With the NBA All-Star Weekend around the corner, the NBA’s memories and mourning of Kobe Bryant will only continue as the league remembers his storied career. And perhaps as a sign of things to come for the NBA’s content offerings during All-Star Weekend, they dug up an old clip from 2006 that brings some goosebumps in the wake of his tragic death along with his daughter Gianna and seven others.
As part of a retrospective that ran yesterday on NBA TV entitled Kobe Bryant, through the years, they found an old video of LeBron James reacting to Bryant’s game-winner in Game 4 of the Western Conference playoffs against the Phoenix Suns. LeBron knew it was going in once he saw the Suns didn’t force the ball from Bryant’s hands.
Bron watching Kobe's game winner vs. the Suns back in 2006 😢 pic.twitter.com/g3zXOyjXTl
— NBA Central (@TheNBACentral) February 11, 2020
“You can’t let him get the ball like that. You don’t let him get the ball, I don’t care,” LeBron said after seeing Bryant put up one of his most famous shots. Bryant was one of the players LeBron looked up to coming into the league, so we not only got to see the competitor in him but also the basketball fan.
We will likely see more memories and clips that most of us haven’t seen as the NBA goes back to the archives this weekend to find memories of Kobe Bryant.
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