Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant was curious, cerebral, and competitive. Those three things, following his playing career, blended to craft a personality that was always looking for avenues to learn and do more outside of the game of basketball, which he had mastered over the course of his time with the Lakers.
Bryant, in the few years of his retirement prior to his sudden and shocking death in early 2020, kept in touch with plenty of his former teammates and adversaries, learning from how they kept busy in retirement, picking their brains on how he could best carry out his next chapter, and encouraging others around him as well.