Summary
"Seventeen-time all-star; scorer of 81 points in a game; MVP and a shooting guard second only to Jordan in league history: Kobe Bryant is one of basketball's absolute greatest players, a fascinating and complicated character who knew when he was a mere boy that he would be better than Jordan on the... Full description
- Foreword
- Introduction: Only the lonely
- Part I: Gotta be Jelly 'cause jam don't shake
- The bust
- Fatherhood
- Pimps of joytime
- Pam and Jelly
- The bomb squad
- Part II: Prodigy
- Kobe Bean
- The funny guy
- Italia
- The red bicycle
- Lower Merion
- The vibe
- Part III: The chosen one
- Summer love
- The rising
- The bad, bad boy
- Come together
- Team Bryant
- Off to the stars
- Part IV: California stars
- Pacific Palisades
- On with the fable
- Chaos theory
- California stars
- Wedding-bell and other blues
- Broken ankles, shattered hearts
- Part V: Mamba
- Rocky Mountains
- The damage
- Rise up
- Legacy
- The man.