LOS ANGELES — Absent from his farewell season has been the basketball that Kobe Bryant made his standard—so wicked and righteous that it shaped all who beheld it.
Bryant has thus been left to communicate with the masses like a mere mortal—with words.
The body has broken down, yes, but Bryant has been building up to this season of his spoken word the previous 19 years of his career.
"If you're going to like me or not like me, at least like me or not like me for who I actually am," Bryant said to Bleacher Report. "I'll be cool with that."
Bryant paused as he searched in his memory bank for the spin-dribble moment he swiveled to become as bold verbally as was athletically.
"About…2006-2007, I just got rid of the filter," he said. "Just started saying whatever it is that I feel. It's a lot easier that way."
That's the midpoint of his career, and the fact that Bryant didn't realize it shows how naturally he has evolved: from a politically correct youngster uneasy about how much of his true ambition he should share to a global icon comfortable in his own skin.
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His Body Failing Him, Kobe Bryant’s Words Explain a Career We Won’t Soon Forget
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