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Spoke in class, answered questions. Cedric ceballos story, hardest player to guard, who guards him best, Miami heat, pau, lockout, 2012 season and Olympics... He even answered a question I asked, it's on video... Got some pics and vid of some of it. details and media later, I'm on my phone now, laptop not available til tomorrow.



Pics, video later

Pics!










Some stuff he said.

Rookie year each of the new guys got a "mentor". His was Cedric Ceballos. During practice and stuff, Ceballos would be telling Kobe "get me the f*cking ball" and cussing him out. Later on, Kobe goes to the back of the bus, where the cool guys sit and rookies aren't allowed, goes up to Cedric, points at him and tells him (don't have this word for word of course) basically to never f*cking disrespect him again or he'll pop him in the face. The next day, his mentors were B Scott and Eddie Jones.

Hardest player to guard? Carmelo. Guys like Wade and Lebron and others are good in one/few aspects, like driving to the hole or just shooting. Melo can do it all, post, mid, 3, step left, step right, everything.

Who guards you best? Tony Allen. He's not the biggest guy but he knows how to guard you. He then went on to talk about how he can tell that some guys give up, each guy has a breaking point. Sometimes after you drain 2 shots on them they don't play as hard. Sometimes 3, 4, whatever. But each guy can break.

What do you think about Miami? He respects them. Doesn't give a **** if they win their division or whatever, he'll see them in June. Said Lebron and Wade play the same way so that causes them problems.

He said the Lakers will win the title next year. Also said he will be in the Olympics.

Talked about him and Lamar hating on Pau. In 2008 USA won the Gold over Spain. In 2010 USA won the Gold with Lamar. Kobe and Lamar would go up to Pau and show off their golds to hate on him haha. This year Pau got a gold so Kobe texted him and congratulated him. Pau replied "What do you want..". Kobe said "Nothing, just saying congrats." "Thanks." "You'll never win one again".

Last year he took a lot of practices off. He said he got mad that the Lakers lost their edge without him. He would see Drew and Pau on opposite sides. Pau would make a shot, Drew would tell him "nice shot man"... Kobe don't play dat shyt.

Said about Italy, don't believe everything you hear. Neither he nor the team will reason any info til something is official, so don't believe the BS.

Said he went to the lockout meeting yesterday, was boring and stupid. The same arguments over and over, no real negotiating, just repeating the same thing. He also said 50/50 is dumb, people think that's equal but it really isn't.


Can you give a shoutout to Imadul? And out of any player in the NBA, who would you want on your team? What do you do when you wake up at 6am?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GK5sjh7zJw[/youtube]


"Jordan would never want you to know this, but I call him sometimes and we talk and he calls right back"


Kwame Brown story!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZoHAjaMYkg[/youtube]

Short one talking about who is better, him or Messi

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2vxox52U8k[/youtube]

Kobe speaking on Jordan

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvBXMvMdhHs[/youtube]

Talking about 2002 Kings ("they shoulda beat us")

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8agGHdVw1eY[/youtube]

2010 Celtics ("Greatest feeling I had winning a championship")

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUOzcvJ7dLM[/youtube]

nice I'm down the street. I should come stalk him, have a thumb war, all that

Why don't we hang out then meanie. Going to Chumash tonight, meet me there

Pics!

Some stuff he said.

Rookie year each of the new guys got a "mentor". His was Cedric Ceballos. During practice and stuff, Ceballos would be telling Kobe "get me the f*cking ball" and cussing him out. Later on, Kobe goes to the back of the bus, where the cool guys sit and rookies aren't allowed, goes up to Cedric, points at him and tells him (don't have this word for word of course) basically to never f*cking disrespect him again or he'll pop him in the face. The next day, his mentors were B Scott and Eddie Jones.

Hardest player to guard? Carmelo. Guys like Wade and Lebron and others are good in one/few aspects, like driving to the hole or just shooting. Melo can do it all, post, mid, 3, step left, step right, everything.

Who guards you best? Tony Allen. He's not the biggest guy but he knows how to guard you. He then went on to talk about how he can tell that some guys give up, each guy has a breaking point. Sometimes after you drain 2 shots on them they don't play as hard. Sometimes 3, 4, whatever. But each guy can break.

What do you think about Miami? He respects them. Doesn't give a **** if they win their division or whatever, he'll see them in June. Said Lebron and Wade play the same way so that causes them problems.

He said the Lakers will win the title next year. Also said he will be in the Olympics.

Talked about him and Lamar hating on Pau. In 2008 USA won the Gold over Spain. In 2010 USA won the Gold with Lamar. Kobe and Lamar would go up to Pau and show off their golds to hate on him haha. This year Pau got a gold so Kobe texted him and congratulated him. Pau replied "What do you want..". Kobe said "Nothing, just saying congrats." "Thanks." "You'll never win one again".

Last year he took a lot of practices off. He said he got mad that the Lakers lost their edge without him. He would see Drew and Pau on opposite sides. Pau would make a shot, Drew would tell him "nice shot man"... Kobe don't play dat shyt.

Said about Italy, don't believe everything you hear. Neither he nor the team will reason any info til something is official, so don't believe the BS.

Said he went to the lockout meeting yesterday, was boring and stupid. The same arguments over and over, no real negotiating, just repeating the same thing. He also said 50/50 is dumb, people think that's equal but it really isn't.

That's awesome man ... it pays to go to a cool college ... the best guest speak I ever had was some dude from South Africa I never heard of ...

hardest to guard: Melo

very true. he may not be the best at any specific thing but he's great with everything. offensively that is.

and wtf he said that to a Slam Dunk champ?! and Cedric didn't even retaliate. it was good though. I'd rather be mentored by B.Scott and E.Jones.

and during the interview he took his shoes off.

Good Stuff Imadogg!!

Imadogg wrote:Last year he took a lot of practices off. He said he got mad that the Lakers lost their edge without him. He would see Drew and Pau on opposite sides. Pau would make a shot, Drew would tell him "nice shot man"... Kobe don't play dat shyt.

AI-in-LA wrote:That's awesome man ... it pays to go to a cool college ... the best guest speak I ever had was some dude from South Africa I never heard of ...

Yea UCSB is pretty awesome man

iamworthy wrote:Good Stuff Imadogg!!

Thanks sir!

tugs wrote:hardest to guard: Melo

very true. he may not be the best at any specific thing but he's great with everything. offensively that is.

and wtf he said that to a Slam Dunk champ?! and Cedric didn't even retaliate. it was good though. I'd rather be mentored by B.Scott and E.Jones.

and during the interview he took his shoes off.

Yea he really likes Melo as you'll see..

And nah he didn't take his shoes off haha, he was **** around with em a bit like that but never took em off



Can you give a shoutout to Imadul? And out of any player in the NBA, who would you want on your team? What do you do when you wake up at 6am?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GK5sjh7zJw[/youtube]

Ima the insider? haha good job man.

Thank you sir, I got some more footage I'll upload after work tonight.

"Jordan would never want you to know this, but I call him sometimes and we talk and he calls right back"

Holy **** man, I'm jealous. NBA players seem to love UCSB. I've only met in person Paul Pierce, Marbury, and Tyson Chandler. Did Kobe say anything about the Dallas series. Something just doesn't sit right with how that all played out.

iamworthy wrote:

Imadogg wrote:Last year he took a lot of practices off. He said he got mad that the Lakers lost their edge without him. He would see Drew and Pau on opposite sides. Pau would make a shot, Drew would tell him "nice shot man"... Kobe don't play dat shyt.

I cracked up when I read that shyt as well

After i fukin graduate then this dude shows up on my campus!

Frantik wrote:After i fukin graduate then this dude shows up on my campus!

I know, me too.

... trying to come up with the proper description for Ima's patented "face"

Danny Darko wrote:... trying to come up with the proper description for Ima's patented "face"

I noticed that one too. I call it "The Pouting Craig David".

sorry, OT.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-aAAH6Q-do[/youtube]

Danny Darko wrote:

Frantik wrote:After i fukin graduate then this dude shows up on my campus!

I know, me too.

... trying to come up with the proper description for Ima's patented "face"

I just graduated in June

Also, Kwamay Brown sucks ass story, best story

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZoHAjaMYkg[/youtube]

Danny Darko wrote:

Frantik wrote:After i fukin graduate then this dude shows up on my campus!

I know, me too.

... trying to come up with the proper description for Ima's patented "face"

blue steel or magnum?