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Article: KOBE GOES TO SCHOOL.(Sports)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
- Article date:
- December 9, 1996
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Byline: Tim Trepany Daily News Staff Writer
It's the equivalent of freshman composition for Kobe Bryant.
But these lessons aren't taught in the relative safety of a college classroom, rather they come in the rugged lanes of the NBA, where Bryant loves to roam when Lakers coach Del Harris lets him and where the basic rule is survival of the fittest.
Harris finally unglued Bryant's shorts from the bench Sunday during the Lakers' 110-86 rout of the Minnesota Timberwolves, and the first place Bryant went was where the big men play.
After not seeing action in two of the previous three games, the 18-year-old Bryant played a season-high 22 ...