First Cup: Thursday
29.09.11
Kevin Ding of The Orange County Register: "Just know that if the NBA door closes this season, Kobe Bryant has always been the type to seek another door that opens. One of his personal logos has
long featured the motto 'Carpe Diem.' That's Latin, not Italian, but unlike all of us who know it from watching Robin Williams in 'Dead Poets Society' at the mall movie theater, Bryant learned it from the actual poem by Horace while studying in Europe. And to 'seize the day' is what it will boil down to. For Bryant, it's a matter of personal integrity, which he has always accepted might be a little different in his case. As wrong as some might say it is for him to try out his improved right knee in inconsequential overseas action, Bryant would say it's more wrong not to try at all. That's what he has always believed in, from preps-to-pros to air balls in Utah to championships with Shaq and without: days being seized and daring to try what others can't or won't. Daring to try has gotten him this
Source: ESPN (blog)