Interesting feature on Kobe and his dad

[Sedale Threatt]

There is a common misconception that Kobe Bryant is just a younger, better version of his father: Tall professional basketball player sires same. Here is a chip off the old block. Ask those who know both men, though, and you hear something different.

"If you'd told me that of all the guys I played with, it was Joe Bryant who would produce one of the greatest players of the next generation, I never would have believed you," says Steve Mix, the All-Star forward who started ahead of Bryant on the 76ers in the late 1970s. "Maybe Mo Cheeks, but never Joe."

Jerry West, who traded for Kobe and shepherded him during his formative years with the Lakers, is more emphatic. "They are two entirely different people," West says. "If your name is Jellybean, what does that say about you? It's not a bad thing, but what does it say? You're definitely not a warrior."

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/m ... z1ucbymoAV

[Imadogg]

[i]There is a common misconception that Kobe Bryant is just a younger, better version of his father

I have not heard one person ever say that in my lifetime

[dockingsched]

thanks for the link, good read


but yeah, never heard of this "common misconception".

[Slava]

I expected that article to be from the 90s.

[mjba]

good read. ty