:wow: @ This ESPN Kobe Article

[CSquare43]

Kobe Bryant isn't going anywhere

Still reading.......

 

[dtownreppin214]

damn how does ramona get all the exclusives? i'll try to read it over lunch.

 

[#StarkSet]

Mozart, Einstein, Spielberg, Jordan all wrapped into one person







The theory of multiple intelligences that Gardner came up with is literally about Kobe

 

[Regular_P]

For instance, Kobe hasn't spoken to his parents in nearly three years. Not since 2013, when they tried to auction off his high school memorabilia without his consent.

"Our relationship is shyt," he says. "I say [to them], 'I'm going to buy you a very nice home, and the response is 'That's not good enough'?" he says. "Then you're selling my shyt?"

That answers that.

 

[Da King]

 

[MoneyTron]

Great article. Ramona needs a raise for this one.

 

[Sterling Archer]

"One summer about six or seven years ago, former teammate and assistant coach Brian Shaw invited Kobe to go fishing in Santa Barbara. Kobe didn't show up, so Shaw later texted him a picture of the sting ray and leopard sharks he'd caught. Kobe asked whether he had killed them. Shaw said it was catch and release but asked why.

Kobe said, "Because they got caught."

 

[MoneyTron]

"I was a battle MC. I hunted every top MC in the city and battled them," Sanchez said. "He'd come with me and watch me just destroy everyone."

After high school, they started a rap group called Cheizaw, signed a record deal with Sony and spoke on the phone almost every day. "We'd freestyle for hours. He could beatbox," Sanchez said. "I remember when he blocked [Michael] Jordan's shot. He was going crazy. He called up and was like, 'I need to be charged up. I need to freestyle for like 45 minutes."

Sanchez never made it to Los Angeles with the rest of CHEIZAW, though. He was arrested and convicted of armed robbery. The conviction was later overturned, but then that decision was reversed by a higher court. Sanchez served five years.

Sanchez said he's thankful Kobe supported him by paying for his lawyer and paying for another friend to travel to Philadelphia to testify in court as a character witness. And that he doesn't hold it against him, that Kobe did not testify on Sanchez's behalf.

"She'd taken all my clothes and thrown them into the street," Kobe says. He only had a motorcycle at the time, so he just had to leave his stuff in the street.

"I show up to the arena, and I don't really feel like playing," he says. "I'm just fukking out of it."

The Magic were awful that year, but Tracy McGrady was on that team, and every time he and Kobe played, people liked to debate who was better. In another life, that would've got Kobe going. He'd be raging over the chance to assert his superiority. But his marriage was in shambles. And in the first half, he played like it.

Kobe scores one point in the first half. McGrady has 21. The Magic are beating the Lakers. He's finally at the bottom of the ocean.

"I remember sitting in the locker room at halftime and saying to myself, 'You know what, you may lose everything in life because of the situation that you put yourself in,'" Kobe recalls.

"'You may lose your family, your freedom, but I'll be damned if I lose basketball. Because this shyt I can control.'

"Sitting in that locker room, that's where I made the decision, fukk it. I can't control any of that other stuff. But I'm going to take these motherfukkers out."

He scored 24 points in the fourth quarter and locked down McGrady, and the Lakers won in overtime.

"After the game, I go back to the house and pick all my shyt up," he says. "I take my motorcycle and go to a motel."

WTF...bruh this the GOAT Kobe article.

 

[Sterling Archer]

"I ask what it meant to him that Buss chose him over Shaquille O'Neal in 2004..."

"I look at it from a business perspective," he says. "I would have made the same call. If you're going to bet, you got to bet on the horse that you know is obsessive about what they do, day in and day out, and is going to be hell bent on trying to win a championship. If you're going to bet on a horse, you always bet on the one that eats, sleeps and breathes the craft."

"Of course he chose me," he adds. "That's the right decision to make."

:kobesmirk:

 

[LinusCaldwell]

Really cool article, I like the first thing Kobe did the next day after the last game was go to church.


The fact he learned Beethoven Moonlight Sonata by ear!!

 

[Sterling Archer]

"I always thought people were too stupid to really understand," he says.

Is he looking for acceptance into the group of luminary athletes such as Michael Jordan and Derek Jeter who have preceded him in retirement?

"I don't do groups," he writes.

Does he want to be understood?

"I don't do things for people to understand me," he says. "I say things to help them understand themselves."

 

[CSquare43]

He grew up actually listening to Phil.....

Not sure if that's good or bad..... :pacha:

 

[Sterling Archer]

He grew up actually listening to Phil.....

Not sure if that's good or bad..... :pacha:

Phil fencepost for a back having ass is so full shyt, his eyes brown.

 

[str8up]

That was a great read, wish I had 1% of dude's work ethic

The beginning sounds like dude is turning into kanye

 

[Houston911]

Goat