Kobe, you know the answer to what Jordan was teased about in high school?

Today, let’s talk to you about Jordan and Kobe’s high school life.

From the second team of the varsity team to being promoted to North Carolina

First of all, there is the gang leader. There have been stories circulating that he was expelled from the varsity team in high school, but is this really the case? ?

At Laney High School, the school teams are divided into grades. At that time, the second-grade school team was already overcrowded. In order to increase the height of the team, coach Herning left the only remaining seat for Leroy Smith, who was 2 meters tall, and let Jordan, who was only 1.75 meters tall at the time, enter the third. The school team composed of senior students is equivalent to the second team.

At that time, the team liked to select tall players. In Jordan's class, the school team eliminated 11 high school seniors and 3 high school sophomores in one go, 8 of whom were guards. So you see, not only Chinese coaches like to be lofty, but also coaches from the United States.

The fact that he was "thrown" to the third-grade varsity team made Jordan feel particularly inferior.

“It was so embarrassing not to make the sophomore team. They posted a list of the school team on the bulletin board, and for a long time my name was not on that list. I I was so angry at the time because I knew the 'person' I picked was far less good than me."

Jordan thrived on the third-year varsity team and scored 4 points in several games. game, but no matter how good Jordan performed, he was never recruited to the second-year team.

"Nobody talked about those games at all," Herning's assistant coach Ron Conley recalled of the incident.

"Flying Man" Jordan's name is particularly famous, right? But can you imagine that the gang leader, who was not very sociable when he first joined the school team, was called "Peanut" (peanut, also meaning little person) and "Shagnut" (hairy male) by his teammates? At that time, no one thought that this kid would become the greatest basketball player in history.

But the gang leader is the gang leader after all, and the various difficulties in the school team did not hinder his training. When a physical education teacher at Laney High School talks about Jordan, the first thing that comes to mind is his unyielding character. "That stubbornness seems to be innate. I usually come to the gym at 7 or 7:30 in the morning, but every time I open the door, I find that Jordan is already there. This is the case all year round. Most mornings, I had to rush to get Jordan out of the training hall."

Jordan's skills are getting better and better, and fortunately, he continues to grow. In the third grade, Jordan finally entered the first team of the school team. In his first game for the first team, he scored 35 points. After his first season playing for the school team, Jordan received an invitation to Howard Garfinkel's five-star basketball training camp; before his senior year of high school started, college coach Dean Smith had already discussed with Jordan that he would go to Beijing after graduation. Card playing matters.

From "Outlander" to Penn State Champion

"Lower Merion High School and everything that happened there made me who I am." - Kobe Bryant< /p>

Next, let’s talk about Naochi. Because he lived in Italy for most of his childhood and never went to college, his high school years in Merion became the only way we can understand Kobe's student years. Merion High School is not a traditional basketball school. Kobe chose it for the same reason as Rukawa Kaede chose Shohoku, because it was close to home.

Kobe Bryant, who had just returned from Italy, was far less domineering and outspoken than everyone later knew him to be. There were almost no black classmates in his class. What was even more frightening was that everyone always laughed at his Italian-tinged words. Accented English. Kobe didn't like school, he didn't like the people around him, and it could even be said that he didn't like the United States. Everything there felt strange to him.

“I don’t understand American slang, I’m an Italian boy, I don’t understand the fashion there, and I can’t spell. The teacher told my mom I might be dyslexic. It felt like someone It was like throwing me into a pool of ice water. It was really scary."

Not long after entering the new school, Kobe participated in the school team training. Like the gang leader, he also played with the second team at the beginning. However, due to cultural differences, Kobe could not understand his teammates' signals on the court and was unable to cooperate with them.

It was his coach Dorner who made Kobe the main player of the school team. In a duel that only lasted 10 minutes, Dorner was beaten to a pulp by Kobe. "He was just a kid, but he was like a devil, or a smaller version of Michael Jordan.

In a 1V1 situation, it is impossible to guard Kobe. I have never seen such a middle school student. ”

But maybe it was because the one-on-one match left too much of a psychological shadow. Coach Dorner never missed an opportunity to “defeat” Kobe. The most common thing he said to Kobe was, "You're not as good as Vince Carter. ”

Carter was already a superstar in high school. He once led Maryland High School to win the Florida state championship despite suffering from wrist and ankle injuries. Kobe Bryant was passionate about coach Naka. He was also upset about this incident, "Because of what the coach said, I would work harder every time I faced Carter in a game. ”

There are several interesting jokes about Kobe’s high school life.

When the whole class went to Hershey Park to play, Kobe was raped by his teacher’s daughter, who was also his High school classmate Susan Friedland asked to play a game of shooting to win a stuffed toy. After only three shots, Kobe won an oversized blue elephant doll, but when he wanted to play another round, he could win more. When she received a prize, she was kicked away by the owner of the stall because it was "suspected of being a smash."

Osipowicz, who has published many fantasy novels, once served as a short essay writing teacher at Merion High School. I still remember a little story Kobe wrote: "The hero of the story was standing on the free throw line, and his team was trailing by one point. In Kobe's writing, that player missed both free throws. Considering Kobe's competitive character and his achievements in his career, you will find it interesting that such a kid can understand that people cannot always win at the age of 17. . ”