Longtime NBA executive Jerry West revealed shocking news about Kobe Bryant’s career during a recent podcast appearance.
West, in an interview on Podcast P with Paul George, told the story of a meeting between him, Bryant and Bryant’s agent at the time, Rob Pelinka, in 2004 when Bryant hit free agency at the age of 25. According to West, who was the general manager of the Grizzlies at the time, Bryant told him he wanted to join Memphis in free agency before West talked him out of it.
“I looked at him and I said ‘You kidding me?’” West said. “I said ‘Kobe, no. You belong somewhere out here [in Los Angeles].’”
