Countless times over the past three months, Kobe Bryant struggled against the question that trailed him like a shadow:
"What are you working on?"
To outsiders, he had no easy answer, nothing that the Los Angeles Lakers icon felt that satisfied what he and 15 others had dedicated so many hours toward in his Newport Beach office. But the queries never ceased, as many wondered how an NBA star-turned-civilian was spending his first non-Lakers season in two decades. More specifically, people wondered what inroads he'd made in the storytelling realm, the one that he said throughout his final season would occupy an obsession that once belonged solely to basketball.