The Mamba Mentality: How I Play

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Bryant was an 18-time All-Star, which ranks second behind only Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's and LeBron James' 19. m., the helicopter crashed into the side of a mountain in Calabasas, about 30 miles (48km) northwest of downtown Los Angeles, and began burning. Following a league review, Bryant was suspended for the subsequent game at Madison Square Garden against the New York Knicks.

Three times Bryant had exceeded 40 minutes in a game, [279] and the coach blamed himself for overloading him after he started the season in such great shape.The basis given for the suspension was that Bryant had performed an "unnatural motion" in swinging his arm backward. In the following day, in a game against the New Orleans/Oklahoma City Hornets, Bryant scored 50 points, making him the second player in NBA history to have four straight 50-point games behind Chamberlain, who achieved it twice with streaks of five and seven. When Bryant was back and playing over 38 minutes a game, he had an increase in all statistical categories during the 1999–2000 season.

The accusation tarnished Bryant's reputation, and the public's perception of him plummeted; his endorsement contracts with McDonald's and Nutella were terminated.In addition to future animation projects, he had been in talks with animator veteran Bruce Smith for the last six months before his death about starting his own animation studio.