Smush Parker: "One day in practice I tried to talk to Kobe outside of basketball about football. He looked at me dead serious and said 'You can't talk to me. You need more accolades under your belt before you come talk to me.'"

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

Shump Street Iman Shumpert tells Bam Adebayo to QUIT talking about his 83 point game That was a regular season game vs a tanking team Dont talk about it no more Bam cause now it looks weird Im dead serious Please dont be holding onto this Bam I need you to add to your resume

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

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

Lamar Odom says Kobe Bryant came to him in a dream He looked back at me and said 'Hello the afterlife is not what people make it up to be'

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