Kobe Bryant was an incredible basketball player and an all-time NBA great, and he will remain an American sports until the end of time. But Bryant’s greatest achievement of all might actually be mind control. There may never be another athlete in professional sports so adept at exerting his will upon others and then convincing them it was their idea.
He’s like a very tall, unlikable, multilingual Yoda.
For example: did we all really think that Kobe was the greatest of the late-game, stone cold killers, or did he brainwash us into believing that by anointing himself the “Black Mamba?