For two decades, Kobe Bean Bryant helped in both shaping and representing Los Angeles Lakers basketball forever in unprecedented fashion.
Among the multitude of individual accomplishments, and the five championship banners currently hanging in STAPLES Center that Bryant helped shoulder, laid obstacles and uncertain career arcs in which he had to learn how to both assimilate, and adapt to.
As he now is on the verge of hitting his next milestone: turning forty. So what better a time than to sit back, turn the dial, and reflect on how the Mamba shed his basketball skin in three of his most memorable NBA seasons.