Grove Street Brothers

I was not a perfect person, not an easy teammate to get along with, and I could not even be considered a good person at all.
However, no one in this world could deny that I was the greatest basketball player, not even God!

Champion Creed

Kobe no longer wanted to wear the number 8.


There were two reasons why he chose the number 8 after entering the NBA.


One was because Kobe's number at the Adidas ABCD Camp was 143, but the NBA only allowed two digits on the jersey, so they had him add those three digits together, which resulted in the number 8.


Another reason was that Kobe's first basketball idol, Mike D'Antoni, who was playing in Italy for Milan at the time, wore the number 8.


So, Kobe chose the number 8 as his jersey number.


But Roger's words, "8 points for Kobe, to the number 8, that's his worth," made him never want to have any entanglement with the number 8 again.


Looking back on Kobe's career, nearly every one of his "milestone sorrows" was related to Roger.


In his rookie season, a feverish Roger managed to make Kobe embarrass himself with three consecutive failed attempts.


241: Not the ending they wanted (thanks to the landlord patron for the 5000 reward, I am deeply grateful!)