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🗓️ 15 June 2025
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Metta World Peace joins Patrick Bet-David to talk Kobe’s mind games, his wild first Lakers practice, tension with Phil Jackson, and why he chose legacy over a bigger contract. Plus: behind-the-scenes drama with Sasha Vujacic, Adam Morrison, and the psycho 2010 Lakers roster.
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0:00.0 | We did have one incident where Kobe was playing very well. |
0:04.7 | He was getting under my skin. |
0:06.2 | Phil Jackson was getting under my skin. |
0:08.4 | And then I was telling the team, I said, you know, last year, if Yalming didn't break his foot, |
0:14.5 | I said, we would have beat all of y'all, right? |
0:17.4 | And then Phil was like, calm down, Ronnie. |
0:19.5 | And I'm like, we're not calming down until I say we |
0:22.1 | calmed that's all I was just disrupt you're saying this to Phil yeah yeah but Phil Phil |
0:26.7 | Phil can take heat because Phil give heat by the way Phil gives heat and he can take it one of the few |
0:33.0 | coaches that can take a lot of coaches can't take what Phil could take so you're saying this so he says |
0:37.3 | calm down Ronnie what is What is Kobe saying? |
0:39.5 | Kobe's just watching. Because I think what was happening to, too, Kobe wanted, I think I came to |
0:44.5 | practice one day, but I wasn't as. What year is this? What's the, what's the, this is? This is 2010. |
0:48.2 | I want to know who the roster is. Keep going. I'm listening. Yes, I think like I came to practice, but maybe I wasn't as intense, and I think Kobe wanted to push my button. |
0:55.0 | So, because Kobe, I seen him snickering in the back when I was going at Phil, and he was like, so I think Kobe was like actually enjoying the process. |
1:03.8 | Yeah, enjoying the, enjoying the process. |
1:05.5 | But that was the only day where like, you know, where we addressed, I just got, I just came from the Rockets and now I'm here. |
1:12.0 | We never talked about that. |
1:13.1 | They beat us, but we was the only team to take them in seven. |
1:15.1 | They went through everybody that year. |
1:18.6 | You know, the championship game was the Rockets versus the Lakers, basically. |
1:21.9 | Yeah, I mean, listen, if it was a different story, yeah. |
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