Joe Bryant

Joe Bryant

Joseph Washington "Jellybean" Bryant (born October 19, 1954 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a retired American professional basketball player, current coach, and the father of Los Angeles Lakers superstar Kobe Bryant. Bryant was the head coach of the WNBA's Los Angeles Sparks from August 22, 2005 until April 4, 2007. He returned to that position after Jennifer Gillom was fired by the Los Angeles Sparks on July 10, 2011.

Read more about Joe Bryant:  Pro Career, Coaching Career, Personal Life

Famous quotes containing the words joe and/or bryant:

    While we were thus engaged in the twilight, we heard faintly, from far down the stream, what sounded like two strokes of a woodchopper’s axe, echoing dully through the grim solitude.... When we told Joe of this, he exclaimed, “By George, I’ll bet that was a moose! They make a noise like that.” These sounds affected us strangely, and by their very resemblance to a familiar one, where they probably had so different an origin, enhanced the impression of solitude and wildness.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    There’s freedom at thy gates and rest
    For Earth’s downtrodden and oppressed,
    —William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878)