Russell appeared on the Run Your Race podcast and the Lakers guard discussed that year with Kobe, stating he was so young and ignorant that he wasn’t actually hearing what he was attempting to teach him, however as time passed it started to resonate with him: “Great time. I suggest, when again I was simply ignorant to his entire tradition at that time. I’m 18 brother, so I’m young and dumb. Everything’s amusing. Kobe Bryant, let me see if I can make him laugh, simply young and dumb brother, so I got it the tough method. He wasn’t chuckling, he was major all the time. But he bit brother’d me though, it wasn’t like ‘shoo fly’ it resembled ‘lil bro, you shouldn’t do that, consider this.’ And I’m moving at 100 miles an hour and he’d be talking like he was Mr. Miyagi and I’d hear him, and after that I’m moving once again, and after that you’ll get a text from him, and after that I’m moving once again. It was a blur genuine genuine, however little things return and I’ll keep in mind a great deal of things he was stating. -by means of Lakers Nation / July 30, 2024