Behind the legend, it's the child who never gave up on his dreams. Now that he's a star between stars, he doesn't forget where he came from and where he is headed. He's a living proof that hard work and determination can lead you in the direction you intend to go. Only through sweat, tears and scars you can achieve whatever you deserve. Most people want something, but they don't deserve it, because they are not willing to do something in that sense.
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What luck!
honghongme29 June 2018
I have more than one ID with imdb. This morning, I happens to me to look up something about Kobe and find only one review under Dear Basketball titled The One And Only. I voted for it to find that I was just on my ID oneandonly, dope~
In the poem, not only a six-year-old boy but a girl of the same age gave her to stage who was so sure of her destiny on the Red Shoes,a comedy,however.
After years of sweat, tears and scars, he deserves. Of years of ups and downs, I survive. There the fortune keeps calling me, I respond. It comes with so much more, I deserve. Kobe, A Legend. Me, to be!
Okay tribute to Kobe, but as a film not really a big success
Horst_In_Translation7 March 2019
Warning: Spoilers
"Dear Basketball: The Legend of Kobe Bryant" is an American 5.5-minute short film from 2015, actually released for the holidays, so itis a bit older than three years now. This is not the animated short film that actually made Kobe Bryant an Oscar winner. Who would have thought that, but a film based on the same subject, a poem (without rhymes) by Kobe Bryant, in which he elaborates on why basketball is everything to him. This was released when he was already at the end of his long and successful career and now he is retired. So yeah, I think it wasn't a bad watch by any means, but something was missing here to win me really over. I think with this I am mostly referring to the visual side, which is basically a Kobe Bryant highlight reel and this just doesn't cut the cake for me, even if there is no way I will say anything negative about Bryant, his skills and his career. I liked the audio more. Narrator sounds a bit like Morgan Freeman (or is it him?? I don't think so). It was fun listening to him though and the line delivery was pretty solid. Shame we don't have a name here on the imdb title page. Anyway, overall i would give this one still a thumbs-down and I am pretty sure some are mistaking it for the Oscar-winning film because it has the same title, of course the title of Kobe's poem, but this one here is from 2 years earlier. Watch it if you love Kobe already, skip it if you don't. This won't turn you into a fan. Or watch the equally brief animated short film. He almost sounds shy at the very end here when we see and hear him eventually. Surprised me a bit. Maybe because he knew the quality here isn't that great.
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