15x All-Star, 5x NBA Champion, 2x League MVP, 2x All-Star
MVP Kobe Bryant is the greatest basketball player of his generation and arguably
one of the best to ever live. Although Kobe Bryant holds many offensive scoring
related records, he is best known for his defensive like mentality. Through
physical play and the will to win Kobe Bryant has earned the nickname “Black
Mamba” the assassin of basketball. No matter how great the foe or how large the
obstacle the black mamba has the will to win and will annihilate any one on his
road to basketball immortality. Kobe Bryant has slain and even humiliated some
of basketballs greatest warriors such as Michael Jordan, Kevin Durant, Lebron
James, Derrick Rose, Allen Iverson and Tracy McGrady. Most of all Kobe is known
for his greatest intangible skill, the ability to play through injury. In 2010
Kobe tore a ligament in his shooting hand that should have benched him for the
season, instead he played through it and won his second consecutive NBA title.
Again in 2012 Kobe broke his nose, but instead of sitting the bench he put on a
protective mask and did not miss any games. The man was almost as if immortal,
never getting hurt and constantly winning. Suddenly last season a horrific injury
took place, tearing his Achilles Kobe had finally found a weakness, after the
injury he went out like a true warrior getting up and shooting his two free
throws before being carried off the court.
Kobe Bryant is
clearly the modern day Achilles.
