I had to laugh when I saw this story. It’s just such a Kobe thing to do and wouldn’t expect anything less. LMAO. Kobe does want Dwight Howard to stay in LA right?! I’m not sure if this was the best way to go about it (even if he is right). The Black Mamba reportedly told Dwight that he can teach him how to be a champion — which a lot of fans interpreted it in a much different way. Who know though — maybe it worked?
More details of what Kobe said after the jump…
Via Brett Pollakoff at PBT:
The team’s best and most tenured player, Kobe Bryant, had his own message for Howard, and it involved winning championships.
From Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports:
When Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant spoke to Dwight Howard on Tuesday, his words to the free-agent center resounded an unmistakable and unflinching message: Let me teach you how to be a champion.
“You need to learn how it’s done first, and I can teach you here,” Bryant told Howard during the Lakers’ presentation, witnesses in the room described to Yahoo! Sports.
“You have to learn how it’s done,” Bryant told Howard, witnesses described. “I know how to do it and I’ve learned from the best – players who have won multiple times over and over.”
“Instead of trying to do things your way, just listen and learn and tweak it, so it fits you,” Bryant told him.
Not exactly a soft sell here, but Bryant and the Lakers are the one team courting Howard that could afford to be brutally honest.
