Kobe Bryant | Ep 11 | Barnes’ Ball Fake, Shaq & Lakers, Michael Jordan | ALL THE SMOKE Full Podcast

All these years we've been building, building, building, when I get that opportunity, that's when the magic happens. It appears in the head of the family. It was crazy, depression, anxiety. She hated before she was born. Legalizing sports gambling could also legalize it. cocaine and meth so many people wanted Sonny dead the question is who got him first this is the hardware part that supported look we help people understand the punching match I'm Mansell normally we film in Santa Monica or New York but today We took a special road trip to go see the one and just you know, I mean, we had to drive an hour and a half in traffic to Seco, never mind, we had to drive backwards, I was going to have a good tear, as snacks for these damn ones. shoes enough, that's the first thing you're going to do, oh how you doing, look man, I believe in his shoes, God, undefeated pack, we gotta be fresh on the court now, but I'm excited, you know what I mean, like I'm saying he's someone that from the beginning, you know him when he came to Los Angeles when I was at UCLA, you got to play with the McDonald's game, we saw him early in the beginning and we saw him continue to evolve and continue to be in a period, you know.

The best player in the game and then one of the all-time greats, you know, so I think having the opportunity to sit back and break it down and remember and see what he has after his careers, nothing of what she will be, even if it's not just making someone. Who do you know? Dad, my favorite player of my time, right, but someone I grew up with, you know, like I said, he can play a breakdown game, but the last time I saw him was when he was able to talk to my son, okay? On his tour there's a farewell tour and I never had to say thank you so this would be a great moment for you to know, pick his brain, see what's going on, you know what I mean and you know, be quick, man.

I think everyone thinks that he and I are enemies or that we're not because I said it happened in Orlando with the

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, but that's what he really hears like that, no, that's what really brought us together, you know, that's what what do you know. After that season, he hit me like, oh, you want to be a Laker. I said, hell yeah, and he said anyone who's crazy enough to play with me is crazy enough to play with me, so I guess there are things like when people still know Kobe. I don't like you guys, I just think let's not even be honest with you, what you're talking about is what really brought us closer in the end and made us friends, you know, we had battles, but then you know your teammates, We had some really fun times off the court, you know what I remembered.

This is the first time I've seen Kobe outside. He was in Milwaukee. We play a job. Remember I was suspended. We came to the club. You and you like it, I mean, you called me like brother, I'm bringing Carl, my man who's not going, I was like brother, I'm telling you and I walked into the club, yeah, and Cole was there and I could Don't believe it brother , like what I'm telling you now, he came out because I say it coming out with me because I was in my room, you know, I was before the game and I win the room, I burn the war very quickly and then I'm.

Like me, what's going on, man, let's do something, yeah, and then he'll be fine, let's go to all the towns we went to every time I've been walking, you help yourself, you call me like, bro, he'll come out, yeah, I couldn't believe it now. We bought the instant man as I said on and off the field. You know, we're both going through some things in our personal lives, so it was like in the weak center

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, but then off the court we kicked it without these things and you. I know I'm rolling with him as a completely different monster man, we don't do all these gala events and you see all that's when I started.

I know what the code is. You know, I started seeing these Hollywood women. Know? under me, maybe go to events with him and once you open that door for me, do my thing, so you know, something like in the year 2000, when I was separated at that time for the year 2010, oh, that was the beginning of something beautiful, you meet a Laker, yes and with possibly one of the best Lakers, yes, for a long time, yes, the teammate on the road, only his approach does not prevent him from going out and have a good time, it's not like he's going to go out all night and go crazy, but if it's a situation where he goes out, you know, I mean the next morning he gets up early like the schedules don't have changed, you know it's someone you know who insisted that the workers have a glass of wine from time to time.

He knows the wine, yeah, you know, but he'll go out and still do his pre-practice workouts early in the morning or before practice like he's a beast, you know, I mean, like he's having fun, but at the same time Same time. At the same time, you never let that take away from his craft and that's what I think he held people to a standard for. You know you want to go out, you want to go out having fun, do it, but don't let it affect what we have. The next day, I don't know if I could have stood to see what kind of things we did with the Creo crew, but like I said, we still went out and did our thing every night, but the weeds in the streets every night. team, but we were doing that and winning, I would have respected that because that's all I was about to write at the end of days if I do your job, but what would you walk before as long as he wins, let's go all out.

I'm looking forward to this obviously, I think our goal is to have an honest conversation and get some knowledge out of him that he normally doesn't talk about this. I actually enjoy playing against him and I enjoy watching him, so I'm actually a fan of the man. you can ask him who deserves the MVP in the McDonald's game. Yeah, I have to get that answer if he's sure you're good because I don't know if I believe it until he can. I don't watch the game, so if he stamps on you. If Kobe says he should have won MVP on McDonald's nights, it's in an American game.

Someone needs to send me a trophy. Everyone heard that they better send it. I'm excited, although there will be one for the books. Everyone

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episode 11 playing in 2020 oh my god 11 I don't want to say that Spanish won't say it I don't say yes I got it I got it Oh we appreciate you man thanks for your time. I've been looking forward to this man, the fans have been asking to bring in Kobe, you need them to call you, so we finally cooled down, so let's get into a man, what's the difference between Kobe Bryant after his career and the Mamba , the murderer we saw? the court, well yeah, I think a lot of the mentality is still the same, the industry just changes, so the same approach, the same attention to detail, it's even more so now because you know we play, you have to take the time free, yes, let your body heal you.

I do certain things, you know business and in creativity there is no off switch because your brain is constantly working well, so you know the similarities are there, it's focusing on the details and trying to surround yourself with people who are as managua as you. . about their job and the differences is that I don't have to put my body through hell every day, yes it's true, some of the things I've seen after finishing my degree I love or obviously you know you train your daughter and then your new fascination. with writing novels, yeah, let's go into detail with us, yeah, well, training kids is fine, it just came out of nowhere because my daughter decided she wanted to play about two and a half years ago, you know, so I started training her a little bit and then she formed a local all star team and that's where we met the rest of the girls that are now on the team and you know they all started at the royal level but they enjoy playing so much that it just grew into what it is now and it's been a lot of fun and then novel writing really started just with kids, kids can't keep reading stories that have no relation to them and I'm not just talking about life. you know diversity like a color point of view, not only that but also the fact that they are athletes and there is no story that addresses the athletes, everything is like those princesses and the dream and the prince wakes you up with the kiss, we enjoy those things, but It's not like you know it's not reality, we're not going to sleep and then we'll wake up years later and be successful, right?

Problems have to work, they have to work, so I wanted create stories that I could read to them. Well, athletes who pass for that type. Well, tell me what it's like to train your daughter. Know? Because I train my boys. We will be in the same tournament next weekend. What is it like for you to be on the sidelines? It's fun because I get to sit and watch. asking questions, you know, that's really my job and the job of coaching staff is to really ask questions, you know, let them figure things out over the course of the game and you'll win and lose some that way, we probably went a lot more. if we felt like we would micromanage how they play the game and call plays and sets as well, but really we just sit back and let them process things and figure things out because we are a plan for the long game that they are going to be the best at.

They may be basketball players, but it's fun to sit there and watch them, who love it. You know you didn't want to ask him. You know we have, we dream, we dream of winning an Emmy without a show. You don't want to ask him. there it means what tell me what was that like what did it feel like to be able to say you know how to win a high school you know of course you wanted to be with six rings with Mike, yeah, but you have something that he probably will probably never give you, don't say no.

I can get one of these, so I have to buy it, you know it's different because in the competition you're, it's like it's a direct competitive thing, you know your competitors, do you know yourself? we have his face like no, no, I mean, it's like you know it's a direct competition when it comes to the arts, it's not like you just try to create the best you can and then see how you know, in this case, the answer of the Academy. So it's very different than sitting there on Oscar night like there's nothing you can do.

I just don't need to be nervous, I don't need to because things are the way they are, it's out of your hands. You did the best job you could. You might do it and then go from there, but the most important lesson you learn is that you work with brilliant people who see the world the same way and magical things happen and that's true in every industry. I have John Williams and Glen Keane who have never met, but they are both giants in their respective industries, they see their craft in the same way and you put them on a project together and you know that, generally speaking, you enter this commercial space with all the success you have had in sports. like it was the next step in life, people are fine, they praise you for what you did and they are excited to work with you or they say, oh, that's my thing because he won five titles, you know he can do whatever he wants, it's a A little bit of both, so I can have any meeting, you know, but then it's the follow-up.

I used to have things all the time where yes, you go to this company meeting and you want to develop these ideas. I want to build, that's all great and you sit down and they're trying to convince you to be on the show on camera. I'm Lenny, that's not what I mean, right? So it goes both ways. So what we had to do was build it ourselves, we just got tired and tired of it, you know, trying to go out and associate with people that you know act like they believe in the vision, but when the time comes, really?

Don't I just want my 20s and say I'm trying to put that to bed and build something for the next night and the best way to do that is to do it ourselves? It was a crucial moment in my growth. where you developed your desire and the tremendous work. I think I'm talking about a mental strength that you have, which was there from the beginning. Pick up that. I'm trying to remember. I'm fine. We had a really competitive household. my cousins ​​and you know my dad and my uncle and things like we were very competitive and you really had to work hard to survive, Blaine, you know, that's swimming, that's playing basketball.

I was playing video games, whatever it was, it was shit. So when you lose, you not only lose, but you are embarrassed, why do you know what I mean? I grew up in that kind of environment, so you had to work hard to keep your head above water and I came. In the NBA I was like, man, these guys don't really make it that hard, it was nice, it's like a revelation, but you start young like you know we were the same age when we grew up, it was like you had a kill list. at 13 I did it and I know that no, you kill this deer that comes like yes, yes, no, you kill this one at 13, brother, well, Tim Thomas, yes, of course, Thomas, yes, no, because at start were as if they both had no bodies, yes, so he resorted to the codes for the retentions. laws of law, marriage, we weren't into anyone, so we played say AAU team together, so we were very close, so he couldlet them in and Garbi, yes, they do a much better job. that these two guys, let's go and then meet someone else that's not going to solve anyway and you roast them yeah, you know, you know a good deed will never stop a great office.

I just wanted to make you work, yeah, I mean, so you. I know from myself that there was going to be a difficult foul, that there would be no easy layups if you shot,

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times. I'm just going to file you hard, you know, I mean, and that's what I explain to people like A great offense is always going to be great because you just want them to work for everything, so you scored 30 points. I wanted you to take 30 shots, yeah, you know that kind of stuff so we can go back to being pro since Three's that stuff in Los Angeles.

I made the first choice, are you serious? Have you ever sat down and had a real combo off camera? MJ, oh yeah, what does that mean like looking in the mirror? No, it's funny, I mean, it's funny, no, we're, we're really different. crazy like he's going to compete with you, anything with you, yeah, different, I guess I mean he'll compete with everything and I won't. I only compete with things I'm really good at. I'm not just going to compete on something you don't know, it's all you know, who knows who. I taught basketball all day and didn't stop the committee.

Well, what if you knew my 91 against your three? You know what would happen in your opinion, come on, ask him that, yes, complete dominance or in a small series of seven games. what he started the conversation with was fine, it would have destroyed you hey, you know, listen now, I just said, listen, remember where you're talking to, that's what I'm just playing with you and then we move on, that's cool. But it would have been fun sometime, that's dumb, man, I just know I had the dumb conversations with him, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, how bad I remember playing with you.

It's all about you saying: I want to sit at the table with MJ. Yes, it means you wanted that six ring, what did it mean that you couldn't get it? Oh, I got pissed, you know, but things are what they are, you know, you have to push for a goal and my original goal was to try to win. eight eight and you push to achieve it, you push to achieve it, you push to do your best, well, at the end of the day you can feel comfortable with the results and where they landed and where they ended up, and that's the most important thing. why I can be really comfortable with the career that I've had because you know I worked as hard as I could, that's all, you and Shaq were able to win three together, obviously, there's been ups and downs, you know what he was like. what you were like, whatever, but if you were on the same page mentally connected, how many really feel like you couldn't love?

Most likely, I mean, San Antonio was tough, they were tough and that's how when the playoffs came around. It's not like Shaq and I weren't on the same page when the playoffs came around, where we were always on the same page, they just beat us, yeah, yeah, I say that like we were, you know, the bigger question would be? how many would we have? won if the Spurs weren't Spurs because you probably would have run the lead, not the decade of victories, you know that he was, he was killing, that he was alone that year, no, he went out, he went out well, so the talent, the coach, everything. in San Antonio there was kind of a perfect storm and if they weren't in the picture we probably would have run ten in a row and they would probably say the same thing about us, that's crazy, you have a lot of young players coming in Now yeah, you know your advice for them, like what you tell them, how that feels, it depends on what they ask me, a lot of them will come and ask about their game and things they should do and things like that.

I say, listen, you have an answer, I don't know, but you know it makes you uncomfortable when you play and I think that's the biggest thing for kids today is that they want to depend too much on the coaches and the guys that do exercise. You know what's good. I ask them to help you exercise, but you have to tell them what you need. You have to be able to say it's okay. I'm uncomfortable with this and if you don't know, then you're not as prepared. You should be right, first you need to know what your strengths and weaknesses are and then you know I can tell you some of the things, some of the rhythmic things or some of the exercises or how many reps you need to do on certain things, but you have to know your game, Where does it come from?

Because you see, I mean, obviously, one of the big ones that you know is your ranking, but I really see that you know with your Academy out there and Thousand Oaks like you opened your doors and your arms for players to come in and where did that come from? retribution I wanted it to come very well the guys that came before did the same for me, you know, I've had very deep conversations with Jay West and talking about things, same with MJ, yeah, I've had great mentors, Olajuwon, I've had guys of all time, the greats Bill Russell, I mean, we talked a lot about how to win championships, how to lead, so I felt like it was my job. trying to pass that information on to the next generation and then watch the game develop and watch it grow mm-hm, you know what I mean, it's amazing to look back and see what some of these athletes are doing right, whether it's the James Harden's generation Luca Don plays now and part of the game is fun to sit back and watch the game grow and that's why I do it, who were some of the younger players or players in the league right now that you follow when I get a chance to watch it, you know, it's funny, I'm high, so before GG got into basketball, I hardly watched it, but now she's in basketball we watch, she's gone, she wanted to watch it too.

She is in every night. I love her. She is in all of them. night and I mean every game, I mean, she asked me to get the leader pass on her phone and everything. Azealia she watches everything so you know what we will see. She will really like to see the youth exchange. She looked a lot at her Luka's. she looks at James, she looks at Rusty, she looks at Bran, she looks at me, she looks mm-hmm ooh, would you look, she looks, look, well I guess I am and there are so many talented young players out there, it's amazing and when I took him to the Laker. game that is a first lady game that I have been in, I think, since the jury retired and we had a lot of fun because the first time I saw the game through their eyes it wasn't me sitting there, you know, as an athlete or a player or something and you know, it's about me and I don't like that it was her like she was having a good time and the players were coming up and saying hello to her, right?

You know Brown was talking about her. she swoons, you know, you know, she was exciting and she has a great time as a parent because that's all you want, they're cute snapshots. Blessed be he, yes, to be the father of the girls. I have girls, they both have girls, yeah, when the time comes for that first. date on which they are going to sign that mother with 81 points less, they will leave you looking like look brother, yes, I put anyone on the court, maybe they won't give you one of these. I think it's implicit, yes, things already apply to this government, you don't know anything.

Honestly, Vanessa, jobs are harder to negotiate than me when it comes to that stuff, yeah, yeah, yeah, so you gotta get past that line of defense and fix your mom on that's national security with the big dog, yes, he's nice, exactly, but he nods well. and we just try to raise our daughters to be strong, independent women, you know, and what I'm saying is to hold themselves to really high standards, yeah, to respect themselves, things of that nature and to just trust that you have raised them the right way. S I've been going for 20 years, yeah, tell me what that means with the height of your career and who you are, like what, what forgot the secret sauce man, that's perfect, but you guys have seen how it works, just commitment and competitiveness. of we're going to be successful you know like we've seen couples that are like 85 years old you know oh you look like oh man such a sweet old man I lost these things and I'm going to talk to him because I want to know why the guy whose is great, but I mean, She kicked me out of bed last night.

I'll sleep on the couch, man changes, so it's a constant up and down that's been a flow of relationships, but that's also the beauty of and having the persistence and the determination to get through very, very difficult things and we've been able to do that, so the last thing before we leave here, the state of the Lakers, yes, with a B and LeBron, I think they have done it. I turned the corner, you know, hats off to the robbery and the front office, who orchestrated this team, but what do you think? First, that was a duo, but then the state of the Lakers, yeah, well, I think people really saw that.

Rob's praise, well I was one of the people like I said when I spoke, could you meet me straight from the beginning? You know, even though I know Rob and I've seen him at games, we shook hands ever since, but I was like, you know? It seems like a mess right now, yeah, and they navigated and put together words that work, they say in the big speech when no one else did, but that's the point, of course, yeah, to be able to stay the course and you know, Rob and I have I talked about those things like we weren't talking, we didn't talk about, you know, this movement of that movement, it's more to him like a friend, like a saint, Rob, you've been there with me now, it's just you going through it and you .

I know how we handle it: just stay the course, all storms pass and stay here, just do your job, do your job, do your job, but man, I mean what he's done with that team in two years on the contracts . that they once had and they were tied to what they have on this roster now, I mean they're the greatest team you've probably ever seen, plus the Big Ten school is tough, tough athletics, so they look fantastic I think the most important thing for them. and what they really need to invest in is health, making sure the shrimp training is where it should be, always physically making sure where they should be, Judy, you know, there's little time right now, she's Debus, yeah, so I think that is the most important thing for them. it's their health, if they're healthy, you know it's going to be a great series of highways here, yeah, so it's a blossoming of GU, I feel like it's going to be the Lakers and the Clippers that come out like it seems, it seems like it, you know.

That Clippers team is very well put together because they have dogs, man, yeah, that's not afraid of anything because of the clothes on the previous show. I thanked you so much that my kids and I were trying to find your undefeated pack, okay? point me in the right direction bro we need them I'm a big shoe fairy I need them Jay I need my boxes back so you were next on the list man but we just found out that really We appreciate you, man, yeah, that's it. that man that's a recap of episode 11 man we hope you enjoy it we can't thank our guests enough several all time Kobe Bryant Jack we did it we did it again but your hands aren't soaked congratulations man be sure to check this out. on Showtime's basketball YouTube channel and all streaming platforms puck and C onsen for sale at sea all these years we've been building, building, building, when that opportunity comes my way, that's when the magic happens , appears in the head of the family, crazy depression. anxiety all the things I had and hated before I'm tired legalizing sports betting could also legalize cocaine and methamphetamine so many people wanted Sonny dead the question is who got to him first this is the hard part it's just a buddy Thomsen we help people to understand fighting against punches.