Kobe Bryant on the 2008 Redeem Team and its 'Avengers' identity: "I can't speak for the rest of the guys but it was certainly mineI wanted to look at all the guards that we had a hard time playing againstand said 'you guys had fun playing when I wasn't he

Upfront Summit Chris Paul on the best defender hes ever faced in his career Tony Allen was pretty good Kobe was too when he get mad Me amp Kobe used to be about to fight every time we played We was teammates for like 2 hours

Watch Dwyane Wade said he wanted to earn Kobe Bryants respect when he got into the leagueTo me Kobe was the bar he was the greatest player in the game to me

KG says Cade and JB should be First Team All-NBA over Luka Listen we got real candidates over here and he got two other killers on his team You understand These men been doing it with just one Showing up on consistent every night on both sides of the ball Bro only plays one side of the ball

SVG LeBron really was carrying that team in Cleveland In fact the guy we had the most trouble with other than LeBron was Wally Szczerbiak No knock on Wally Szczerbiak but he is not Pau Gasol It wasn't because Kobe was necessarily better than LeBron he just had more around him

A compilation of many players with similar comments about Memphis as LeBron

Bam Adebayo says he wouldnt trade his 83-point game for a DPOY trophy I dont know if I could at this point That was a special brand of basketball to me Obviously that looks different to everybody else but 83 points in a game it shifted everybody's mindset to how they look at me play now