Kobe Bryant: Phoenix Bound

Woah! Relax! Easy! I'm not talking about a trade to the Phoenix Suns. I was talking metaphorically. As in the rise of the Phoenix? You know, the mythical bird that never dies, the one who flies ahead to the front, always scanning the landscape and distant space? The one who rises from the flames to once again soar and create intense excitement and deathless inspiration?

He has done it hasn't he? He has overcome and has risen out of the flames and ashes of the Shaq trade, the Phil Jackson firing, Phil's book calling him uncoachable, the Colorado rape case, the Colorado civil suit, $4 million dollar ring public apology, the lost endorsements, the whining and crying to the press, and all the other obstacles unmentioned. 

He is once again one of the sport's...

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