Kobe Bryant: The Greatest Sports Illustrated Covers that Featured the Black Mamba

Look back at the history of some of Kobe's greatest Sports Illustrated Covers

There was a time when making on the cover of Sports Illustrated was a mark of how great an athlete's career was measured. 

Kobe Bryant was fortunate to experience some of that old school print fame and since we're part of the Sports Illustrated family, we thought we'd take a look back at some of Kobe's greatest covers