Valuable as it would have been for Kobe Bryant to answer the question, what he said instead was still gold.
It was early December 2014, not long before Bryant would pass Michael Jordan on the all-time scoring chart. I said Bryant’s voice sounded funny, a little lower-pitched, and he acknowledged he was dealing with a cold. Talking about his “big brother” Michael seemed to have more healing properties than even the bone broth staple of Bryant’s late-career diet, though.
- How upon entering the league, his contemporaries were “terrified, like, deathly afraid” of Jordan, but Bryant was blissfully eager to approach him.