Kobe Bryant was once asked, "Why are you so successful?" ”
Bryant asked rhetorically, "Do you know what Los Angeles looks like at 4 o'clock every morning?" The sky is full of stars, few lights are falling, and there are very few pedestrians. ”
In 2007, O.J. Mayo, as the nation's first high school student, participated in a basketball training camp organized by Bryant. Mayo asked Kobe if he could train with him, and Kobe agreed, promising to pick up Mayo at three o'clock tomorrow to go to the training ground. However, at three o'clock in the afternoon the next day, Mayo did not wait for Kobe, and when Mayo hurried to find Kobe, Kobe told him, "I said three o'clock in the morning, not three o'clock in the afternoon." ”
Once The Alphabet Brother got the chance to train with Kobe Bryant. The two sides agreed to meet at 2:30 p.m., and Brother Alphabet arrived at the training gym at eleven o'clock in the morning, earlier than Kobe Bryant. During the training, Brother Alphabet was ready to ask Kobe Bryant questions, at which point Kobe bryant said, "You can ask me any questions, just like a child." Because children are always full of imagination and creativity, always want to learn more things, and always like to ask all kinds of questions, so when you ask questions, you have to ask the roots like a child. ”
Not long ago, Bosh shared a story between himself and Bryant at the Hall of Fame convention. In 2008 we were in Las Vegas preparing for the Beijing Olympics. I wanted to lead by example and be the first to arrive at the training ground. As a result, I set the alarm, and by the time I arrived at the training ground, Bryant was already sweating profusely there.
At this time, I found out that Kobe Not only came earlier than me, but also started training earlier. You know, Kobe Bryant just finished playing the Finals a few days ago, and he still looks so focused. And I've been resting for more than a month and still look so tired. The things he was doing at the time seemed so incomprehensible to me. Bryant told me, "Define legend. Not when they succeed, but how they bounce back in the face of failure. ”
Nowadays, the NBA league has very few players with one person and one city, and Kobe Bryant can be called a model of one person and one city. At the end of Kobe's career, the Lakers have been constantly rebuilding, and it is almost impossible for Kobe to win the championship here, but what is seen is that Kobe bryant is still trying to help the team win. The Lakers said they would be willing to send Kobe Bryant to a championship-contending team if he still wanted to have a championship ring.
But what the team did not expect was that Bryant rejected the team's offer, saying that he wanted to stay with the Lakers and was eager to end his career on a team. In order to show their respect for Kobe, the Lakers did not hesitate to send Kobe Bryant a top salary.
Someone once asked Vanessa, what is the secret to Kobe's success? Vanessa replied, "Kobe Bryant never takes shortcuts on the road to basketball, and he is willing to give everything for basketball." Sometimes he even went out with an injury, just because he didn't want to disappoint the fans who liked him, and if he could, he was even willing to play every game to repay the fans who loved him. ”
The mamba spirit, which Kobe bryant defines as passion, persistence, harshness, retribution, and fearlessness. When I mentioned it again, I was in a bit of a trance, as if it were a distant memory, as if it had always been with us. The spirit of Mamba has long become a symbol of the spirit of a generation of fans, perhaps we were once young and vigorous, once unwilling, but no matter how long time has passed, the years have not been polished to our last edges, perhaps it has been integrated into the blood.
Bryant's greatness is beyond doubt, and there is no need to dwell on it. Remember Kobe Bryant once said, "The love for you makes me willing to give everything for it, from consciousness and body to spirit and soul." The sweat and pain you have experienced is not because of the love of the challenge, but because of your call. "Hopefully, in heaven, Kobe Bryant can continue to enjoy basketball."