A number of different analysts have called Kobe Bryant the best clutch NBA player since Michael Jordan, not least of all MJ himself. Now a rising eighth-grader presents the intriguing possibility that someday, one of the game's brightest stars can represent both players, based solely on his name. Kobi' Jordan Stephens-Sims (that's no misprint; he spells it with an ‘I') may only be in eighth grade, but he already has the explosiveness and athleticism more often associated with major college prospects. He certainly proved that by pulling off the audacious dunk you see in the clip above, when he tossed the ball off the backboard to himself and finished a vicious slam on a fast break.
Walter Cornett, of Glendale, Kentucky, is the owner and operator of Walter's Wildcat World. He founded WildcatWorld.com in 1998 making it one of the oldest Kentucky basketball fan sites in operation today.