It hasn’t been long but we are starting to see the life after mamba. The life where Kobe Bryant is doing something other than basketball. It’s weird to say that but we have passed that threshold, he’s moving on and so are we.
Behold. Kobe Inc. You will most likely here about that company name more often as Kobe Bryant begins to build, hoping to create a publishing and production juggernaut.
Now according to the Associated Press, Kobe Bryant has 10 people on his payroll, but he isn’t going about the direction of the company alone. He’s got some big names on his speed dial.
Kobe Bryant is getting advice from Steven Spielberg, J.J. Abrams and Jerry Bruckheimer as he redirects his competitive drive from professional basketball to his publishing and production company.
One month after retiring from the NBA, the Los Angeles Lakers star has a new daily routine. “I get up early and I train and I work out. Then I go to the office,” Bryant said in an interview.
“I mean those are like unfair advantages,” Bryant said, laughing. “I can pick up the phone and speak to them and ask them questions: ‘What do you think about the story? What is this missing?’ And they’ll nitpick every single detail and I love it.”
“They respect and appreciate what I’ve done for 20 years as I respect and appreciate what they’ve done over the years. And we understand that there is a unifying force between those two things,” Bryant said. “Even though the disciplines are different, the commitment, attention to detail is absolutely the same. So even though Steven Spielberg can start speaking in film language and I won’t understand a damn thing, I understand the core, the essence of what he’s saying.”
So he has Speilberg, J.J. Abrams AND Jerry Bruckheimer on his phone. Do you understand how much knowledge in film and the industry those three have together? And Kobe Bryant can just ring them up and shoot some ideas towards them.
Being a sports legend certainly has its perks.
