Kobe Bryant reacts to the Los Angeles Lakers signing Serbian basketball player Vladimir Radmanović. Mamba also reveals that him and his teammates including Smush Parker, Kwame Brown, Luke Walton and others use the 2006 playoffs loss to the Phoenix Suns as motivation during practice. This interview is from September 17, 2006. Full interview from losangelessportsvid: https://youtu.be/EMwx4w0W8Yk Excerpt from ‘Lakers Former Head Athletic Trainer Gary Vitti: “If You Actually Look At Kobe Bryant, There’s Nothing Really Special About Him.”’ article by Aikansh Chaudhary: ‘"The more you think about it, you'll realize if you actually look at Kobe Bryant, there's nothing really special about him in terms of his god-given things. Is he big? He's bigger than me. Bigger than the average person in the world. But is he big by NBA's standards? No, he's not that big. Was he quick? Yeah, he was quick, but he wasn't the quickest. Was he strong? Yes he was, but he wasn't the strongest. Was he a leaper? Yeah, he could get off his feet, but he wasn't like Zach LaVine, he didn't have 42 inch vertical. There was nothing there. Nothing. Why does he have five rings? And other guys that were infinitely more talented have none? I'll tell you. Number one - Nobody and I mean nobody worked harder than Kobe. But a lot of people work hard. Kobe also worked smart. ... Second thing. Nobody was more competitive than Kobe. ... He was absolutely the toughest player that I ever came across. To a point where I had a responsibility, at times, to protect him from himself. He was maniacal because he took two words out of his lexicon - can't and won't. He replaced those words with - can and will. And somehow he would convince himself that he could do it and he did. It was a mental [and] physical thing. Not just mental, not just physical, it was a combination of those. He was an enigma. He was intellectually brilliant at everything he did."’ Full article: https://www.yardbarker.com/nba/articles/lakers_former_head_athletic_trainer_gary_vitti_if_you_actually_look_at_kobe_bryant_theres_nothing_really_special_about_him/s1_16751_38333271 🏷 #vladimirradmanovic #lakersoffseason #nbaplayoffs #nbabasketball #playoffs #basketballplayoffs #basketball #basketballplayers #basketballteams