Though he walked away from the game this past April after giving the most Kobe performance imaginable, it was 20 years ago today that Kobe Bryant made his NBA debut for the Lakers. As fans of the team (or more broadly, the NBA) we all know how those 20 years went. The championships, league and Finals MVP’s, all-NBA nods, all-star games, scoring records, etc, etc.
We do not know it all, though.
What Roland Lazenby has done is attempt to fill in some of those gaps and give us more on Kobe than we have ever gotten before.