Kobe Bryant Was Not Who You Thought He Was
Derek Fisher revealed the real Kobe.
On the hardwood, Kobe Bryant was this fierce competitor who went for the jugular.
He constantly barked at his teammates when they messed up and frequently smacked-talked his opponents to get the upper hand.
He was always strategizing and attacking.
But much like Eminem’s Slim Shady persona, Kobe’s on-court persona, The Black Mamba, was just a facade.
According to Kobe’s longtime teammate Derek Fisher, Kobe on-court and Kobe off-court were two very different people.
Fisher made an appearance on Byron Scott’s Fast Break recently and said that when Kobe had kids, all he thought about off of the court was how he was going to make his kids’ lives better.
“We were having a conversation about our families… I asked him a question about the family and what went into some of the decisions and how he was thinking about raising his girls. Being married, you know, continuing to expand his family. He said, ‘You know what Fish, one of the things I really had to start doing was I had to tell myself, I had to ask myself this question: how is the decision I make today going to impact my girls 20 years from now?’ This was like 2006, you know? I had never heard anybody put it that way.
“Obviously, there are a lot of people talking about fatherhood and being a husband but I had not heard it put that way. It was so clear and laser-focused. Like, it was not a throwaway thing. Like, you could hear in his communication that he thought that and thinks that way about every decision he was making. And that to me, represented how his mind worked and the side of him that people didn’t really get to see all the time. They see the Black Mamba, the assassin, the killer, but they didn’t get to see the intentionality behind the way parented, the way he fathered, the way he was a husband, the way he showed up for his girls.”
Final Thoughts
See, Kobe was a fake. He had feelings just like all of us.
And like Eminem, the only things he truly cared for were his daughters. But unlike Eminem, Kobe also cared for his wife.
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