This One's for You, Dad


 
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Kobe Bryant with his father
Walter Iooss Jr.
For Kobe Bryant, the road to the NBA ran through his father's elbow. "When I was 14 or 15 he started cheating," Kobe says of Joe, a former NBA journeyman. "He'd elbow me in the mouth, rip my lip open. Then my mother would walk out on the court, and the elbows would stop."

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