Few athletes have the penchant for storytelling that the Lakers legend had for much of his life
A few days after his death, an unfathomable amount of words dedicated to Kobe Bryant had floated onto the internet and into print. There’s a lot to be said about the American professional basketball player. He had a life and career that left behind countless opinions to express and infinite statistics to analyse.
In this regard Bryant did himself a favour: he began to write his own story. He was a big believer of athletes taking charge of their own narratives and his exploration into media and storytelling will provide many lessons. Perhaps even some warnings too. The concept was to give a voice back to the sportsperson, something that is often lost in the world of sport journalism that too often falls prey to a sensationalist clicks-first approach.
When he decided to call it quits on his playing career, he naturally selected the Players’ Tribune to break the news — in a poem titledYou gave a six-year-old boy his Laker dream/ And I’ll always love you for it./ But I can’t love you obsessively for much longer./ This season is all I have left to give./ My heart can take the pounding,/ My mind can handle the grind/ But my body knows it’s time to say goodbye.
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