Just eight years ago a weedy 13-year-old named Kobe Bryant came to America. Born in Philadelphia, he had lived most of his life in Italy, where his father played professional basketball. So when he returned to the U.S., his English was bad—he was especially befuddled by street slang. But he had a skill city kids understood. "Basketball was the common denominator," he recalls. "On the court, I could communicate."
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