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Kobe Bryant and Brazilian writer
Paulo Coelho were working together on
a children’s book, but the author of “The
Alchemist” said he deleted the draft after
Bryant’s death in a helicopter crash.
The 72-year-old novelist told The Asso
ciated Press on Monday that the two men
started discussing the project in 2016,
when Bryant retired after a 20-year NBA
career. They began writing a few months
ago.
Within hours of hearing of Bryant’s
death Sunday, Coelho announced that he
would delete the draft, rather than finish
the book without the 41-year-old five-time
NBA champion.
“I deleted the draft because it didn’t
make any sense to publish without him,”
Coelho said by phone on Monday from
his home in Geneva. “It wouldn’t add any
thing relevant to him or his family.
“That doesn’t stop me from writing
someday about things I learned from
Kobe and how much of a larger-than-
life person he was,” Coelho said. “But
the children’s book did not make sense
anymore.”
Coelho’s decision disappointed many
of Bryant’s fans, who flooded the writer’s
social media channels asking for the draft
not to be erased.
Bryant was a fan of Coelho’s and called
“The Alchemist” his favorite book. He
recommended it to everyone from for
mer teammate Kyrie Irving to Rob
Pelinka, his former agent who now runs
the Lakers’ basketball operations.
Pelinka read a passage from the book
before a news conference in July 2018
shortly after the Lakers signed LeBron
James, who was photographed reading
“The Alchemist” before a shootaround in
the 2018 Eastern Conference finals when
he played for the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Coelho, who has sold tens of millions of
books, said the idea behind his collabora
tion with Bryant was to inspire underpriv
ileged children to overcome adversity
through sports.
“Kobe was always very concerned
about making a book that was a positive
example for children, especially those
coming from humble beginnings,” Coelho
said.
Bryant’s 13-year-old daughter Gianna
also died in the crash, along with seven
others. Bryant has three other daughters.
The book project was very casual.
After not communicating for several
months, Bryant sent a message to Coelho
in August, saying “Let’s right that book
together.” He then texted the correct
spelling of “write.”
“It went from there. Little by little we
were going ahead,” Coelho said. He did
not reveal how many pages had been
written or whether the book already had
a title.
Bryant’s Granity Studios published
middle grade and young adult novels. It
also put out the player’s autobiography,
“The Mamba Mentality: How I Play,”
released in 2018.
“I saw him enough times to assure he
had much more than sports on his mind,
it wasn’t all about competition,” Coelho
said. “His tragic death has shown already
how he was important to the world, not
only to the United States. We will discuss
his legacy for many years, much beyond
sport.”
Associated Press
TODAY IN HISTORY
On this date:
In 1820, King George III died at Windsor Castle at age 81; he
was succeeded by his son, who became King George IV.
In 1861, Kansas became the 34th state of the Union.
In 1936, the first inductees of baseball’s Hall of Fame, includ
ing Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth, were named in Cooperstown,
New York.
In 1963, the first charter members of the Pro Football Hall of
Fame were named in Canton, Ohio (they were enshrined when
the Hall opened in September 1963). Poet Robert Frost died
in Boston at age 88.
In 1975, a bomb exploded inside the U.S. State Department
in Washington, causing considerable damage, but injuring no
one; the radical group Weather Underground claimed respon
sibility.
In 1995, the San Francisco 49ers became the first team in NFL
history to win five Super Bowl titles, beating the San Diego
Chargers, 49-26, in Super Bowl XXIX.
In 1998, a bomb rocked an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Ala
bama, killing security guard Robert Sanderson and critically
injuring nurse Emily Lyons. (The bomber, Eric Rudolph, was
captured in May 2003 and is serving a life sentence.)
BIRTHDAYS
Writer-composer-lyricist
Leslie Bricusse is 89. Femi
nist author Germaine Greer
is 81. Actress Katharine
Ross is 80. Feminist author
Robin Morgan is 79. Actor
Tom Selleck is 75. Rhythm-
and-blues singer Bettye
LaVette is 74. Actor Marc
Singer is 72. Actress Ann
Jillian is 70. Rock musician
Louie Perez (Los Lobos) is
67. Rhythm-and-blues/
funk singer Charlie Wilson
is 67. Talk show host Oprah
Winfrey is 66. Actor Terry
Kinney is 66. Actress Diane
Delano is 63. Actress Judy
Norton is 62. Rock musi
cian Johnny Spampinato is
61. Olympic gold-medal
diver Greg Louganis is 60.
Actress Heather Graham is
50. Actress Sara Gilbert is
45. Actor Justin Hartley is
43. Pop-rock singer Adam
Lambert is 38.
EVENTS
TODAY
Penguin Craft Week!. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Inter
active Neighborhood for Kids, 999 Chestnut
St. SE, #11, Gainesville. $1 - $9.
Nar Anon Family Support Group. 6 to 7 p.m.
Family Life Center, First Baptist Church, 751
Green St. NW, Gainesville. 770-540-4395,
kentmurphey@gmail.com. Free.
Bible Study. 7 to 8 p.m. Mt. Zion Baptist
Church, 4000 Thurmon Tanner Road, Flow
ery Branch, mzbcinfo@yahoo.com. Free.
Team Trivia. 7:30 to 9 p.m. 37 Main, 212
Spring St. SW, Gainesville.
Exhibition: House and Universe: Margaret
Evangeline. 10 to 4 p.m. Simmons Visual
Arts Center, Sellars Gallery, 200 Boulevard,
Gainesville. 770-534-6263, alauricella@bre-
nau.edu. Free.
Team Trivia at Beer Me. 7 p.m. Beer Me, 5609
Main St., Flowery Branch.
THURSDAY
Penguin Craft Week!. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Inter
active Neighborhood for Kids, 999 Chestnut
St. SE, #11, Gainesville. $1 - $9.
Free Stage Tour! - The Bra and Panty Club. 6 to
7 p.m. Ed Cabell Theatre, 3820 Mundy Mill
Road, Oakwood. Free.
Trivia Thursdays. 7 to 9 p.m. Downtown
Drafts, 115 Bradford St. S, Gainesville.
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678-943-2165, aimee@downtowndrafts.
net. Free.
Freedom Brass Quintet. 7:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Nix Mountain Cultural Center, 238 Georgia
Circle, Dahlonega. 678-717-3930, music@
ung.edu. Free.
Exhibition: House and Universe: Margaret
Evangeline. 10 to 4 p.m. Simmons Visual
Arts Center, Sellars Gallery, 200 Boulevard,
Gainesville. 770-534-6263, alauricella@bre-
nau.edu. Free.
FRIDAY
Penguin Craft Week!. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Inter
active Neighborhood for Kids, 999 Chestnut
St. SE, #11, Gainesville. $1 - $9.
Viking Studio Cooking Class. 7 to 10 p.m. 100
Tour De France, Braselton.
Tribute - A Celebration of The Allman Broth
ers Band at Mule Camp. 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. Mule
Camp Tavern, 322 Spring St. SW, Gainesville.
Nick Dittmeier. 8 to 10 p.m. The Crimson
Moon, 24 N Park St., Dahlonega.
Departure (The Journey Tribute Band). 9:30
to 11 p.m. 37 Main, 212 Spring St. SW,
Gainesville.
HOROSCOPES BY HOLIDAY
ARIES (March 21 -April 19).
“This is not as advertised!”
you’ll think, especially in the
case of people. They cannot
be blamed for presenting
themselves less than ac
curately. Very few people are
experts on the subject of who
they are.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
You’ll feel good about the
work you do, not because it
might end in achievement or
bring you glory at some point,
but because you’re proud of
what you contribute over the
long, unheralded journey.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21).
It will feel like there are too
many variables out of your
control to make a goal of any
particular trajectory. But you
can control your attitude, and
that’s where you’ll focus to
tremendous effect.
CANCER (June 22-July 22).
You have no problem dis
tinguishing fact from fiction.
They can hook up a lie de
tector if they want, but your
internal detector surpasses
the need. You don’t want to
believe; you want to know.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). The
magic of checklists is ac
knowledged in almost every
profession one can think of —
aerospace, medicine, sports.
Checklists are a fact of life.
Acknowledge this in your life,
too.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22).
Ideas come with the dawn of
day and stay till the sun rises
higher. Record them or they
get lost in the whirlwind of
daily life. Work will bring weird
luck.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-0ct. 23). Just
as babies have the instinct to
walk, you have the propensity
to grow past the emotional
limitations of the past. There
is a higher plane of feeling,
and all you have to do is stand
up and get a sense of it.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21).
You’ll have no idea which
constraints are real until
you try to get free of them.
Struggle slightly and loose
knots fall apart and fake
chains crack and crumble like
Styrofoam.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec.
21). Life never promised you it
would be exciting, and yet ap
petites get formed. The urge
to make trouble overwhelms.
Trouble is, after all, an irresist
ible draw of human nature.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan.
19). Are you getting some
wise ideas? Stars align to zap
you with ideas of the heart
that encompass much. This
wisdom beyond your years is
a gift that will come in handy
with many people seeking
advice from you.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.18).
You often see something that
needs doing and feel com
pelled to help even though
you don’t particularly want to.
Wanting to or not wanting to
do things can be one of the
most irrelevant aspects of be
ing a good person.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). If
you say “no” almost all of the
time, you’re right in line with
what’s appropriate for the av
erage human on a typical day.
If you say “no” a little more
often, you’re showing taste.
“Yes” more often and you’re
showing vitality.
