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It's popular that Kobe Bryant patterned his game in several ways off jordan's famous collection of abilities. But simply exactly how uncannily Bryant emulates M.J. was much less apparent because it's today, because of a mashup of highlight films recently uploaded to YouTube. The video is in component named "Identical has, " as well as justification. YouTube user 2012Mamba tracked down about ten performs by Jordan and Bryant being so comparable that it's virtually scary.

The video went viral in sports sectors on the web, getting over 72, 000 views since Sunday. On Tuesday, NBA.com even picked it up and marveled in the mirror-image moves.

However in a twist that reflects the worldwide get to of both the NBA and social media marketing, 2012Mamba is in fact Youssef Hannoun, an 18-year-old Jordanian living in Cairo, Egypt. The entire video clip took about four days to make between choosing sufficient identical performs and editing all of them collectively, Hannoun tells Mashable in an email.

Hannoun usually stays up to 5:30 a.m. in Egypt to get Bryant's la Lakers play on television. He says he's got "literally seen each Kobe container considering that the 07-08 period, in addition to features from their whole career, thus I have actually his game almost memorized."

That made evaluating archived footage of Jordan's performs to complement Bryant's techniques pretty manageable, he writes: "i simply had to view Jordan clips, and I'd recognize the techniques that Kobe did and I'd know whenever Kobe pulled from the same play against which group and exactly what 12 months, so finding Kobe's videos had been very easy; the whole thing ended up being relatively easy in my situation."

All of that work might strike some as tiresome, but also for a baseball fanatic like Hannoun, sifting through hours of footage was not even close to a headache — and his effort repaid with viral success.