Kobe Bryant isn’t exactly buddy buddy with anyone in the league, not even his teammates. Bryant has admitted that he’s not big on friendships but there are a couple of people in the league that he gravitates towards and considers like-minded to himself. He addressed those people in the foreword to Caron Butler‘s autobiography, “Tuff Juice: My Journey from the Streets to the NBA.
It’s very rare for me to open up to somebody like that, but I just had a connection with him. He’s one of my favorite teammates.
When that happens, it makes the season better. It doesn’t always happen. It’s not something that I need to happen, but there are certain players that I just automatically get along with. You gravitate to each other because you eye to eye on things and you get along extremely well. And Caron was one of those players.
There aren’t many like that. There’s Caron, there’s Pau, there’s D. Fish, and Ronnie Turiaf. That’s four guys in a twenty-year career.
