Kobe Bryant's first mention in The Inquirer came at age 14, and it came with a prescient declaration: "Remember this name: Kobe Bryant."
Kobe Bryant and singer/actress Brandy Norwood arrived at the Bellevue Hotel in Center City Philadelphia for the Lower Merion High School prom in May 1996. The pulled up in a white stretch limo. "There was a certain sense of fame," recalled classmate Stacy Moscotti Moore. "Even trying to be normal, still it was like, wow. There are famous people over there, and there's the security detail."Read moreCharles Fox / Staff Photographer
