do what ever he wants on the field and he can helphis team to win. The following is the line chart for different categories of stats for Kobe during all his career.
Kobe is famous for the ability of scoring. Kobe led the NBA in scoring during the 2005–06 and 2006–07 seasons. In 2006, he scored a career-high 81 points against the Toronto Raptors, the second most points scored in a single game in league history behind Wilt Chamberlain's 100-point game in 1962.[2] And now let's take a look at the scoring map for the selcting season.
The above 2 line chart is the scoring and accuracy for selecting season. And you can see from the first line chart, there is a red line which indicates the injury incidents happened. As we all know that injury is the worst thing that could happen to a professional player. And these injury can lead to a down performance on the field. And this visualization is trying to find some connectino on this.
"For a brief moment, it was the first time that I saw doubt -- not defeat, but doubt -- on his face," Vitti says today. "Like, 'Oh, this actually could be it.' It's an Achilles. It's interesting. If you ask him this, that his Achilles was bothering him, he'll tell you the opposite, and that's what scared him about this. It was injury without any forewarning."[2]
At the end, I try to quantify the performance of Kobe in different season. I'm not a sports expert and I'm not great at ranking a player. But I use what I'm understading for the basketball to tell you how Kobe perform for each season.
For each season, based on the stats, I catrgorize them into 3 different categories: Offense, Defence and Efficency. For each category, the combination is the following,