

"I had to separate myself," Kobe explains. I hear it." Bryant says following a clip, during which Boston Celtics fans can be heard chanting, "Kobe sucks!" "So, it's like this place where it was my refuge is now being bombarded with all kinds of things they would say." While Bryant did not mention the case directly, he did spend a good deal of time in the documentary talking about how close his family came to breaking up. In 2003, Bryant was charged with sexually assaulting a 19-year-old woman in Colorado. "I went from a person who was at the top of his game, had everything coming, to a year later, having absolutely no idea where life is going or if you are even going to be a part of life as we all know it," Bryant said in the documentary. In his 2015 auto-documentary "Muse," Bryant revealed that he created The Black Mamba to deal with the struggles he was going through off the court in 20. It was an alter-ego he created to get through the lowest point of his career. But for Bryant, the moniker was more than a nickname. Kobe Bryant's nickname is "The Black Mamba," a name he gave himself.

In 2003, Bryant was charged with sexually assaulting a 19-year-old woman in Colorado.Īfter the court case, Bryant says he needed to organize his life and for "Kobe" to handle his "personal challenges." Kobe Bryant was known as "The Black Mamba," a nickname he gave himself to separate his professional life from his personal life.
