by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson)
Today, GBN celebrates the accomplishments and legacy of NBA champion, Olympic Gold medalist, Academy Award winner and philanthropist Kobe Bryant. To read about Bryant, read on. To hear about him and some of his wise words, press PLAY:
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Hey, this is Lori Lakin Hutcherson, founder and editor in chief of goodblacknews.org, here to share with you a daily drop of Good Black News for Monday, April 18th, 2022, based on the “A Year of Good Black News Page-A-Day Calendar” published by Workman Publishing.
Dear Basketball, thank you for five-time NBA champion, two-time Olympic Gold medalist, NBA MVP, Academy Award winner, career Los Angeles Laker, shooting guard, multilingual philanthropist, author, husband and father –the one and only “Black Mamba” — Kobe Bean Bryant.
He lives on through his countless fans, three daughters, and his wife Vanessa, whom he married on this day in 2001. Though it is still hard to believe that such a legend was taken from us so soon, his impact will never be forgotten.
https://youtu.be/98wR6-r2bbI
Check out Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel‘s retrospective on Kobe Bryant from 2020, which you can watch on Facebook. And, of course watch the Oscar-winning short, Dear Basketball. You can also listen to Kobe Bryant’s family-oriented podcast The Punies about a group of friends who play sports, have adventures and learn valuable life lessons along the way.
There’s also a few podcasts dedicated to collecting and sharing Kobe Bryant’s various interviews, which you can find through listennotes.com. Links to these sources and more are provided in today’s show notes and in the episode’s full transcript posted on goodblacknews.org.
In fact, we’ll leave you with a clip from one of the Kobe Bryant Getting Interviewed podcasts where Bryant speaks about his life as a student of the sport he loved and his work ethic:
Kobe: Everything was done to try to learn how to become a better basketball player, everything, everything. And so when you have that point of view, then literally, the world becomes your library to help you to become better at your craft.
Interviewer: So, because you know what you want, the world’s giving you exactly the information?
Kobe: One hundred percent. Because you know what you’re looking for.
Interviewer: So many guys tell stories about your work ethic? What was really your work ethic like and for how long did you stay disciplined?
Kobe: Well, I mean, I mean, every day, I mean, since 20 years, it was an everyday process and trying to figure out strengths and weaknesses. For example, jumping ability, my vertical was a 40 wasn’t a 46 or a 45. My hands are big, but they’re not massive. So, you’ve got to figure out ways to strengthen them so your hands are strong enough to be able to palm a ball and do the things that you need to do. Quickness… I was quick, but not insanely quick. I was fast, but not ridiculously fast. Right? So, I had to rely on skill a lot more. I had to rely on angles a lot more. I had to study the game a lot more. But I enjoyed it though. So, like from the time I was… I can remember when I started watching the game. I studied the game and it just never changed.
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Sources:
- https://andscape.com/tag/kobe-bryant/
- https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/how-kobe-bryants-mamba-mentality-changed-the-nba/
- https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/15/sports/basketball/vanessa-kobe-bryant-hall-of-fame.html
- https://www.nba.com/stats/player/977
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Kobe-Bryant
- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-punies-by-kobe-bryant/id1425055063
- https://www.newyorker.com/sports/sporting-scene/anger-love-and-the-evolving-legacy-of-kobe-bryant
- https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/kobe-bryant
- https://stacker.com/stories/12133/kobe-bryant-life-story-you-may-not-know
- https://youtu.be/98wR6-r2bbI (Kobe Bryant’s Muse trailer)
- https://youtu.be/lUcdx4W8Xes (Dear Basketball)
- https://fb.watch/crjEns3UMg/ (Real Sports retrospective)
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