Kobe Week: The Mix in My Mind
By Jack Maloney
So Kobe Week at the Hardwood Paroxysm Basketball Network was actually last week, but I was on the road and wasn’t able to finish this little project until last night. Therefore, Kobe Week continues. And hey, who can’t use a little more Kobe in their life?
This is a continuation of Ian Levy’s great Mix in My Mind series, however, instead of picking a song, I set slow-motion highlights of Kobe Bryant to a reading of Rudyard Kipling’s poem, “If”. To be honest I’m not really sure how much I like it. I’ve watched it probably a dozen times and sometimes I think it’s great, and sometimes not so much.
Hopefully you’ll enjoy it, but if not, that’s okay too. Maybe it will hit, and maybe it won’t, but in true Kobe fashion, I had to shoot my shot. And besides, if we’ve learned anything from Kobe Braynt, it’s that even if you miss–like a whole bunch of times, even–you can still be the MVP.
Also check out some of the previous installments of The Mix in My Mind:
- Kobe Bryant — “Desperado” by the Eagles
- Paul George — “Papa Don’t Take No Mess” by James Brown
- Kevin Durant — “Jukebox Hero” by Foreigner
- J.R. Smith — “Just The Way You Are” by Billy Joel
- Ricky Rubio — “Supertrooper” by ABBA
- DeAndre Jordan — “Running With The Devil” by Van Halen
- San Antonio Spurs — “Booze Fighters” by The Sweetback Sisters
- DeMarcus Cousins — “Folsom Prison Blues” by Johnny Cash
- DeMarcus Cousins (alternate) — “Angry Young Man” by Billy Joel
- Kevin Love — “I Need to Know” by Sons of Pitches