jlip
06-14-2023, 02:01 PM
https://twitter.com/PodcastPShow/status/1668302213754802176
“So I met [Kobe and his agent Rob Pelinka] in Orange County in a hotel room,” West said on the Podcast P with Paul George. “He said he wanted to come to Memphis to play basketball. I look at him and said, ‘Are you kidding me?'” He said no. I said, ‘Kobe, no, no. You belong somewhere out here. Okay?'”
“And even though he would have never played there, I just wanted to reassure him that — don’t feel like you have any obligation with me or the Grizzlies to play here. I guess in some sense, that might have been tampering. I didn’t look at it as tampering because he was at our house all the time. He ate at my house a lot. I felt more like a father figure with him.”
https://basketballforever.com/2023/06/12/jerry-west-recalls-talking-kobe-out-of-joining-memphis-grizzlies?fbclid=IwAR1E5TPFVZk_7nXv1mHxJfGCBfh3beC hMyoQnqjCY3Qe5Fhxb5skZtMaXzc
Fuller conversation (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KMIwMU-zd4#t=4m22s)
“So I met [Kobe and his agent Rob Pelinka] in Orange County in a hotel room,” West said on the Podcast P with Paul George. “He said he wanted to come to Memphis to play basketball. I look at him and said, ‘Are you kidding me?'” He said no. I said, ‘Kobe, no, no. You belong somewhere out here. Okay?'”
“And even though he would have never played there, I just wanted to reassure him that — don’t feel like you have any obligation with me or the Grizzlies to play here. I guess in some sense, that might have been tampering. I didn’t look at it as tampering because he was at our house all the time. He ate at my house a lot. I felt more like a father figure with him.”
https://basketballforever.com/2023/06/12/jerry-west-recalls-talking-kobe-out-of-joining-memphis-grizzlies?fbclid=IwAR1E5TPFVZk_7nXv1mHxJfGCBfh3beC hMyoQnqjCY3Qe5Fhxb5skZtMaXzc
Fuller conversation (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KMIwMU-zd4#t=4m22s)