Former Lakers head trainer Gary Vitti : Theres really nothing that special about Kobe Bryant, but he worked smarter and harder than everyone else.

Jeremy Lin opens up about how disrespectful Kobe Bryant was to him and when Lin confronted him about his bad body language amp leadership style Kobe went months without talking to him

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

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

James Worthy is fired up postgame Historically The Lakers have had clutch players Kareem with the sky hook Magic with his play Kobe Shaq But I don't think we've ever had one as consistent and dominant as Luka Doncic

Sam Mitchell the coach of the Toronto Raptors when Kobe Bryant dropped 81 points was in the studio sipping on champagne Ginger Ale after Bam Adebayo dropped 83 points - Im not that dumbass that everybody thought I was

USA TODAY POTUS says he broke up a fight involving Kobe I like Kobe Kobe was having a hard time with somebody and it worked out fine But yeah I broke it up - probably not a smart thing to do According to Pearlman's book Jayson Williams lunged at and punched Bryant in the cheek