The BEST Kobe Stories From All The Smoke ft. Shaq, Melo, Jeanie Buss And More | SHOWTIME BASKETBALL
All The Smoke
The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts
4.7 • 7.6K Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Happy Mamba Day! In honor of today being 8/24, we put together the best Mamba stories from ALL THE SMOKE. This compilation episode is the ultimate celebration of Kobe's indelible impact and mythical legacy. Hear from former teammates, opponents, coaches, and more that were fortunate enough to encounter Kobe. Their firsthand accounts provide rare insight into the mindset, work ethic, and competitive spirit that defined the Mamba Mentality.
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| 0:00.0 | What up y'all, as you guys probably know, stacking iron summer break right now, taking |
| 0:29.9 | a little time with the family. But we'll be back to all the smoke soon. But to honor our brother |
| 0:35.1 | Kobe and his birthday coming up, we put together a special mashup hour long video of Kobe stories |
| 0:43.4 | from our prior guests from Play Thompson to Shaq, to Genie Bus, Carmelo Anthony. The list goes on. |
| 0:50.2 | The effect that Kobe had on their lives, on our lives, on your lives. So we hope you guys enjoyed |
| 0:56.8 | the video. Happy birthday to our brother and we'll see you guys in a few weeks. |
| 1:26.8 | Long video of just giving our brother his love. Happy birthday being Brian. So time basketball. |
| 1:33.7 | I remember Cole's first day on our AAUT. So I played AAU in Paterson with Tim Thomas. |
| 1:41.4 | And Caleb, our squad, we were playing, I remember playing, yeah, we were playing against |
| 1:46.8 | Elton Brad and those and Cole comes to the squad. And the first couple of gates, he went |
| 1:52.4 | starting, coming in, doing his thing still. And then big, big being, Fox came up and was like, |
| 1:58.7 | hey, hey, just Cole, it's my young fellow. He deserves to be out there. He just as good as whatever. |
| 2:04.0 | So I remember Cole's first game, playing the point, coming down, gets the half court boom. |
| 2:11.2 | Pull up, choose the air ball. We like, bro, we'll still step in a little bit, you know. |
| 2:16.2 | Come down to that same boom, one, two, at the half court next time on that, like his conference, |
| 2:24.3 | he's like, bro, I can hit that. That's just nothing. That's my, you know, it was just that mentality |
| 2:28.4 | at that age. Early on. On his first second game, playing with this team, it went like, let me fit in. |
| 2:35.8 | Tim Thomas, Tim Thomas is number one in his class. I'm top five. He like, bro, I don't know. |
| 2:43.2 | Hey, rip, I used to tell people about to make downers game. Like when he was there, |
| 2:48.1 | he had a certain aura and a certain presence about him that we all knew he was going to be great, |
| 2:53.6 | bro. Like I tell a story like, we, everybody has pictures with like group pictures together, |
| 2:59.7 | but everybody was taking one on one pitches with Kobe at the McDonald's game because we all knew |
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