Kobe Bryant has achieved other successes in basketball.

VOA: special.2009.11.20

Pat Summitt became head coach of the women's basketball team at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville in nineteen seventy-four.

VOA: special.2009.03.20

They were celebrating the Los Angeles Lakers' victory over the Boston Celtics in the National Basketball Association championship game.

VOA: special.2010.06.25

Five years later she led the United States women's basketball team in the Goodwill Games and FIBA World Championship.

VOA: special.2009.03.29

In women's basketball, on Tuesday night the University of Connecticut beat Stanford by six points for the national championship.

VOA: special.2010.04.10

In college basketball, a small school with a young coach nearly defeated a longtime powerhouse team for the national championship.

VOA: special.2010.04.10

She is the first National Collegiate Athletic Association Division One coach in men's or women's basketball to win one thousand games.

VOA: special.2009.03.20

But first we go to a sports bar in Washington for the final game of this year's National Basketball Association championship.

VOA: special.2010.06.25

After high school, the Cleveland Cavaliers chose LeBron James with the first pick in the two thousand three National Basketball Association draft.

VOA: special.2010.08.06

In nineteen sixty-four Abe Pollin bought a failing basketball team from Baltimore,Maryland and brought it to his hometown.

VOA: special.2009.12.27

In two thousand six, Michael Jordan bought a minority ownership in the Charlotte Bobcats professional basketball team.

VOA: special.2011.03.11

She went on to become an English teacher, librarian and girls' basketball coach at Jay Allen High School in High Point, North Carolina.

VOA: special.2009.03.29

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

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

VOA: special.2011.06.18

In nineteen eighty she was an assistant coach on the United States Women's Olympic basketball team.

VOA: special.2009.03.20

She became the women's athletics coordinator and women's basketball coach at Elon College in North Carolina.

VOA: special.2009.03.29

LeBron James will try to silence the critics when the basketball season starts in October.

VOA: special.2010.08.06

It was the true story about two high school basketball players from a poor area of Chicago, Illinois, and the problems they faced in college.

VOA: special.2009.01.28

Current coach Ben Howland calls John Wooden "the greatest coach in the history of basketball."

VOA: special.2010.06.10

The Women's Basketball Coaches Association gave permission for teams to wear the color pink to honor Coach Yow's work in educating people about breast cancer.

VOA: special.2009.03.29

Unlike Major League Baseball,salaries in the National Basketball Association and some other leagues are capped.

VOA: special.2010.07.26

The superstar won a Gold Medal as a member of the United States Men's basketball team in the two thousand eight summer Olympic Games in China.

VOA: special.2009.11.20

He was a member of the University of Chicago championship basketball team in nineteen-oh-nine.

VOA: special.2009.04.29

He made it as far as the basketball championship series in two thousand seven.

VOA: special.2010.08.06