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"Dear Basketball: The Legend of Kobe Bryant" is an American 5.5-minute short film from 2015, actually released for the holidays, so itis a bit older than three years now. This is not the animated short film that actually made Kobe Bryant an Oscar winner. Who would have thought that, but a film based on the same subject, a poem (without rhymes) by Kobe Bryant, in which he elaborates on why basketball is everything to him. This was released when he was already at the end of his long and successful career and now he is retired. So yeah, I think it wasn't a bad watch by any means, but something was missing here to win me really over. I think with this I am mostly referring to the visual side, which is basically a Kobe Bryant highlight reel and this just doesn't cut the cake for me, even if there is no way I will say anything negative about Bryant, his skills and his career. I liked the audio more. Narrator sounds a bit like Morgan Freeman (or is it him?? I don't think so). It was fun listening to him though and the line delivery was pretty solid. Shame we don't have a name here on the imdb title page. Anyway, overall i would give this one still a thumbs-down and I am pretty sure some are mistaking it for the Oscar-winning film because it has the same title, of course the title of Kobe's poem, but this one here is from 2 years earlier. Watch it if you love Kobe already, skip it if you don't. This won't turn you into a fan. Or watch the equally brief animated short film. He almost sounds shy at the very end here when we see and hear him eventually. Surprised me a bit. Maybe because he knew the quality here isn't that great.