20 Mamba Mentality Stories- Some True, Some False

15. Trash Talk

In the 2004 Olympics, Kobe Bryant was getting an earful from a Lithuanian guard during the Bronze Medal Finals. Kobe, having heard enough incomprehensible trash talk, wanted to verbally fire back at him before going ISO.

However, Kobe didn’t know how to speak Lithuanian, so his trash talks tactics were useless against his defender.
After the Olympics, Kobe Bryant hired a linguistics professor from UCLA to give him private lessons on every major language, ensuring he won’t lose an opportunity to get into an opponent’s head ever again.