This upcoming season is an important one for Kobe Bryant. It starts what will most likely be his last contract and he’s doing it coming off two major injuries, a torn achilles tendon and a fracture in his left knee. There’s questions as to what kind of player Bryant will be when he returns. Despite winning five NBA titles, two NBA Finals MVP awards, a regular-season MVP, 16 All-Star selections and being named to the All-NBA first team 11 times, there’s still more for Bryant to accomplish. Everyone knows how badly he wants that sixth ring to match Michael Jordan, it would help in his quest to be the greatest of all time.
Here’s a small excerpt from Kobe Bryant’s cover story for the latest issue of Sports Illustrated:
He is venturing into business, forming Kobe, Inc., last year and takes an anecdote from the late Michael Jackson in trying to measure his success. Jackson was determined to have the best selling album all of time and listened to the Bee Gees’ Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, which held the record by the time 1982’s Thriller” came out.
“I f—— love that story,” Bryant said in his unending determination of being the best of all time. Thriller now holds that record.
“So when I hear pundits and people talk, saying, ‘Well, he won’t be what he was.’ Know what? You’re right. I won’t be. But just because something evolves, it doesn’t make it any less better than it was before,” Bryant said.
