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First Things First

Storytime With Wildes: Kobe Bryant & Accidental Legacies, Face of the NBA

First Things First

Fox Sports

Basketball, Football, Sports

4.41.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Watch clips on YouTube! Subscribe to the FIRST THINGS FIRST YOUTUBE CHANNEL Kevin Wildes talks about “accidental legacies” and how Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Jayson Tatum still have time to form their own legends and become the face of the NBA. He also tells a story about Kobe Bryant and how his “Mamba Mentality” created his own legacy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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A need for the media, or maybe fans, but it's mostly the media, trying to get a new face of the NBA.

0:39.4

And Tatum's always brought up.

0:40.7

Tatum's 27.

0:42.1

SGA is 26.

0:43.8

And I realized, like, we should just slow down on trying to finish their legacies right now.

0:51.3

Because I think a lot of legacies are built accidentally and legacies are built

0:56.2

on the periphery of the actual game. There will be defenders that, no, look at SGA. He's going to

1:02.3

win MVP. He scores so many points. Jason Tatum. Just won. Look how many conference finals. He got to the

1:08.5

finals. He won the finals. But right now it's very much about what

1:11.8

they're doing on the court versus a lot of legacies built off the court or just accidentally on

1:18.8

the court. So here's the story I will bring up to this about accidental legacies. My son had a

1:25.6

hockey tournament in Lake Placid. We had to drive up. So I'm driving up Saturday

1:29.5

morning with my other son. Driving, driving, driving. We drive through Kinderhook, New York. And we're

1:36.5

passing this just like little house on the left. It's Martin Van Buren's house. I said, oh, look at that.

1:42.0

No one cares about Martin Van Buren. It's just sitting there.

1:45.1

I was like, oh, maybe I should stop there. It just feels like we're just blasting past it.

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