LCC-004

DRAFT

Kobe Bryant

1978–2020 · age 41

Professional athlete / media producer / NBA player; later media and storytelling producer

United States · SECONDARY

This record is in draft. Documentation is incomplete. Density figures describe the present corpus of public events, not a closed biographical judgment.

Life-course timeline

LIFE-COURSE TIMELINE

  1. 1996

    EMPLOYMENT

    NBA career begins.

    STATEDHIGH

    Wikipedia · Kobe Bryant

  2. 2000

    STATUS

    Three consecutive NBA championships, 2000–2002.

    STATEDHIGH

    Wikipedia · Kobe Bryant

  3. 2008

    STATUS

    NBA Most Valuable Player.

    STATEDHIGH

    Wikipedia · Kobe Bryant

  4. 2009

    STATUS

    Two additional NBA championships, 2009–2010.

    STATEDHIGH

    Wikipedia · Kobe Bryant

  5. 2016

    EMPLOYMENT

    Professional basketball career ends.

    STATEDHIGH

    Wikipedia · Kobe Bryant

  6. 2018

    4 March 2018

    STATUS

    Academy Award for Dear Basketball.

    STATEDHIGH

    Wikipedia · Kobe Bryant

  7. 2018

    EMPLOYMENT

    Media production and storytelling activity, 2018–2020.

    STATEDHIGH

    Wikipedia · Kobe Bryant

  8. 2020

    26 January 2020

    DEATH

    Death in helicopter accident.

    Cause: Documented helicopter accident

    STATEDHIGH

    Wikipedia · Kobe Bryant

Structural metric

COMPRESSION WINDOW

Life-course compression describes the accumulation of documented transitions. It is not a medical or mortality score.

2016–2018

Transitions
3
Domains
2
Interval
24

months

EMPLOYMENT · STATUS

12-month event density

2

2 domains

36-month event density

3

2 domains

60-month event density

3

2 domains

Transition interval

Median 34 months

MODERATE EVENT DENSITY

Two documented transitions appear within a 12-month interval.

Event density describes documented life-course change. It does not indicate medical or mortality risk.

Epistemic register

STRUCTURAL OBSERVATION

Statements are labeled by kind. INFERENCE describes sequence or co-occurrence. It does not assign cause, motive, or medical meaning.

OBSERVATION

A major occupational identity transition occurred immediately following the end of a twenty-year professional sports career.

INFERENCE

Career end appears in sequence with occupational reorientation into media production. This describes order, not cause.

Other observations