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He cared about being the best, winning games. Simple and plain. His obsession could make him by turns hustling, mean and dejected. When he joined the Lakers, his dream team, in 1996, traded from the Charlotte Hornets, he was only 17, the youngest player in the NBA. He had been picked for the pro leagues straight from his suburban high school and had lived as a boy in Italy, two things that made him odd. But he came in burning with self-belief. No babying for him; he was hard, focused, a lone artist, and much of that stayed.
科比關心的是成為最好的球員，贏得比賽。就是這么簡單。他的癡迷會讓他時不時地變得急躁、刻薄和沮喪。當科比在1996年被夏洛特黃蜂交易，加入他的夢之隊湖人隊時，他只有17歲，是NBA最年輕的球員。科比是從郊區的高中直接被選入職業聯盟的，而且他小時候在意大利生活過，這兩件事讓他與眾不同。但科比進入NBA的時候充滿了自信。他已然成熟；他是一個努力、專注、孤獨的藝術家，而這一點在他身上得到了延續。
He called himself the Black Mamba later, an assassinsnake, ruthless in the strike. Unjust foul calls and lost play-off games—especially the finals against the Detroit Pistons and the Boston Celtics—threw him into misery and vows of revenge. On the court, lithe and nimble, he wanted every game for himself. Team-mates thought him selfish, not passing enough and shooting far too much, missing more shots in his career than anyone in NBA history. He hit back at that, since at least he stayed with one team and didn’t go off somewhere else; he wanted the glory of winning the play-offs for the purple-and-golds, not just himself.
他后來稱自己為黑曼巴，是一名在戰斗中冷酷無情的殺手。不公正的判罰和輸掉的季后賽-特別是總決賽對底特律活塞 和波士頓凱爾特人-使他陷入痛苦，立下復仇誓言。在球場上，科比動作輕盈敏捷，想把每一場比賽都據為己有。隊友們認為他自私，傳球不夠，投籃太多，在整個職業生涯中，他投丟的球比NBA歷史上任何人都要多。科比對此進行了回擊，因為至少他留在了一支球隊，沒有離開其他球隊; 他想為紫金軍團贏得季后賽的榮譽，而不僅僅是為他自己。
Yet he so loved the ball that it just seemed drawn towards his hands. And he went on shooting, and shooting, not least because he sometimes saved a game with a fabulous floater in the final seconds. Besides, airballs too could look and feel good, good from trajectory to follow-through, on-line, on target. Some people thought Mozart had too many notes. As in most love affairs, he had competition. One was Michael Jordan, the greatest basketball player of the era, the Buddha on top of the mountain and winner of six rings, whom he once asked for advice while he was guarding him.
但他太喜歡球了，以至于球似乎都跑到了他的手中。他不停地投籃，不停地投籃，不止是因為他有時會在比賽的最后幾秒用一個漂亮的飄移投籃挽救比賽。此外，空氣球也可以看起來和感覺良好，良好的軌跡，持續的投籃動作，球沒有偏離籃筐。有些人還認為莫扎特音樂的音符太多了。和大多數戀愛一樣，他也有競爭對手。一個球員是邁克爾·喬丹，那個時代最偉大的籃球運動員，他是山頂上的佛，贏得了六次總冠軍，科比曾經在防守他的時候向他尋求建議。
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