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Kobe Hisses Like A Snake On The Court
Posted: Sat Feb 9, 2013 2:20 am
by Jetset
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nba-ball- ... --nba.htmlLeBatard: Can you give me a time that you were on the court, on a professional basketball court, and you looked to your right or your left and said, "I can't believe I'm up here with this guy?"
Crawford: I did it with two people. I did with Vince Carter my rookie year. I couldn't believe I was playing him, I was checking him. And then Kobe, of course. When I first played with Kobe, I was hearing — like, they call him "The Black Mamba" — and then he was doing, like, the little snake sounds when he wanted the ball. (laughs) It was crazy. It was crazy. It was crazy. So, them two moments.
LeBatard: Wait a minute — what was this sound? He was calling for the ball by making a snake sound?
Crawford: Yeah, it's like, tssss, tssss. It's like, "Fish, Fish, Fisher — tsssss, tssss." He'd do that. (laughs) And it's like, they call him, they say — like, everybody tells you he's gonna do it before you play him. Like, "Wait 'till you hear him do this." And then he do it, and it's like, "What?" Like he's really a mamba.

Re: Kobe Hisses Like A Snake On The Court
Posted: Sat Feb 9, 2013 2:28 am
by RamonSessions7
Yeah you can hear it sometimes.
Re: Kobe Hisses Like A Snake On The Court
Posted: Sat Feb 9, 2013 2:30 am
by leeprettyp
You can
Re: Kobe Hisses Like A Snake On The Court
Posted: Sat Feb 9, 2013 2:33 am
by Jetset
am i the only one that didn't know about this?
we need to amnesty this ****ing weirdo, he's cosplaying on the court.
Re: Kobe Hisses Like A Snake On The Court
Posted: Sat Feb 9, 2013 2:42 am
by LGND2552
He does that "WOOO" **** so much. It's fine, but then when I'm playing ball I'll hear random fools doing the same. It's like yeah man, I know you're there. Chill.
Re: Kobe Hisses Like A Snake On The Court
Posted: Sat Feb 9, 2013 2:55 am
by chefy
Re: Kobe Hisses Like A Snake On The Court
Posted: Sat Feb 9, 2013 3:10 am
by kblo247
You haven't noticed that on all star weekend? When he's mic'd up he can be heard doing it a couple years ago
Re: Kobe Hisses Like A Snake On The Court
Posted: Sat Feb 9, 2013 3:19 am
by Doormatt
older than the internet OP. horrible post.
Re: Kobe Hisses Like A Snake On The Court
Posted: Sat Feb 9, 2013 3:24 am
by ennui
Its when he wants the ball
old as ****
Re: Kobe Hisses Like A Snake On The Court
Posted: Sat Feb 9, 2013 3:50 am
by Penberthy
It's funny because all the mexicans I grew up playing soccer with did this exact thing 20 years ago.
Re: Kobe Hisses Like A Snake On The Court
Posted: Sat Feb 9, 2013 4:11 am
by Edrees
It would be dishonest an immoral to use a name like Black Mamba if you didn't make snake sounds on the court. Come on!
Re: Kobe Hisses Like A Snake On The Court
Posted: Sat Feb 9, 2013 4:42 am
by Sn0wman
LOL had no idea about this, any video evidence?
Re: Kobe Hisses Like A Snake On The Court
Posted: Sat Feb 9, 2013 4:56 am
by iamworthy
people that watch laker games on the regular find this as no surprise. You can hear him doing it often. Its not like the sound is uncommon.
Re: Kobe Hisses Like A Snake On The Court
Posted: Sat Feb 9, 2013 4:58 am
by The Skyhook
Its not really a hiss. I don't know how to describe it but he always used to do it when one of our bigs would get the rebound and he was calling for the ball or running up the court.
I think more people would know what the sound was if it wasn't described as a hiss.
Re: Kobe Hisses Like A Snake On The Court
Posted: Sat Feb 9, 2013 5:03 am
by Jetset
iamworthy wrote:people that watch laker games on the regular find this as no surprise. You can hear him doing it often. Its not like the sound is uncommon.
i've never heard it. we all don't have 57" flat screens with dolby hd fidelus surround sound

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we need to start having a game night at your house.
Re: Kobe Hisses Like A Snake On The Court
Posted: Sat Feb 9, 2013 5:20 am
by iamworthy
destro wrote:iamworthy wrote:people that watch laker games on the regular find this as no surprise. You can hear him doing it often. Its not like the sound is uncommon.
i've never heard it. we all don't have 57" flat screens with dolby hd fidelus surround sound

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we need to start having a game night at your house.

Meh you're still in college. You'll have a 90inch in no time!
Re: Kobe Hisses Like A Snake On The Court
Posted: Sat Feb 9, 2013 7:51 am
by semi-sentient
I've heard him do it but I never thought of it as a snake-like hiss. If he's doing that because of the Mamba thing then that's pretty lame, but I doubt that's why he does it.
Re: Kobe Hisses Like A Snake On The Court
Posted: Sat Feb 9, 2013 8:01 am
by Kalidogg24
Kobe hisses and he sometimes speaks in Spanish to Pau on the court.
It's like their secret code unless their playing against Calderon or Rubio lol
When Sasha Vujacic and Radmonvic was on the team Kobe used to speak Italian to them.
Sash and Vlad weren't Italian but they were fluent as well.
Re: Kobe Hisses Like A Snake On The Court
Posted: Sat Feb 9, 2013 8:13 pm
by Draper
He's been doing it for years, before the "Black Mamba" era.
Re: Kobe Hisses Like A Snake On The Court
Posted: Sat Feb 9, 2013 8:20 pm
by LGND2552
I've never heard this hissing. How is it effective in such a loud arena