Kobe Bryant’s influence shines through in the Netflix documentary ‘The Recovery Team’

LOS ANGELES – Kobe Bryant loved Pau Gasol as much as his brother.

But Bryant liked winning more.

His teammates on the 2008 US men’s basketball team saw it up close as they prepared to play Gasol and Spain in the Olympics in Beijing. Bryant knew in America’s first meeting with Spain that the Spanish team would start the match with a play that required Gasol to put a screen on him.

Bryant let his fellow Olympians know that he would show his “brother” no mercy.

“Playing the first game, I’m running through Pau Gasol,” Bryant said.

No one believed he would do that. Then he said it again.

“I’m running through that mother”,

According to Dwyane Wade, Bryant said and did just that. It’s one of the more exciting moments captured in the documentary “The Redeem Team,” which will be available Friday on Netflix.

The overall story revolves around the recovery of American basketball after the 2004 Olympics in Athens, where the team won the bronze medal. This team included veterans such as Allen Iverson, Tim Duncan and the youth LeBron JamesCarmelo Anthony, Carlos Boozer and Wade, who became professional players after their third-place finish in Athens and subsequent shortcomings in international competition.

The story of the 2008 team, nicknamed Team Redeem, is compelling in itself. Bryant’s story Died in January 2020 in a helicopter crashFeatured in the documentary.

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