Rare Video Of Kobe Bryant In High School Surfaces On The Internet

Bryant’s high school coach, Gregg Downer, said that Kobe’s presence showed their team how to feel as tough as the inner-city schools.

“We are a relatively small school. The suburban schools would be labeled soft. The inner-city schools would be labeled gritty and tough.

Kobe set the foundation and showed us how to do it.”

It took a while. Kobe made the varsity team as a freshman, but the team went 4-20.

Not only will Lower Merion always be an important part of Bryant’s story, but Bryant will always be a part of his former high school as well…

Lower Merion’s current high school players are often taunted with chants of “You need Kobe” by their rival opponents whenever they fall behind, but that comes with the territory.