The death of Kobe Bryant, and his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna Bryant in a helicopter crash has shocked the world. This is the life of the basketball great, beyond the game.
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00:00To be honest with you, I don't miss playing in the NBA and I don't miss the career.
00:06You know, it was 20 great years, I was very fortunate to play that long.
00:10But now I watch it through my daughter.
00:13My daughter plays every day, so I enjoy watching her develop, but that's about it.
00:31You get better every single day.
00:33It sounds cliché, but if you really think about it, it's true as form.
00:38And I think really that's the key, because when you're getting better every single day,
00:42you can't help but be phenomenal.
01:00When I grew up, I went to an Italian school at the age of six.
01:15And so I think it's important for kids to kind of learn more than just the world that is around them.
01:30How to be tough.
01:40How to have thick skin.
01:42I mean, there's not one playground around here where people just play basketball and don't talk trash.
01:47It's just non-existent.
01:49It's non-existent.
01:51So, you know, my family, we were just a bunch of trash talkers.
01:54Every park I went to was a bunch of trash talking.
01:57It teaches you how to have thick skin.
02:27Go B! Go B! Go B!
02:57Go B!
03:27Go B!
03:38If I had to pick what player right now represents the future, it would have to be Kobe Bryant.
03:49It's a big honor for us to represent our country and to come out here and try to bring back the gold medal.
03:54It's for all U.S. athletes.
03:55We just want to try to make the country proud and represent it the best way we can.
04:24Kobe, at Lower Merion High School, you wanted to be great.
04:38You were looking for greatness, but could you have seen the career that you had?
04:42Could you have pictured it at that point?
04:44I played 20 years.
04:46It wasn't even a thought for me in terms of how long I would play.
04:50I mean, I kind of assumed it was like 13, 14 years.
04:53I tended to be the average, you know?
04:55And then the years just kept coming, just kept piling up.
04:58And so, no, I never imagined playing this many years.
05:18I feel better than winning a championship, to be honest with you.
05:21I swear I do.
05:22Growing up as a kid, I dreamt of winning championships, you know?
05:26And working really hard to make that dream come true.
05:29But then to have something like this seemingly come out of left field, you know?
05:35I heard a lot of people tell me when I started writing, and they would ask me,
05:39what are you going to do when you retire?
05:40And I'd say, well, I want to be a writer.
05:41I want to be a storyteller.
05:42And I got a lot of, that's cute.
05:44That's cute.
05:45You'll be depressed when your career is over and you'll come back to playing.
05:48And I got that a lot.
05:49And so to be here right now and to have a sense of validation is, dude, this is crazy, man.
05:57It's crazy.
06:19It's crazy.