When the reporter says “championship level”, Kobe starts smiling but tries to hold it back. He starts naming the guys Gasol Bynum Odom etc and he could already see what was to possibly come
As a Spanish 17 year old kid at the time, this was the moment I started to get familiar with Kobe thanks to Pau being a laker and got interested in the NBA... Kobe then became my hero and I followed him ever since, nobody else apart from my close relationships has ever had the impact he's had in my life. I miss him so much. I miss not being able to listen to his opinions about life in general. The world is different now and I've been changed. I feel like such an idiot writing these lines that no one will read and I have been crying everyday since his death 2 weeks ago. He was a guy I expected to be around for the next 40 years making the world a better place. I hope t-mac, Shaq, Vanessa and everyone close to him carry on his legacy and somehow fill this huge void. Love you Kobe and Gigi, wherever you are 💔😭
Joshua Han The greatest trade in Lakers history was for Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in the mid-70s. They traded four bench players for Kareem. That was the better version of the Gasol trade. Gasol was only good until about the 2011 or 2012 season. Kareem was great for every single Lakers team he played for; still the only player to win MVP as a member of a team that missed the playoffs back in 1977. It's either Kareem or Kobe if we're talking about a best Laker trade ever. Nothing else comes close. Not. Even. Close.
Nate Rivers Shaq was signed by the Lakers in 1996, as you probably know, and was traded to Miami in 2004 for Brian Grant, Caron Butler, and Lamar Odom (and possibly a pick or two, can't remember at the moment). Odom was the longest and most consistent piece afterward, but he's no Kobe or Kareem as far as trades are concerned. As far as biggest free agent signing in Lakers history, Shaq gets my vote, if that's what you meant as far as player transactions.
Hahaha, I love that part in the interview where Kobe is trying to not smile, but when the guy starts naming off his teammate, he couldn't help himself but to smile. Couldn't hold it back, I like that real emotion.
We got guns now... man I love you Kobe. Hope you’re really in a better place like you deserve... not only an idol on the court but an idol as a father and as a person in general. Nothing but respect to all of the Bryants. The whole world supports you.
History will remember them as an all time team. Three finals. Back to back champs. Two future Hall of Famers. Two all time very good players. A bunch of great role players. And possibly the greatest coach. They were a really cool squad to behold. They need to be on NBA 2K.
You can just tell kobe bryant is as excited as us laker fans are about this trade...having Pau on our team definitely will help us out down the road...and more importantly, we got a happy Kobe which will give us a HUGE lift night in and night out, just wait till bynum due back in 6 weeks and having pau gasol whom to be a more reliable go to guy....danmnnn i can't wait to see team all playing together!!! Lakers Dynasty coming soon near u!!!! hahaha
Easy to tell, Kobe had little idea they would win Back to Back Rings this day, Pau was traded. He didnt foresee just how great it would all come together. At the same time he was happy that the situation in LA had just got much better, but was not aware how great it has just become. In retrospect Kobe says he doesnt feel LA appreciate or knew just what Gasol meant to those 2 Rings. but at one point Gasol was just as vital to LA success as Kobe was, 8 years prior.
ShaWordPlay Jennings pau was the key to those teams winning titles.. the lakers front office just failed to adjust to the league as years passed.. they coulda won 2 more titles if that were the case
Mmm sad to see Pau leave the grizz back here in Memphis, but, Kobe along with Pau and the other Lakers will be an amazing future franchise. With Bynum back in the lineup and pau at the 4, Lamar back at 3, kobe with the 2 and fisher at point...whos gonna guard all those players? Amazing line up. Opponents won't find it esay to guard those elite players. Good pick up by the Lakers. Rudy will have to step up over here in memphis to become a franchise player. Good Luck to all Lakers fans!
I think it led to the happiest sport watching years of my life. Watching those Lakers was so sweet. Shaq and Kobe were better, but watching the Gasol group triumph over teams just as good showed a lot of heart.
One of the greatest trades they made. This made everyone try to compete with this lineup other teams acquiring players to match up with the Lakers. Didn't work as soon as the Lakers got Gasol BACK TO BACK TO BACK FINALS APPEARANCES
Bynum, Odom, and Gasol....yet folks act like Kobe didn’t play with awesome talent and role players. I didn’t even mention who he played with in the beginning of his career, or the three peat era specifically.
It looked like kobe was trying his hardest not to show his happiness after the trade. This was around the time when he was pissed at the lakers front office and demanded to be traded. RIP Kobe and Gigi + 7 other victims.
you gotta remember the era back then is different today, MJ had Pippen, Rodman = one of the best defensive player ever, Grant, Ker etc his team is freaking awesome. Kobe yah he needs a big man, what team doesnt need a big man? its like self argument one just has to choose a side and i choose to give kobe his props and acknowledge that MJ until that 72-10 team is the best until beaten.
@sde12345 the celtics were on in 08 tho! i think they're better now, but the competitions tougher. every successful team in their division is usually a super team w/ 3+ all stars (which is the trend in the nba now). lol they get breaks tho afterwards enough time to have their batteries as recharged as everyone else. and i think u just explained shannon brown. i think fisher still can be effective. id give him a chance to see what he does when he gets more touches.
@skillarecords thats silly, you dont think if dirk wanted to, or lebron or wade. Its a long season and all these guys numbers go up in the playoffs so that completly redundant. Also all players play well, raja bell made multiple game winning shots for phoenix,damon jones for cleveland, booby gibson, flip murrtay made one when cleveland made the finals, year in and out a role players hit big shots. Horry and fisher arent the only ones, hersey hawkins for old seattle team hit a bunch.
THEY BETTER RETIRE HIS JERSERY. THEY BETTER. & then it's gonna hurt so much bcoz the only man that fully understands his value will not be there singing praises for him during the ceremony... rip kobe
@skillarecords right here you said it, dirk took his game to another level. Thats the difference. Cuban let nash go even after they were tied with the spurs 1-1 in the western finals and dirk got hurt and couldnt play the rest of the series. Also who else but nash was all-star calibur player with dirk? Jason kidd couldnt keep the nets in the playoffs with vc and rj before he got traded. He cant shoot either so his age xp does him nothing.
Im from Spain and ive see gasol playing very often and Pau is nothing but soft!!! Gasol is a classy smart elegant player like bird or magic...a good team player and a real STAR not like the jumping Kobe!!
@skillarecords also let me point out aswell the saying if you have a star player, your granted 1 game. Dirk has never been swept in the playoffs. K.g has been swept 3 times in the playoffs. I hate hearing crap like dirk plays no d, according to who? Dirk average 35pts and 12 rebounds against denver last year which was more pts then nene and martin put together and he out rebounded both of them. K.g had to become the 3rd option on a championship team.
Vinny FatStacks no there have been many of time ppl say oh that guys one of the greatest of all time. Like with rap people say Tupac is one of the greatest or with football they say Jerry rice is one of the greatest. Everyone has there own goat like mine is Lebron and this guys is Kobe and yours is Jordan
@@Tony_Miller Yeah but he did it first....further proving that Kobe could have won more with him if he just stopped thinking about himself and his legacy first
BIGRAPS gasol has been 5 seasons averaging 19 ppg and 10 re bounds he was underrated and that´s why he didn´t made for the all star. Last year he was injured . He was an allstar in 2006 and now in 2008 . He´s on eof the best players in the world for sure. He won the world champion for spain, silver medal in beijing. WORLD CHAMP MVP. ROOKIE of the YEar.
hahaha I cant stop looking at kobes smile on 0:37, hes trying to hold it in but he cant! we haven't seen him so happy in a long time LOL which means even he knows the LA Lakers are once again contenders!!
I remember very well that night when Gasol played his first laker match against Nets, i was 17 years old and i was in front of TV at 3 in the morning when at 7:00 i should get me up to go to school, i was so so nervous for Pau, i wished with all my sould he played right every ball he touched and that dream came true! And well the end of the dream is well known
Same here & it was @ new jersey too! I think he had like 33/14/7 or some shit 😭 took him like 4-5 weeks to nearly mastered the triangle when it takes most players years
Gasol was a great player. But damn, Kobe really went to 3 Straight Finals with no super-team. And the 3peat wasn’t even a super-team. It was Kobe & Shaq pretty much
yeah kobe was hideing a big smile on his face now he can smile even more now 2 titles later and on his way to a 3 straight title and go off into the sunset
How pro was this intervire...like seriously.....when people laugh at me idolizing this man look at how well he deals w the media and making pro basketball look so unreal lol
Wow. Kobe actually said something positive about Kwame Brown. Now, it wasn’t about his basketball skills, but still... Also, Kobe said he mentored Javaris like a “little brother.” I wonder what Javaris has to say about how Kobe helped him or at least tried to help him while he sits in prison for murder. Crazy.
I was in highschool when this trade happened and in my head I'm thinking oh yeah!!leagues f*ccked now!!!Kobe's winning now!this is an automatic ring baby!...that's all Kobe needed!Boom-boom!Pau!
It was this move and the return of Phil Jackson that prevented Bryant from leaving the organisation for either the Bulls or Clippers. His agent was instrumental in talking him down from that. His name? Rob Pelinka. His eventual reward for his efforts? Being named Lakers GM after Bryant retired.
You can tell Kobe is very excited about this trade of course, but he smiles a lot right at the 37 seconds mark of this video. That smile almost made me cry, because I am so happy now that he has that chance again win again!
I couldn't believe Memphis took kwame Brown and not Lamar odom in that deal I knew if Kobe had a big man who was ready they would win atleast one more ring people forget that Memphis got his brother not Marc in that deal from the lakers
@WiltisGod no im saying what kobe is supposed to win every year. People keep bringing up them losing to Dallas like it was bad we need bench players and more athletic players and a good point guard!
Kobe's expression: Cool.
Kobe's thinking: We traded Kwame and two 1st rounders for an all-star!? We're going back to the Finals baby!!!
Mar turned out to be pretty good but Pau was def better at the time
They also traded the rights to Marc Gasol, Pau's brother.
Or was a great trade for both teams involved
Rabid Toy can’t waste time
He couldn't turn his team into champs. They had to import talent. MJ can win with any one. Very big difference.
When the reporter says “championship level”, Kobe starts smiling but tries to hold it back. He starts naming the guys Gasol Bynum Odom etc and he could already see what was to possibly come
Dusk TheHunter Lmao. U know nothing bout hooping
@@dusk6159 lakers werent that stacked bruh.
@@dusk6159stacked? Lol
Fisher, Farmar, Brown, Ariza, Phil Jackson.
As a Spanish 17 year old kid at the time, this was the moment I started to get familiar with Kobe thanks to Pau being a laker and got interested in the NBA... Kobe then became my hero and I followed him ever since, nobody else apart from my close relationships has ever had the impact he's had in my life. I miss him so much. I miss not being able to listen to his opinions about life in general. The world is different now and I've been changed. I feel like such an idiot writing these lines that no one will read and I have been crying everyday since his death 2 weeks ago. He was a guy I expected to be around for the next 40 years making the world a better place. I hope t-mac, Shaq, Vanessa and everyone close to him carry on his legacy and somehow fill this huge void. Love you Kobe and Gigi, wherever you are 💔😭
Jojos25 beautiful message 👏🏽
Great message, I share your sentiments
Jojos25 nothing wrong with grieving my Iberian Brethren. We lost more than a ball player... we lost a philosopher and teacher in many ways
We lost family it's okay to mourn. He lives on through us all
🙏🏾
Kobe trying super hard not to smile or jump for joy. He was ecstatic inside!
you know in Kobe's head he was like, "fuck yeah."
Rip kobe
@@Zuriishere stfu
@@forbes3692 lol y u so cheesed?
Joker you mad? Salty ass nigga
R.I.P kobe
this is the greatest trade in laker history after the kobe draft day trade!
Shaq?
Joshua Han The greatest trade in Lakers history was for Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in the mid-70s. They traded four bench players for Kareem. That was the better version of the Gasol trade. Gasol was only good until about the 2011 or 2012 season. Kareem was great for every single Lakers team he played for; still the only player to win MVP as a member of a team that missed the playoffs back in 1977. It's either Kareem or Kobe if we're talking about a best Laker trade ever. Nothing else comes close. Not. Even. Close.
Nate Rivers Shaq was signed by the Lakers in 1996, as you probably know, and was traded to Miami in 2004 for Brian Grant, Caron Butler, and Lamar Odom (and possibly a pick or two, can't remember at the moment). Odom was the longest and most consistent piece afterward, but he's no Kobe or Kareem as far as trades are concerned. As far as biggest free agent signing in Lakers history, Shaq gets my vote, if that's what you meant as far as player transactions.
@@JBBGeek gasol was good only til 2010. He was a joke in the playoffs compared to his season self
@@emjay1249 he came as a free agent
kobe is all calm. but deep down he was jumping for joy like a little boy getting a new toy. lol
Hahaha, I love that part in the interview where Kobe is trying to not smile, but when the guy starts naming off his teammate, he couldn't help himself but to smile. Couldn't hold it back, I like that real emotion.
We got guns now... man I love you Kobe. Hope you’re really in a better place like you deserve... not only an idol on the court but an idol as a father and as a person in general. Nothing but respect to all of the Bryants. The whole world supports you.
History will remember them as an all time team. Three finals. Back to back champs. Two future Hall of Famers. Two all time very good players. A bunch of great role players. And possibly the greatest coach. They were a really cool squad to behold. They need to be on NBA 2K.
Without Gasol Kobe wouldn't have gone to the Finals in 08,09, and 2010.
Obviously everyone needs someone to help them
Badboy6969 like I want to know the point of his post basketball is a team sport
Without Kobe..the Lakers would've gone 20 years without a chip
@@thottydagod457 You mean more than 30 years.
Imagine if kobe is not in the team
You can just tell kobe bryant is as excited as us laker fans are about this trade...having Pau on our team definitely will help us out down the road...and more importantly, we got a happy Kobe which will give us a HUGE lift night in and night out, just wait till bynum due back in 6 weeks and having pau gasol whom to be a more reliable go to guy....danmnnn i can't wait to see team all playing together!!! Lakers Dynasty coming soon near u!!!! hahaha
Hi man
Deltrons Lee wow that’s crazy that this trade and your comment all happen a decade ago. Funny how it turned out for your lakers eh
@@oscaryanes1885 2 rings doe
Easy to tell, Kobe had little idea they would win Back to Back Rings this day, Pau was traded. He didnt foresee just how great it would all come together. At the same time he was happy that the situation in LA had just got much better, but was not aware how great it has just become.
In retrospect Kobe says he doesnt feel LA appreciate or knew just what Gasol meant to those 2 Rings.
but at one point Gasol was just as vital to LA success as Kobe was, 8 years prior.
ShaWordPlay Jennings pau was the key to those teams winning titles.. the lakers front office just failed to adjust to the league as years passed.. they coulda won 2 more titles if that were the case
biggerson51 That's a fact
ShaWordPlay Jennings wtf r u talking about... once this trade went down everyone knew titles were coming unless u were blind
biggerson51 nah they won’t beat the heat with the big three.
Manu 06
They could of if LA Lakers adjusted and weren’t dumbasses
Mmm sad to see Pau leave the grizz back here in Memphis, but, Kobe along with Pau and the other Lakers will be an amazing future franchise. With Bynum back in the lineup and pau at the 4, Lamar back at 3, kobe with the 2 and fisher at point...whos gonna guard all those players? Amazing line up. Opponents won't find it esay to guard those elite players. Good pick up by the Lakers. Rudy will have to step up over here in memphis to become a franchise player. Good Luck to all Lakers fans!
good luck in your new team pau, you deserved it.
un saludo de un paisano tuyo. mucha suerte
Kobe: we finally got rid of kwame brown.
Jon East respect Kwame he was good at setting screens , setting up Kobe
kenny price except he got hands like stones, ppl can just double off his screen cause kwame can’t catch a ball to save his life
You spelled Kwaaameeeeyyy Brown!! wrong
Jon East leave that man out your mouth
I think it led to the happiest sport watching years of my life. Watching those Lakers was so sweet. Shaq and Kobe were better, but watching the Gasol group triumph over teams just as good showed a lot of heart.
One of the greatest trades they made. This made everyone try to compete with this lineup other teams acquiring players to match up with the Lakers. Didn't work as soon as the Lakers got Gasol BACK TO BACK TO BACK FINALS APPEARANCES
Over the next 2 1/2 seasons following this trade:
1) NBA MVP Award
2) NBA Championships and 2 Finals MVPs
3) Straight Finals appearances
Bynum, Odom, and Gasol....yet folks act like Kobe didn’t play with awesome talent and role players. I didn’t even mention who he played with in the beginning of his career, or the three peat era specifically.
Rip Kobe😭
Rip the greatest Kobe
u can tell he was just holding it in wen he really wanted 2 say "WHERE GONNA WIN A CHAMPIONSHIP AGAIN!"
this team should be fun to watch, im glad the pistons are in the eastern conference.
First time I hear a good word about Kwame.It’s things like this about Kobe that makes me believe he was a good guy underneath the mamba stuff
It looked like kobe was trying his hardest not to show his happiness after the trade. This was around the time when he was pissed at the lakers front office and demanded to be traded. RIP Kobe and Gigi + 7 other victims.
Christmas came early for Kobe that year and he knew it.
you gotta remember the era back then is different today, MJ had Pippen, Rodman = one of the best defensive player ever, Grant, Ker etc his team is freaking awesome.
Kobe yah he needs a big man, what team doesnt need a big man? its like self argument one just has to choose a side and i choose to give kobe his props and acknowledge that MJ until that 72-10 team is the best until beaten.
RIP Kobe, LA will always remember you
Kobe just knew he needed one all star to string off a couple chips...
@sde12345 the celtics were on in 08 tho! i think they're better now, but the competitions tougher. every successful team in their division is usually a super team w/ 3+ all stars (which is the trend in the nba now). lol they get breaks tho afterwards enough time to have their batteries as recharged as everyone else. and i think u just explained shannon brown. i think fisher still can be effective. id give him a chance to see what he does when he gets more touches.
@skillarecords thats silly, you dont think if dirk wanted to, or lebron or wade. Its a long season and all these guys numbers go up in the playoffs so that completly redundant. Also all players play well, raja bell made multiple game winning shots for phoenix,damon jones for cleveland, booby gibson, flip murrtay made one when cleveland made the finals, year in and out a role players hit big shots. Horry and fisher arent the only ones, hersey hawkins for old seattle team hit a bunch.
Pau Gasol has to learn the Kevin McHale moves to improve his technique even more.(Drop,step up and under move)
GO GASOL!!!!!!!
If you look back most people didn’t think this move would be that significant. Boston had all the dynasty talk and Kobe got 2 more
Those 2 lakers champs and mavs were awesome because we got to see one super star lead a complete team instead of a super team.
Back when just this is enough...now you need three superstars to win
THEY BETTER RETIRE HIS JERSERY. THEY BETTER. & then it's gonna hurt so much bcoz the only man that fully understands his value will not be there singing praises for him during the ceremony... rip kobe
@skillarecords right here you said it, dirk took his game to another level. Thats the difference. Cuban let nash go even after they were tied with the spurs 1-1 in the western finals and dirk got hurt and couldnt play the rest of the series. Also who else but nash was all-star calibur player with dirk? Jason kidd couldnt keep the nets in the playoffs with vc and rj before he got traded. He cant shoot either so his age xp does him nothing.
Oh geez! Plus with Ariza, oh geez!
RIP KOBE 24/8
Im from Spain and ive see gasol playing very often and Pau is nothing but soft!!!
Gasol is a classy smart elegant player like bird or magic...a good team player and a real STAR not like the jumping Kobe!!
Damn can’t believe it kobe
I think this interview was about a certain level of commitment, but I could be wrong. Hmm.
Kobe is the second best shooting guard of all time. MJ is first, no question.
one of the arguments why Jordan was so great was that he never won with a great big man, which pretty much every other championship team has had
We can all dream cant we? Next year if not this.
@skillarecords also let me point out aswell the saying if you have a star player, your granted 1 game. Dirk has never been swept in the playoffs. K.g has been swept 3 times in the playoffs. I hate hearing crap like dirk plays no d, according to who? Dirk average 35pts and 12 rebounds against denver last year which was more pts then nene and martin put together and he out rebounded both of them. K.g had to become the 3rd option on a championship team.
The keyword that Kobrick liked was "he can pass"
The Lakers have consecutively two or three years eliminated from playoffs prior to Paul’s trade
Why did this got in my recommend after Kobe’s death this is so sad 😞
ik
The algorithm
Me too, it got in my recommends
Because we’ve been watching a lot of Kobe vids
Thas y I'm here... Jus recommended
RIP to one of the 🐐
Una pena que ya no esté con nosotros nos ha hecho desfrutar tanto... como no le vamos a querer
Vinny FatStacks
Goat= greatest of all time
Vinny FatStacks he said ONE of the GOATS. Reading is fundamental
Vinny FatStacks no there have been many of time ppl say oh that guys one of the greatest of all time. Like with rap people say Tupac is one of the greatest or with football they say Jerry rice is one of the greatest. Everyone has there own goat like mine is Lebron and this guys is Kobe and yours is Jordan
GASOLINA + KOBE=killer.
Championships baby
bhgraiders1 lol... gasolina
Infamous 95 we will. Trust in BRON and AD
Yo u the oldest comment here bro
Damn how you doing cuz it's been a minute
@@TheBorderJumper17 probably lost his emails password lol
And then he silenced all the doubters by winning it all without Shaq. Twice.
RIP Kobe.
Shaq won one without him first though...
Onlyrealmusic4life only once
@@Tony_Miller Yeah but he did it first....further proving that Kobe could have won more with him if he just stopped thinking about himself and his legacy first
Shaq had D wade tho too
@Mateo Montoya So basically, if Kobe had just shut up and played, he could have won with Shaq the way Wade did that year?
00:33 look at what the idea of "competing at a championship level" does to his nerves. He wanted it badddd! MAMBA!!
Aw I love that moment
Kobe was about to bounce if Lakers didn’t make that happen
To my bulls
Al Simmons or the Spurs
Jack Goff go to hell
Jack Goff he also went and won 2 finals after this interview... nice try though
Jack Goff fck you
loved hearing Kobe defend Kwame at 2:04. distinguished himself from MJ in that respect.
Dang a lot has changed since 2008
Oh yea 😔
ALOT,
Yes. A lot has changed. Look at those microphones. All big and tacky. They don’t use those no more for interviews these days.
Anthony Fam bruh
Human nature hasn't changed
This move kept him a Laker by getting him some help. RIP Kobe
Why are all these videos getting recommended 🥺🥺🥺😢😢😢😢 my hero really gone man 😢😢😢😢
He never aged
We all know what Kobe's really thinking...
YEAAAAAAAAAHHHH KWAMES GONE!!
Still remember this like it was just yesterday! RIP Kobe. I'm still stunned, a week later.
He's trying to hide his emotions. Look back at :33-40 seconds
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@@zach3040 thanks
0:39 koby laughing, thinking that maybe he can win 2 rings more :)
Its KOBE !! get it correct
RIP GOAT 😭😭😭💜💛
BIGRAPS gasol has been 5 seasons averaging 19 ppg and 10 re bounds he was underrated and that´s why he didn´t made for the all star. Last year he was injured . He was an allstar in 2006 and now in 2008 . He´s on eof the best players in the world for sure. He won the world champion for spain, silver medal in beijing. WORLD CHAMP MVP. ROOKIE of the YEar.
Kobe really wanted to say "Thank God. Now I have someone that can halfway play instead of dealing with these bums."
hahaha I cant stop looking at kobes smile on 0:37, hes trying to hold it in but he cant! we haven't seen him so happy in a long time LOL which means even he knows the LA Lakers are once again contenders!!
Kobe was MY DUDE 😂 the way he answered here just made me smile. Real guy RIP
I remember very well that night when Gasol played his first laker match against Nets, i was 17 years old and i was in front of TV at 3 in the morning when at 7:00 i should get me up to go to school, i was so so nervous for Pau, i wished with all my sould he played right every ball he touched and that dream came true! And well the end of the dream is well known
Same here & it was @ new jersey too! I think he had like 33/14/7 or some shit 😭 took him like 4-5 weeks to nearly mastered the triangle when it takes most players years
Gasol was a great player. But damn, Kobe really went to 3 Straight Finals with no super-team. And the 3peat wasn’t even a super-team. It was Kobe & Shaq pretty much
& D-Fish
The Mad As
He was another roleplayer who averaged average stats and had ok defense
@@themadas He wasn't a third option. We had guys like Robert Horry, Brian Shaw, Ron Harper, Horace Grant, and even JR Rider one of those years
He was a true pro, great speaker, great basketball player....a true proffesional.
2018??????
U watching tonights game?
2020..
Kobe, Gasol, Odom, Bynum. That was one sick team.
yeah kobe was hideing a big smile on his face now he can smile even more now 2 titles later and on his way to a 3 straight title and go off into the sunset
12 years ago holy shit
Rip the late great Kobe bean Bryant
That smile he’s trying to hide at :39
“Now its time to walk the walk” damn I miss Kobe
How pro was this intervire...like seriously.....when people laugh at me idolizing this man look at how well he deals w the media and making pro basketball look so unreal lol
Rip Legend🥺
kobe and gasol is ver one of hte best duo of the nba
0:38 seconds in kobe can't contain his glee with the new trade and line up look.
He's such a better teammate now than he was when he was a kid... for him to say "I thought about Javaris and Kwame first" blew me away...
thanks youtube for recommend
I hear the Cavs are working on a sign and trade to bring Kwame to Cleveland. Detroit will get LeBron and cash considerations.
RIP KOBE 🙏😔🐐
RIP
RIP
Rip mamba
Wow. Kobe actually said something positive about Kwame Brown. Now, it wasn’t about his basketball skills, but still... Also, Kobe said he mentored Javaris like a “little brother.” I wonder what Javaris has to say about how Kobe helped him or at least tried to help him while he sits in prison for murder. Crazy.
Rip kobe
lots of character kwame
I was in highschool when this trade happened and in my head I'm thinking oh yeah!!leagues f*ccked now!!!Kobe's winning now!this is an automatic ring baby!...that's all Kobe needed!Boom-boom!Pau!
It was this move and the return of Phil Jackson that prevented Bryant from leaving the organisation for either the Bulls or Clippers. His agent was instrumental in talking him down from that. His name? Rob Pelinka. His eventual reward for his efforts? Being named Lakers GM after Bryant retired.
You can tell Kobe is very excited about this trade of course, but he smiles a lot right at the 37 seconds mark of this video. That smile almost made me cry, because I am so happy now that he has that chance again win again!
Kobe's the man. Got to respect a guy that wants to win that bad.
Kobe: I want to be traded
Lakers: we’ll get you Pau
LeBron: I want to join the lakers without another all star
Lakers: we’ll get you AD
I couldn't believe Memphis took kwame Brown and not Lamar odom in that deal I knew if Kobe had a big man who was ready they would win atleast one more ring people forget that Memphis got his brother not Marc in that deal from the lakers
🥹🥹🥹
@WiltisGod no im saying what kobe is supposed to win every year. People keep bringing up them losing to Dallas like it was bad we need bench players and more athletic players and a good point guard!