I remember Joe always taking him to the gym… he used to climb into the hoops while we were playing,” Olivieri told Reuters. Bryant was especially fond of Reggio Emilia, where he spent two years. “Forever one of us,” the Reggio Emilia Pallacanestro Reggiana team wrote on Twitter, posting some photos of Bryant when he played for the youth team. “Kobe wasn’t known as an NBA star in Reggio Emilia. She added that Kobe had told her that he wanted to bring his daughters to live in Italy.

Source: National Post January 27, 2020 19:07 UTC