The Complete Compilation of Kobe Bryant's Greatest Stories Told By NBA Players & Legends

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listen 2008 we're all sitting there

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sits down and pours a glass of wine we're like what you know and then we look and he's ripping out the Here's Paul photo so he cuts it up and picks it up, it he keeps it in his pocket and like we're all looking at him, you know what's going on, he's like motivation, we're like and then he proceeded to drink his wine, pour another glass, pour the third and he was like, basically, like he looked and said, now I am. one in front of you guys, we're okay, that's great, that's a great story, so when I hear those

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about Kobe and I hear it from so many people, I'm like, did he really like any of that? performance art as part of it was like I had to live up to this reputation like who does that we show the real world yeah that used to be on mtv yeah uh kobe was a rookie arn was my agent too and I he was the elder statesman of the firm and Arne called me and said, you know?

Would you mind talking to this young man and showing him what the NBA is all about and how to conduct yourself? I'm like, okay, yeah, sure. I'll talk to this kid, we were ready to play a basketball game against the world, the real world cast, it was filmed in Hollywood and all I remember is Gail keeps telling me, look, when they get here, they'll leave. to get there before the real world cast, all Kobe wants to do is play with you one on one, he just wants to play with you 101 101 101. I say, look, I'm 10 years old in this is 96 97 here that summer, like this He is one year old, so I have been there for 10 years.

I'm not going to play with this young cat one on one. I'm fine, I'll play a soft 101 game against them, but our approach must go against the real thing. world cast so we get there and we're playing soft one on one and you know I'm doing my step back jump. I know you've alluded to this before and he's like, how do you do that move? and know? a little strong because I was also trying to take things away from him, he had this killer crossover. I wonder, how is that done? So we're trading our usual moves well, one conversation turned into texts and phone calls every day because like you said, I was gathering information, we got to the bulls in the conference finals and he was like, what was it like getting Jordan?

He wanted to be larger than life and at that time that person was larger than life and he still is. Michael Jordan and I didn't have a very strong relationship with MJ, but Kobe wanted to know what all the intricate talking, trash talk, and moving around was going on between MJ and me. What did you do? What were your game plans? this I was like man this is that black cat there was no air for him man we tried this we tried that black cat was doing this and that and I'm thinking what does this kid want to know about all this mj talk because there's only one black cat you know , it's okay because I meant to call him michael michael jordan or jordan I always called him black cat like the black cat was you know we were doing this and I'm talking to kobe I'm like kobe he's like you know what you know what he'll be You better get ready for Carol Mill's cat because he's coming so before the black mamba before the black mamba his nickname was candy cap I'm thinking about this 17 year old I'm talking about better than ever he says that you're going to refer to me as the candy cat, that's the confidence I had back then, it's been like a year now and it's like, well, you better forget about the black cat, you better get ready for the candy cat because He It comes and I thought about it.

Fast forward two or three years later, it was 2-1 and then in the fourth game you mentioned that you fouled. I'm thinking you know you were already 50 and 25. Great, that's a waste. Foul ball on Shaq, that will be number six, what a great play three years later in the NBA Finals, that same move I was showing him on my step back, he got it right in the third game after Shaq fouled out to Reggie Miller, the main matchup we talked about. watch reggie miller take on him these two guys played one on one all summer in los angeles.

Kobe takes it between his legs, pulls it back, hits the jumper and this gives us, you know, take your time, everything's fine as he runs down. the court that passes me on the button says that you should never have shown me that step back. I'm going to kill this child. I'm going to kill this child. Brilliant and I hope you enjoy the video. Those were a Kobe collection. The best Bryant

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