Full Interview from 2006 with Kobe Bryant on Quite Frankly with Stephen A. Smith on ESPN. ✅ SUBSCRIBE: goo.gl/Vv7ND7 ► Business Inquiries: goo.gl/uojRHD ► Follow on Instagram: goo.gl/sba7zb ► Follow on Twitter: goo.gl/7Sfsre
Paul Villines....I had to pause it. Can’t stop crying. It’s heartbreaking that we don’t get a real appreciation for each other until they’re gone. So exceptional. God bless his wife, his parents and millions that he positively impacted. Jordan is my all time player but he’s a asshole after basketball. Kobe has a genuine appreciation for second chances for helping your brother. Lebron is comfortable in his space. Rest easy Mamba
Hi Kobe Bryant was one of my most favorite NBA Super Star. Watching interviews of him inspired and motivated me to see the real inner beauty of myself. Kobe listen to my bible teaching airwave and he took time out of his busy schedule to study the bible. I can certainly say that he received Christ as his personal saviour . Kobe was a lovely and humble person. Everyone who knows him wanted to be drawn to him. He was my personal mentor and advisor. When am going through situations that I don't fully understand I can always call on him and when he gets through counselling me am blessed. He was a mentor to my two sons and they loved him. He taught them the game and beauty of basketball. He was me and my kids best friend. He teachers a person how to work and be the best that they can be in their work field. To his wife and kids I must say that y'all had a great and wonderful husband and dad. Vanessa I will not hide this from you. I admire your late husband strength and beauty as a great roll model. The bible says to speak the truth. I always pray to God to bless me and my 2 sons with a husband and father exactly like Kobe .To me I can't accept the feeling like he has passed. I still think of him and his daughter and the others like they are alive. To Gigi she is a beautiful girl I saw the pictures of how she cling to her family especially hee dad. I know that you and her sisters will miss her and their dad very much. Kobe and Gigi and the others. To me you will always be alive. My sympathy goes out to Kobes parents and siblings and the rest of his family especially the kids that he loved so much. Your love and dream also Gigi love will stay alive in my heart. With love from sweet P.
😢 bro we're so lucky to have lived in that era... Basketball players were like Super Heroes back then...A.i. Kobe meant everything to me as a kid...They made my childhood so when Kobe died a piece of my childhood died. And it's not just nostalgia of my childhood. The reason it broke me down so bad is because I watched him as an adult as much as I did as a child. Not only old games but I watched every interview. My heart is still broken til this day
God is great, it dont get more simpler then that man. You can know it all you want until you gotta pick up that cross that you can't carry and he picks it up and carries you and that cross, then you know it. I have never heard anything more well said. You are with God our maker now Kobe and so dearly missed and you were so right when you said life is short. We ALL miss and love you.
SAS: Y'all don't realize Kobe tryna be the greatest ever. Is that true? Kobe: gotta get a couple more rings first. SAS: are you? Kobe: You know what? I won't rest until we do. Ima continue to work hard... Man Kobe worked his ass off from that 04-11 season tryna get them rings
@@MakaveliDior real talk I'll Neva forget when he hit them 2 clutch 3 pointers against the raptors (of course somehow as fate would have it the raptors always got it the worst in particular from Kobe 😂😂just something I've noticed) shit was insane.
He's a Godly man and knows humbleness all well-developing greatness. I'll miss you, Kobe💕 . Be with God Kobe he's got something even bigger for you to do.
That is what a Man looks like, sounds like, and thinks like. An outstanding student can become a masterful professor. Thank you, God-bless & RIP, Mamba!
@Lucci Rivera Official Music Page Didn't like Kobe as a player either I think because I was a huge Jordan fan but as he got older I became a fan of Kobe the man and father.
@Lucci Rivera Official Music Page imitation is the greatest form of flattery. He admired MJ more than any of us, therefore we really can't knock him about it.
"You can know it all you want but until you have to pick up that ✝ that only God can carry, and He picks up YOU and the ✝ that YOU can't carry.....THEN YOU KNOW!" #GODisGreat!! #RIP
what an interview! this is the Expose that truly uncovers the soul of Kobe Bryant greatness Cheers, Kudos to a real faith exchange .. will make us believe what we cant see or understand. thanks Stephen A Smith... quite frankly
GraceCaroline Walker and what I most enjoyed about Stephen A’s interviewing techniques/talent was he endorses the interviewee to expound on a response. There’s no close-end answers, he wants open-end questions i.e, it was great, or it was amazing. Stephen A challenges the responder to be explicit in explaining what is meant by great, amazing.
@@awillis244 i just relooked at the interview.. the whole interview and besides the tears just flowing all over again, I am struck by the definition that Kobe himself created Granity - Greatness to Infinity. why do i keep crying so much. I cant even begin to imagine Vanessa, his daughter and the little babies, his mother, father and sisters.. grief moments daily. I honestly feel what the toll of grief does .. and the depression begin to seep in, and I am just an outsider looking on
The Most important thing I ever heard Kobe Bryant say and I totally agree with him. When he was asked when did he realized he was going basically through this rough point in his life and how he handled it. Kobe Bryant said GOD is Great! It’s just that Simple! He said when you realize that He not only carry your Cross But when He carry you and your Cross. That’s the most Powerful Truth that Kobe Bryant could have learned. When he realized that Jesus Christ doesn’t just carry our Cross, He carry us too. Sometimes we all Pray and give our problems we can’t handle to GOD but at the same time we think we can handle other things ourselves. But NO, we need Jesus to take it all, I believe that’s how Kobe had the Strength to play through all The Physical Suffering he played through, because he knew The Power his Strength came from. He was my Greatest Player because He learned to Surrender it All to Jesus, the Son, of GOD. Keep His Legacy Alive 🥰🥰Cora Williams, Birmingham, Al
This man today as i speak 3 days after his and his daughter's memorial... is remembered for his hard work he gave to the game of basketball. He is seen as a man that has made his own era, his own brand. He is seen today as an inspiration A hero Los Angeles has been mourning his passing and celebrating his life for 4 weeks now. It still feels unreal but here we are. Now we wait for his H.O.F. induction. R.I.P Kobe, Gigi and the seven passenger that have lost their lives.
Kobe is so humble, and modest! He's really a gifted young man, he's very informative, he knows what he is talking about. No matter how many guys come after him he will find a way to come out on top. Kobe is a tough cat to beat and he will not let anyone defeat him. Kobe knows his craft and he's well aware of how to express himself. So, talented, gifted, and a #Girl Dad! Kobe got it going on, he's the boss.
Jacob...he loved his dad but if you watched him from his first game on, you’d understand my point. How old are you Sir? Why does every comment you make on RU-vid have to be attacked?
@@kobe4576 my man kob also said hes playinn like magic did but ist obvious it was a political answer cus everbody knows he copied mj style even the pose when he won. but theres Nothing bad About that. Nothing new under the sun bro
Kobe Wanted his legacy to be about inspiring people to inspire other people to be the best version of themselves - that was the mamba mentality - so the best thing you can do to honor him in the aftermath of this unbearable tragedy is to find something that you’re passionate about and work as hard as you can so be great at it! And then do your best to be the inspiration for someone else. According to Kibe, this became his most important legacy, bc it would truly live on forever. That 6th ring became nothing more than jewelry once he realized that he had the power to change people’s lives OFF the court. His passion, dedication and work ethic that he exhibited in basketball was his way of life in everything. He was more than just the greatest b-ball player ever- he was the an even better human being! Let him live on in all of us! Let him be the inspiration you need to reach greatness and then pay it forward! Don’t let his death bring you down - let it lift u to your greatest version of yourself!!
It’s crazy how time flies. It really feels like seven or eight years ago that Kobe had came into the league in that Shaq had come to the Lakers. I remember Michael Jordan retiring and then the Lakers dominating for three years in a row. Feels like this era, the mid to thousands was just A few years ago and it really feels like that second great Lakers run with Kobe and Pau was just two years ago. When I started watching basketball Michael Jordan was already the man so I came into basketball with him established already. I can’t believe that Kobe‘s 20 year career came and went so fast. He is only a year older than me And I remember not knowing anything about him and just being excited that Shaquille O’Neal was on our team finally. However it didn’t take long at all for Kobe to show everyone that he was just as important to this team as Shaq . And I remember my best friend in the world taking me to a sports bar in downtown Raleigh so we could watch Kobe‘s last game as a Laker when he dropped 60 points. I will always consider myself in the other Laker fans of these 2000s some of the greatest sports fans of all time because we got to witness Kobe. Thank you so much for everything you gave us in all the hard work that you put in. There will never be a Nother Kobe Bryant and we will never forget you. Rest in peace to the great Kobe Bryant.
"Life is short, you can't go around carrying garbage." Kobe Bryant. "God is great, God is great don't get no simpler than that." Kobe Bryant "You can know it all you want, but untill you got to pick up that cross that you can't carry, and he picks it for you and Carry's you and that cross, then you know." Kobe Bryant. Rip Kobe. Love you mn.
I can’t find espn clip where Stephen A Smith said He's the best player in the game It's just that simple There's nothing that Kobe Bryant can't do He will defend your best player He will shoot from the perimeter He will get all in yo mug He will do whatever it takes He is the most complete basketball player In the game today - bar none He has an assassins mentality I said this week, I said this when the trade went down And I will repeat it again Who's starving more for an NBA World Championship More than Kobe Bryant? There is no one
Basketball God lmao Kobe could do everything on offense even pass very well when he wanted to AND Kobe was an elite defender. Lebron will never be known as an elite defender, and lebron can’t knock down a damn free throw
@@slowmo7219 Slow Mo that's cap asf bruh u kno damn well bron can defend all 5 positions he shut mvp rose down in the playoffs when LeBron needs to lockdown he puts the clamps on i mean c'mon I love kobe he also could do it all! But I will give u the free throws he in no way is elite in that category besides that the man averages triple doubles in the finals and u say he ain't elite defender u seen that block on iggy in the finals that shit was crazy y'all needa stop hating on bron once he retires this game gon take a big hit appreciate the legends in this game while they still lace em up
My whole life spurs Tim fan... and only now after he retired Not died that I realize how much I was a fun of his too but the part he says I won’t rest till I win a couple championships gave me chills cuz as we all know 4 years later ... Damn rip Kobe
He definitely knew the game he admitted his wrong made things right and put family over everything he was the best and left us to soon he and his daughter who was Lil Mamba are in a better place 🙏💙🙏💙
im a spurs and kobe fan but no he didnt. kobe was destroying kings tho, no doubt. good games but he wasnt killing manu, tony and especially duncan bro. good memories tho
