Kobe Bryant does not appear to be wearing any kind of mouth protection. He usually sees chewing gum and his jersey.
Gum-chewing peaked in the 2000s with the post-Jordan Kobe Bubble. Kobe Bryant, O’Neal’s former teammate in Los Angeles and also the closest analog we’ve had to His Airness since Jordan retired, could stare down the threat of a basketball fired straight to his face so long as he had a wad in his mouth.
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