You're up too old. What's the story? Are you not happy or you're only half happy or?

Instead of be happy about. You're up too old. Job's not finished. Job finished? I don't think so.

You want first place come play with me. You want second place to go somewhere else.

What a performance. What an action for number 24.

You couldn't have written this.

I remember asking him why he could just sit a game out because he was hurting.

He said,

What about the fans that saved up to watch me play just once?

He never forgot about his fans.

He loved you all so much.

I scored not a free throw, not a nothing, not a lucky shot, not a breakaway layup, zero points.

I wasn't going to catch these kids in a week.

I wasn't going to catch them a year, right? So that's when I sat down and said, okay, this is going to take some thought. From there I just went to work. I just stayed with it. I kept practicing, kept practicing, kept practicing. How the hell do you tolerate that kind of pain? You'd suck it up and play. I play games with the flu. I play games with a hundred and two degree fever, man.

You can't do that for you can't.

That's so powerful, you gotta be on, man. We were playing against the Lakers, Tom. I said, no, I'm gonna get there at 3 o'clock. Who do I see? I see Kobe Bryant, already working out. So I worked out for a good hour, hour and a half. And when I came off, after I was done, I sat down,

and of course I still heard the ball bouncing.

I look down, and of course

I still heard the ball bouncing. I look down, I'm like, this guy's still working out. He was working out. Like, it looks like he was in a dead sweat when I got here. And he's still going. He's doing like game moves. I'm like, I want to see how long this goes. I sit out there and watch. That game, he drops 40 on us.

And after the game is over, I'm like, I have to ask this guy.

I have to see how long this goes. I sit out there and watch. That game, he drops 40 on us. And after the game is over, I'm like, I have to ask this guy. I have to understand. So after the game is I'm like, hey, Cove, like, why are you in the gym for so long? He's like, because I saw you come in. And I wanted you to know that it doesn't matter how hard you work, that I'm willing to work harder than you.

Wow.

Just like the shot clock went out, I would guess.

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