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Kobe Bryant’s Team Beat Their Competitors by a Whallop, Showing Off Just How Much They Had Improved

Arun Sharma
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Kobe Bryant's Team Beat Their Competitors by a Whallop, Showing Off Just How Much They Had Improved

Kobe Bryant’s competitiveness knows no bounds – even his kid’s team shared the same mentality.

With a two-hashtag post, Kobe Bryant took the internet by storm. For he had not only defeated a local rival with his girls’ team, but he had also annihilated them. Beating them 115-27, Bryant and his team won the match with a margin bigger than Kobe’s epic performance against Toronto in 2006.

The best part about this post was not the score, but the story behind it. Having lost to the very team that got battered 2 years ago, Kobe instilled a sense of revenge in each player he coached. It took him two years to make sure that they were on the right track, and boy how.

The rivals made improvements of their own. better their total by about 5 points. But the Mambas still had 2 hard 8s over them. Petty as it may be, Kobe and his team needed that motivation to get better, just like he did when he was younger.

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Kobe Bryant instilled the Mamba mentality in everyone – saying Swish, Kobe every time someone makes a shot now is emotional

People live their lives knowing that one part of them has the spirit of the Mamba in them-that is enough to call Mamba a legend. Legends never die because they live on in people’s hearts, and in Kobe’s case, their actions. The Mamba mentality has inspired some of the most well-known athletes today and will continue to do so.

The league has not been the same since his retirement, with each season getting progressively harder to digest. While a staunch Laker fan would agree with every word of that statement, he would much rather have Bryant alive and retired than pass away so untimely.

In a way, each basket his proteges make has a bit of Kobe in them. In a way, he’s like a Horcrux. He did not think he could split his soul into so many pieces, but he lives on, forever.  for that, and that alone, Mamba is never out.

Also Read: “Kobe Can Be Consumed with Surprising Anger”: Phil Jackson wasn’t ‘Surprised’ by Kobe Bryant’s 2003 Case

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Arun Sharma

Arun Sharma

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Arun Sharma is an NBA Editor at The SportsRush. A double degree holder and a digital marketer by trade, Arun has always been a sports buff. He fell in love with the sport of basketball at a young age and has been a Lakers fan since 2006. What started as a Kobe Bryant obsession slowly turned into a lifelong connection with the purple and gold. Arun has been an ardent subscriber to the Mamba mentality and has shed tears for a celebrity death only once in his life. He believes January 26, 2020, was the turning point in the passage of time because Kobe was the glue holding things together. From just a Lakers bandwagoner to a basketball fanatic, Arun has spent 16 long years growing up along with the league. He thinks Stephen Curry has ruined basketball forever, and the mid-range game is a sight to behold. Sharma also has many opinions about football (not the American kind), F1, MotoGP, tennis, and cricket.

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