Kobe Bryant Discussion: Mamba Out!

Don’t even let him get the ball

—LeBron

(this is the fear he instilled in opposing players that not all stars do)

 

I received the Mamba Mentality book from Amazon, which is now marked down considerably from when it released. If you are a Kobe fan you need to own this book. It is really nice. Just starting to go through it. Wonderfully put together with the photos, copy, artful touches and design. Not a quick read and definitely coffee table worthy.

Before Pau Gasol's forward and Phil Jackson's introduction .... on one black page near the beginning after some first photos .... is this copy in white italics written by Kobe.


I remember when, as a kid, I got my first real basketball.

I loved the feel of it in my hands. I was so enamored with the ball that I didn't actually want to bounce it or use it, because I didn't want to ruin the pebbled leather grains or the perfect grooves. I didn't want to ruin the feel.

I loved the sound of it, too. The tap, tap, tap of when a ball bounces on the hardwood. The crispness and clarity. The predictability. The sound of life and light.

Those are some of the elements that I loved about the ball, about the game. They were at the core and root of my process and craft. They were the reasons I went through all that I went through, put in all that I put in, dug as deep as I dug.

It all came back to that special tap, tap, tap that I first grew infatuated with as a boy.

 

Weirdo

it’s just a ball

 

Nope.

"Ball is circle" Slava Medvedenko

"Sound of ball is life and light" Kobe Bryant


Are you peeing in Kobe's cornflakes?

 

When it came out, Costco had it for awhile and my wife saw it and picked one up for me. It is pretty awesome!

 

I was not unfortunately. I went to Shaq's exhibition game the year before, I missed a major exam in school and was warned not to do it again LOL. I went to a supposed Kobe appearance in an Adidas Shoe store after this event but Kobe never came

 

Not counting looks & age entirely ( I mean we're not gonna have chris Hemsworth play kobe,) but we need someone of epic presence to play kobe. Like an Idris Elba, Mahershala Ali. or Denzel. It would be disrespectful to hire a B list actor not just for because of his celebrity status but perfection and being the top of his industry/competition was his persona.


Someone with a commanding aura like Jeremy Irons.



Not to say Will Smith or Micheal B Jordan aren't great actors but to me they were always 'Disney'/family actors to me. I can never take them serious (although Micheal B Jordan was a stand out as a child actor in the Wire).

 

i heard Floyd Mayweather may actually get the part, and he's a pretty credible baller.

 

Yuk. Guy I don’t like playing a guy I loved? Hope not.

On another not related note I thought Will Smith did a really good job with his Muhammad Ali role.

 

Tomorrow's episode of The last dance must see TV for any Lakers fan.





Arash Markazi
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Episode 5 is dedicated to Kobe Bryant. His interview was filmed at his office in Costa Mesa last July and they edited it a week before his passing. They went back and looked at it after but it was perfect; nothing needed to be changed. The only edit was the dedication at the top.

 

No episode dedicated to Bron? What kind of trash documentary is this?!

 

:Carusohearthands: :Carusohearthands:

 

That shot towards the beginning of last night's ep when Jordan and Kobe low-fived each other in the hallway gave me chills. I'm just so bummed to be living in a post-Kobe world right now, but it was so cool seeing him that way.

 

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/b-j-armstrong-recalls-dinner-120029269.html

B.J. Armstrong recalls dinner with Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant: ‘They were playing a virtual game of 1-on-1’

 

Man, to be a fly on that wall...

 

Can’t wait to see this. Holding off until the series is over and I can choose my own streaming pace. Yes to have been a fly on the wall with MJ and Kobe into it virtually and each knowing exaactly what the other guy had. And came up with the one probably most important difference in their games. Above all else. Hey they felt it important to be included .... the size advantage of Jordan’s hands.

 

Phil always said that was the one difference between them, and to a smaller degree that MJ was focused/competitive in winning in numerous areas, whereas Kobe was singularly focused on winning bball games and nothing else