out well well you know but i'm glad you
brought up the hall of fame i am glad
you brought the hall of fame
because um did you see the present
yeah well that was that's all you boss
that's all you did you see the uh
the presenters list for the basketball
hall of fame
yeah um so i'll i'll kind of
work my way back no disrespect
uh rudy t is gonna be
uh presented by calvin murphy and akeem
elijah
um kg
is gonna be presented by isaiah thomas
so a little chicago connection going on
there yeah tim duncan's gonna be
presented by david robinson
naturally i thought it might have been
pop but i like david robinson
uh tamika catchings is gonna be
presented by
alonzo morning and new friend of the
show dawn staley
uh and of course last but not least the
headliner
uh kobe bryant will be presented by
michael jordan
now we had a petty a block so just let
me get the petty out the way first
michael jordan isaiah thomas in the same
building michael jordan isaiah thompson
i love that
so there's that but focusing on
mj presenting kobe um
kobe's memorial at staples center still
feels like just yesterday
and uh michael jordan was very moving in
his remarks
um i don't believe michael jordan has
spoken
at the nate smith memorial basketball
hall of fame
since his induction speech
in which he gave us the crying jordan
meme i don't believe he's spoken since
then
uh if i if he did i missed it i'm sorry
yeah i don't remember
i don't so just yeah i don't remember
that yeah but
but mike i cannot wait to see mj
present his little brother his
his his clone his mini me and that's not
to minimize
what kobe bryant accomplished like as
much as kobe bryant walked
talked played and competed
um in the footsteps of michael jordan
and kobe bryant's career is singular
it's it's it's his own
his journey and the way he did it is his
own and and
you know later in his career
and his and and post career and toward
the end of his
his tragically short life and even in
depth in death
kobe bryant's legacy
has long since transcended
the next michael jordan or the heir
apparent to his airness
you follow what i'm saying like colby's
bigger than that
so i imagine this is an honor as much as
it is a big deal to have the greatest
player of all time
inducting kobe bryant i imagine that
this is an honor for the goat
to be inducting kobe bryant this is a
big deal for michael jordan as much as
it is for kobe bryant's
hall of fame legacy i'm so glad you said
that
because you know now i'm trying to think
of and i'm talking about the point of
kobe bryant the basketball player and
michael jordan the basketball player
just being on separate roads not
contentious roads not competing but just
separate and and when did that happen
because you remember it was a thing mike
it was a thing
oh i remember kobe doing interviews
about it he kept saying
why why do we keep going there why why
do you keep comparing me
to mike what's this about
i don't know when the separation
happened but the separation is there
it's clear when i think about kobe
bryant
on the court i don't think of jordan and
when i see
uh and i used to i'm not i'm not just
i'm not saying i'm about
to colby wanted us to no but colby
wanted us to let's not get this twisted
kobe embraced that he
but then he went somewhere else but
remember the episode of the last dance
that kobe appeared in and he talked
about
jordan there's no me without mike yeah
when they look look back at the all-star
game in new york it was like there is no
me without mike
he was like it's not about like who
would win it's like i
am who i am because of what i took from
michael's game and michael jordan
always talked about how how uh
insatiable his appetite for knowledge
and direction and instruction was
so i'm just saying i said you know the
outside world
that disc that that they they went their
separate ways at a certain point
maybe it was kobe when he became older
and an ambassador
um and just the way he went out i mean
it was just five years ago the other day
five years ago a couple of days ago
that he went out with 60 points um
maybe it's what he did post career maybe
it's how he was finding his voice
maybe it was the producer and the
storyteller he became yeah
the the father that he was so what he
was that he was publicly
um i don't know but you're right
somewhere along the line and
it didn't become about just you know it
was no more little brother
it was peers and you know and and you
you think of it this way
and lebron has said this himself i'm
chasing a ghost
he said a few years ago talking about
jordan so it was always like lebron
we still do it lebron in the context of
jordan okay lebron is this but
uh is he better than jordan and we've
had this uh debate
several times but with kobe
when he got to championship number
four which is which was his first one
without
shaq against orlando i didn't think
oh he's two away from michael it was
just hey it's kobe bryant
and paul gasol they won okay they won a
championship over orlando
you know um so
yeah i i don't know i just i don't i
don't think of them
as the same person but i'm glad
michael's doing it but here's the other
thing i want to say
isn't it natural is it natural that co
not just
kobe following michael jordan and saying
hey i want to i want to learn everything
from michael
i think basketball is a one north
american sports
north american sport excuse me where
it's just this
ongoing conversation the conversation is
ongoing
there is no stoppage of
okay now this era is over these players
from this era
no longer intersect with players from
this era
it's just always going on for example
wilt played against bill russell but
then will
play it against kareem abdul-jabbar and
then
when wilt was done playing he used to
criticize
kareem as he watched kareem in the nba
finals it's just this ongoing and
hey larry bird was a great player and
larry bird was coach of the year
all these guys the the late elgin baylor
was a general manager
danny ainge pat riley all these guys
they're still involved in the league
and they had playing careers and they
had coaching careers
it's just a continuum in the nba
and other sports have a piece of that
but it's not as free-flowing and it's
not as continuous
as the nba is and because of that of
course you're gonna have
some players who remind you of other
players and sometimes they remind you of
that
because those players have reached out
to their
ancestors so to speak to their forebears
and said yeah
help me out i was watching some film of
you it's why akima lajwan
has his little sessions in houston
it's why jason tatum went to visit kobe
bryant
and said hey show me show me some of the
stuff you did when you played
it's actually one of the beautiful
things about the nba that i really
appreciate
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