𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐌𝐎𝐊𝐄 𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐒𝐓 𝐇𝐈𝐓𝐒: 𝐃𝐀𝐘 𝟐𝟎
Jalen Rose had a front-row seat to Kobe’s coming-out party 😤🐍
He remembers the moment a 21-year-old Bean took over... and became the real remix of MJ.
Happy birthday to the Mamba 🕊️
“Playing against Kobe & Shaq was Hard, because both of them demanded Double Teams”
Key word here is BOTH.Both got Doubled often in the regular season as well as the Post season & even tripled at times. This was never a one sided thing.This narrative that Kobe was only dominant due to Shaq’s “Gravity” is beyond dishonest.Shaq benefited from Kobe’s Gravity just as much
Udonis Haslem says his favorite story of Kobe Bryant is him hitting the game winner over Dwyane Wade in 2009:
“December 4th, 2009… Game winner. ‘Hey, you and D Wade make sure Kobe don’t get the ball.’ I’m face guarding Kobe, D Wade is behind Kobe. Ain’t no way in hell he’s getting this ball. This is the first time I’ve been out savaged and I haven’t forgot about it. Kobe threw my ass out the way, he shook D Wade, got the ball, gamed us off the wrong leg going the wrong way. I have never felt so taken advantage of in my life. I didn’t feel physical enough. I felt like he wanted it more than me. I really lost sleep over that. I tip my hat to him. He wanted it more and that doesn’t happen to me at all. King savage. D Wade don’t let me forget about it. ‘You was supposed to make sure he didn’t catch it!”
Happy Birthday, 24 🐐
Novak Djokovic says Kobe Bryant taught him to stop avoiding the painful tape and to deliberately rewatch the moments that made him uncomfortable because that’s where you learn
“I had a three-year period where I didn’t win a Slam. I was winning some big tournaments, but I couldn’t win a Slam. These two guys were beating me in every big match, Federer and Nadal.”
“I changed rackets, team members. I did everything I could to find the right formula. I was struggling physically as well. I was very thorough in my analysis of the matches afterwards, even though I don’t necessarily like to watch matches that I lost.”
“Kobe Bryant used to talk about this a lot. When I was talking to him personally about that, he said, even if it’s just specific intervals of the match that you lost, you definitely look at that. You need to analyze that.”
“You need to go through that cramping feeling because that’s where you learn from those mistakes. That’s where you have an opportunity to rectify that the next tournament or next match. That helped a lot.”
Caron Butler says Kobe Bryant signed a $136.4 million contract with the Lakers and immediately asked if he was ready to “black out” with two-a-day workouts
“The first thing that happened when I got to LA, during the press conference, Kobe signs for $135 million. I’m on his left, Lamar Odom in the middle, and Brian Grant is to the right. He signed the paper, and he was like, ‘Hey, you ready to fucking black out?’”
“That was the first thing. It wasn’t like, ‘Oh man, I just got this $135, $136 million. I’m good.’ It was like, ‘You ready to really work now?’ And I was like, ‘What the fuck is a blackout? What is that?’ He’s like, ‘Yeah, we’re about to black out. Be here tomorrow, 6 o’clock 7 o’clock in the morning,’ whatever the case was”
“I get there the next day, we’re in the gym doing two-a-days, blacking out from a workout standpoint. Blacking out to the point where you can’t even function. That’s what we were doing, two a days. We finished our first session from like 7am to 1030am, then we lift weights. It’s like, ‘All right, man, I’m done.’ He’s like, ‘No, be back at 4pm. We going again’”
“But I did it, and it taught me so much about discipline, about the game, about having counters, about having first, secondary and third moves, what you do in the double team, what you do in the blitz, just reading the game and seeing it through his lens. I was like, damn, that’s why he’s different”
@DeanTTraining I’ve add reverse pec machine to Upper A(for rear delts ).
And Cable front raise to upper B (for front delts ).
What do you think, is it necessary and too much?
These clowns will say ANYTHING… to try & discredit Kobe it’s hilarious😂😂🤡
“In the history of sports I don’t know if we ever had a player ranked top 5 with only 1 MVP”
• Babe Ruth only has 1 MVP
• Kobe Bryant only has 1 MVP
• Diana Taurasi only has 1 MVP
• Jerry Rice has 0 MVPs
• Phil Jackson only has 1 Coach of the Year
Goodbye, loser.
One of the (if not the most) most overrated players in NBA history.
And generally speaking, just a nasty person.
He will not be missed.
Some African Americans just happen to be the most racist people on the planet. Because they think they “earned” the right to do it based on their history.
@DeanTTraining I think when you shaking around your upper body that means the Lat is not fully control the weight, and that means the weight is too much which makes it ego lifting .