＂Kobe NEVER Paid Me Back＂ - Wes Moore's UNTOLD Story About Kobe Bryant
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Kobe Bryant was a legend in the basketball world. He was one of the greatest players of all time, but what was even more special about him was how humble and humble he was in every aspect of his life. In this episode, we talk about his humble beginnings in high school and the lessons he taught us about life and basketball.
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Because, you know, Kobe and I, you know, we had a...
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It was a devastating day for us when it happened.
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I mean, I'm a, you know, I'm a diehard, diehard Kobe fan and what he did.
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I mean, he was, when he was coming out of high school,
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because that's when I first got a chance to meet him,
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And another true story, I did not think he was going to be as good.
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But I was always like, ah, his jump shot isn't quite there.
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And I'm thinking, like, you're going to the NBA.
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Like, shows how much I know about freaking basketball.
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Because also, you can never measure someone's work ethic.
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His cousin slash friend, he said he was his cousin,
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I think that's right, played for my high school team.
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Cove's a high school senior, and our buddy's a high school senior.
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We go buy our movie tickets, sitting there, getting popcorn.
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and this was I'm trying to remember if he had just declared for the draft or he was right before he
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declared for the draft but Kobe was the thing in you know the suburbs of Philadelphia and everywhere
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else but you know um so somebody comes up and is like hey I can get an autograph like yeah
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and two more people and four more people now there's just a crowd around Kobe
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And I'm sure this is not a very comfortable thing for Kobe because he's like,
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But the truth is, Kobe was, what, like 6'6", or something like that.
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And finally, Kobe just kind of goes to my teammate, and he's like,
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and he comes over to me, and he's like, hey, do you mind if we just get out of here?
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because I think Colby at that point realized this is not going to be a fun evening anymore.
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And my buddy was like, but don't worry, we'll give you the money back for the movie ticket
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It's like that's not whatever it was back then, five bucks, six bucks.
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And I never forgot the fact that I never got my money back
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because I was always like, yo, like, I really want my money back.
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what was the movie about what were you guys going to do you remember the movie i can't remember at
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this point but it was it was 1996 and uh you know i never see him again was there any i never saw him
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again i never and and i always said i i really hope i get a chance because i want to share that
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story with him um um but the thing that i loved about um kobe and why i was such a fan is
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he completely understood that to be great it means sacrifice it means that if you really
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want to be great at something it means the other stuff might have to go off to the side
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and not everyone's going to like it not everybody's going to understand it you will get judged
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you will get criticized lock it out and that mamba mentality that he brought to basketball
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that i think he brought to the business world after he was done with basketball
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um is actually a really important lesson learned because whether you are a soldier with 101st
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or an entrepreneur, you've got to block stuff out.
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There are things that other people are going to say,
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Or there's going to be people with distractions saying,
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There is something that I think he provided such a beautiful lesson to humanity
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about if you want to be great, know what that looks like
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And that's the only way you can ever actually achieve your greatness.
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And I think you're going to have some Mamba mentality between that.
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You know, I'm stirring a pot, but a part of me wants to see you up there, man.
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Everybody would tell me, you're going to love this guy.
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uh uh your class act just talking to you man just hearing you know your story your background what
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you've done one you're telling me my story off the camera one of the best stories 18 years can
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you imagine like if it happens one day and it's like it started off with this if you want the
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But, you know, I think, you know, listen, and I'll say this one thing if it's okay, too.
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um you know I really believe that God doesn't make mistakes on stuff right whether we fully
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understand it or appreciate it and sometimes we can even push back against it it's like
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God is in charge of everything and I think that this moment is it is a really complicating moment
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for people and I think for a lot of people it's a scary moment I think for a lot of people it's
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an uncertain moment I mean we didn't even get a chance to talk about AI and some technology and
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about the type of guardrails that we need to think about.
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However, I think about even in our most complicating moments
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there have been two things that have gotten us through.
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everything falls into those things god's grace moral leadership if we can lean on those two
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