Editor Note: The new series “KOBE: The Making of a Legend” traces the story of Kobe Bryant from childhood to superstars of exercise in Italy, as a narrator, and his father as a father. I look at my hope intimately. The three -part series will be resumed at 9:00 pm (ET/PT) on Saturday.
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In 2003, Kobe Bryant was at the top of the world.
By that time, seven years after he was drunk, he had already established his position as an NBA superstar, won three championships with Los Angeles Rakes, and gained five All -Star Selection.
Bryant was also a cultural icon, transcending basketball in a mannered by a few players in history.
He appeared with a new megasignature shoe deal with Nike, fast food, drinks, various support of sports companies, and with Hollywood celebrities.
“He was the king of LA at that time,” said Daily Beast journalist and writer Allison Samuels in the Episode 2 of the CNN original movie and series documentary “Kobe: The Making of a Legend”. Masu.
After Lakers won the third straight NBA title in June 2002, the street of the angel was full of fans who cast one player: “Kobe, Kobe, Kobe!”
Bryant immediately became his father and gave birth to his eldest son Natalia in January 2003 with his wife Vanessa (married in April 2001 after a year of a year after a year.)
Given that Bryant is one of the most sought people in Los Angeles, even in the United States as a whole, interviews with news publications and TV channels continued to flow.
Meanwhile, Bryant described the image of a perfect family man or a “super hamband.” After telling Bryant to repeat his research on him, he called him “Kishimu Beautiful.”
“People really thought:” I understand, this is a man who goes home to his wife and his child, and everything is OK, “said Samuels.
However, the image was immediately crushed forever.
On July 1, 2003, Bryant was accused of sexual assault after meeting a 19 -year -old Colorado resort hotel, where Lakers Guard checked in before undergoing his knee surgery.
Bryant became a police on July 4th on July 4th. After the accusation filed a complaint to the authorities, he was officially charged by a local prosecutor Mark Halbert in a small town in Eagle, Colorado.
Bryant always claimed that the encounter was an agreement.
Trials and media scrutiny -Newspaper columns, TV segments, and interviews have quickly become circus. The town of Eagle, a “cute and small” agriculture and a ranch community, said in a documentary, “Ingrid Backke, a former prosecutor who worked on this case, said in a documentary. Not in place. ”
“The media warning from the first day, it was part of the problem,” the bucket added. “It was crazy. The report was crazy.”
On July 18, 2003, Bryant held a press conference in Los Angeles with his wife Vanessa and his lawyer Pam McKee, and was one of his first appearance since the accusation was made. I was innocent, “but he admitted that he was” “. “I was tired of myself to make a mistake of adultery.”
In a few months to the appearance of his first court on August 6, the documentary has expressed his support for Brants among members of the media, public, and the current NBA players. I am.
“She is just a hotel worker,” said the Backke, saying in Episode 2 and said many of the people’s emotions in the victim’s claim at the time. “Come on, it’s not true, and even if it’s true, she’s just a hotel worker. He’s still Kobe Bryant.”
After the claim, Samuel’s added, “People loved him even more.” This was revealed among the 2003 Nicolo de -teen chase awards.
In front of the crowds of worshiping screams, Bryant was nominated as a male athlete this year and was again selected in a chant of “Kobe, Kobe, Kobe”.
“The audience means that they were in love with him,” said Samuels. “They are as follows:” This is our hero. ”
“The support was crazy,” she added.
The insignificant nature of the suspect’s interrogation included McKee, who named her six times in the open court after the judge warned to not do so. Bryant’s lawyer later apologized and wrote a note to avoid the accuser’s name again.
McKee refused to interview a documentary.
Just one year after the Bryant was arrested, a judge, who sides the lawsuit, has decided that the victim’s sexual history is related and is allowed in a trial.
“It’s incredibly aggressive and incredibly hurt,” said Halbert, adding that the victims and her family had to move around the country several times for the threat of death. I did it.
“Bryant’s team’s tactics were to throw everything on her and break her,” said Samuels.
Eventually, they were successful.
During the election of JU, the victim’s suspect called Halbert and said he no longer wanted to proceed with the incident, but instead, recently submitted to the Bryant who personally settled in March 2005. Focused on the lawsuit.
“They just know they have lost their religions. They just lost their religion for the system,” said the bucket.
At the time the criminal accusation was withdrawn, Kobe apologized to the woman and stated in a statement:
“I reviewed my discovery over a few months, heard about a lawyer, and after seeing her testimony directly, I understand how she felt she didn’t agree with this encounter. ”
On December 19, 2003, while the accusations were still on hold, Los Angelel Slaykers hosted Denvernagets and became known for being delayed to the arena, hitting the game winner.
Bryant arrived at the Staples Center for about 4 minutes in the first quarter and flew directly to LA from the court hearing in Eagle.
He earned only 13 points, but the last two proved that it was the most important in the whole game, sinking a 21-foot buzzer beater and giving Rakers a 101-99 victory. Ta.
“It needs a strong will,” said Tracy McRadedy, a friend of Bryant’s seven all -stars and friends. “A powerful and confident individual who is really guided to a space where he can really penetrate all his focus and energy and drive him out of it.
“It was Kobe. He was able to deprive him to the place he wanted to go. In the middle, he cannot invade him to scatter because he is trying to achieve it.
“It’s a unique ability that takes hours and has a lot of meditation exercises, and he learned it.”
However, Mike Cielsky, the author of Bryant’s biography, is the author, who is called The Rise: Kobe Bryant and the pursuit of immortality, and the announcer states that he has “softened the nature of him away from the basketball coat.” I did it. He received it during the incident.
“They are framing so that he’s not allegedly doing something terrible, but to make him look like another adversity,” Cielski said in a documentary. “What can be blamed.”
“It’s a really difficult dance.”
Prior to the 2003-04 season, Bryant reached out to the performance coach, and was the author of Todd Harman, who had more than 100 Olympics and professional clients.
Harman told CNN Sport that Bryant wanted to help his mental game in the season as the trial continues.
“Basically, his main problem is,” Hey, I feel like I have lost my dominance. ”
“These were his words. I said:” You have not lost your dominance, you are experiencing your ego. ”
“Someone else said the name he hadn’t heard really resonated with him.”
Since entering the league, Bryant has been worshiped by a large number of fans. However, while he continued to enjoy public support during the trial, Herman said that Bring had turned him on some of the fans.
“He wasn’t really the one who fought a crowd before, but he called his name and when he became a internal hearing attack on him, he continued to roll the tape in his head.” I said.
“Your version, the identity that you used to work for you will not work in this new world.”
Herman said that it would need to mix science and art in order to come up with a new alter ego. “It’s a very creative process,” he added.
Given that the main concerns of Bryant seemed to be hearing, Harman began to think of ego of machinery or animals, which had nothing to do with hearing.
Harman said that Bryant likes the idea of what he explains as a closed loop animal. Unlike open loop animals such as humans and dogs, they did not share emotional energy back and forth, and eventually settled on snakes.
A few months later around April 2004, Harman said that Bryant came up with the idea of Black Mamba, a toxic Africa snake, a toxic African snake, a cord name of the killing bill of a kill bill.
When the alter ego clicked, Harman remembered that Bryant was “very excited.”
“As his achievement, I probably don’t know more about Black Mamba Snake on the earth, probably on the earth, more than Kobe.”
Bryant enjoyed many of his best moments in court after adopting his black mamba alter ego.
In December 2005, there was a 62 -point match with Marvelix, where he surpassed the Dallas team over three -quarters.
Probably, no player has experienced blackmamba like Jalen Rose.
On January 22, 2006, Rose was given a enviable job to protect Bryant while playing for Laptors.
On that day, Bryant recorded the second largest career in the NBA history behind 100 Wiltchaen Balene. Rose is the major defender in most of the games.
“The mamba mentality is real,” Rose told CNN Sports. “It’s concrete, and what I mean for me is to keep the main things mainly. He was always disciplinary action, he was always concentrated. ”
After that, Bryant won his first and only MVP award in 2008, and in 2009, the second NBA title continued in 2010, except for Shaquille O’neal, except for Shaquille O’Neal as a teammate. I did it.
“There is a lot of relation to learning how to use hatred to help him with his power,” Jackson says. “I have a lot of things that happened to this man. When he accepted hatred, the manba appeared right.”
