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...playing in the U.S. changed your personality? It has fertilized my growth as a person. The competitiveness of the NBA brings out more emotion in me, and I'm more willing to display that emotion...
...biggest trash talker in the NBA? The coaches...
...little higher. This is not false modesty. Harvard’s academics, athletics and social life have their strengths and their weaknesses, just like any other college does. Budding actors go to Yale, budding mathematicians to Harvard. You probably won’t see a future first-round NBA draft pick playing for the Crimson, but you might see a future women’s hockey gold medalist. Harvard may not be as exceptional a place as it’s made out to be. Nevertheless, debunking Harvard to your friends is different from debunking Harvard to the world...
Bryant has been a center of attention since he waltzed into the NBA out of high school. He wore his fame like an itchy turtleneck, never quite comfortable in it, yet never wanting to remove the celebrity garment. Teammates described him as an aloof, immature superstar. His on-court clash with personable big man Shaquille O'Neal over who would be the Alpha Laker poisoned the team's season more than the trial...
Bryant is now free to rejoin his Laker teammates--at least those who are left. As his legal team was scoring point after point, his basketball team, which lost to Detroit in the NBA finals, was disintegrating. Coach Phil Jackson is gone. So is Shaq, Gary Payton, Rick Fox and possibly Karl Malone. Bryant is the lone star, a few million dollars lighter for his legal fight--plus the $4 million "I'm sorry" ring for his wife--and toxic as a marketing personality. His contracts with McDonald's and Sprite are finished. He still has a $45 million deal...