The more Kobe stories we get like this the better the eventual movie about his life will be. We all know that Kobe is a little crazy (check out my piece saying he’s Batman insane), but here is just another example of that courtesy of USA Today HS Sports and his HS coach.
He lost a practice drill one time,” Downer said, “and we had a 5-foot-7 guard named Rob Schwartz and he thought Rob had the costly turnover that cost his team the drill and proceeded to chase him throughout the hallways as the players were on water breaks. This wasn’t just, ‘I’m gonna chase you and scold you.’ To me, it looked like, ‘I’m gonna chase you and I’m gonna kill you.’”
Schwartz himself confirms the story is true.
Bryant unleashed his intensity out on high school teammates long before he did so with his current ones. He chewed out a benchwarmer in practice for taking a last-second shot in a three-on-three drill instead of passing Bryant the ball, a sequence that cost his team the game.
“I could feel him glaring at me from behind. I’m trying not to look at him, but he kept saying something and sounded legitimately angry,” said Rob Schwartz, then a 5-foot-7 junior. “He kept charging me. I ran as fast as I could out of the gym and out into the hallway until I realized he wasn’t chasing me anymore.”
We are going to miss Crazy Kobe.
H/T Complex