The Visionary
The future, and what is barely possible, reads round the next corner.
Kobe Bryant reads as The Visionary because he was mapping post-career creative territory at twenty, long before most athletes considered a second act. He architected six-year youth basketball development frameworks and built premium children's media with the same obsessive blueprint-building that defined his playing career.
“At twenty, I started thinking about what comes at the end. I knew it was gonna be something around writing. So when I wasn't playing basketball, spending time with my wife and family, I was writing.”
Preparing post-basketball creative careerundated
“I write practice plans every day and it's like a six year plan. I'm teaching them all the footwork it took me twenty years to learn — I'm teaching them that at eleven.”
Coaching daughter Gianna's developmentundated
“We wanted to create something for children that they feel they're important. If you create something that's high in value, they understand that it's being cared for. That means that they matter.”
Explaining Granity Studios children's booksundated
Knuckleheads with Quentin Richardson & Darius Miles: “KH Classic: Kobe Bryant”
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