and related to europe. he was a worldy cat and David Stern's NBA had the best of all worlds with marketing Kobe Bryant.

Kobe was the "Fresh prince of Bell air", with a ability to speak different languages and the global push was already in full effect.


then you add in playing in La and bringing in Phil Jackson,etc.. and everything fell into place. problem i have til this day is that kobe settled as accepting that role and while being one of the Greatest players ever, he never even tried to escape that tag and that's why i appreciate Lebron James even more because he keeps evolving and doing things without that kind of clique to be accepted as this next version of this or that.

Kobe still acting