Kobe Bryant: Hero or Ballhog in the World of "infor-Tainment"

Kobe Bryant:

Hero or Ballhog in the world of "Infor-tainment"

By

Farid Khan

May 7, 2007

Kobe Bryant is a second generation basketball player and is the son of former NBA player Joe "Jellybean" Bryant. Kobe is more talented and more famous than his father who played in the late 70's and early 80's. Kobe was born in 1978 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His parents named him after the famous beef of Kobe, Japan, which they saw on a restaurant menu. After his father's NBA career ended in the early 80's Bryant's father moved his family to Italy where Kobe's father played for four years in the LEGA league. Kobe grew up in Italy and in Italy the major sport was soccer however Kobe played basketball and eventually when his family moved back to the United States he enrolled Lower Merion High School, PA. Kobe Bryant had an excellent high school career in which he became the all-time leading scorer in Southeastern Pennsylvania schoolboy history with 2,883 points, breaking the marks of NBA legend and Hall of Famer Wilt Chamberlain (2,359 points) and former St. Joseph's player Carlin Warley (2,441 points) (http://www.nba.com/playerfile/kobe_bryant/bio.html).