Born with a Basketball...Kobe's NBA career was remarkable! Jerry West is a BBall genius for making that unpopular trade at the time Kobe was born to be great the 5 time champ played for one team for 20 seasons made the allstar game 18 times got robbed out of 3 or 4 MVP awards ended up win only one and had the will to go for the throat only matched by Jordan and Bird second best shooting guard in NBA History hands down was just a flatout killer on the court! Him and Shaq arguably the best 12 punch ever, (they could've won more if they would've left egos at the door) And he won without the big fella..The Black Mamba was that dude R.I.P