Earlier we shared the story on Kobe naming one of his favorite players that he’d love to see play on the Lakers. In that same article by Jackie MacMullan, the Black Mamba talks about how he loves to trash talk and how things are different now compared to when he first started playing. Check out what he had to say about it and what he had to say about LeBron…
Via ESPN:
“If there’s one Celtic that tries to talk smack to me, it will be Paul Pierce,” Kobe reported. “We’re similar in age, have been through some of the same things, so he feels like he can try. But he’s not as good at it as I am.
“I don’t talk trash often, but when I do, I go for the jugular.”
The camaraderie of today’s NBA players, fueled, in part, by their AAU alliances, is mildly disturbing to Bryant, who preferred it when the enemy was anyone who didn’t ride the team bus with you to the game.
“They don’t seem to want to talk any trash,” Kobe shrugged. “I say everything to LeBron. He says nothing back. He just laughs. There’s no banter back and forth. I guess it’s a generational thing. When I first came into the league, the trash talk was downright cutthroat.”
