Antawn Jamison says he showed up 2 hours early to practice his first day with the Lakers because he was used to being the first player in, and says year 14 or 15 Kobe Bryant was already walking out of the gym completely drenched in sweat because he’d been working since 5:00 A.M.
“If you love the game of basketball, Kobe was the ultimate teammate. If you were one of those players who didn’t work, he’d get on you. I remember the first day I got to L.A. You know me, I’m always—I’m a vet. I’m the first one in the gym.”
“Practice is around 10:30am, 11. I’m there at like 8:30am. When I come in, Kobe is coming out. He’s just drenched. I’m like, ‘This guy in the cold tub?’ No. He’d been working out since 5:00 in the morning.”
“That lets you know his mentality. It was like, ‘I’ve got to get another ring.’ He hated to lose. First one in the gym, last one to leave. And that was what, Year 14 or 15 for him?”
“I’ve been blessed. I played alongside Shaq. I played alongside some greats, Dirk Nowitzki and Steve Nash. But that personality right there, when you hear the Mamba Mentality, that’s what I’m saying.”
“I’m talking to my sons and they’re like, ‘Yeah, we got that Mamba Mentality.’ I’m just sitting there laughing like, ‘You have no idea what that means.’”
“Kobe was a maniac. Like, no, a maniac, bro. And this was when he had five rings. If you came into practice every day and you loved the game, he was the best teammate I ever had.”
Someone will have to walk me through the thinking of LeBron fans who point to Jordan, Kobe, or any other legend having great teammates who helped them win championships as if that’s a negative… when their idol LeBron spent his entire career looking for better teammates to help him win.
Do they actually think their arguments through? Or do they just vomit stupidity and assume they’ve made a good point?
It’s just hilarious how Twitter dont gaf what players of the Jamison, Pau, Odom caliber have to say about Kobe as a teammate but will treat what “Jeremy Lin” says as the gospel lol
How’s LeBron James better than Kobe, when he’s chasing Kobe in year 24 😂
How’s LeBron James better than Kobe, when he joined Wade to win like Kobe 😂
Doesn’t make sense, but LeBron Fans are just as dumb and delusional as he is
Year 24 and stilllllllllll chasing Kobe ….
@lachynba@courtsidemediaa Oh…. the good ole “MVPs” 🥀
They prove so much in terms of showing a player is better or had a greater career.
I mean in 2000s Nash has more than Kobe/Shaq/KG
Moses Malone > Duncan
Wes Unseld > Jerry West
McAdoo > Elgin Baylor
Bronsexuals get cooked in a Kobe and LeBron debate
And when they have nothing to say and get cooked, they bring up Kobe’s death
Like bro …. You know that makes you look like a miserable person right?
So many miserable LeBron fans ……
I would be miserable too if I called another man my King
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Your dad must be proud 🤣