Kobe Bryant: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 1998

Jun 26, 2022

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[During the 1997 playoffs, Kobe Bryant was a bouncy 18-year-old rookie with boundless self-confidence. His me-against-the-world turned out to be a good and a bad thing. The bad was his two infamous airballs late in overtime of the deciding game of the Lakers-Jazz conference semifinals series, won by Utah in five games.