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A television crew followed Kobe Bryant during his last NBA season

It seems that after ''The Last Dance'' we will have to do another countdown

A television crew followed Kobe Bryant during his last NBA season It seems that after ''The Last Dance'' we will have to do another countdown

Just when the sports world does nothing but talk about "The Last Dance", news emerges concerning another undisputed (and unforgettable) basketball champion, it is Kobe Bryant: after his recent introduction to the Hall of Fame NBA and the resulting auctions that relate to his memorabilia, the news has leaked that even the Black Mamba would have allowed a television crew to film his last season with the Lakers.

From what has been reported, NBAEntertainment has granted "unlimited access", allowing producers to film in the changing rooms, in the weight room, in the team's training facility and on their charter plane.

"They had unprecedented and far greater access than anyone else" former Lakers vice president of public affairs John Black told ESPN. "We allowed them to do everything within what the league would allow and, at times, we gave even more, pretending not to see."

The material is only being edited, but it would still be a documentary that could debut in years. Some ESPN insiders say that the programming of the documentary is unlikely to change after Kobe's death; in fact, it seems that the former number 8 and 24 of the Lakers after his retirement had started to develop a media program that directly involved his image and that he had already viewed and evaluated the filming made, personally hiring his own film crew to carry on everything the project.

Although the last seasons of Jordan at the Bulls and Bryant at the Lakers do not have particular similarities - just think that the first one concluded with a title, and the second with a game of 60 points but with a record of 17W-65L - you can find it certainly a line that unites the two personalities: "Just by looking at their pre-game routine you can understand that they are talking about two unique but similar players. If you look at the number 23 of the Bulls, take a journey through time and replace the number 23 with 24 well, you see a virtually identical image" said former Lakers athletic trainer Marco Nunez.

Other words that testify the similarity of the two hall-of-famers come from Dwayne Wade who, referring to the 2008 Beijing Olympics - on which Wade himself is personally committed to the making of a documentary on the ''Redeem Team'', the American team that redeemed the Athens 2004 fool - notes how Jordan's popularity in Paris seen in "The Last Dance" is comparable to that of Kobe in China.