Alfred0Santana
I used to drop Lewinsky off at the White House.
Stories is so well I'm buying in for the entertainment value 
...just keep em coming 
...just keep em coming 
My friend grew up with Kobe Bryant...
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Man.. If these stories are true
You missed the Lynn Greer lighting up everyone years. John Cox was c/o '99. Lynn Greer '97. I was in HS during those times ('94-'98), so I was around for the Lynn Greer, Brokenkorough, Crenshaw, Sul, JK, Yah, Alex Wesby, Donnie Carr - that era. But John Cox's dad (Chubby) taught at Penn...my brother had him for some class. He also played in the NBA briefly.
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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.
So gullible when you get what you want to hear, but yet so cynical of many other important things...
If you check my posts, I usually only posts about sports or stuff I know. I have numerous threads about sports stories that no one knows or I experienced, because I have a big sports background - but like I said before, its always mostly been FB stuff...I just happened to have an NBA guy. Been on SOHH/Coli since 2001, so I dont have time to post allday everyday, but when I do, I like to come with some real fire.
Is it weird that as I was hearing all these stories, I was like "man I gotta post on the Coli"
Oh, and side note - I have also learned to be vague on here. One time a few years ago someone told me that some people on a message board had talked about a story and I was like man thats crazy wtf would do that, and they showed me a link to TheColi - and it was me, but obviously my username (they mustve been googling themselves or something), and I was like
"Never heard of that website"....
So, I'm being really careful with these Kobe stories before anyone is like "oh, your homeboy is..." and it looks like i just hear these stories and post them on the internet. Which, I guess technically I did do lol.
Also, these are verified by me because:
1. I've been to his parents house, he does have pics of them as kids
2. Hes a cool, known dude in his own right, no reason to lie about that
3. His dad def played in the NBA and they have mad pics around there house with Kobes pops
4. In my boys house, he has stuff like Kobe signed jerseys, and old newspapers from 95/96 that Kobe signed "To my boy...." that are framed in the crib...I knew he knew him but never asked about it.
More stories coming soon.
Here's a short story - The Kobe Stimulus Package:
So, apparently, when my boy was in college, as all freshman are, he was broke as hell, and his parents would send him like $50 bucks lol. They werent tight on money obviously, but you know, some parents just make you get your own.
So, my boy said he had a Kobe autographed b-ball, that he was supposed to give to a Kobe stan (he said he was real cool with Vaneesa, so he would get her to get him to sign the stuff, so it wouldnt look like he was asking for 1000 autographs everyday lol).
So apparently, the Kobe stan is kicked outta school, so he is stuck with the ball. So, hes like wtf do I do with this - so ends up taking it to a sports memorabilia shop and they are like "Whoa, this is real", and give him $300 bucks. (how they verified it was real is still beyond me.)
So then he gets the bright idea to multiply this effort - so the rest of the semester, he becomes a mini mogul by getting Vanessa to send him a bunch of stuff, and he sells to to local shops, and makes super bank". Dope little come up.
So, one day, he gets the bright idea to sell a newspaper he had autographed. Now, this is a Philly newspaper, local sports (from like 1995-96) of Kobe declaring for draft. He said he got it signed as a joke, it was wrinkled, and only got Kobe to sign it because he made the front and the back of the paper. As in, "Yo - you made the front page AND the backpage of the newspaper - wtf. Sign both sides because this may be worth something fool"
So, fast forward - he brings the newspaper to the shop, and they say "
- is 13 cool for this??"
He said "Hell YEA, $1300 for a old newspaper, damn!"
He says the shop owner is like "
, $13,000"
So, my homeboy says, not only did I end up not making $13,000, but I ended up spending $100. To get it framed.
That's the frame that is still on his wall to this day, and I may even get a pic for yall one day, if it isn't too creepy.
Kobe is worth some $$$.
More actual personal Kobe & his cousins stories coming soon
So, apparently, when my boy was in college, as all freshman are, he was broke as hell, and his parents would send him like $50 bucks lol. They werent tight on money obviously, but you know, some parents just make you get your own.
So, my boy said he had a Kobe autographed b-ball, that he was supposed to give to a Kobe stan (he said he was real cool with Vaneesa, so he would get her to get him to sign the stuff, so it wouldnt look like he was asking for 1000 autographs everyday lol).
So apparently, the Kobe stan is kicked outta school, so he is stuck with the ball. So, hes like wtf do I do with this - so ends up taking it to a sports memorabilia shop and they are like "Whoa, this is real", and give him $300 bucks. (how they verified it was real is still beyond me.)
So then he gets the bright idea to multiply this effort - so the rest of the semester, he becomes a mini mogul by getting Vanessa to send him a bunch of stuff, and he sells to to local shops, and makes super bank". Dope little come up.
So, one day, he gets the bright idea to sell a newspaper he had autographed. Now, this is a Philly newspaper, local sports (from like 1995-96) of Kobe declaring for draft. He said he got it signed as a joke, it was wrinkled, and only got Kobe to sign it because he made the front and the back of the paper. As in, "Yo - you made the front page AND the backpage of the newspaper - wtf. Sign both sides because this may be worth something fool
"So, fast forward - he brings the newspaper to the shop, and they say "
- is 13 cool for this??"He said "Hell YEA, $1300 for a old newspaper, damn!"
He says the shop owner is like "
, $13,000"So, my homeboy says, not only did I end up not making $13,000, but I ended up spending $100. To get it framed.
That's the frame that is still on his wall to this day, and I may even get a pic for yall one day, if it isn't too creepy.
Kobe is worth some $$$.
More actual personal Kobe & his cousins stories coming soon
Here's a short story - The Kobe Stimulus Package:
So, fast forward - he brings the newspaper to the shop, and they say "
He said "Hell YEA, $1300 for a old newspaper, damn!"
He says the shop owner is like "
So, my homeboy says, not only did I end up not making $13,000, but I ended up spending $100. To get it framed.
That's the frame that is still on his wall to this day, and I may even get a pic for yall one day, if it isn't too creepy.
Kobe is worth some $$$.
More actual personal Kobe & his cousins stories coming soon
how much is that newspaper worth now?! dope stories btwReturnOfJudah
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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
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.
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I remember when Lynn Greer was lighting it up at Temple. He had a legendary run in the NCAA tournament. My pops refs Public & Catholic League games so I did follow HS ball heavy. It's so dope seeing Kyle Lowry become what he is today after seeing him in high school.
I actually went to Upenn.....Would have been dope to meet his pops.
My boy from Philly Glenn who got offered by Nova used to say how nasty Kyle was on the court.
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Keep 'em coming...
I hope your homie still has that news paper. 13 racks back in the 90s
Imagine what it's going to be worth once Kobe is retired and then inducted in the Hall...
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He averaged 29 a game one yearIf those aren't All NBA numbers then I don't know what is
He would've won the scoring title but this lil nikka named AI outdid him
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cool story bro
If those aren't All NBA numbers then I don't know what is
He would've won the scoring title but this lil nikka named AI outdid him
yea 29 on 40% shooting (by the skin of his teeth)
dude was a volume scorer with multiple seasons below 40% shooting.
not saying young kobe kicking his ass isn't impressive but cmon