18-Year-Old Kobe Bryant Confessed He Would Avoid Temptations Owing to Magic Johnson's HIV Diagnosis

18-Year-Old Kobe Bryant Confessed He Would Avoid Temptations Owing to Magic Johnson's HIV Diagnosis

Kobe Bryant still had plenty to learn about the game of basketball when he joined the Los Angeles Lakers as an 18-year-old, but the young Mamba had even more to learn about life. Bryant revealed how he took Magic Johnson’s HIV diagnosis as a warning to himself for his own career. He didn’t want to make the same mistakes. Magic’s newsworthy announcement in 1991 deeply impacted a 13-year-old Kobe Bryant. The future Laker already knew about the dif…