5 NBA Legends Sharing Hilarious Young Kobe Bryant Stories

guy is just trying, he's just trying to make me go out and practice and kill these guys and practice, so I was like damn bro like really Damn coach, you're going to break my self-esteem like that, he's like no, bro, I'm telling you that this is before the era of social media because today you can look on Instagram, search on Twitter and find out who the big players are. you, especially in the state, and he said okay, we're going to match him, trust me, uh, the team is, the team is, uh, Lower Marriott and I said, "Okay, well, we're going to See, let's put them out because lord mary and raj, as you know, it's a suburb, right, that's a lot of silver spoon kids, bro, and you know I had all the neighborhood kids on my team, so you know I'm with all the friends I grew up with and half of them thought they were better than me, right, yeah, and Cole's team, you know, looked like a private school team, right, he didn't look like he grew up with the guys with the ones I grew up with, you know, we the neighborhood like there's no way for us to live, you know, some suburban kids, uh, uh, they beat us up, they beat us up, so I said, man, there's no way, but I'm watching his game and I'm like bro, damn, at the layup line, him down there doing 360, you know what I'm saying, he's doing double in and out, uh, cross step back, shooting three feet behind the three point line, I'm scratching my head.

Damn, this guy looks real, like you know what I'm saying, this week's big opening exhibition game features Lower Marion, the number two seed in the quad, a tournament that takes on number seven Norristown in a quarterfinal game in the district one playoffs tonight. Lower Marion and their star Kobe Bryant, that's impressive, but wait, let's wait to see when the ball is thrown and once the ball was thrown, brother, look after that game, I came home, looked in the mirror and I said hey brother, I defended myself but that man gave us that man gave us the business you all did it although you did it we did it I did it yes, I did it yes, no, don't do it Don't turn off your light too, now you all win.

If this guy here is upstaging you, what about the rest of the world? So that was my introduction to playing against Kobe Bryant and he came out and showed his game and you know. From there, that's when he and I started to really communicate and start having a relationship. We all played together, yeah, and we also played on the same team, so we were actually roommates and we could. Actually, not only did we play against each other, but we also became very, very good friends and that was the first time I started to see someone who knew the mentality of a murderer, I mean, I've been around a lot.

Great players, true, but I've never been around someone like him who had the idea of ​​killing all day and all night like it was basketball 24/7. People see that when you hear mom's mentality. People hear that late.

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​​championships, you know, mvps and all that, no, he had that mom mentality at 15 16 years old off the court, he was a real businessman, he was serious, uh, at 16 years old, which It was crazy to me, I remember one time we were. playing in a tournament and I was like hey colb like uh you know last night uh my cousin Spud and I you know there's a little bar around the corner that they thought we were 21 like let it sit and I'm like let's go there after the game and he looked at me and said, no, you know, I have to go back to my room and ice my knees and watch the tape.

I'm like what at 16 years old man you just want to be a boy, right? I remember being in the room late at night because we were roommates at all the aau events, the mcdonald's american game, uh, the magic johnson rumble classic with the bounce pass at home and that took him out of the seats and high fives, a lot of times you knew we were sitting in the room and just having random conversations about the guys we were playing against, the next day at the aau game and his mind was on the nba he said "hey rip "You know, when I get to the NBA, you see some of these superstar guys in my position, I'm a dog and I'm like a man, bro, probably like 16, like I'm a dude, this girl." man like, come on, man, like, like, go to sleep, man, like, I'm not trying to hear that you're dreaming right now, he doesn't like being plucked from the dead, serious man, I'm like, bro, we have, you know, a shot, we play Shaheen Holloway. tomorrow or we played against tim thomas and uh tim thomas was the number one player in the country at the time and uh

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didn't want to go to sleep that night he was restless and he did this several times a night. he just walked around my bed because my bed was here his bed was there he just walked around my bed and said, "hey man, tomorrow, you know, they got tim thomas as the number one player in the country like we used to because we were Roommates like it too so all the new events were roommates and stuff and I remember when I was talking on your show like I had the kill list right but you started

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like you know we're the same age the one we grew up in.

You gotta kill this at 13. I did it. I had a kill list and you know they used to do these rankings, they were Street and Smith basketball rankings and they couldn't find me anywhere because I was like six scrawny fours. Like 160 pounds soaking wet, so I was like 57 on the list, so I'll look at 56 55 all the way up to number one, who are these players, what clubs did they play for, so when we go on a travel circuit, I have to hunt. them down well and that became my mission in high school is to mark all the other people all those other 56 names hunt them down and take them down that's like that billy madison like yeah yeah who was in your murder that's 13 years old , bro, well, uh Tim Thomas and it's funny because you know we were roommates and a lot of times at night this guy just didn't want to go to sleep, he just wanted to talk about basketball and we were about to play, Tim Thomas, on Teen . no, at a charlie weber tournament in maryland and tim thomas was the number one player in the country at the time, yeah, of course, 10 times, you know, rip one because rip rip and I were very close and cole just in one room all night like one in the morning just walking around my bed like you know tomorrow I'm going to kill this guy and I'm like I'm like tim thomas like first of all we I don't even play in the same position as him, but Tim also played on the wing at that time like it was surreal at that time, because he was six and nine, he could handle the ball, he could play inside out, he was like a man.

Ma kill this guy man he was like after tomorrow no one will have any doubt who the number one player in America is like they say I'm not the number one player look rip look tomorrow you know they got . tim thomas as the number one player in the country should be the number one player in the country i'm going to go out and show the world he said look just wait wait and see and i say bro go to sleep man later tomorrow night i'm like bro, go to sleep, you play them early in the morning, okay, let's talk about this foreplay, but tonight, let's go to bed, we have three important games tomorrow because we have to win the tournament, he says, no.

No, look, trust me, I'm going to have my game, I'm going to go out and destroy everyone on the court, no matter who's guarding me, and Gold went out and showed the world why he should have been the one. The number one player in the country, I mean, showed his ability to score the offense and dominate. We ended up winning that game and when you look at the raids after that game, Kobe Bryant was the number one player in the country. The time he was a senior he hit number one and I hope you enjoyed the video.

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