 Were you in the practice with the The Charmin were you in practice practice? Yeah, I wasn't in the practice. Okay. Okay, but you was there that day. Yeah We don't get one Kobe story explained we gotta we gotta get to the bottom How this shit happened I was a rookie it was like a testing day for Kobe to test like Germany land test Me and test like Wesley Johnson and yeah other guys. He's still he's just trying to figure out who does what we know What he's capable? We all know what he can do So he's trying to figure out how to play with one another and everybody need to just figure each other out and Kobe didn't really practice with us. You know what I mean? He would come to games, but you know obviously at his age you couldn't put that kind of mileage on his body I wouldn't allow him to practice much, but there were days where he was like, well, baby Let me just scrimmage and I was like, yeah, that's that sounds good So, you know, we're gonna scrimmage it about this time. Come on back out You know get yourself back loose and I'm gonna let you scrimmage and cold was like, you know I'm I can outwork every one of these motherfuckers As I was watching today in practice. All right, and he would be in the scrimmage talking From the store. He was killing Germany. Like I guess he wanted German in to be something. He wasn't that was a dark year, man That was that was a really really dark year Welcome to one of the greatest Kobe Bryant stories that has ever been told and this is brought to you by the NBA players that were Involved on this day. We rewind back to late 2014 in a scrimmage where Kobe Bryant went in on his teammates and they talk about it each player from the scrimmage Talks about what happened on this famous day. This story is hilarious Crazy and very Kobe Bryant. 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You can't let we can't go out like this We ain't going out like this guy today today is like that day maybe at that time He was coming back from injuries and then he was also going through some injuries But he was like he you know He was like 35 year old Kobe with a 25 year old Kobe mind and so like He had it in him that he wanted to prove to the world like all the reporters who say he couldn't come back from his Achilles or other injuries like he had this like Like intense level of like I'm gonna prove you wrong and I would sit there sometimes to say as you not gonna say nothing back That would be me. I'm sitting right like no, no, I don't care how good you're not gonna talk to me Right if I was out there on the court that way, but Jeremy Dan was getting killed He's getting ripped shit by Mark price mark not more fucking Ronnie price Ronnie He played defense Ronnie price has you know been the one guy that I'll you know can look at and say wow this guy's really Gotten my attention. I'll always like Ronnie price is deep defensive synastia. I always like the way you play I mean you always play really hard defensively. He's a he's a little bit of a pit bull He just gets after people and you got to love that about it All right, Ronnie, he played defense court picking them up. I'm gonna get mad at German in come on man That's when I like oh he's talking too much. You can't guard me guards. Don't guard me Yeah, I mean and he just going back and forth and I hear Nick you can't go Who's guard German ain't guard me Guard me then we start going back and forth. So I just hear the back and forth, right? First day ever see Nick stick up from himself for himself was that day When I got caught on camera the one he said nobody in the world I said nobody in the world could go to me to get where I was teaching me You know the conference you gotta go at them So I was going at them and then Kobe said a line like lucky. I'm not from this world something like that Cuz I said nobody in the world Lucky I'm not from this world So we going back and forth it was fun and all I remember is like I'm like man What's going on like my first year in the NBA was a shot? So I'm like man, what's going on so I'm in the training room I'm getting my my rehab and stuff and all I hear is Softest army. I'm a fucking trash. Yeah Just going crazy Kobe y'all soft like Sherman You know Kobe got a deep ass voice so like you hear And All I hear is what Mitch was like or Mitch Cup check was our GM at the time and called leaving of court He like Mitch. I'm supposed to get better with this shit. I'm supposed to be a better with this shit The gym was full of you know young players and some veterans yesterday morning when he showed up, you know the whole Tenor of the gym change a little bit. It's like Look who's here And then he walking in the locker room. He's like you what the fuck is this Joe? What the fuck? He's like, I'm supposed to practice. I can't even get better practicing with y'all. He's like these motherfuckers making me worse There's a lot of stuff that happened after that though, you don't know. Yeah In the locker room. Yeah, you got real crazy there You're gonna talk about what Jay Lane you said I forgot about all that. That's crazy. I was like I told him this is how it started. I said Look, you're you're Kobe like I'm coming in trying to learn from you Okay, so like I'm okay with anything as long as you talk to me like like a man Like in terms of like don't talk down to me like I'm a boy talk to me like a man and respect me and then You know, he has always said like, you know, everybody just says what I want them to say Like it's very rare that somebody actually stands up to me We didn't speak for the last four months of the season like nobody knew nobody on the team knew but for me That was like something I was willing to accept because I said what I needed to say to him And if he didn't like that and he didn't and he was like, I'm not gonna engage in there Like I'm not gonna talk to you anymore. I was like, all right, cool I can I can live with that. At least I say what I needed to say. I'm like, damn. I'll say this I'm like, damn. Yeah, like with everybody, you know what I'm saying? Everybody just you know slow by one by one everybody so walking to the locker room. My leg was broken. I was soft that day Then the next day, you know, you won and won a game Fire nothing but that hits the three and he's feeling it. He's got the range on his first two Proud and key It's had himself a start so But lucky I was coming off the bench so I have my whole unit. Yeah I do my role. It was the bench that provided those three Nick young knocking down five of those in the first half wait a second Dizzy didn't Kobe call out Jeremy Lynn and Nick young at Thursday's practice Yeah, they call them soft and charming or something right now. They're playing tough right now and call me to the rim Were there any points where you took a shot and you was like, this is a bad shot for fucking Yeah Once again married to anyhow, so let me throw it up and through it in I love the when you wave them off. I think it was against the spurs Yeah Look, Kobe's gonna ask for the ball That's so funny you forgot you're like, oh my favorite players in Kobe. It's me Let it rain You watching Now he's back In the interview, I said I feel like I'm about the Sherman tissue or something like that You know from the yesterday practice So Kobe talking on that trash kind of inspired me today I thought we I thought we played pretty hard for a team full of toilet paper. I thought that was pretty good So, uh It seemed like Kobe for someone who was so serious and for you Nick, obviously, you know, you love having fun He took a liking I don't know what it was, but he really vibe with you. Yeah, like I've never can we like better than what like running an MVP I swear to god to get Kobe to give you that for sure My favorite game with you is the spurs game the one you hit the game winner I want to play some of the clips because I want everyone to watch Kobe The first clip that we got let's watch this. This is what is going through your head right here Oh, no, but watch Kobe watch Kobe holds up. I have never seen Kobe do this in my life Okay, it kind of has to they just But how are you you went you got Kobe to go from I've never seen a song this tissue to do in your own What did Kobe say after you got a little hoppin he's he was feeling the swag to I feel yeah, he was He was a different Kobe today. He was animated talking, you know Talking trash doing swaggy p3s. What what do you point that to like is there anything you can kind of How did you guys hit it off? Yeah, just for me like just never backing down from whatever he was In practice always and even just showing up to practice coming to work out with him He had a lot of respect for guys who busted their butts You know every single day being that they were very talented or not But if you came to work every single day And you didn't bag down to him because he would test you, you know, that's the one thing I loved about it He would test guys in practice. How would he test them? Oh elbowing them talking to him You know telling them they can't guard him, you know, you got this guy out here And this guy can't hold my job, you know, but I mean he would talk so much stuff And he would really just to see how you're going to react to it. I Showed no sign of weakness of being afraid of like basketball and with anybody. So I think he liked the Competition I brung like when we playing one-on-ones or just talking trash. Yeah Yeah, you like that type those guys always like every every like intense person like they always respect like That, you know, softened up and I feel like, you know, you being the fun guy you already kind of brought like the little bit of joy And like you're like so it was like this fun competitive little brother big brother Going on, you know, I'm saying so that's what's up, man You're getting a lot of credit on twitter and in social media for um lighting a fire under the guys yesterday The result is they played as a team the best game of the season. You think what you did yesterday worked I You know, look, I mean we can all criticize my style of leadership all day long I mean really can you can sit there and it's uncomfortable. It's uh, You know, whatever you want to say, but I've been doing that since high school and uh You know, we play this game to win championships and I have follow them Right, but I think it worked. Do you feel like what you did yesterday had something to do with the way they Played tonight It's worked pretty well I'm done all right with that I asked him, I said man, why are you such an asshole? How did you deal with the players that you played with? You know, knowing that they they were still kind of somewhere on the spectrum, but uh, but you you're on the top of it I asked him that He said you really want to know You know how he was and he said to me said feel man My response might sound a little um Tough, but I I just I killed my burial um you know, it's it's You know tolerance for that and the kind of culture that the Laker organization stood for and went in championships is not tolerated Some of my teammates don't understand work But if you're lazy, man, I don't want to talk to you. I won't deal with you. You don't make me feel dumber You know, you're gonna lower my level. I don't think so you go over there There's plenty of teams in here where you'll fit right in He said so I see dudes walk into practice 10 minutes before practice and they leave right after Why the fuck am I gonna pass them the basketball? He'll tell me on the plane like This is my gift of my curse if I feel like the other players on the court with me Ain't really playing as hard as me. I'm not passing I'm taking on the entire team by myself You're gonna show up to play and you're gonna lolly gag through this scrimmage through this drill I'm going to beat you I'm going to let you know I beat you. I'm gonna want you to reconsider your professional life choice I respect the work ethic people will say, okay, that doesn't make a great teammate Well, I'm not here to be a great teammate. I'm here to help you win championships I want to say it's almost like a prison mentality when it comes to like He's gonna test your manhood almost in a way that like he's gonna he's gonna push you and see Where your heart is at, you know, and if you if you come in and You act like a little punk and you don't you you punk out then He's not gonna he's not gonna mess with me He would talk so much stuff and he would really just to see how you're gonna react to it He's gonna test you and definitely push you in practice. Is it intimidating? um You know, I know that I've seen it I definitely know where how his mindset is but before I was like Damn, tell me how you really feel, you know, I'm in here Busting my ass every day trying to perfect my craft and these dudes These dudes don't want to work on the game. I don't trust them. So I'm not gonna pass on the basketball I'm gonna ride them hard every day Make perfect sense When he really broke it down as to why he is the way he is with certain dudes I was just like and I respect that bro. So for me, I have nothing to posit us No negatives at all Towards him as a teammate and especially out actually we all call them og all of us younger guys as rookies that we You know og and so I have no negatives about the og He took us under his wing and he taught us things, you know bigger than basketball and so for that i'm grateful and You know, I I don't have the stories that others have but I can see where they probably come from now And he would do it to just see which of these guys he could be in that foxhole You know, which of these guys I can trust to have my back when I'm on the court. It's a test. Yeah, and he was always, you know, you know Testing guys to in that way to try to find out You know, which of these guys I can trust and go to battle But you know a lot of it has made like the virality of certain clips of like Him yelling at me nick young and jay hill, you know in practice. Yeah, that was that was a day for sure And I hope you guys enjoyed the video if you did Please help me up by hitting that like button subscribe if you are new and here are two new videos I think that you will also enjoy if you enjoyed this one. Take care