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It's been the well rounded game of Chandler Parsons that's done most of the talking for the exciting first year find from the University of Florida. He's been quite an addition for this gritty rocket squad. And Mikhail tells us before like look you're like he pulls me aside like you're going to see crazy people you're going to see celebrities there like lock in and Kobe he's going to try and bust your ass like he's going to be like offended you're guarding him. Absolutely. I'm like cool like love it. I'm flattered to guard him. In his fifth year Louis Skollup was got such an advanced inside game. How about Kobe finds it so all alone and he rides it up and in. Was Kobe the most intimidating player to ever be on the court with because when I look at Kobe I'm like I saw a dude shrink around Kobe. So I go there. First of all I'm just looking at the court side on my head's on a swivel just I've never seen this before. Right. I'm like God damn this is crazy. All of them are in there and this chicks there. I'm like wow. So I'm already distracted and of course I'm starting on Kobe and Kobe's a killer on the court. Right. He's when I guarded Kobe he took that personal he was he was offended that I was good enough to guard it like who is this kid guarding me like no chance like he's almost looking for the double team coming like when I'm guarding him and I hope that's I don't think that was just me. I think that was honestly the approach in the mindset he had whoever was guarding he talked to he talked so much too but honestly he was more like a sarcastic like you know like I'd shoot an air ball and he'd hit me on the buttons a good shot on the way back down. He was almost like a classier trash talker. You know I mean Jordan Hill that year had got traded from Houston to L.A. So I had known him as a little side note and fourth quarter comes around and Kobe looks at me and he's like are you guys staying the night tonight and I'm like I'm like looking at Mikhail make sure he's not looking at me for him like yeah like what up like I'm like oh he's doing it like he's mr. Miyagi me right now like he's doing I'm like yeah what's up we're staying he goes I'll set you up like I'll get your number from J chill and like if you want to go out tonight I'm like stop like you're like I know what you're doing like come on Mikhail's over there like grilling me like stop talking to this motherfucker so I go ends up he ends up just going off he's like 40 that game we lose in the first half Kobe Bryant shot just five for 14 but he finished 14 to 29 with 37 points and he was clutch in the fourth quarter what's the game you knew tonight he was gonna come out and try to find that rhythm he tried early doing a little trick shot for the fans as well as a playground shot exactly what do you think about the job that Parsons did but I love him though I think he's a terrific young player he's from the house down to you got a shoot at Parsons deep what a cold blooded free by Chandler Parsons the challenge back outside the Parsons now Parsons drives one way back the other one Chandler Parsons puts a little Kobe on Kobe defense will play well yeah I think he has a really bright future I don't say that a lot about a lot of people now remember last time they played Kobe gave Chandler a nice compliment on his defense he didn't say anything about his offense but that was just very Kobe like right there after the game you know I get right there in LA live we go to like katsuya and we're with all the OGs right we're with like can be down and they're all taking me out I get a text and he goes you're all set at supper club dash Mamba and I'm like I'm like I'm like looking around like alright who's fucking with me like no no way and but I'm like Courtney Leo is my guy right I'm like showing him like is this real like you guys number like and I write him back I'm like okay like or like I said something like are you coming he's like now I can't make it but my guy will hit you up got a next text hey you're set up let me know what you need a supper club whatever so at this point I'm telling the table I'm like guys I got you my guy he set it up let's go JB bigger staff is there like I'm bringing coaches I'm bringing trainers this is I got it and we have a blast right we have the craziest night ever supper club was the tape was the club where the tables were beds yeah yeah it was awesome I was like it was nuts and 2 a.m. rolls around and granted I'm with these guys that made hundreds of millions dollars and this waitress be lines right to me with the check and I'm like oh shit and my dad's my financial advisor at the time he would be on my ass if I like value-sized my combo meal chick-fil-a and she's bringing me this bill for God knows how much I'm like oh man I open it and it's like $22,000 and now at this point I'm like fit I'm sick like I'm physically like no no like I can't do this because cars gonna bounce I'll never forget this chick looks at me hands me a pen and says sign for mr. Bryant and I'm like what I'm like a video the whole thing I'm like signing Kobe brought I saw Kobe Bryant on a $22,000 club bill and everyone by the way they say he's tough he's gonna go at you I'm like this dude was cool as fuck yeah he was he was not as brutal as like a Kevin Garnett he was dope store he was awesome it was a crazy crazy time I got a picture of it sure so I got his number I love the way the story went though because I thought because Kobe wasn't asked to he would have been stuck you with the bill and his bill from the weekend before I was like yeah he flipped it on you I like that it was not that's our guy I loved that as a dope ass story Kobe was a very complex balance of the most confident person ever but an incredibly cool guy to young guys talk to us about the Kobe stopper Ruben Patterson did he believe that some people say Sean Kemp gave you the name some people say you said it in the LA time article Ruben Patterson the Kobe stopper the original Kobe stop now he's not on the list I mean so when Ruben I played together he was the one player that would compete against me hard every day can you recall your first experience with the Lakers slash Kobe Bryant you remember that absolutely I can say one day in practice my mindset was always play hard defense right and I remember one time I was gardening true story and he gave me a elbow to my chest so I turned around I said man what the hell you're doing and he said welcome to the NBA young punk so he did a couple times hit a couple of baskets on me I'm say okay so I got to a point that I was ringing into a tussle because he was talking so much trash I mean he would show up every day yeah that kind of Bob hugging Cincinnati tough mindset type of thing right so I love that about him but then now he's a free agent and now he's like oh yeah I'm the Kobe stopper I used to lock him up in practice so I called him up I say rude dude if you need help with a new deal yeah let me know like I will go to the media and be like yo nobody guarded me better than Ruben Patterson I see this guy every day in practice I will help you with your new deal right but now you don't piss me off yeah now you didn't let me know now you went out there and mouth off now I got to kill you every time I play you and it's not gonna be a good situation I like what are you doing you're just making it worse for yourself man my favorite thing was seeing Sean Kemp before a playoff game Ruben Patterson has feet in the ice bucket yes I remember we played the legs in the playoff and I was sucking my Achilles in the cold but a bunch of ice and the cameras was our lockers next to each other so the cameras on the onus so he just started saying Kobe stop a Kobe stopper I'm looking at him like Sean Kemp while Ruben iced his ankles and so far there hadn't been much stopping are you really saying that right so that's how the whole thing started and that's how I took off Sean Kemp my man the rain man he started the whole Kobe stopper I never said he started and once he started it just took off the media hit it everywhere I go they know we have so many battles I mean that guy's the best and and Ruben you know we was hyping it up because of course back then you also got to think of psychological warfare so you know we all we did we just let the media hears and who hyping it up me and bond the cold just like hyping it up you know man I was new you know I'm saying I really know what the boundary I didn't know the moment you know I'm still my first time really playing and I was just you know I was competitive so you know Kobe Kobe even though he was Kobe he was still a young boy to me he was younger so you know how I go you ain't gonna let no young boy get off you know it was a total team effort because you know guys like him is unstoppable when you get him going you better watch out you know y'all know what I know the drill with him you know once he get the going and you know this when he was Uber in the basket Uber athletic right leg you know fades and all that he gonna talk trash to you he gonna say you can't guard me he gonna let your bench know you can't guard them. Before the game they said to talk about it in the paper right so during the game Kobe was like came down he did something gave him a bucket of something so we were on the line and then we look and he was like Kobe stopped for her and just shot his foul shot one down for a cracking up dog. He was just unbelievable player and like I said that the overtime I couldn't believe he had the couple shots. Out top against Patterson Kobe. Cannot get Patterson in the air a wild three. He had the one shot even though I think he traveled. I think he did like three steps to the right. They could travel his ass off. Yeah you remember that right. He looked at me after he hit the shot and ran to the bench and celebrate with his teammates. I played good deeds you can't do nothing else about that. He played it well at times he made him work. I mean at times I will say that he probably did believe that. And with one one left Kobe Bryant ties the ball game up as only Kobe Bryant can do. Other shot that he hit over I think it was Theo Raff. It was as a I mean he shot a rainbow and I'm going to tell the coach don't switch let me check on let me get him and we got caught up Theo kind of switch and he shot a real high arc and went in. I just shook my head like man I can't believe he just did that. Payton to inbound Bryant was able to catch that ball cleanly. The old Ratliff comes running out. It's a good shot and the Lakers have won the Pacific Division title. So I kind of just looked down and shake my head and went to my bench like this mother suck it really hit the shot. Only the greatest Kobe Bryant black mama like yeah I mean it's how I watch it on YouTube all the time people DM me send me pictures I say yeah I know I remember it come take this video yeah take this 45 yeah and if you enjoy the video and you'd like to see more please help me up by hitting that like button subscribe if you are new and here are two new videos that I think you may enjoy and I'll catch you guys next time.