Alexander: From the start, Kobe was driven and determined
January 28, 2020, 5:28 pm
The Press-Enterprise
The clues were there from the very beginning. Those of us who were on hand in 1996, when Kobe Bryant first became a Laker, might not have picked up on them immediately but ultimately recognized those guideposts. The very first was draft night in ’96, when Lakers basketball boss Jerry West couldn’t stop raving about the 17-year-old kid from ...
