Kobe Bryant and LeBron James pose with their Olympic coach before the 2008 Summer Olympics, where U.S. basketball earned a gold medal. Bryant verbally committed to play for Krzyzewski at Duke before bypassing college basketball to go directly from high school to the NBA.
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