SAO PAULO – Kobe Bryant and Brazilian writer Paulo Coelho were working together on a children’s book, but the author of “The Alchemist” says he decided to delete the draft after Bryant’s death.
The 72-year-old novelist told The Associated Press that the two men started discussing the book 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 in a helicopter crash, Coelho said he was deleting the book because it didn’t make sense to publish without Bryant.
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