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Bryant celebrates the 2010 NBA championship, after the Lakers defeated the Boston CJerry West saw
something the
other basketball
mavens didn’t.
Everyone around
the league was
intrigued by the
slender high
school senior
with NBA genes
and confidence to
spare. But could
Kobe Bryant
really go directly
from leading the
Lower Merion
High School
Aces in suburban
Philadelphia to
guarding Michael
Jordan? It took