San Antonio, where being a borderline sociopath isn’t everything
by Timothy Varner
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Eric Freeman has penned the latest chapter in what will, inevitably, be an anthology called Kobe Bryant’s Jordanesque Desire to Win. Or some such. It’s one of the better chapters, so if you haven’t already read it, saunter on over to Ball Don’t Lie.

Freeman’s take is really Bryant on Bryant, and winds up somewhere between the ontological necessity and genetic predisposition camps. Kobe does what Kobe does because he is who he is.

Freeman writes, “Having a bordlerine-sociopathic need to win has been a fact of his [KB's] basketball being for his whole life. It’s second nature on the court, existing beyond rational motivation.”

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