VIDEO: Chick Hearn, Kobe Bryant foreshadow Mamba's longevity
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Projecting a career on the basis of a player's rookie season is a fool's errand, unless you're legendary Los Angeles Lakers broadcaster Chick Hearn.
Here's Hearn foreshadowing the length of a teenage Kobe Bryant's Lakers career:
Bryant, of course, will retire this Spring after 20 seasons in purple and gold.
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