{"id":142786,"date":"2017-04-30T07:19:48","date_gmt":"2017-04-30T14:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bilcomprd.wpengine.com\/?p=142786"},"modified":"2024-02-02T10:36:13","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T18:36:13","slug":"17-year-old-kobe-bryant-dominating-nba-stars-college-players-at-ucla-pickup-games-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/17-year-old-kobe-bryant-dominating-nba-stars-college-players-at-ucla-pickup-games-confirmed\/","title":{"rendered":"17-Year Old Kobe Bryant Dominating NBA Stars &#038; College Players At UCLA Pickup Games Confirmed!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"omc-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width:100%; height: 100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Bd8E6vJB7UY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen width=\"600\" height=\"420\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Earlier in the week, actor Jaleel White bka Steve Urkel from the 90s show 'Family Matters,' told TMZ an amusing story about a 17-year-old Kobe Bryant practicing and just dominating players on a talented UCLA basketball team.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2017\/04\/26\/kobe-bryant-ucla-basketball-jaleel-white\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">VIA TMZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\"I was attending UCLA when Kobe moved from Philadelphia to L.A.,\" White said.<br \/>\n\"So, he used to hang out at UCLA a lot and I would watch him play our UCLA basketball team ... and I'm telling you -- probably the greatest pickup games I've ever seen in my life!\"<br \/>\n\"I watched him destroy young men's dreams at 17 ... and we had just won a '95 championship that year so we had a lot of guys on the team that were pretty cocky.\"<br \/>\n\"He wanted to just sh*t on anybody who thought they could play basketball in the city and that's what he did!\"<\/p>\n<p>To confirm the story, TMZ reached out to former UCLA player Jelani McCoy, who also played with Kobe for one season in the NBA. McCoy not only said White was \"painting a perfect picture of what happened,\" he said NBA All-Stars like Shaq and Penny Hardaway (with Lil Penny on the side) used to run in these games too.<\/p>\n<p>McCoy also talked about how Kobe would steal players's moves and then use them against them and how epic the one-on-one match-ups&nbsp;were between Kobe and Ricky \"Buckets\" Davis -- the man who thought the Cavs were drafting LeBron so \"he could be another addition to help him score.\"<\/p>\n<h3>MY FIRST MEMORY OF A 17-YEAR OLD KOBE BRYANT<\/h3>\n<div class=\"omc-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width:100%; height: 100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KPw7MCAXHBk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen width=\"600\" height=\"420\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>It just so happens, the first time I ever heard of Kobe Bryant was when he was 17-years old. I was flipping through the stations and came across a high school dunk contest on ESPN 2, which featured two of the most impressive dunkers I\u2019ve ever seen. One of them was Lester Earl and the other was a cocky Kobe Bryant. After watching just one dunk, I stuck a VHS tape in the VCR without even bothering to see what was on it. Hit record and for the next 20 minutes, I watched these two refuse to stop dunking even though the staff at the Beach Ball Classic at Myrtle Beach wanted the contest to end in a tie.<\/p>\n<p>The next time I hit record on a VCR for a Kobe Bryant segment on ESPN, it was for this interview about joining the Lakers.<\/p>\n<div class=\"omc-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width:100%; height: 100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xr0RHqPYiIE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen width=\"600\" height=\"420\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>I also remember when the <a href=\"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/kobe-bryant-1996-summer-league\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">17-year old dominated the 1996 NBA Summer League<\/a>. After scoring a team-high 27 points in his league debut, Pistons coach Alvin Gentry raved about the rookie by saying, \u201cI&nbsp;have never seen a better player at his age at his position.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He scored 15 in his next game, then a summer-high of 36 points in 38 minutes in his third.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/bil-kobe-summer-league.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-127268\" src=\"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/bil-kobe-summer-league.jpg\" alt=\"bil-kobe-summer-league\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2017\/04\/27\/jelani-mccoy-kobe-bryant-ricky-davis-matchup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TMZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier in the week, actor Jaleel White bka Steve Urkel from the 90s show 'Family Matters,' told TMZ&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":273006,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8316,1444,3,74,23],"tags":[1921],"featured":[],"class_list":["post-142786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-all-blogs","category-nba","category-nba-videos","category-video","tag-kobe-bryant"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>17-Year Old Kobe Bryant Dominating NBA Stars &amp; 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