yet another player shares a story about Kobe's legend

[RsxPiimp]

Chris Douglas-Roberts has been a fringe NBA player for the last couple of seasons that has been in and out of camp with the Los Angeles Lakers.

CDR is struggling to find a home on an NBA roster largely due to his jack-of-all-trades, master of none skill set, combined with a physical frame that simply does not scream professional athlete.

But given his time around one of the league’s most legendary franchises, the man has stories. Including this one, which he posted to his Instagram account regarding a practice duel he took part in with the great Kobe Bryant.



"A lot of ppl wondered why Bean spoke so highly of me last yr. First day of camp Mike Brown tried to throw me in the fire right away. Made me & Bean 1 on 1 partners for the whole first practice. What Mike Brown didn’t know is that’s what I was waiting for. That whole day we went head up. At one point it damn near came to blows bc Bean will do anything for an edge. So he was elbowing me on the low for separation & I couldn’t let that go as a competitor. As a man. The refs were too scared to call the foul bc he was intimidating them all practice. But at then end it was all love. The respect is mutual. Gave me some pointers that are priceless. It’s a misconception on Bean. Ppl think he’s a sucker…hard to play with. It’s just that he expects the most of his teammates bc he works so hard. Easily realist hooper I’ve met. He never lies and I respect that" #ClosestThingtoJordan #HeNeverSleepsEither#ImOut

[Koolaid_Man]

Chris Douglas-Roberts has been a fringe NBA player for the last couple of seasons that has been in and out of camp with the Los Angeles Lakers.

CDR is struggling to find a home on an NBA roster largely due to his jack-of-all-trades, master of none skill set, combined with a physical frame that simply does not scream professional athlete.

But given his time around one of the league’s most legendary franchises, the man has stories. Including this one, which he posted to his Instagram account regarding a practice duel he took part in with the great Kobe Bryant.



"A lot of ppl wondered why Bean spoke so highly of me last yr. First day of camp Mike Brown tried to throw me in the fire right away. Made me & Bean 1 on 1 partners for the whole first practice. What Mike Brown didn’t know is that’s what I was waiting for. That whole day we went head up. At one point it damn near came to blows bc Bean will do anything for an edge. So he was elbowing me on the low for separation & I couldn’t let that go as a competitor. As a man. The refs were too scared to call the foul bc he was intimidating them all practice. But at then end it was all love. The respect is mutual. Gave me some pointers that are priceless. It’s a misconception on Bean. Ppl think he’s a sucker…hard to play with. It’s just that he expects the most of his teammates bc he works so hard. Easily realist hooper I’ve met. He never lies and I respect that" #ClosestThingtoJordan #HeNeverSleepsEither#ImOut

excellent article...thanks brah...let me expound:


Compliments of SI
He'd make high school teammates play one-on-one games to 100

Kobe played a bench warmer to 100 multiple times when he was in high school.

In Kobe's worst game, he still won 100-12.
Source: SI (http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1138936/2/index.htm)

[Koolaid_Man]

^ Kobe's insane :lol

[Koolaid_Man]

:lmao

Now this one is pretty funny:

He used to practice by himself without a ball, says Shaq:

Shaq wrote in his book:


"You'd walk in there and he'd be cutting and grunting and motioning like he was dribbling and shooting — except there was no ball. I thought it was weird, but I'm pretty sure it helped him."

Source: LA Times (http://lakersblog.latimes.com/lakersblog/2011/11/shaquille-oneal-kobe-bryant.html)

[Koolaid_Man]

He counts all of his made shots in practice, and stops when he gets to 400


Source: SI (http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/nba/news/20130221/kobe-bryant-dwight-howard-lakers/)

[Koolaid_Man]

He goes through super intense workouts on game days

From ESPN's Rick Reilly:


"Among a dozen other drills, Bryant does suicide push-ups. At the top of the pushup, he launches himself off the mat so hard that both his feet come off the ground and his hands slap his pecs. He does three sets of seven of these. This makes me turn away and whimper softly."
Source: ESPN (http://sports.espn.go.com/espnmag/story?id=4068270)

[Koolaid_Man]

He had Nike shave a few millimeters off the bottom of his shoes in 2008 to get 'a hundredth of a second better reaction time'

Source SI

[TDMVPDPOY]

he doesnt need to count the missed shots, we got that recorded for him

[Koolaid_Man]

He ices his knees for 20 minutes three times per day and does acupuncture so he doesn't get hurt
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a68/Koolbreezey/c4d155b6-84db-47f1-9c9b-aac964524925_zps0c9188b9.jpg

[Koolaid_Man]

ok..I have to admit..this made me LOL....:lmao

He watches film of himself at halftime

According to ESPN's Jackie McMullen in 2010:



"He often corrals teammates, fires up the laptop, and shows them precisely how they can carve out easier shots for themselves."
Source: ESPN (http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/playoffs/2010/columns/story?columnist=macmullan_jackie&page=kobefilmstudy-100604)

[Koolaid_Man]

He says he taught himself to play Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata on piano by ear


Source: @KobeBryant (https://twitter.com/kobebryant/status/293676742214840320)

[Koolaid_Man]

He trains for four hours a day during the season, and more than that in the offseason


Source: Men's Fitness (http://www.mensfitness.com/leisure/entertainment/kobe-bryant)

[Koolaid_Man]

:lmao

He keeps players after practice as "guinea pigs"

In 2008, Sports Illustrated reported that Kobe will keep random players after practice so that he can try out new moves on them.



Similar to what he did to bench warmers in high school.

Source: SI (http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1138936/2/index.htm)

[Koolaid_Man]

This quote about how he wants to be remembered:

'To think of me as a person that’s overachieved, that would mean a lot to me. That means I put a lot of work in and squeezed every ounce of juice out of this orange that I could.'

[RsxPiimp]

:lmao

Now this one is pretty funny:

He used to practice by himself without a ball, says Shaq:




is saw that part of the interview with kimmel, i know kobe's denying it, but i can see him actually doin that, dude is quite possibly the most obsessed basketball player :lol

[DMC]

He raped me but couldn't finish



Source: Katelyn Faber (http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/nba/news/20130221/kobe-bryant-dwight-howard-lakers/)

[ambchang]

Kobe didn't practice clutch shots because he kept plying those 100-12 games with high sch:lol:loll players. Explains how he can only shoot 25% on clutch shots.

[sook]

Kool, how far has cock already slid down your throat? There has to be a point where you can't take it in anymore.

[FkLA]

Hes an antisocial guy with no friends who dedicated his life to becoming the greatest yet didnt even crack the Top 10. :lol

[Arnold Toht]

^ Shut your fucking mouth, you spic cocksucker.

[Buddy Mignon]

Hes an antisocial guy with no friends who dedicated his life to becoming the greatest yet didnt even crack the Top 10. :lol

Wow... 3rd worlders are getting it in.

[DMC]

^ Shut your fucking mouth, you spic cocksucker.:lol

[FkLA]

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vX7q19wyT0M/TG76bXkQjBI/AAAAAAAAAuY/RatPItv0M6s/s1600/illegal_aliens_fuck_you.jpg

[UZER]

He raped me but couldn't finish



Source: Katelyn Faber (http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/nba/news/20130221/kobe-bryant-dwight-howard-lakers/)

:lol

[Rogue]

the healing property of acupuncture is just as good as anything you've known from chinese medicine, imho, they even eat human fetus as sort of an elixir

[N0 LyF3 ScRuB]

Chris Douglas-Roberts has been a fringe NBA player for the last couple of seasons that has been in and out of camp with the Los Angeles Lakers.

CDR is struggling to find a home on an NBA roster largely due to his jack-of-all-trades, master of none skill set, combined with a physical frame that simply does not scream professional athlete.

But given his time around one of the league’s most legendary franchises, the man has stories. Including this one, which he posted to his Instagram account regarding a practice duel he took part in with the great Kobe Bryant.



"A lot of ppl wondered why Bean spoke so highly of me last yr. First day of camp Mike Brown tried to throw me in the fire right away. Made me & Bean 1 on 1 partners for the whole first practice. What Mike Brown didn’t know is that’s what I was waiting for. That whole day we went head up. At one point it damn near came to blows bc Bean will do anything for an edge. So he was elbowing me on the low for separation & I couldn’t let that go as a competitor. As a man. The refs were too scared to call the foul bc he was intimidating them all practice. But at then end it was all love. The respect is mutual. Gave me some pointers that are priceless. It’s a misconception on Bean. Ppl think he’s a sucker…hard to play with. It’s just that he expects the most of his teammates bc he works so hard. Easily realist hooper I’ve met. He never lies and I respect that" #ClosestThingtoJordan #HeNeverSleepsEither#ImOut

tl;dr

[Arnold Toht]

tl;dr

I'll shorten it for you:




On second thought, nah. You already know what the boiled down result is.

[ElNono]

^ Swept