Champion, husband, girl dad, phenomenon. Happy Birthday Kobe Bryant. 💜💛 TwentyFourever
Remembering the first time he was face-to-face with the five-time champ,told the story of tracking him down at Philadelphia's InterContinental hotel ahead of the 2002 NBA All-Star Game. Bryant would go on to win MVP honors in the game, but first he gifted budding high school star James with a pair of his Nike Kobe XI red, white and blue basketball sneakers.
"Just admiring him for so many years and seeing him from afar and then being able to be in practices with him and, you know, me watching and learning. There's just too much. The story is just too much," James said in a post-game interview Jan. 25, having just passed Bryant on the NBA's all-time scoring list. "Now I'm here in a Lakers uniform in Philadelphia where he's from, where one of the first times I ever met him, gave me his shoes; he won All-Star weekend.
to a tournament at his Mamba Sports Academy in Thousand Oaks, Calif. when their Sikorsky S-76B helicopter crashed into the hills of Calabasas, Calif. There were no survivors. While Bryant, who would have turned 42 today, had at least contemplated the unimaginable, he and wifeto never ride aboard a helicopter together, the news floored pretty much everyone else. Tributes poured in from his fellow NBA stars, his fans, the kind that have admired him their entire lives , and even casual observers, because
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