We’re with Mike Budenholzer on this one. When the Hawks coached was asked “What’s one thing you would beat Kobe Bryant in off the basketball court,” he was genuinely perplexed.
“I don’t know, that’s like the weirdest question I’ve ever heard.”
The Hawks coach has a point. It’s the type of question we’d ask at the Rookie photo shoot or this years All-Star game in Toronto because it’s silly, relatively harmless and it reveals way more about the subject answering the question then the subject of the question.
But the people in the video above seem to have a press pass to Hawks games and so asked a coterie of players below the above question about Kobe. Nick Young’s response was exactly what you’d predict if you’re at all familiar with Nick Young.
Young claims he’s better than Kobe at “Looking good.” He then reminds the videographers of his self-proclaimed moniker. “You know I’m a handsome guy, Swaggy P.”
But then Young uttered a Christmas miracle and perhaps a new Christmas maxim:
“I’m like the Kobe of swag.”
Never change Nick.
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Aside from St. Nick’s incredible yuletide narcissism, the people asking this question got a wide variety of answers from an eclectic bunch of players — including Kobe’s own on the Lakers. Their responses are below.
Terrence Ross – shuffleboard
Al Horford – ping pong
Byron Scott – golf
Larry Nance – video games
DeMar DeRozan – Madden
Roy Hibbert – Call Of Duty
Ryan Kelly – nothing
Thabo Sefolosha – chess
D’Angelo Russell – legal gambling
Julius Randle – table tennis
Lou Williams – music
Norman Powell – playing the piano
James Johnson – a foot race
Mike Scott – Call of Duty
Delon Wright – baseball
Robert Sacre – nothing
Of note are Robert Sacre and Ryan Kelly, players who have been around Kobe longer than this year and remained mum on the hypothetical. It’s like they know something the rest of the players interviewed do not.
If Kobe uses this video as motivation, it has to be the weirdest thing he’s ever used to destroy an opponent. That said, James Johnson should be leery if he thinks he’s got a clear path on a breakaway against the Lakers.
