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Kobe Bryant on his supernatural ability to sense fear from younger players in particular. The original audio clip was posted on June 12, 2018 when Kobe was 39 years old.
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📰Excerpt from ‘“I don’t think he is built to have a lot of fun” - Charles Barkley thinks Kobe Bryant was 'too serious' for Inside the NBA’ article by Peter Sunjic:
The late great Kobe Bryant was on the brink of displaying his charisma on a weekly basis with TNT after retiring. However, Charles Barkley, one of the show's beloved hosts, recently disclosed why Kobe's admittance into the "Inside the NBA" family never came to fruition.
“I guess they had been meeting with Kobe behind the scenes… Part of our job, we are gonna do several radio shows, and they always start, if you go back and look at them sometime, like ‘Charles Barkley gonna be on Thursday night with TNT’ blah, blah, blah… So I end up doing five or six radio interviews a week. It’s part of; they will tell people when you’re gonna be on… Well, they told Kobe like, ‘Yeah, I’m not doing all those interviews,’ but that’s part of the gig. So he kinda got fired, quit before we actually came on,” Chuck said on the episode of New Heights podcast.
Full article: basketballnetwork.net/.amp/off-the-court/charles-barkley-says-kobe-bryant-was-too-serious-to-be-on-inside-the-nba
Kobe Bryant on his supernatural ability to sense fear from younger players in particular. The original audio clip was posted on June 12, 2018 when Kobe was 39 years old.
Full interview from HoopsHype 🔥
youtu.be/GHFgibPM5ho
📰Excerpt from ‘“I don’t think he is built to have a lot of fun” - Charles Barkley thinks Kobe Bryant was 'too serious' for Inside the NBA’ article by Peter Sunjic:
The late great Kobe Bryant was on the brink of displaying his charisma on a weekly basis with TNT after retiring. However, Charles Barkley, one of the show's beloved hosts, recently disclosed why Kobe's admittance into the "Inside the NBA" family never came to fruition.
“I guess they had been meeting with Kobe behind the scenes… Part of our job, we are gonna do several radio shows, and they always start, if you go back and look at them sometime, like ‘Charles Barkley gonna be on Thursday night with TNT’ blah, blah, blah… So I end up doing five or six radio interviews a week. It’s part of; they will tell people when you’re gonna be on… Well, they told Kobe like, ‘Yeah, I’m not doing all those interviews,’ but that’s part of the gig. So he kinda got fired, quit before we actually came on,” Chuck said on the episode of New Heights podcast.
Full article: basketballnetwork.net/.amp/off-the-court/charles-barkley-says-kobe-bryant-was-too-serious-to-be-on-inside-the-nba
