Kobe Bryant Opens Up About Animated Short Film Dear Basketball, His ‘Love Letter’ to the Sport
For two decades, Kobe Bryant dazzled the NBA on his path to five championships with the Los Angeles Lakers.
On Monday night at the Staples Center, those 20 exhilarating years were honored with the retirement of not one but two jerseys — No.
8 and No.
24 — which Bryant wore throughout his career.To mark the occasion, Bryant publicly premiered a five-minute animated movie based on his retirement announcement poem, Dear Basketball, originally was published in 2015.In the short film, Bryant narrates viewers through a visual tour starting with his childhood — which shows him watching NBA games on VHS tapes while living abroad in
