Kobe Bryant Shares The Two Colleges That Recruited Him The Hardest

Kobe Bryant is one of the rare success stories of a basketball player skipping college and going straight to the NBA. He was recruited heavily by a lot of schools, but has revealed the two schools that came after him the hardest. Per 247Sports...

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“Um, well here’s the story about that,” Bryant said. “Coach K kept recruiting me. He kept recruiting me. He didn’t just resign to the fact that I’m going to go pro. He was persistent about it. So at that moment in time, for me to make a decision and say, ‘OK, you know what? I’m not going to go pro,’ it would have been Duke because Coach K just kept on keeping on. Roy Williams did, too, when he was at Kansas.”

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(TheSpun)