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to rule. the. >> best of. >> luck for. >> a happy and healthy future. you have. >> the 100% support. >> and love it was. >> a dream of mine to play for the lakers. >> ever since i was a little kid. i would watch. >> magic play. >> i'd watch. >> michael play. >> and i'd say, you know, can i get to that level? kobe bryant? i have decided to. >> skip college and take my. >> talents to the nba i want to be the greatest player
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that i could possibly become. >> he was fearless. his intensity was unmistakable and uncontrollable for him. >> it was a bumpy road. >> kobe bryant has been accused of sexual assault. >> to reinvent himself. >> the way he did. >> 20 years, five nba championships. >> 17 all-star selections. >> a league. >> mvp award and two. >> olympic golds. kobe bryant. >> it's like one of the most remarkable. >> stories in. sports history. how do. >> you channel the villain to unleash the hero? >> how do you. >> use darkness to create greatness? >> we are all mourning the loss of a legend. tonight. >> people who may. never even know what a basketball. >> looks like. >> felt this presence.
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>> it started with joe and it started with pam. they're making sure that kobe is able to live the. >> dream. >> we need to tell that story of of kobe bryant and his family before. it's really understand who this guy really was. >> i saw kobe at 15 or 16. he took two classes from me english two and speaking arts. as a senior. >> in speaking arts. i'm about to give a full. >> presentation for 2.5 minutes. three minutes. >> he's just very quiet. >> and very self-possessed. and he was duffy. >> done done done. >> done. >> he was dear. and he was duffy. >> i've admired a lot of
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people. people such as magic johnson, michael jordan, emmitt smith. but the two people that i admired the most are my mother and my father. >> he was very much moved by the fact that we spent a. >> lot of. >> time in sophomore year talking about joseph campbell and the hero's journey, the idea of determining what it is that you really love and what it is that you want, and going after that with every fiber, every every part of your body and heart and soul and passion. >> hearing the ball bounce. family that you get on making a great pass, you know. walking on the hardwood, lacing up your sneakers. i just love it. i love jumping, i love dunking, i love hearing the crowd going ooh and ah. the whole game is just tremendous. you know? i love it. >> starting lineup. for tonight.
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number 24 kobe bryant. >> was not a great basketball school. >> it was a school known for its academics. and kids going to. ivy league. >> schools more than for producing. superstar basketball. >> players. they hadn't won. >> a state. >> championship since 1943. >> and when i. >> started to talk to the team, i said, i'm here to help you win championships. and as. >> i said that word. >> i could see kobe kind of sit up. i locked. eyes with him and we had his attention. then. >> he wrote. >> a contract. >> to himself. i'm going to work out with weights in the morning. i'm going to do my basketball stuff in the afternoon. >> he's the. >> first one. >> in practice. >> and every single.
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>> practice he. >> was 110%. >> 1000 jump shots a. >> day. every single practice. when he played offense, he was going to attack you every time he got the ball. like every time he got the ball. um, doing suicides right? you'll have guys that are the best on the team or the most talented on the team, and they're just like, running with the pack. he, like, will full out sprint. and i'm like, what is he doing? >> he had a contract with himself and he's not going to break that contract. >> i grew up in west philadelphia. >> uh. also known. >> as affectionately known as wild west. kobe and i are friends. >> when i show up to the gym he's like, i need you to tell me, like, what are they saying about me in the city?
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>> omarion at that time was just seen as a suburban program compared to the city. what are you saying? >> he goes to that white school in the suburbs. and that was something that he held on to for a little while, and that's something that he used as fuel. >> i was. >> really, really. >> good at. >> taking negative things and just refocusing. >> them. >> there's nothing anybody can say that's really going to take you backwards, you know what i mean? because you just use it all. >> my favorite game that season was a game against haverford high school. kobe is throwing up
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in the locker room has the flu. so we come out and they are like excited because they don't see kobe. we warm up, we go back to the locker room for like our final speech that coach downer is giving. kobe comes back out. and you could tell, like the expressions from the other team went from like super excited to like, oh, here we go kobe is like throwing up during the game he ends up scoring like 45 points. >> once you step on the floor. you defended yourself. pride
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was like, dude, you're not only representing yourself, but you're representing your family and you're representing your team. and it drove me a lot more. you know, having a father that played and my father always, you know, challenged me to become a better basketball player than him. >> joe was. >> an immensely talented basketball player who took his game to high levels. >> mr. joe bryant is the master builder. he knew that his son was going to be a basketball legend. >> miss pam, she was very
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play, too. i have a little hoop, you know, in the living room where i play. then they take a time out and i take a time out. you know, sit down, have some water. you know. and then they start playing. then i play again i'm three years old, and i would do this for the entire game. >> joe bryant grew up in southwest philadelphia. >> he comes from a pretty tough part of town. basketball was his outlet. >> joe began his career with his hometown team with the philadelphia 76ers. >> joe bryant was a very colorful player. had a big personality. he was showtime before there was showtime as people like to say he was just ahead of his time in his rookie year joe had a little bit of a problem with the police where he was pulled over. >> he's with a woman who is not pam bryant. there's cocaine, and
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he ends up panicking and he actually leads the cops on a chase through the streets of philadelphia. and it leads to one of the worst nights of his life. joe's entire family is there at the trial. >> they were the original ride or die couple, and they were like, okay, let's figure this out. but i'm not leaving. >> the judge who handles joe's case dismisses the charges. but this was an incident that followed joe. it's not long after this that the sixers trade him to the san diego clippers. and he's not in san diego very long before they trade him to the houston rockets. and he's not with the rockets very long before they say, you know what, joe? it's time to move on it actually got so bad for joe after his nba career ended that he took a job as a car salesman. >> he wanted to be a superstar. and so yeah, selling cars was worlds away from where he felt like he should have been.
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>> so joe is seeking counsel about what he should do next, and one of those friends advises him, hey, go play in europe. so joe takes that advice and moves to italy. >> milano yantar quattro. grido zhou. when a giocare. in quella era l'unica societa di castro l'ora existent ariev. ariev di una piccola cittadino di cerca attualmente sessanta mila abitanti una citta di provincia dov'e. aqui tempi non era facile incontrare degli atleti o delle persone di colore. >> libero in questa. >> azione da. attacco della nostra roberto stefano andreani e non. >> sfoglia.
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>> tre punti di joe bryant. >> in italy. joe gets the love and appreciation and celebrity that he never got in america. as an nba player. >> bryant. he was. >> a person. >> a player with a lot of. >> passion. >> and he. >> was able. >> to transfer. >> this passion. >> to the. >> people. >> we don't. >> want. >> just leaders without passion joe bryant was that kind of player bryant. >> un personaggio. favoloso unico non si e altri. >> qualche difetto questo io. trovati non c'e un bravo. >> éowyn in de la famiglia fatto abbastanza strano mp che
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venivano solo di giocatori lui porto, anche la moglie. hydrophilic. >> i know that had to be jarring for the rest of the family, because i don't know. many black families picked up and moved to italy. at that point it wasn't as common. doge the courage that took for he and pam to do that, to take their kids, to separate them from their extended families. it must have been very hard for them, but they did it. >> at the time, i was only six years old and i was pretty much clueless about the whole situation. my parents basically told me kobe, you're going to an italian school. we want you to learn new language. and when you're young, you just basically do whatever your parents tell you to do with no questions asked joe bryant, capocannoniere de la serie a two con oltre 36 punto
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di medea a partita e. every time i saw my father step on the court, i got happy and i got chills. everybody's going crazy cheering for him. and that's how he felt about my father. >> o÷wi÷cim kobe bryant, che il figlio alto del caso del american eagle. che si prima egipto in una in un palacio nel cuore davvero dimostra che non mente. bordo campo sara sempre kobe. seguire. il padre. e quando poteva faceva il towel boy. ragazzo che che puglisi. il parco raccoglie pallone. >> he's getting a master class in basketball at an age when most kids are worried about where they're going to get ice cream next. >> i remember. >> asking him that question about his. >> favorite gift. >> and i think it was.
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>> a. >> basketball he received for christmas. i think once he got that basketball as that kid, he was never, ever, ever going to let this go. basketball has the ability to take you places you don't know you could ever get. >> to. bryant. pinto da ba da da da da. una gran kobe. >> didn't want to be one of the all time greats. he wanted to be the best. >> he may be the one to self-sabotage everything he's ever wanted. >> that's when the black. >> mamba was born. >> kobe the making of a. legend saturday at nine on cnn. >> okay. >> everyone. >> our mission is to provide complete, balanced nutrition for strength and energy. >> ensure with. >> 27 vitamins and minerals. >> nutrients for immune health and. >> ensure complete. >> with 30g of. >> protein. >> feeling backed up and bloated? >> good thing metamucil fiber
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wherever you get your podcasts. >> cristo is kobe bryant zhou. e devo dire che e un fenomeno qui le visto giocare, dice praticamente che ha del dot incredibile che davvero cos'e kobe e si. si no hay proprio non si un gran giocatore diciamo che abbastanza per la tua eta diciamo insomma stai facendo delle cose si consapevole potresti diventare un gran giocatore professionista come to papa speriamo. tutti quanti molto si. o era. >> un latino. molto molto molto verbo. quando la cosa e non. vita di un capire. quando la cosa gilboa jabbar. kabaeva subito inmediatamente a pasqua. si.
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>> disputada il trofeo mini. >> basket. trofeo mini basket. >> gioacchino. squadra di facciamo giocare e kobe a otto. anni anche sia due minuto. gli altri che sara mi. inizia. >> la partita. prende. la kobe. non passa la polla. nessuno e everett kelley. catastral. revista de la squadra aerea. >> la squadra. kobe. ramallah paola e nastro. questa cosa volante per azione a un certo punto. saranno nove bambini che pensavo che non parla. >> kobe believed in himself even at the youngest possible age, to a degree that i think is hard to comprehend. his parents
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believed in him that much to. james ho plays for four different teams while he's in italy. the family is constantly moving. >> reggio emilia was the last stage of his italian life. emilia is a very safe town, a small town, and you were very independent due to that. incontrato kobe. la prima volta nella mia classe. quindi a. >> scuola. >> e la gran novita nella nostra classe. un ragazzino americano wow. si. nah, che poi abbiamo iniziato uscire anche insieme dopo la scuola. giro in mountainbike per il centro. fino che non arriva perché e doveva andare. a alinaqi e se
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non aveva alinhamento doveva andare a dal nrc comunque, quindi. they remember this long afternoon playing in this court. kobe didn't want to leave, having lost the last game. sometimes he lost and it was like no, no, no, play one more, play one more. i want to win. play one more. kobe magari non era fuori tirare per cui bastava prendere corridoio per trovato andare in sala e louvre seduto sul tappeto magari mangiando pollo frito di pamela e va la video cassette che arrivano la philadelphia. >> my grandparents used to send me out all the tapes of all the games, so it was the lakers, the celtics, the bulls. i heard my
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grandfather used to put a pack of tapes together. they used to send them out to us. and i used to sit there at the house and just just watch the games over and over and over again. >> yandro di diceva sempre io andreuccio sa'ar nel nba no mi devo alinari perché io andrew. io redivo dicevo certo io fara la foto della vincero un noble. non scherzando. la diceva io arrivera. si parliamo del tempo della media i ricordo piu bello piu emozionante e stato una recita. abbiamo fatto teatro. kobe era bravissimo bella e questo tipo di felicita. ma questa semplicita autentica
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non la piu vissuto. credo. la sua ultimi possibilita di essere solo kobe. >> that's where i grew up. that's why my friends are. and that's how i basically learned the facts of life. so that's my home. my heart is there. my heart will always be there. so it's very hard. my father told us that he's retiring from the game of basketball, and that it was time for us to come back to america. i didn't want to come back, and my sisters didn't want to come back. it was very hard, didn't adjust it simply because i had a lot of trouble understanding english and the slang. i wasn't invited to
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parties or, you know, family gatherings on the weekend, fridays and saturdays i would go to my rec room with my basketball and basically dribble myself to sleep. and i think that that was the best thing that could have ever happened to me, because during those lonely hours in the rec room, i discovered the hunger, the motivation and the desire to be the best possible basketball player that i could be. >> i've got good news and i've got bad news. what do you want? first? the bad. the news is newsom even more than ever. >> what's the good news? >> it means we're doing another season of have i got news for you. >> have i got news for you returns february 15th on cnn. >> this is me before santobello. and this is after. >> this year. lose stubborn fat permanently with sono bello. one visit fat removal. >> i wanted the results. of a tummy tuck, but not the downtime. i'm so happy. >> i'm loving life. i'm loving my body. i'm loving.
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reeve story next sunday at eight on cnn. >> my parents basically said to me, kobe don't do good in the books. you're not going to play basketball. it's that simple i just kind of clicked. i said, hey, man, you're not taking basketball away from me. >> kobe took my speaking arts class as a senior, and that was a wonderful opportunity to talk with him a little bit about his interest in considering pro basketball. i was adamantly against it. adamantly, adamantly against it. i was very worried about this young man going off into the snarls of pro basketball and all the glittery stuff that comes with it.
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>> if a high school basketball player wanted to get noticed, he would go to the a, camp. >> the abcd camp. >> was where the best players in the united states came together to compete against each other. >> in the last 14. >> minutes. >> to the top. >> senior of the week, and that will be presented to kobe bryant. >> when kobe went to the abcd camp, that really elevated him to be the number one player in the country. >> litani river uqora 33. kobe bryant. >> kobe was literally being recruited by every college there was. >> and there was a change in atmosphere. when i came back to watch kobe his senior
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year. >> kobe captured the. >> hearts of fans all across. >> america. >> every game. >> the crowds grew larger. >> and larger, and in. >> each one, kobe. >> rose to. >> the challenge. >> every game was sold out. >> roberto minuta number 33. kobe bryant. >> the hype was overwhelming. i just thought i was going to go in, have a great senior year and play basketball, have a good time, win some games. i really didn't expect all the hype that came along with it, but i'm enjoying it. i'm having a good time. >> number 33 kobe's ryan. >> bryant no, no. >> that's a you're my idol. remember me when
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you're in the nba. >> now he's getting his. >> own identity. >> as. >> a person. >> and now. >> people come. >> up to me, hey, that's kobe's dad. >> and i'm. >> like saying, hey. >> we will. >> call the action for you as it happens here tonight in the piaa, a boys squad, a state championship. >> the champion out of the west, erie cathedral prep's the champion out of the east, the aces of lower merion, featuring the best player. many believe in high school basketball. kobe bryant, you see coming out onto the floor right now. >> aces al-jolani high school. football. >> i was a bandwagon hopper, yes, i'll admit it. and i went to the state championship. he was so bold and so. loose number 33, kobe.
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>> bryant for two. >> i love watching a body in motion. has a focus, has a drive, has a destination and gets there. >> with a slam. >> he was so good at that. >> now he's going to step into a three. missed it. that's going to do it. it's over. lower merion has won. and there's. >> a young man. >> that has been so ballyhooed and has packed this arena tonight. >> it drove home to me that this was not just a high school adolescent boys hopeless dream. >> my father, jellybean joe bryant, son, kobe embracing on the side. >> this was real. and he just said, mrs. mastriano, you've got to understand. it's
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just the window's closing. the great teachers. and in the sport aren't going to be around much longer. i want to learn from them. >> something is burning that's pushing me to improve and to find out more about this game. >> this is the guy who had really one dream in life, and that's to be as good as the greatest player to ever play the game of basketball. >> they had a press. >> conference scheduled for like the middle of the. day in our gymnasium. there were hundreds of people there. students, media reporters. >> as he walked out, he had his sunglasses up on his forehead and a nice suit on. and greg downer, who was the head coach, said to me, should i tell him to
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get those sunglasses off? they look terrible. and i said, greg, he's not our guy anymore. >> i'm kobe bryant. i've decided to take my talents to, uh. >> he was hamming it up because, like, he knew what he was going to say. >> no, i have decided to skip college and take my talents to the nba. >> the immediate reaction was just like backlash. hate. >> wait a minute. what's a 17 year old. >> doing going into. >> the. >> nba? >> he's great. >> against other high. >> school players. that's all he is. >> well, i definitely. >> think that these young players. >> should should go on to college and get some emotional maturity. >> any doubt at all that he can make this transition? >> uh, i don't have any doubt in my son. >> i think what kobe has, i think.
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>> he has that burning desire. and that's one thing no one can measure is your heart. they can see your talent. they can see whether you can shoot, dribble. but there's one thing you can't measure that heart. and. >> and i've. >> been with him for 17 years, and it's something. >> it's a look that he. >> gets in his eye. kid has heart. >> i'm very confident in my choice. and i'm going at it 110% all the way. no turning back. >> kobe didn't want to be one of the all time greats. he wanted to be the best. >> he may be the one to self-sabotage everything he's ever wanted. >> that's when. >> the black mamba was born. >> kobe. the making of a legend saturday at nine on cnn. >> hey, neighbor. you switched to t-mobile home internet yet? >> trim your. >> hedge. >> it's 35. >> bucks. >> a month. >> with no. price hikes. bam it runs on t-mobile's. wireless 5g network, so all you got to do is plug in one cord. >> t-mobile 5g home internet just 35 bucks a month. and with price lock, we won't raise your rate on internet. >> i did it. so i switched to t-mobile home internet and i am loving it.
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stopping traffic so this is the world that kobe is entering at that time. >> there were no automatic shoe deals coming out for high school students. at the time. kobe was different. >> even though kobe hasn't been drafted yet, the bryants signed a multimillion dollar shoe deal with adidas. joe himself gets a $150,000 annual salary as part of kobe's deal with adidas. not bad for someone to be paid to be the father of a budding nba superstar. >> hip hop on. >> and on. >> till the break. >> he's going to wear number eight and kobe. this is for you. >> thank you very. >> much. >> you know, i was in the airport on my way up here and people come up to me and say, hey, do you play basketball? and i said, yeah, you know, i play basketball. and they say, well, what team do you play for? i'm used to saying, lower merion
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high school, so i'm like, well, i play for lower merion high. no, you know what? i'm a los angeles laker. >> we're the number one team. you're the number one fans. we're in the number one city. >> the lakers weren't a run of the mill nba team. the lakers were magic johnson and kareem abdul-jabbar it was hollywood. >> it was glitz. >> it was glamor. >> golden jersey. >> baby. >> the whole family. >> moved to. pacific palisades. >> they were all under one roof. palatial house, the. last on the hill of a cul de sac. everything was white and big puffy couches. >> i think they had the same dream of superstardom. two men understanding that this is a very special place. it's a rarified air that we're in. i didn't get it for very long,
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joe, but kobe, you may have it for a very long time. >> i met kobe shortly after being drafted out of high school, and it was so great for me because i came from a place where it wasn't mom and dad in the home. i felt like i was part of the family, sat down and ate dinner together. his mom great cooking. oh man, i enjoyed those times. >> i met him during the preseason practice and early games. in 1996. he was living his dream and you could tell he knew. this is what i've always wanted. all my life. >> it's going to be very exciting for myself. you know, when i walked out here and i'm just trying to imagine the fans packing into the arena and, you know, i can't wait to finally walk out there and go through the warm ups. >> i was kobe's athletic. >> trainer. >> and with my experience with
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the showtime lakers, i just didn't see it. i just didn't see it. he was just too young, and i think we put maybe too much pressure on him initially, or he put too much on himself. >> right. you got this 18 year old kid. and when you know about the nba, like when you halfway through the season, guys are not really practicing hard like that. but you got this 18 year old coming to practice and he's full of energy and he's trying to destroy everybody in front of him. these older guys are not going to appreciate that. >> i'm. >> watch this training camp basketball. >> this is not. >> basketball. >> you know there's rookies and everybody else. there's that threshold where they get treated totally different because you are rookie. >> anything you've. >> done in the past no one cares about no. >> matter what you've won. >> where you won, what you did. you're back to the bottom of
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the totem pole. >> and he is not acquiescing at all. like, dude, you can't feel that you're that special. >> he was so obsessed with his game that it didn't really leave a lot of room for friendships on the team, or deep friendships. >> because he didn't. >> give a. >> what they thought. he didn't care. he's about this basketball, about his craft. like he's real serious about this and all the time. i mean, i used to hear i'm better than michael jordan like he used to say that faithfully. i'm better than michael jordan. michael jordan ain't got nothing on me. and i was like, this dude is insane. >> i don't care. what are you going to do? what are you going to do? we're all people here. we're just different people. you're going to criticize me because i don't want to go to a bar. you know, criticize me because i don't want to go to a club. for what? what growth can
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i get from that? >> i was one of the people that he would speak to a lot, but i was still cool with all of his teammates and they'd be like, man, look, you know, if he wasn't such a, we tell him he's the best player on this team and that's including shaq. his life at that time was. every teammate on the lakers. they don't get me when i go home. nobody in my family gets me and his family's mine. he's still a 18 year old in kobe's mind. no, i'm a grown man. >> as an 18 year old, being an nba player, you got so much coming at you and it's like, man, how do you deflect this and trying to figure out how to juggle family with being the money guy. >> we definitely felt isolated as soon as that practice was over. he would get in that mercedes benz coupe and he was gone. driving around ucla's
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campus at night tinted windows so nobody could see his kobe bryant. i'm watching the kids walking and having fun. i think he was searching. >> whether he had people around him or not. he still feels like he's out here by himself and. nobody wants to take the journey alone. >> it's the news. welcome back. but it's also kind of not the news. >> jett kain dana bash do that. >> you know, there's three lesbians on this panel. >> am i one of them? >> if you drink tap water and your balls still work, please clap no, michael. we don't fact check it. we don't care, man. >> why all the information on this show so. >> terrible? >> have i got news for you returns february 15th on cnn and stream next day on max. >> these days, the dollar just doesn't go as far. but at red lobster, you're big shrimp. and
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cnn. >> kobe went. through a period of his life where he wanted to. >> be a rapper. >> i would say it probably started in ninth grade. i had an english teacher who. used to make us write poetry. >> and he did it. he did a single with tyra banks called. >> kobe e. >> i l o v. >> e. >> what i live for basketball. >> beats and broads from italy to the u.s. yes, it's raw. it's nothing to do with it. you see, the best thing that came out of out of out of doing that was i actually met my wife and doing a little video spot. and i tap on her shoulder. she turns around and i said, excuse me, what's your name? he said, vanessa, you know, and she, you know, my eyes got real big and it was just like. >> just when he came back in the trailer, he said, i just met the girl that i'm going to. >> marry. >> nobody at home was really relating to him. he's got a
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disconnect with his team because he's too young and they think he's arrogant. and vanessa is very receptive to hearing him and taking him for who he's presenting himself to be. even as young as she is, that had to be a feeling of euphoria for kobe. >> she was. >> everything to him. she stopped going to high school because it became problematic. i mean, kobe rolling up and i remember he had this white mercedes benz and i'm like, you're going to her high school. they got engaged very quickly after they met. i think six months. everybody in his world was very adamant that there should be a prenup. 50% of marriages in the real world end in divorce. nba is even higher. he did not want a prenup. he wouldn't do it. i think joe was nervous about it. >> i mean, he thought that he
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was moving too quickly. they thought he was too young. >> i think the first time any of us even knew about vanessa was when he brought her in the locker room after the 2000 championship. >> the l.a. lakers. >> beat the. indiana pacers to win their first nba championship in 12 years. >> i'm so excited. i get two rings this year, two rings? yeah. two rings. a wedding band and the championship ring. right that my dad. hung around. >> who? >> don't talk. >> about bro. >> he wants his father to experience this. it harkens back to the state championship that kobe won at lower merion high school. he did exactly the same thing. kobe would tell people close to him that one of his goals in his nba career was to restore the bryant good name. it's not just that kobe has won a championship, his first in the nba. he wants his father to
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experience this. to remind people through his greatness of how great his father had been. >> ladies and gentlemen, the next man i'm. >> going. >> to introduce. >> has it all. >> youthfulness. talent. got lots of money. about to get married. >> come on up. >> kobe when i heard they got married, i think, you know, all of us were just like. >> what? you know. um, it was very, very quick. >> her family, a lot of her family was there. but for him, his family didn't attend. they couldn't see past what they felt like was a bad decision on his part.
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>> i think it was something that probably constituted us against the world framework inside of kobe and vanessa's marriage. >> there is a time when a child just wants to just to go out and be on his own. and that time came for me. >> and go. >> push. come on, come on, come. >> on, come on. >> come on. cake, cake cake cake. come on. >> push push push push. >> joe! pam, the two sisters, they stay around for a little bit, but at a certain point, they do move back to philly because they don't really have that relationship anymore. it was just really devastating to see because i so admired what they had as a family. >> my mother and father, the people that are there i can rely on, i can count on whenever i need something. and i love them
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with all my heart. my sisters as well. they've always been there for me ever since i was a little kid. they were like my shield and the sword fight. you know, they've always been there for me, protecting me from right and wrong. >> it's like, well, how does that get fractured so quickly? because he gets married. how does that go away so quickly? >> this is the point where you start to see the people who had been in kobe's inner circle start to fall away. kobe wants to take control of his own life. he wants the opportunity to make his own mistakes, and he's going to end up making them. >> charges were filed against kobe bryant. >> in

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