Vanessa Bryant changes one line in Kobe's new book because of popular 'Mamba Mentality'

This January, world lost Kobe Bryant to a tragic helicopter accident. Bryant left behind his incredible NBA legacy – having spent 20 years playing for Los Angeles Lakers, preaching his Mamba Mentality. However, five-time NBA champion also wrote children's books – three of which came out after his death. In a recent interview, his wife Vanessa Byrant discusses his book Epoca: River of Sand, and how she ended up changing one line in book. 

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Vanessa Bryant on changing a line in Kobe's book based on his Mamba Mentality

Vanessa recently talked to book's co-author Ivy Claire, discussing how she felt a line needed ot be changed to suit Bryant's Mamba Mentality. "I remember re was one line of this book that said, 'Friends come first, practice comes second'," Vanessa says, ding how that was line she wanted to be changed. 

She explains how Bryant would never agree to it, because she remembers him telling kids to practise, as ir "friends will be re" afterwards. Bryant, who was known to rely on his Mamba Mentality on court, once spoke about practices on Pardon My Take podcast, and how y are meant to be competitive. As per Bryant, if anything was not competitive, one was doing something wrong. 

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In an interview with a magazine, Bryant h revealed that he did so to separate himself. He felt that re were a lot of things surrounding him at once and everything became very confusing for him. In order to organize everything, Bryant created ' Black Mamba'. 

Lakers legend has also explained process behind his Mamba Mentality. NBA star wanted to destroy everyone on court and needed to let out all his pent up frustration. Wanting nothing to get in his way, Bryant was determined to be unstopabble. His thought process is also immortalized in book  Mamba Mentality: How I Play, originally published in 2018. 

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Bryant's or book  Wizenard series: Season 1, released earlier this year.  book is Bryant's final creative work in  Wizenard series and picked up from where last book  Wizenard Series: Training Camp ended.  final book, co-authored by Wesley King, soon became No.1 Amazon best-seller in Children's Basketball Books.

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