Kobe Bryant on Pau Gasol: "When he retires, he will have his number in the rafters next to mine. I dont win those championships without Pau. I really look forward to the day when he's giving his speech at center court."

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'

Kevin Porter Jr says hes on a mission to beat Bams 83-point record out of respect for Kobe Now that Kobe got beat I gotta beat Bam just for the respect of Kobe

Kobe gets two pieced by Chris Childs 26 years ago April 2 2000

Kobe dropped 65 points and this insane corner three on the Blazers 19 years ago Mar 16 2007

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

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