He was a hopeless romantic and an obsessive maniac, but how good was he actually? Early life and on-road to the NBA, Kobe s dad may have been a millionaire, but this didn t make Kobe's life easy like Will Smith. Kobe was born in Philadelphia and his father Joe Jellybean Bryant played for the 76ers after eight years in the NBA, Jellybean moved his family to Italy to play basketball abroad. Kobe was...More