And they were right. Kobe Bryant has won many honors and awards including four NBA Championship victories.

VOA: special.2009.11.20

In his second season, he was chosen as a starter for the nineteen ninety-eight NBA All-Star Game.

VOA: special.2009.11.20

Basketball fans cheered Lakers head coach Phil Jackson as he became the only head coach in NBA history to win ten national championships.

VOA: special.2009.07.10

They needed just one more victory to win the best-of-seven games series and the NBA title.

VOA: special.2010.06.25

NBA coach Red Auerbach of the Boston Celtics had held the record with nine championship victories.

VOA: special.2009.07.10

In the National Basketball Association, the Dallas Mavericks defeated the Miami Heat for the NBA championship.

VOA: special.2011.06.18

He has coached some of the NBA's best basketball players, including Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal.

VOA: special.2009.07.10

In the NBA,some people think twenty-five-year-old LeBron James could become the best player ever.

VOA: special.2010.07.26

And in turn there might be an unanticipated outcome, which is that the Miami Heat might end up dominating the NBA for many years to come."

VOA: special.2010.07.26

In the NBA, Manute Bol averaged less than three points a game on offense.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

He also was named Most Valuable Player in this year's NBA finals series.

VOA: special.2009.11.20

He finished his career as the fourteenth best shot-blocker in NBA history.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

He quickly developed into one of the best players in the NBA.

VOA: special.2010.08.06

He has played on a total of eleven NBA All-Star teams.

VOA: special.2009.11.20

He was nineteen years old, the youngest All-Star in NBA history.

VOA: special.2009.11.20

But LeBron James has never won an NBA championship ring.

VOA: special.2010.08.06

They moved one championship closer to the NBA record.

VOA: special.2010.06.25

His father is former NBA player Joe "Jellybean" Bryant.

VOA: special.2009.11.20

That is the second highest in NBA history.

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This was his fifth NBA championship.

VOA: special.2010.06.25

"Because the NBA has a free agency system that has a maximum salary, the players in this case were able to exercise their leverage in an unanticipated way by bringing the three of them together.

VOA: special.2010.07.26

The 78-year-old Daly led Detroit to two NBA titles and coached the 1992 U.S.Olympic men's "Dream Team" in Barcelona.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24

James led the Cavaliers to the best record in the NBA the past two seasons, but failed to deliver a finals berth.

VOA: standard.2010.07.08

The Lakers' win gave Coach Phil Jackson his 10th NBA title, including four with Los Angeles and six with the Chicago Bulls.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24