He is one of the only basketball “big boys” who has not yet reacted to the tragic accident of Kobe Bryant, who died Sunday at the age of 41 in a helicopter accident. LeBron James, ironically, had come a few hours earlier to pay an early tribute to "Black Mamba", his childhood idol, to whom he had just stolen his third place in the ranking of the best scorers in NBA history.
LeBron James, last night, when asked what Kobe Bryant means to him, offers a 5-minute response. The day before his death. Surreal.
"I'm happy just to be mentioned in the same conversation as Kobe 'Bean' Bryant. One of the greatest. »Pic.twitter.com/RuOq2qfvSV
In the locker room on Saturday evening, the Lakers star launches in front of journalists in a tirade of four minutes, telling how he grew up admiring his six-year-old elder: "When I started playing more and more, and when I entered high school, I admired the things he was doing on the floor and I knew I wanted to do the same, "recalls" King James ", who reached 33,655 points registered since the start of his career , ahead of Kobe Bryant's 33,643 points.
Continuing to move the game forward @KingJames. Much respect my brother 💪🏾
- Kobe Bryant (@kobebryant) January 26, 2020"Being mentioned next to Kobe Bean Bryant makes me happy"
He tells of Kobe Bryant's coming to a basketball camp where he participated: “He came and he talked to all the kids who were there. And I was one of them. I listened, I tried to absorb everything I could. I remember one thing he said: "If you want to be good, or if you want to be one of the best, you have to work. There is no other way than work". "
" It's too much. It's just too much, says LeBron James. That does not make any sense. Just to sum up, I'm here, with a Lakers jersey, in Philadelphia, where he came from, where, one of the first times I met him, he gave me the shoes he had worn at the All-Star weekend. It is unreal. That does not make any sense. The universe sometimes causes these things ... and when you lead your life well, you give everything you have whatever the field, then it happens. It is not meant to have any meaning. It happens, that's all. The mere fact of being mentioned next to Kobe Bean Bryant makes me happy, he's one of the greatest basketball players of all time, one of the greatest Lakers of all time. "
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