Joe Bryant and his famous son, Kobe, have made remarkable turnarounds with their respective basketball teams.
The former, affectionately called Jelly by his players (an ode to his playing-days nickname, "Jellybean"), guided the Tokyo Apache to a 27-17 regular season in the bj-league, a season after the injury-plagued squad lost 28 of 40 games.
And now a wild-card postseason game awaits the Apache. Sunday's foe is the Niigata Albirex BB (26-18), a team that beat Tokyo in four of six regular-season contests and previously utilized the services of do-it-all big man Nick Davis, who joined Tokyo in the offseason.