As Kirby Smart took a rare moment to actually celebrate his accomplishment, he held three fingers in the air as ran past Georgia fans in SoFi Stadium.
Georgia had just won its second consecutive national championship, but Smart was already envisioning Georgia winning a third-straight national championship.
“Ah that was just my Jordan,” Smart told ESPN’s Rece Davis about the gesture. “I grew up watching Jordan and we always talked about when he used to do that. He was pretty special in my generation. [For kids now] it was Kobe, LeBron and much respect to all those guys. But my era it was Jordan and watching him do that after championships it just kinda told you that his mindset is ‘we’re not stopping.’”
Most of the players on Georgia’s team are in fact Kobe or Lebron fans. James never three-peated, while Bryant did so as a member of the Lakers from 2000 through 2002. Of course, Bryant wasn’t the best player on those teams, as that distinction belongs to Shaquille O’Neal.
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