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Kobe Qvells About USA Basketball Uniforms

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I was watching NBC's coverage of the Olympics about 11PM EST on Friday night, when Kobe Bryant filled the screen for an interview. He said, approximately (I was a little bleary eyed) that the 1st time he saw his USA Men's Basketball uniform, he "laid it down across my bed" and just looked at it, "humbled" (A word many had previously believed was not in Kobe's vocabulary). "I had goosebumps", Kobe continued. This was frankly, positively startling. Kobe...arguably the best basketball player of our generation...was emotionally affected by a simple (albeit nice) basketball uniform. What up with that?

I'm a Philly guy. Lifelong hoops fan. And, for full-disclosure's sake, worked for the LA Lakers from 1991 to 1995 in corporate sales. During what was commonly referred to as the Randy "No Fun" Pfund & Del "Dull" Harris era. Interrupted, ever so briefly, by the 19 game Magic Johnson head coaching fiasco.

Kobe, as the son of former Sixer Joe "JellyBean" Bryant, claims "Philly-roots" when in actuality the guy grew up in Italy for most of his formative years. JB moved back to Philly with a sweet-heart asst. coaching deal @ St. Joe's Univ. when they thought they might have a chance of signing wunderkind that was Kobe.

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Adrian Davis
Interactive Media Designer
Sports Uniform Blog

Tags: basketball uniforms, basketball, olympic uniforms, olympics
Posted September 23, 2008 at 1:38 PM by TeamSportsPlanet | Permalink | Comments(2)

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I can remember feeling the same way about a Scotland swimming tracksuit as a kid. Except it was made of nylon and not especially pretty :)

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Rob Robson
Co-founder, iStadia.com
Posted by robrobson | September 23, 2008 at 3:13 PM
I can identify with that feeling, I can still remember the smell of my first (and only) gi I recieved when I was 13 years old. It was stiff and rigid, but it was "MY" gi and I will never forget it. Good times... ;)

Adrian Davis
Interactive Media Designer
Sports Uniform Blog

Posted by TeamSportsPlanet | September 23, 2008 at 3:35 PM

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