Every standard NBA fan knows the tough character Kobe Bryant had . I wanted to win and I wanted it at all costs . Even Pau Gasol, who ended up being one of his closest friends, tried it on his skin not once but continuously. And now that - with the broadcast of The Last Dance , the documentary that extols his figure - there is so much talk about how hard Michael Jordan could be in that section, the player that Bryant imitated and almost reached, some chapters have come up Bryant's complicated in his stay in the Lakers for two decades.
Taiwanese American Jeremy Lin , who was in the Lakers for one season (2014/15), has recalled an anecdote about Bryant that talks about how rough the Philadelphia player could be when they were badly given.
In Danny Green's podcast, which is now in the Lakers, Lin has traveled until February 2015 to exemplify on this topic. The Angelenos were among the worst in the league at the time, with a record of 13-34 in the Western Conference, and Bryant already left public signs that he was quite upset. Bryant was on leave after operating on the rotator cuff of his right shoulder, so his spirits were even lower.
Jeremy Lin tells what happened in one of the training sessions at El Segundo:
"He had done a lot of damage and was out for the remainder of the season. So he was not with us, he was rehabilitating and out of discipline, so we had not seen him in several weeks. And suddenly he showed up at the gym It was the day before the transfer market closed. We were about to start training, doing the warm-up in the band. And he came towards us. And with the presence he had but heightened. He approached. We were all the same. Carlos Boozer said to him in a very good mood: "Kob! How good to see you around here, brother. We haven't seen you in a while. What made you come to see us?" And not a muscle moved from his face and He blurted out the following: "I've only come to say goodbye to some of the bums who are going to be transferred tomorrow." He sat down at the end table of the gym where we were training, said a few things to the coach and left. the feeling 'I've lost all the motivation ment to train, 'said a teammate when he left "