Remembering Kobe Bryant's UNC ties, relationships with Michael Jordan, Dean Smith

Posted Jan 27, 2020
Kobe Bryant appreciated the Tar Heels’ brand of basketball and kept them in consideration while Dean Smith was recruiting him. In 2012 he recalled a recruiting letter from Smith, one that "jutted out above the rest." When asked if he still had the letter, Bryant replied, "Are you kidding? Of course I still have it. It’s from Dean bleepin’ Smith!" (Daily Tar Heel)

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