Magic Johnson had a front-row seat to Michael Jordan's rise to greatness, as well as Kobe Bryant's. Here, he talks with latimessports columnist ArashMarkazi about the bond the two players shared. Read more:
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Jordan retired after the season and two years later Bryant won the first of his five championships with the Lakers under Phil Jackson, Jordan’s coach in Chicago. Behind the scenes, a special relationship developed between Jordan and Bryant that few people would know about until Bryant’s passing. “Both of them never talked publicly about it but I think they could understand each other,” Johnson said. “Kobe wanted to go get to that level. That’s what he always told me, ‘I want to be like you and Michael, not only on the court but I want to be like you guys off the court.’ That was one of the last things Kobe told me. He was chasing those six championships and he always wanted Michael’s respect.“Kobe didn’t have a lot of friends but he really had a good friend in Michael.
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