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To know their back story is to understand why even now, a full day after receiving the awful news and for the foreseeable future, Brian Shaw grapples with the loss of Kobe Bryant.
Kobe was 10 years old and Shaw remembers him as a “little gym rat,” always dribbling and shooting as teams were warming up. Shaw spent one year in Italy, returned to the Celtics, with whom he played one more year and part of another before being dealt to Miami. Not long after, Kobe was standing before dozens of cameras and microphones announcing his decision to skip college and declare for the NBA draft. He was the sixth prep – and first guard – to completely bypass college for the pros.Selected by the Charlotte Hornets and immediately traded to the Lakers in a prearranged deal, Bryant didn’t play much as a rookie but cracked the rotation in his second season. Shaw, who had moved on to the Warriors, began to see the development of a legend.
“I was at the other end, warming up and watching but I was thinking, ‘Damn, he can really play.’ But he wasn’t playing much because they had Eddie Jones, who was damn good at that time.” The Lakers opened camp and shortly afterward and in the preseason opener in Jacksonville, Kobe sustained a hand injury that would sideline him for the remainder of the preseason and the first two weeks of the regular season. Within hours, Jackson phoned Shaw and invited him to join the Lakers.
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