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ROME — When Joe "Jellybean" Bryant moved to the Italian town of Rieti in to play in the country's basketball league, he brought with him his wife, Pam, and their 6-year-old, Kobe.A small, sleepy and medieval town with fewer than 40, residents pinned in the middle of Italy, Rieti is pretty far from Philadelphia and San Diego, where the senior Bryant had played in the NBA. And the local basketball team, the AMG Sebastiani, was no 76ers or as a whole, where Kobe lived into his teens, is a far cry from Southern California, where the basketball legend not only made a career and a life, but also where he died Sunday in a helicopter crashalong with his daughter Gianna and seven other people.

While Italy is not the best place to learn the game — the country is obsessed with soccer, not basketball — that's where Kobe learned his first tricks."Aged 6, Kobe would often jump off the balcony of his parent's house, cross a busy road and run to a church playground where he would spend hours throwing a ball in the basket," Andrea Barocci, a sports journalist who wrote "An Italian Named Kobe," told NBC News."It became clear very early on that he knew he was the best," the journalist years