Kobe’s Drive
‘It would be a pattern: Bryant bearing down on players he once idolized. At Magic Johnson’s summer charity game in 1998 he went after Orlando Magic star Penny Hardaway so hard — in a charity game — that Hardaway spent the fall telling people he couldn’t wait to play the Lakers so he could go back at Bryant. And, more famously, Kobe attempted to go one-on-one against Jordan in the ‘98 All-Star Game, waving off a screen from Karl Malone. Take your pick-and-rolling butt out of here; I’ve got Jordan iso’d! That one didn’t go over so well with the Mailman. “When young guys tell me to get out of the way,” Malone said at the time, “that’s a game I don’t need to be in.”‘
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