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Podcast P with Paul George

ICONIC Kobe Bryant Stories From PG & Guests

Podcast P with Paul George

Wave Originals

Society & Culture, Basketball, Sports

4.8950 Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Paul George & guests celebrate the life of Kobe Bryant by sharing personal stories from their time with the GOAT. In this special episode, you’ll hear PG's story of playing with Kobe during his last All-Star Game, and DeMar DeRozan shares his experience of meeting Kobe at 15. NBA Hall of Famer Jerry West shares a wild story about how Kobe once expressed his desire to be traded to the Grizzlies. Former Laker Julius Randle gives the backstory on when Kobe referred to the entire Lakers team as "soft as Charmin." And finally, Klay Thompson opens up about the first time he played against Kobe. We all love and miss you, Kobe! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

What's good? It's Paul George. Join me and my guests as we celebrate the life of

0:04.9

Kobe Bryant by sharing personal stories from our time with the goat. In this special

0:09.6

episode you'll hear my story of playing with Kobe during his last all-star game and

0:13.7

demar de Rosen shares his experience of meeting Kobe at 15 and how Kobe served as a

0:19.2

mentor from college to the pros. NBA legend Jerry West discusses why he had to draft Kobe and shares a wild story about how

0:27.0

Kobe once expressed his desire to be traded to the Grizzlies.

0:31.0

Nick's Ford Julius Randall tells us some tough love moments he had with Kobe, specifically

0:36.4

when Kobe referred to the entire Lakers team as softest Sherman.

0:40.6

And finally, Clay Thompson opens up about the first time he played against Kobe and the moment he earned Kobe's respect.

0:47.0

Happy birthday to the goat, Kobe Bryant, we love and miss you, cold. I know you're a big Kobe fan but just talk about that moment being able to play in an all-star game

1:09.2

with Kobe Bean Brian. What was that like and what happened? It was, bro, it was the dopest, the

1:16.6

dopest shit ever because it was, this was Kobe's last all-star game. Yeah. And to be a part of that was like,

1:25.0

for me being a Kobe fan, it was like,

1:28.0

it's a hell of a send-off, you know what I mean?

1:31.0

To play in the last all-star game that he's going to be a part of, to be an All-Star,

1:36.1

like to share this with him, be a part of like the festivities, like everything

1:41.3

about that All-Star weekend was just so real to me right in my

1:45.2

head is like all right like this is an opportunity to like fucking go go get it you know I mean

1:50.1

be the scoring leader you were going off that game.

1:53.2

And I was getting busy, bro.

1:54.8

I was getting busy this game.

1:56.7

Crazy.

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