 Welcome, to NBA Legends sharing some of the funniest and most ridiculous Kobe Bryant stories that you'll ever hear. These stories are from when Kobe Bryant was younger. If you would like to see more Kobe Bryant stories as well as any other players, let me know down below in the comment section which players you would like to see. These videos take a long time to edit and piece all together so I'd really appreciate if you guys could leave a like to show your support. If we could aim for a thousand likes that would be incredible and if you enjoy these types of videos be sure to hit that subscribe button because we have plenty of videos coming. And I don't want to keep you guys waiting so here's the video. Yo like what's the deal with this shit is it how did that go? Cole was crazy man we played just a crazy story we played the spectrum and the next day they were supposed to destroy the spectrum you know what I'm talking about back in the day. Spectrum was a dark like it was a great place to shoot in because it was dark and the rim is orange so it popped so you can see everything you know what I'm saying and I remember playing I had a decent game it's about April so we're going home we ain't making no playoffs my first you know my first year I had a better second half than first half and I come in I had to do some some some press I come in and you know the locker room going crazy you know it's just everywhere you know the equipment guys picking up stuff people getting shot it's going like this so I saw a kid sitting in my seat and I thought maybe you know somebody son in the locker room they got he just sitting I said what's up you know I'm gonna get right here and he was like what's up yo what's up now of course Brian man you know I'm trying to come to lead and I was I had just walked in the locker room so I was like who the fuck son is this or he's like no no no no no no no I'm cold bro what's up what's up yo adapting I was like all right yo like get like basically get your ass out of my seat I said like that but I was like let me get right here so he was oh my my fault my fault and then he sat in the you know JRC cuz you mean JRC sat right here so he was just like yo what's how is it out there y'all watching it looks faster and he was just his eyes yo his eyes is so he was so intense on just wanting to know the next level and what it was like now it's like hold on ain't your dad in the lead you know your dad now now I'm talking to you and we sat there and flip let us talk for like two hours when the bus was like supposed to leave and like I'll he let me I'm talking I was like you know for me it was like this I had to do this and I had to do that he was just wasn't even talking back was just nodding his head like yeah yeah I'm coming yo I'm coming I'm coming I'm telling you right now I'm coming cool I'll see you nigga yeah you know but we both talking like you know yeah yeah yeah then I seen him you get here preseason we both messed our ankles up so we had to come and do the whirlpool and when you go we was playing the form at the time same percent of one up yet so we we had to share like this little cubby room where you come used to hot tubs and shit and we were just chopping I was like you know know how your first year man and he was like many niggas over Hayden Eddie Jones he was hot he was hot but he had he was like I'm the oddball over in there only fuck me over here look my first year in the league it was tough not having an opportunity to play because I felt like I could compete with the best of them man that's the type of stuff you know quite frankly piss me off and it was very difficult going through that situation watch this I'm gonna walk all these niggas down watch watch and I came into the NBA I was like man these dudes really don't work that hard it was pretty it's kind of an eye-opener I was like and then I watched them in the series in Utah where he shot like the airballs at the end of the season being in Utah and shooting the airballs in a situation where I knew I could deliver and I knew I could come through for the team and it just didn't happen taking those shots coming up short but not being afraid shot the airballs he had this he had it I mean if there's not no code we did everything like Mike fade away the time he went bald when that didn't work the first year he was like you know what I'm gonna be my fucking self being compared to Michael is a great honor at the same time I have to separate that simple fact that he's accomplished what he's accomplished through hard work understand that Michael's a great basketball player but I'm Kobe Bryant so he grew his hair out start rhyming he was rhyming in those shots weren't meant to be but at the same time I thought to myself that I'm gonna be back now you start to get to see a little more of the personality you know he came out his first shoe and now seeing him with the hair he was a different cat and then we used to you know the thing was and in the summertime everybody used to go to LA to go to UCLA and play he would be up there so we're hoopers like you we go and hoop everywhere I want to see if everybody in the summer is working on a shit like I'm working on mine so I would go around the Houston I would go to Peachtree in Atlanta I'm going to space basketball city in New York a rucka all that shit so I'm riding around you know I'm flying around seeing who's up so I'm doing commercial stuff that's when we go to UCLA and I saw me UCLA he looked totally different I got go to the men's gym at UCLA and it's late it might have been like a Friday night at Westwood UCLA the men's gym and Kobe's in there with his trainer maybe like midnight and I'm and I'm region I'm redoing my shots I'm changing my mechanics and so I'm just going in there to shoot some free throws and I'm just going in there to do like just some set shots by myself and I go in there and Kobe's in there and he's laugh it up and he's got his guy and next thing you know he wants to play one-on-one so I'm down to the other end and he's like you want to play one-on-one yeah and I did because I'm like I'm changing my shot like I'm not I'm not there yet but I'm like I got it I got to I can't say no and I'm like all right why not you know and he's only 19 or whatever so I'll have my way and I could not believe the intensity and how hard he played he competed on every possession in that one-on-one moment nobody was there just the three you know the two of us and his trainer and I'm telling you it was like a game seven in like late July like it was I don't think I played that intense in the summer and he was like he was and me you know this is what second years coming off his second year 98 he's 96 draft the year of his second year yeah and so like the work ethic and and how hard like up until then man like I didn't really work on my game and I just hooped mm-hmm to play pick a ball and that summer was when I started okay I'm gonna start like working and getting better and trying things and that to me was when I realized okay this this kid had something he's special the you know going through having a strategy working on stuff all of that like I enjoyed doing that and a lot of it I got from being like watching this kid this kid younger than me grinding like getting after it by himself it's like a Friday night I'm alright I'm wiped up I'm telling you know you know I'm just wanting to go get some shots up late at night and he's in the gym going at it and so that was that was a moment that that that I remember that was I was like man this kid my freshman UCLA is 98 so he used to be on campus all the time to be to see him normally during the day at night yeah working out playing it was and you know he impacted a whole generation now that they do that yeah work they put that like you know back in the day you might go in five spots five makes I got some shots up you know say but like he he put the work in and sure yeah hit the weights dunking them off was talking shit I mean he was dunking on big she was he was just a different cat from when I seen him you know I'm saying I just saw I just saw him turn into this this animal it was both young and just trying to get it you know fighting for it so I did want to ask you because you over overlapped with a young Kobe Bryant do you have an early memory of him playing against him a highlight something where you were like holy shit this guy's got it yeah I was in the league and I was playing the Dallas and in the summers we would all all the guys from the filly area would congregate you know and you go play pickup ball at whatever college that particular day so we had these games set up pretty much the whole Sixers team was there and then whatever other NBA players or guys playing overseas or even some college guys show up you have 30 guys in the gym like great pickup games and I walked in there one day and they always had trainers they're taping ankles and I'm getting my ankle tape you know I'm going to jump in a game I'm looking out I'm watching the game play being played and there's this dude out there and he's like doing pretty you know pretty ridiculous athletic stuff you could tell he was like young but he looked you know kind of scrawny but like striding out and like you know playing against Eddie Jones I'll never forget it it was an all-star for the Lakers and you know they're going head to head pretty much and I literally said to the trainer like oh who's that guy I thought he was going to say oh that's such and such he plays at whatever college you know whatever he's like oh that's uh that's Colby Bryant as Joe Bryant's son I'm like oh okay I said how old is he he goes he's 15 he's 15 he's going to Laura Marion yeah he's they think he's got a chance I'm like yeah I think so so then you're and then I noticed what the thing has stood out to me over the course of that summer playing games when he was involved in was you like to think about being 15 years old first of all just in general how you view yourself right the confidence level to step on a floor with those type of players and grown men is a whole another thing like I remember playing pick up ball and the guy would bring his son and like hey you guys mind if Michael plays like no that's fine and the kid would just kind of you know hide but run up and out of floor no no this guy Colby was out there like no no I'm out here to do work at that age then that was like the first time and then he and I he and I because his dad he's you know I said Joe Bryant Joe Bryant till a sal that's my alma mater so I'd always known about Joe so then that was a natural starting point of conversation with Colby that day we started talking and then over the course of time you know whenever I would see him we always kind of talked we talk we talk about those summers and those games and you know there's always yes but that's no doubt man that I'll never forget seeing him that day I can literally picture it in my mind like an oil painting sitting on a training table looking over at the court and watching him go up and down with those guys we were in Vegas and uh coach drew up a play form at the top of the key to go I saw one-on-one and as they're leaving the huddle he's telling everybody I'm about to dunk on this food I'm about to dunk on this food I see a one-on-one situation everybody was watching us too and we didn't know what he was gonna do and when he finished the play which was dunking the ball through the basket I don't think our reaction was because of the dunk our reaction was because he said he was about to do that dunk and that's why we was just like oh my god we cannot believe he just said what he was going to do and he did it and it was spectacular at the same time he really finished the play and that's sort of you know let everybody know that here's a here's a guy who's going to be special in this league for a long time to come it was one of the craziest things because you know you guys say stuff all the time but to hear from a rookie who never really played NBA games said I'm about to dunk on this food and when I tell you he crossed that dude up right to left cross and and I think Ben Wallace tried to take the charts oh my it was that was one of the special moments of Kobe and like just you knew he was going to take off from there you just knew it the young man that you think may be as good a shooting guard or as good a players in this game and that's Kobe Bryant very special human being man I mean uh like a lot of people know Kobe because of what he done on the basketball court especially his career with the Lakers but I've been knowing him since we were kids and you know very special human being taught me a whole lot funny story when you know by the time I got to my junior year in high school like I thought I was the best shit since sliced bread by that time because I'm 6'6 there's not a lot of height in our town everybody else is 5'10 and I grew up in my town I ain't never leave right so my coach one day he said to me he was like hey man you think you you nice like you think you good or something man like uh there's a there's a kid uh right down the street that I'm like yeah right you got to be kidding me hell nah he was like bro he's probably about the same height as you and you know he probably weighed 20 more pounds than you he's probably way more athletic than you I think he's probably more talented than you and probably can shoot you know from a deeper range than you I'm like man this guy he's just trying he's just trying to make me go out and practice and kill these dudes and practice so I was like damn bro like really damn coach you're gonna break down my self-esteem like that he like nah bro I'm telling you this is before the social media era because nowadays you can actually look on Instagram look on Twitter and find out who's the great players uh around you especially in the state and he was like all right we're gonna match up with him trust me uh the team is the team is uh Lord Marion I'm like all right well we're gonna see and we're gonna blow them out because Lord Marion Rajesh you know is is a suburb right it's it's a lot of silver spoon it's the burps bro yes yes and you know I had all kids on my team from the neighborhood so you know I'm with all the homies that I grew up with and half them dudes thought they were better than me right yeah and Cole team you know looked like a private school team right he didn't look like he grew up with you know the dudes that I grew up with you know we from the hood like like there ain't no way we're gonna let you know some suburban kids uh beat up beat beat up on us so I'm like man it ain't no way but I'm looking at his game and I'm like bro like damn in the layup line he down there doing 360s you know I'm saying he's doing the in out double uh crossover step back shooting three feet behind the three point line I'm scratching my head I'm like damn this this dude looks for real like you know I'm saying this week starters showcase big game features lower Marion the number two seed in the quad a tournament taking on number seven Norris town in a quarter final game in the district one playoffs tonight they face lower Marion and their star Kobe Bryant that's that's impressive but uh wait let's let's wait to see when the ball's thrown up and once the once that ball was thrown up man bro look after that game I went back home I looked myself in the mirror and I said hey bro I held my own with that man gave that man gave us the business you know what he thought you were y'all went at it though y'all went at it we went at it I'm y'all went at it yeah hold on don't don't don't dem yo like to know y'all went at it if this kid right here is out shining you what about the rest of the world so uh that was my introduction to uh playing against Kobe Bryant and he came out and showcased this game and you know right right from there that's when me and him start to to to really communicate and start to get a relationship y'all play AU together yeah and we were also we also played on the same AU team so we were actually roommates and we were able to actually um not just play against each other but also become really really good friends and that was the first time I started to see someone that had you know the mindset you know of a killer like like I mean I've been around a lot of great players right but I ain't never been around somebody like him that just had kill on his mind all day and all night like it was basketball 24-7 like people seen that when they when you hear mama mentality like people hear that late like Kobe championships you know MVPs and everything like that no he had that mama mentality at 15 16 years old off the court code was uh all business man he was serious huh at like 16 years old which was crazy to me I remember one time we were uh playing in a tournament and I was like a cove like uh you know last night uh me and my cousin Spud you know there's a little bar around the corner that they thought we were 21 years old like they let it sit right I'm like yo let's let's go there after the game and he looked at me he was like nah I rip you know I got to get back to my room and ice my knees and watch tape I'm like what at 16 years old at 16 years old man you just want to be a kid right I can remember being in the room late at night because we were roommates on all a u events mcdonald's all-american game uh magic johnson run ball classic it was many times where you know we were sitting in the room and we would just have just random conversations about guys we were playing against uh the next next day in an a u game and his mind was on the mda he was like hey rip you know when I get to the mba you see some of these superstar guys out there in my position I'm a dog and I'm like man bro like bro we like 16 like like I'm dudes just grow man like come on man like like like go to sleep man like I ain't trying to hear that you you dreaming right now he like nah I rip I'm dead serious man I'm like bro we got you know shot we play shaheem hollaway tomorrow we play tim thomas and uh tim thomas was the number one player in the country at that time and uh Kobe didn't want to go to sleep that night he was restless and he was he would do this multiple times at night he would just walk around my bed because my bed was here his bed was there he would just walk around my bed and he was like hey man rip tomorrow you know they got tim thomas as the number one player in the country like we used to because we were roommates too like so all the air you events we were roommates and stuff like that and I remember when he was talking about on your show like he had the kill list right but you you start off young like you know we we the same age we grew up with like you had a kill list at 13 I did I had a uh I had a kill list and so you know they used to do these rankings so street and smith basketball rankings and I was nowhere to be found because I was like six four scrawny like 160 pound soak and wet so I was like 57 on the list and so I will look at 56 55 all the way up to number one who these players are what club teams they played for so when we go on a a u travel circuit I got to hunt them down right and so that became my mission in high school is to check off every other person all those 56 other names hunt them down and knock them down that's like that billy madison shit like yeah yeah who was on your kill list at 13 bro well uh tim thomas and it's and it's funny because you know we were roommates and it was many times at night that this dude just didn't want to go to sleep he just wanted to talk basketball right and we were about to play uh tim thomas uh and uh no in uh in a trolley weaver tournament in uh maryland and tim thomas was the number one player in the country at the time yeah of course tim thomas of course uh uh no rip was it because rip rip and I were like we were really close and cold was just in a room all night like one o'clock in the morning just pacing around my bed like yo rip you know tomorrow I'm a kill this dude and I'm like I'm like tim thomas like first of all we don't even play the same position as him right but but tim played on the wing at that time too like he was surreal at at that time right because he was a six nine can handle the ball can play inside outside he was like man I'm gonna kill this dude man he was like after after tomorrow it ain't gonna be no doubt in anybody's mind who the number one player in America is like they they saying I ain't the number one player watch rip tomorrow you know they got tim thomas as the number one player in the country I should be the number one player in the country I'm gonna go out there and show the world he said watch just wait wait and see and I'm like bro go to sleep man after the morning I'm like bro go to sleep man we played up early in the morning man all right like let's let's talk about this pregame but like tonight let's go to bed we got three big games tomorrow because we gotta win the tournament it's like nah nah look trust me I'm have my a game I'm gonna come out there and I'm just gonna destroy everybody that's out on the floor regardless who's guarding me and goal came out there and showed the world why he should have been the number one player in the country I mean he showcases the ability to score the attack and to dominate we end up winning that game and when you looked at the rays after that game Kobe Bryant was the the number one player in the country and by the time I was a senior hit number one and I hope you guys enjoyed the video if you did here are two new videos that you may enjoy as well I will catch you guys in the next episode please be sure to leave a like and subscribe