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Jerry West On Kobe Always Having the Mamba Mentality | NBA on TNT

Jun 02, 2021
Jerry, uh, I want to know what you saw in those, like they were two workouts, you saw this teenager Kobe Bryant and what blew your mind, well, excuse me, I'm sorry, it's totally understandable, you know it wasn't like this was a great discovery because people knew who he was at the time, it wasn't fashionable to take 17 year olds and we were working out and his agent Arne told him that and I had been friends for a long time and he said I wanted to come and do exercise. with some of these players who were going to be taller hogging and grabbing everyone, they thought and he goes there and I saw this at 17 years old and I said to myself, this is ridiculous, these kids there are no kids involved here and they were three , four years in college and I said this is a waste because I hope we don't have to go over those guys when the process is a young man sitting next to me here who is also in this plan and then again Kobe Bryant through his agent were trying to direct him here to us and our big prize, the showcase of our franchise, would be Shaquille O'Neal.
jerry west on kobe always having the mamba mentality nba on tnt
If we could convince him to come here at that time, he couldn't communicate because of the big deal in negotiating with the players and he was walked. So Kobe wanted to come back again and work out for us, so Harden called me and told me he was in town and he wanted to work out, so I brought Michael Cooper and I think some of you know who Michael Cooper is. one of the great defenders we've had in our league and that's why we wanted Kobe Bryant to play well and see how good he looked after 10 minutes I told him, let's talk about this, okay, I was embarrassing Michael and I told Michael, I said, man, you backed out. pretty soon and that was the genesis but we spent countless days trying to swap our initial centers, the plot and Valtor also created space so hopefully we could lure in for the kill and she the killer never met in person and we developed a relationship through the clone, who was very honest and that's the only thing I believe in when you're negotiating players, you can never lie and finally, one day, the late Jerry Buss, who only had two or three people working for us at that time moment and I told you to kill and I really remember this.
jerry west on kobe always having the mamba mentality nba on tnt

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I said you should kill. We just drafted a guy who is the best player in the draft. But I know you have a lot of good players in Orlando, but I said we have better players here and if you have one, one day he will be the best player in the league. Quite a bold statement, but it was obvious to me that Charles was looking at you, Dwayne was looking at him, Reggie was looking at you and kept looking at you, it was easy to spot, so it was just the processor on and everything. suddenly our dream came true we have Shaquille O'Neal we have Kobe part thank you saying it was probably so hard for me because the times I spent with him when I was 17 in my house constantly wanting me to go to the gym watching him play the summer league and you know everyone was excited to see a kid like that and he had dinner at your table and on nights he did and he had dinner at my house.
jerry west on kobe always having the mamba mentality nba on tnt
My son Ryan was his first best friend in town. The job for the Lakers. for several years she took him around and saw this relationship, but he was exceptionally different, let me tell you why he was different, he

always

talked about this mother, the

mentality

that he didn't have to create, that it was already there and seeing it look for. information to watch and amazing moments, some way to get better every year and I spent four years of my life watching this and made a trade with the Miami Heat. I traded for Eddie Jones, who was a star player, the reason Kobe Bryant needed To begin with, I felt a little vilified about it, but the best thing that ever happened to me, but I think what resonates with me the most is an incredible career. , this is a sad town right now, a person with a name, Koli, you just have to admit Smith in the end. name and seeing the pictures of him with his daughter sitting at the games hugging them, hugging them to receive a Christmas card from them every year and watching this amazing family grow and prosper and now seeing not one but two of the three families that left The saddest day of my life I lost a brother in Korea the only thing that compares to this for me you don't want to ramble too much but I had a special relationship with him no one knows the intimate call I had with him no one even knows the people close to me They don't know the conversations I had with him, they don't know the conversations I had with him in Memphis when I worked in Memphis we still communicated and I remember when he was going to manage the Lakers and I never mentioned this to anyone, he didn't come in with the Clippers, now I'm involved with us, a consultant and I told him under no circumstances can you do this and I was mad at everyone at the Laker, if the owner, everyone else, I said Co, you can't go play with the Clippers, you can't play for that owner, period we had two conversations about and he supposedly committed to the Clippers and after the last one when we spoke. last time, but we talked about so many things, since he was just looking for information.
jerry west on kobe always having the mamba mentality nba on tnt
His parents were with him for a while and honestly, I felt like a father for two years. I don't know if I can get over this. Everybody knows when the deal was going on the first time I met Mr. West my agent little Milo says mr. West wants to see mr. West joked gently when I got there he said he had good news and he had bad news and I said okay what's the bad news he said I can't I can't take you to 150 minutes before I said what's Good news, he said: I can take you to 120.
I said: Where does it depend? I prepare to sign. I'm telling you now. I have this child. He kept saying. I got good, like you know me in the way I'm trying to get to. the paperwork I can get the deal because I have this kid I have this kid Cobra I'm like okay sir. West and he was that kind of guy where I am the first time I met him because I'm the elder statesman of the team and you know he was my tower. I told him what you want to be known for and asked him. that question because when I first came here mr.
West left me on the forum and said SH. I have to know that you have many things to do. I know you're a rapper. I know you've been partying and doing all those things and he pointed and said at the end of this. You can be there with those guys or you can be just another story that is talked about, so now when Kobe came, I said what do you want to be and at 17 years old he said: I'm going to be the best player in the world. and off the court I'm going to be bigger than Will Smith, now you know me.
I'm okay, okay, slow down, slow down, and you know it was fun and, like I said before, our names will

always

be liked. I talked about who's this and who's that, but I really think we're going to be the most dominant little big one-two punch of all time, that's just what I believe, a lot of people and in Keene you'd like to break it down the way it should be broken down. by arrows, but you know there's a it was a sad day for me the other day at night and I still can't believe it and just hearing his voice and saying I'm not a big in and that guy I think I watch all the Kobe Shaq videos that someone has put.
I watch Portland's Game 7. We make the balloon right there. I looked at him again. We fired the aerial balls and I grabbed it. I watch the game against Indiana. When I made a mistake and got into foul trouble. and on the bench he said don't worry I have it because I know that if we go down two steps there will be a different series he told me don't worry I have it

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