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=== Menyesuaikan diri dengan NBA (1996-1999) ===
Bryant memulai debutnya di [[Summer Pro League]] di [[Long Beach, California]], mencetak 25 point di depan penonton dalam ruangan hanya-berdiri. ''Defender'' kesulitan untuk menjaganya, dan performanya membuat West dan pelatih Lakers [[Del Harris]] terkesan.<ref>{{cite news|last=Whicker|first=Mark|date=November 29, 2015|title=Kobe Bryant's farewell season has been painful to watch|url=http://www.dailynews.com/sports/20151129/whicker-kobe-bryants-farewell-season-has-been-painful-to-watch|newspaper=Los Angeles Daily News|archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/6dPwynlEn?url=http://www.dailynews.com/sports/20151129/whicker-kobe-bryants-farewell-season-has-been-painful-to-watch|archive-date=November 30, 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> Ia mencetak 36 point di finale dan selesai dengan rata-rata 24.5 point dan 5.3 rebounds dalam 4 game.<ref>{{cite news|last=Rafferty|first=Scott|date=July 7, 2015|title=How Kobe, LeBron and other NBA stars fared in Summer League debuts|url=http://www.sportingnews.com/list/4649202-summer-league-kobe-duncan-lebron-carmelo-wade-harden-durant/slide/336932|work=Sporting News|access-date=December 5, 2015}}</ref> Sebagai ''rookie'' musim [[1996–97 Los Angeles Lakers season|1996–97]], Bryant lebih banyak keluar dari bangku cadangan menggantikan guard [[Eddie Jones (basketball)|Eddie Jones]] dan [[Nick Van Exel]].<ref name="Contemporary Black Biography">{{cite journal|year=2008|editor-last=Henderson|editor-first=Ashyia|title=Kobe Bryant.|url=http://0-galenet.galegroup.com.sapl.sat.lib.tx.us/servlet/BioRC?vrsn=149&OP=contains&locID=txshrpub100334&srchtp=name&ca=1&c=1&AI=U13015572&NA=Kobe+Bryant&ste=12&tbst=prp&tab=1&docNum=K1606001949&bConts=59|journal=Contemporary Black Biography|publisher=Gale Group, 2001; Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2008.|volume=31|archive-url=https://archive.today/20121224223803/http://0-galenet.galegroup.com.sapl.sat.lib.tx.us/servlet/BioRC?vrsn=149&OP=contains&locID=txshrpub100334&srchtp=name&ca=1&c=1&AI=U13015572&NA=Kobe+Bryant&ste=12&tbst=prp&tab=1&docNum=K1606001949&bConts=59|archive-date=December 24, 2012|access-date=December 6, 2008|url-status=dead|url-access=registration}}</ref> Saat itu ia menjadi [[List of youngest National Basketball Association players|pemain termuda yang bermain di NBA]] (18 tahun, 72 hari; rekor yang kemudian dipecahkan oleh [[Jermaine O'Neal]] dan mantan rekan setimnya [[Andrew Bynum]]), dan menjadi ''starter'' termuda NBA (18 tahun, 158 hari).<ref>{{cite web|date=January 30, 2009|title=The Youngest NBA Basketball Player Records|url=http://basketballdaily.today.com/2009/01/30/the-youngest-nba-basketball-player-records/|work=Basketball Daily|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100124090925/http://basketballdaily.today.com/2009/01/30/the-youngest-nba-basketball-player-records/|archive-date=January 24, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Kobe Bryant 1996–97 Game Log|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/b/bryanko01/gamelog/1997/|publisher=Basketball-Reference.com|access-date=February 18, 2013}}</ref> Awalnya, Bryant bermain dengan menit yang terbatas, namun seiring musim berlanjut, ia mulai melihat waktu bermain yang lebih banyak.
Pada akhir musim, ia bermain rata-rata 15.5 menit per game. Ketika [[NBA All-Star Weekend|All-Star weekend]], Bryant berpartisipasi dalam [[Rookie Challenge]] dan memenangkan [[Slam Dunk Contest]] tahun 1997, menjadi juara dunk termuda pada usia 18 tahun.<ref>{{cite news|last=Holmes|first=Baxter|date=February 11, 2016|title=Kobe Bryant: Perfect time for All-Star break as 'everything' aches|url=https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/14758418/kobe-bryant-los-angeles-lakers-relieved-all-star-break-amid-myriad-aches|archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/6fEZbm1DC?url=http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/14758418/kobe-bryant-los-angeles-lakers-relieved-all-star-break-amid-myriad-aches|archive-date=February 12, 2016|access-date=February 27, 2020|website=[[ESPN]]}}</ref> Performa Bryant sepanjang tahun menobatkannya tempat di [[NBA All-Rookie Second Team]] dengan rekan setimnya di bangku cadangan [[Travis Knight (basketball)|Travis Knight]].<ref>{{cite web|title=All-Rookie Teams|url=http://www.nba.com/history/awards_allrookieteams.html|publisher=[[National Basketball Association|NBA]].com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080725172621/http://www.nba.com/history/awards_allrookieteams.html|archive-date=July 25, 2008|access-date=January 27, 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref>
Lakers melaju ke semifinal [[Western Conference (NBA)|Western Conference]] di [[1997 NBA Playoffs|playoff]] melawan [[1996–97 Utah Jazz season|Utah Jazz]], saat Bryant dipaksa menjadi peran utama di akhir Game 5. [[Byron Scott]] melewatkan game ini karena pergelangan terkilir, [[Robert Horry]] dikeluarkan karena berkelahi dengan [[Jeff Hornacek]] dari Utah, dan [[Shaquille O'Neal]] keluar karena pelanggaran dengan 1:46 tersisa di kuarter keempat. Bryant menembak empat [[Air ball|air balls]] pada akhir pertandingan; Jazz menang 98–93 di overtime untuk memulangkan Lakers 4–1. Ia pertama gagal mencetak [[Jump shot (basketball)|jump shot]] 2-point untuk kemenangan Lakers di kuarter keempat, kemudian 3 [[Three-point field goal|three-point]] meleset di overtime, termasuk 2 tembakan penyama skor di menit terakhir.<ref>{{cite news|last=Medina|first=Mark|date=January 15, 2016|title=Kobe Bryant's 'airball game' in 1997 was as defining moment in his career|url=https://www.dailynews.com/sports/20160115/kobe-bryants-airball-game-in-1997-was-as-defining-moment-in-his-career|newspaper=Los Angeles Daily News|archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/6ev0SUejk?url=http://www.dailynews.com/article/20160115/SPORTS/160119637|archive-date=January 30, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> O'Neal berkomentar bahwa "[Bryant] adalah satu-satunya orang yang mempunyai keberanian untuk mengambil tembakan seperti itu."<ref>{{cite web|last=Jackson|first=Scoop|date=May 11, 2009|title=Kobe Bryant's top ten moments|url=https://www.espn.com/espn/page2/story?id=4152884|publisher=ESPN|access-date=June 8, 2010}}</ref>
Di [[1997–98 Los Angeles Lakers season|musim kedua Bryant]], ia mendapat lebih banyak menit bermain dan mulai menunjukkan kemampuannya sebagai guard muda berbakat. Sebagai hasilnya point rata-rata Bryant lebih dari dua kali lipat, dari 7.6 ke 15.4 point per game.<ref>{{cite web|date=August 23, 1978|title=Kobe Bryant Career Stats Page|url=http://www.nba.com/playerfile/kobe_bryant/career_stats.html|publisher=NBA.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091222132730/http://www.nba.com/playerfile/kobe_bryant/career_stats.html|archive-date=December 22, 2009|access-date=June 8, 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref> Bryant lalu banyak bermain ketika Lakers "bermain kecil", di mana Bryant bermain [[small forward]] bersama guard yang biasanya ia gantikan.<ref>{{cite news|date=May 4, 1998|title=NBA Playoffs; A Dilemma for Kobe; NBA playoffs: The Lakers can still go small with Bryant in the frontcourt, but it could come at a price against the bigger Schrempf|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/29194361.html?dids=29194361:29194361&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|access-date=December 5, 2009}}</ref> Bryant merupakan runner-up penghargaan [[NBA Sixth Man of the Year Award|NBA's Sixth Man of the Year]],<ref name="6thManVoting1998">{{cite web|last=Basketball-References Staff|date=n.d.|title=1997–98 NBA Awards Voting|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/awards/awards_1998.html#smoy|publisher=Basketball Reference|access-date=December 7, 2008}}</ref> dan melalui voting fans, ia juga menjadi ''starter'' [[National Basketball Association All-Star Game|NBA All-Star]] termuda dalam sejarah NBA.<ref name="AllStarProfile">{{cite web|last=NBA Staff|date=n.d.|title=All-Star Player Profile : Kobe Bryant|url=http://www.nba.com/allstar2008/players/kobe_bryant.html|publisher=[[National Basketball Association|NBA]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110628211313/http://www.nba.com/allstar2008/players/kobe_bryant.html|archive-date=June 28, 2011|access-date=December 7, 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref> Ia bergabung dengan rekan setimnya O'Neal, Van Exel, dan Jones, menjadi pertama kalinya sejak 1983 4 pemain dari tim yang sama dipilih untuk bermain di All-Star Game yang sama. 15.4 point Bryant merupakan yang tertinggi di antara non-starter musim itu.<ref name="Contract">{{cite news|date=January 30, 1999|title=BASKETBALL: N.B.A. ROUNDUP – LOS ANGELES; Lakers' Bryant Signs for $71 million|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/01/30/sports/basketball-nba-roundup-los-angeles-lakers-bryant-signs-for-71-million.html|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=May 7, 2010}}</ref>
[[1998–99 Los Angeles Lakers season|Musim 1998–99]] menandakan munculnya Bryant sebagai guard premier di NBA. Dengan guard ''starter'' Van Exel and Jones ditukar, Bryant bermain sebagi starter di semua game untuk musim lockout yang dipendekkan menjadi 50 game. Ketika musim masih belangsung, Bryant menandatangani perpanjangan kontrak 6 tahun senilai $70 juta.<ref name="Contract" /> Ini membuatnya tetap di Lakers hingga akhir musim 2003-04. Bahkan di masa awal kariernya, wartawan olahraga membandingkan keahliannya dengan [[Michael Jordan]] dan [[Magic Johnson]].<ref name="complex.com" /><ref>{{cite news|last=Smith|first=Sam|date=January 27, 2009|title=KOBE BRYANT: THE AIR APPARENT?|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/23936063.html?dids=23936063:23936063&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS|publisher=basketball-reference.com|access-date=January 27, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Thomsen|first=Ian|date=January 27, 2009|title=Showtime!|url=http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1012689/index.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080709011057/http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1012689/index.htm|archive-date=July 9, 2008|access-date=January 27, 2009|magazine=Sports Illustrated|url-status=dead}}</ref> Namun hasil playoff tidak lebih baik, dengan Lakers [[1999 NBA Playoffs|disapu]] oleh [[1998–99 San Antonio Spurs season|San Antonio Spurs]] di semifinal Western Conference.<ref>{{cite web|title=1998–99 Los Angeles Lakers Statistics|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/LAL/1999.html|publisher=basketball-reference.com|access-date=June 23, 2008}}</ref>
=== Three-Peat (1999-2002) ===
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