There are bound to be more stars of the past that will share some stories about the late NBA superstar and the impact he had on their lives. With Bryant passing away over a year ago now, a lot of stories have surfaced about the Lakers legend and the relationships he had with his peers.Įven though Bryant seemed to distance himself from opponents during his playing career, many have come forward like Allen that had nothing but respect for the five-time NBA champion.Īlong with Allen, Bryant had heated battles with Shane Battier, Bruce Bowen and Raja Bell to name a few. Allen and Bryant had countless on-court battles with both players entering the league at the same time through the 1996 NBA Draft, including two NBA Finals matchups in 20. This is a surprising admission to say the least. The trash-talking just never happened between us.” “Between me and Kobe, there wasn’t any trash-talking. the battles between father and son, the constant trash talking between the two and the very real physicality. So naturally, Arenas was feeling good enough to. Even though they shared a good relationship off the court, on the court, they were fierce competitors. Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant are two of the greatest basketball players in the game’s history. “Honestly, no,” Allen told Macklin Stern of CBS Sports. He went off for a career-high 60 points to set the Wizards' franchise scoring record for a single game and beat Kobe Bryant's Lakers in the process. A throwback tale of when Michael Jordan trash-talked Kobe Bryant so hard that Kobe went silent for two weeks, only to drop 55 on Jordan. Bryant was infamous for his trash-talking, but apparently it didn’t happen with Allen.
One of those on-court rivalries was with one of the greatest shooters of all time in Ray Allen.Īlthough there seemed to be no love lost between these two NBA stars during their careers, Allen claims no trash-talk took place between them. Cleveland coach Tyronn Lue endured his share of trash-talking as an NBA player guarding Allen Iverson and playing with Kobe Bryant and Shaquille ONeal. The rookie finished with 23 points and eight rebounds, as LeBron finished with 21 points and seven rebounds.Over the course of two decades in the NBA, Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant created several rivalries with opposing players. Meanwhile, Mathurin showed out against James, too. Harper to haul off and beat the hell out of those who anger her most. The Pacers’ comeback was capped by a game-winning buzzer-beater from Indiana’s other rookie, Andrew Nembhard, in one of the most exciting final sequences you will see all season. Watch Kobe Bryant And Michael Jordan Talk Smack During The 2003 All-Star Game. The Pacers beat the Lakers, 116-115, a thrilling game that saw Indiana erase a 17-point deficit in the fourth quarter. The Lakers would end the year as one of the league’s worst teams and have to give their pick to the New Orleans Pelicans as part of the Anthony Davis trade. Instead, the Pacers would have home court advantage if the NBA Playoffs started today. This one time, the Mamba spoke trash to Luis Scola, in Spanish, at the Olympic Games. He would love to talk trash with his opponents and would end up embarrassing them after getting buckets or either dunking on them. The Lakers were supposed to be a team that could contend deep in the playoffs this year, while Indiana was expected to be among the league’s worst teams. Kobe was genuinely a generational talent and a completely different breed. On Tuesday, Mathurin’s Pacers faced James’ Lakers for the first time. He’s going to have to show me he’s better than me,” Mathurin said of James. In a Washington Post story in June ahead of the draft, Mathurin essentially called out James when trying to speak to his own confidence entering the league. 6 overall pick in the 2022 draft, but an offseason comment by Mathurin created quite a bit of it when the Indiana Pacers traveled to take on the Los Angeles Lakers on Tuesday night. if you weren’t able to compete on his level. MJ, along with the rest of these players, was a skilled trash-talker.
Jordan allegedly called Bogues (who is 5’3) a midget in a 1995 playoff game, which messed with his head. Updated at 5:24pm Getty Kobe Bryant 24 of the Los Angeles Lakers smiles at the crowd during the first half against the Washington Wizards When it comes to trash-talking in the NBA. There should be no particular interest in a matchup between the living legend and the No. Per Vulture, there are stories of Jordan trash-talking Muggsy Bogues one time and effectively ending his career. Bennedict Mathurin is a rookie guard whose biggest accomplishment in basketball is being named a Second-Team All-American when he was in college at Arizona. LeBron James is conservatively a top-three NBA player of all-time.
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