Kobe Bryant
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If you made the statement that Kobe Bryant’s adult life was engineered to become the next Michael Jordan, you wouldn’t be wrong. Since his high school days, Sonny Vaccaro, the sports marketing executive who gave Michael Jordan his first shoe contract with Nike, basically annointed Bryant as the heir apparent to Jordan. Since then, Bryant spent much of his NBA career consumed with becoming “the next Jordan.” Bryant’s five NBA Championships only falls one ring short of Jordan’s six, but his 18 All-Star game selections smashes Jordan’s total of 14.
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