My friend grew up with Kobe Bryant...
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So, since this is Kobe's last year, I decided to give TheColi a little treat...
I sometimes drop in with some crazy sports stories, especially from the NFL/NCAA, because I pretty much grew up in the sport, and have a couple of dope threads somewhere around here, which are basically AMA's. (can somebody up the "True Stories from Sports" thread that had everyone giving personal, crazy pro sports stories? I was gonna post this there.")
So, lets get to it - my close friend grew up with Kobe. Only within the past few weeks have we really talked about it, but his stories are always dope.
Basically, his dad is a former NBA player, and grew up/close friends with Kobes father, so he has known the dude since birth (Kobe is about 3-4 years older), and has little kid pics together and all that.
So, Kobe was a regular dude, until he left to go to Italy, and came back basically "un-American" lol - he said he was really into soccer, culture, different languages, etc - just was a different dude. The crew was basically my friend, and Kobe, with Kobes cousins, and they all just basically hooped allday, everyday. Basically, Kobes cousin (who looks just like Kobe when he showed me his IG) was the high flyer, KB was just fundamental. Kobe would go to his hs games, even as he got bigger - that is, until he was a senior, where he would walk around in Kangols and sunglasses - but even after the NBA, he was like family.
He said the "strange" thing at the time is that Kobe would never hang out much outside of the court and home - he would skip every social event, because he was obsessed with working on his game - at 13, 14 15 years old.
The "greatest" basketball moment he says he ever saw in his life, was a 10th Kobe playing in a winter tourney against a guy who was considered the best in the state. He said everyone knew this dude, and this guy was a senior who was crushing everyone (the name escapes me.)
So basically, there was a stolen pass, and he said the whole gym kinda stopped - which is unusual, because it was a real HS game, so it was basically Kobe vs the Dude 1-on-1. Kobe crosses the dude with the God Shamgod (which he said was crazy, because he used to practice it every day, and everyone was like wtf, but he knew that was the move Kobe worked on every single day on air), and viscously dunks on him (he said we didnt even know Kobe could dunk like that) - but here is the kicker. He says for some reason, the gym was super quiet, or low for the moment, so you could here what the dude on court said.
10th grade Kobe looks at the dude (who fell down) and just says "Merry Christmas."
The gym explodes, everyone goes crazy, and they have to briefly shut down the game. The Legend of Kobe is born.
I have more for you coming soon:
- He was there for the Jerry Stackhouse (who was in NBA) vs. Kobe (who was in hs) 1-on-1 Urban Legend
- Kobe's "generous" stimulus packages for his college buddies and cousins
- Practice habits
- Bean Bryant & why Kobe is GREAT
You're probably talking about John Cox who was leading scorer in HS I think his senior year. His game somewhat mirrored that of Kobe's.
Kobe used to also frequent McGonagall Hall (Temple campus) and play with Eddie Jones, Aaron McKie, Derrick Battie and them.
So, here is the Jerry Stackhouse vs Kobe story:
Every Sunday, the ballplayers would get together and play all day. This is Kobes pops, and a bunch of Philly legends who balled in NBA, who are like in their 30's & 40's, still flying around and intimidating everyone. (He said it was at a small, nondescript gym, and is going to take me there in a few weeks).
He said it was so dope being there that if he overslept and his dad left him, he would be sad the whole day. So, basically Kobe and his fam grew up on the game, literally.
Anyway, Mo Cheeks would frequent this gym on Sundays as well, as well as some scout dude, who used to ball heavy when he could too. So, the young boys (at this time, my homeboy is a freshman, and Kobe is a junior/senior) ball on the side courts while the olders people take over the main gym.
Apparently, the scout and Mo Cheeks start razzing Kobe, who doesn't take well to being told he can't do anything. They are basically telling him, that he is a great talent, and going to go D-1 and dominate, but the NBA is another world that he isn't ready for, and Kobe is like "whatever Muthafukka" (side note, he said even as a kid, every other word from Kobe is "muthafukka" - and if you pull up some Youtube vids, he does say it when he is talking trash)
So, Mo Cheeks basically says that since the 76ers are close, one day he will bring Jerry Stackhouse to the gym, who is THE Jerry Stackhouse, NBA player, All-Rookie team, UNC legend somewhat, to show 11th/12th grade Kobe what its like to go against a real player.
Next Sunday or so, he said Stackhouse comes to the gym, and everyone is like, but not too hype because everyone there has been in or around the NBA since the 70s, so you still gotta prove yourself.
He says that they get straight to it.
Straight from my homeboys words - he said it wasn't even a "real" game. It was like a grown man playing against their little brother. He said the scores was like 11-2, 11-4, Kobe just making YOUNG Jerry Stackhouse look like, and it was unbelievable, and Kobe was like
not even breaking a sweat. It was embarrassing.
So, he says like a week or two later, somehow the media got a hold of it - as in, one of the dudes in the gym (only like 11-15 dudes were even allowed in there) leaked it to the media, but they still don't know who to this day. Apparently, Jerry Stackhouse has admitted to it, but the only things I can find in short Googles are people who were around saying "I don't know who won" or "Kobe was VERY good, it was a good game", trying to keep Stackhouse's rep intact.
But, my homeboy was there, and said it 16 year old Kobe went savage on an All-NBA player.
Hood Critic
The Power Circle
It's been reported numerous times.Im a Kobe stan but I dont believe that Stackhouse story
waltthizzney
All Star
this the best thread ever on coli
DIMES
Retired troll
dont know why its not used more often
It's easy to steal if u know the move or expect it
I can do it once/twice per game before the D starts to anticipate it
YourMajesty
F*ck Ya Corny Debates
The Shammgod
Such a fire move. Tony Wroten did a sick one a while back
<<TheStandard>>
I Am A God
He went to my high school in Philly (George Washington Carver High School of Engineering & Science (E&S for short). He's a lot older than me....like the class of 1999-2000 (Marc Lamont Hill also attended around the same time as him). I attended from 2000-2004.
LinusCaldwell
From The Eastside with Love
MrSinnister
Delete account when possible.
Very low message count. Hope this ain't the same click bait troll who met The Rock on TSC, while everyone's getting moist and shyt 
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So gullible when you get what you want to hear, but yet so cynical of many other important things...
.So gullible when you get what you want to hear, but yet so cynical of many other important things...