GROWING UP
Kobe Bryant was born on August 23, 1978 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Click here for His parents, Joe and Pam, already had two girls, Sharia and Shaya. Kobe was their third and final child. Life in the Bryant family was not your normal everyday existence. Joe, a playground hoops legend from Philly’s John Bartram High School, was in the midst of a scattershot pro basketball career that took him to three different countries. Read the rest of this entry »