Records.
- Bryant was awarded the regular season's Most Valuable Player Award (MVP) in the 2007–08 season and led his team to the 2008 NBA Finals as the first seed in the Western Conference.
- In the 2008 Summer Olympics , he won a gold medal as a member of the US men's basketball team , occasionally referred to as "The Redeem Team".
- He won another gold medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
- He led the Lakers to two more championships in 2009 and 2010, winning the Finals MVP award on both occasions.
- He was selected to play in the NBA All-Star Game on 14 occasions, winning All-Star MVP Awards in 2002, 2007, 2009 and 2011.
- He also won the NBA Slam Dunk Contest in 1997.
- As of May 2011, he has had 5 sixty-point games, 24 fifty-point games, and 107 forty-point games.