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Includes a bonus episode from the podcast I Am Kobe
The inside look at one of the most captivating and consequential figures in our culturewith neverbeforeheard interviews
Kobe Bryants death in January 2020 did more than rattle the worlds of sports and celebrity The tragedy of that helicopter crash which also took the life of his daughter Gianna unveiled the full breadth and depth of his influence on our culture and by tracing and telling the oftforgotten and lesserknown story of his early life The Rise promises to provide an insight into Kobe that no other analysis has
In The Rise listeners will travel from the neighborhood streets of Southwest Philadelphiawhere Kobes father Joe became a local basketball standoutto the Bryant familys isolation in Italy where Kobe spent his formative years to the leafy suburbs of Lower Merion where Kobes legend was born The story will trace his career and life at Lower Merionhe led the Aces to the 199596 Pennsylvania state championship a dramatic underdog run for a team with just one star playerand the runup to the 1996 NBA draft where Kobes dream of playing pro basketball culminated in his acquisition by the Los Angeles Lakers
In researching and writing The Rise Mike Sielski had a terrific advantage over other writers who have attempted to chronicle Kobes life access to a series of neverbeforereleased interviews with him during his senior season and early days in the NBA For a quarter century these tapes and transcripts preserved Kobes thoughts dreams and goals from his teenage years and they contained insights into and told stories about him that have never been revealed before
This is more than a basketball audiobook This is an exploration of the identity and making of an icon and the effect of his development on those around himthe essence of the man before he truly became a man
A Macmillan Audio production from St Martins Press
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