Until Sunday turned into a grim day of sports world mourning, if you would have asked me to bet on an athlete of our time who’d be most likely to outlast us all, I would have bet on Kobe Bryant. He was an eclectic, curious soul who listed Oprah Winfrey, J.K. Rowling and Steve Jobs among his heroes. As a grade-school hoops prodigy, the son of NBA player Joe Bryant, he was perturbed that his weaker left hand was a basketball liability. With Bryant, the remarkable always seemed possible. Bryant sits fourth on the all-time scoring list — passed for third place on Saturday night by LeBron James — but he ranks No.

Source: thestar January 27, 2020 03:22 UTC