The Mamba Mentality: How I Play

By Kobe Bryant

Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, Sports & Outdoors

The Mamba Mentality: How I Play (2018) by Kobe Bryant is a book about how he approached basketball over his 20 seasons with the Los Angeles Lakers. Bryant explains how he prepared, studied film, worked through injuries and read opponents, and how he thought about footwork, shooting and defense. His commentary runs alongside photographs by Andrew D. Bernstein, who photographed him throughout his career, and the book includes a foreword by Pau Gasol and an introduction by Phil Jackson.