Kobe Bryant | Be Obssessed Or Be Average
All credit for this article goes to Kathleen Elkins and CNBC.com . It was retrieved from yahoo.finance on 4/25/17. It gives a little insight on how Kobe Bryant obsessiveness helped him become great. In Kobe Bryant 's rookie season for the Lakers in 1996, he played five minutes and scored two points in a disappointing game against the Houston Rockets. "I needed to work harder," he writes on The Players' Tribune . He did. But three years later, he remembers, NBA legend Allen Iverson scored 41 points and made 10 assists while playing against him. "Working harder wasn't enough," Bryant says. "I had to study this man maniacally." And he did: "I obsessively read every article and book I could find about AI. I obsessively watched every game he had played. ... I obsessively studied his every success, and his every struggle. I obsessively searched for any weakness I could find." Bryant's fixation paid off. A year later, ...