Ja’Kobe Walter was probably destined to be in the NBA. After all, his parents named him after Michael Jordan AND Kobe Bryant — arguably
But Walter, who is a rookie with the Toronto Raptors, didn’t know about his connection to Jordan and Bryant until he was a teenager and playing basketball for McKinney High School.
“They told me that my junior year of high school, so I didn’t really have any pressure thinking about it,” Walter told Mavs.com. “Even afterwards, I just thought of it was more of a cool thing.