Displaced Myth

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.