it was his # in high school your right.but he used tah watch tha suns coach play in france and that was his favorite player growen up so he wanted that #.they talked about it during tha playoffs when they was playen eachother
No actually it was because Addidas had a shoe called the 8 or something like that, and Kobe, since he's with NIKE now, hated it, so he changed to his high school number of 24.