Kobe Bryant gave the Miami Heat a Christmas present, a 104-102 victory over his own Los Angeles Lakers. With time winding down in the much hyped confrontation between Kobe and Shaq, it didn't come down to Shaq winning it for Miami, but instead a very predictable Kobe losing it for the Lakers.  His team trailed by two with time  running down and Miami came out and double-teamed Kobe who was above the 3 point arc.   Now Kobe was a very good student in high school and has above average math skills.

  Kobe Bryant learned a long time ago that the kid who scores the most points gets the headlines in high school and he gets the money in the NBA.  Few people were on hand when Kobe Bryant played in the Keystone Games in the summer prior to his senior year in high school.  It was a game at Susquehanna Twp. High School in Harrisburg.  Pre-game warm ups were taking place and the scorekeeper noted that Kobe and a teammate had traded jerseys and therefore each were wearing the wrong number for the game.  The Keystone Games site coordinator for the game, Pete White Jr. instructed the players to exchange jerseys and wear the one to which they had been assigned for the game and which appeared in the game program.  It turned out that they had traded originally at the insistence of Kobe who liked the other number better.  Kobe refused to trade back and wear the correct number to which he had been assigned!  Then Pete White Jr. displayed the wisdom of Solomon, he told Bryant that the scorebook would record points according to the jersey number which scored them in the game and that the totals would be reported to the newspapers according to the jersey number which scored them.  Upon being confronted with the loss of personal recognition, Bryant quickly agreed to wear his proper number.