USA's Kobe Bryant dunks over China's Yao Ming in the 3rd quarter of their opening round contest at Olympic Basketball Stadium in the Games of the the XXIX Olympiad in Beijing, China on August 11,2008.[Photo/CFP]
4. Two Olympic gold medals
Kobe has been on five US national basketball teams, helping lead them to gold medals in the 2008 and 2012 Olympics. He led the American team to win all their 996 games from 2007 to 2012.
An unusually heavy downpour hit Durban for two days before the BRICS summit's debut on African soil, but interest for a better platform for emerging markets were still sparked at the summit.