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Kobe sucker punched Samaki Walker over $100 bet

Discussion in 'NBA Dish' started by KingCheetah, Jan 26, 2016.

  1. KingCheetah

    KingCheetah Contributing Member

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    I told Phil to stop the bus... so he stopped the bus.

    Click the link and listen to the interview Kobe part starts around 7 minutes in -- great story.
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    Ex-Laker Samaki Walker Says Kobe Bryant Sucker Punched Him Over $100

    Kobe Bryant has always been an aggressive guy, but apparently way back in 2002 he had an especially short fuse.

    On Tuesday, former teammate Samaki Walker joined the Brown and Scoop podcast and discussed an incident in 2002 during which Bryant sucker punched him over a $100 bet.

    “We got into it. I’m still figuring it out to this day actually. Now, real talk, it was a situation, it was probably one of the craziest, most immature situations. The situation from what I understand was over, what, 100 bucks?”

    Walker claims that Kobe won a half-court shot contest after practice one day and the custom was that everyone had 48 hours to pay him $100. Before that time was up, Bryant approached Walker on the team bus wondering where his money was. Walker said he didn’t have it and put his headphones back on. Kobe immediately sucker punched him and then according to Walker “all hell broke loose.”

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  2. RocketsLegend

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    Lol just another reason not to like him added to my list.
     
  4. Rox11

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    Kobe and mj are dbags....who win
     
  5. Icehouse

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    I liked how Phil stopped the bus.

    "fight it out"
     
  6. HR Dept

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    Seems like Samaki had it coming to me. Should've paid up.
     
  7. SamFisher

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    Ahh Kobe, treating the team bus like a prison exercise yard. What a guy.
     
  8. Air Langhi

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    It was just a leadership punch. He has to keep his team in line.
     
  9. swyyyguy

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    kobe owns. i wish james harden had this kind of FIGHT, PASSION, and TOUGHNESS.
     
  10. bulkatron

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    I'm glad Harden doesn't sucker punch his teammates over $100. Come on man seriously?
     
  11. VanityHalfBlack

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    How much money does Kobe make compared to a guy like Samaki Walker? Like really, come on???
     
  12. RocketBlood

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    It's not about the money kid.

    One day you will grow up an understand.
     
  13. Fyreball

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    Walker said he had 48 hours to pay, and Kobe came up to him before the 48 hours was through. Sounds like Kobe was a punk, but that's no surprise.
     
  14. tinman

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    I bet he wouldn't do that to Ron Artest
     
  15. JuanValdez

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    That's how Walker tells it. It could be he was intimating he wasn't going to pay.
     
  16. conquistador#11

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    that was during the time he wanted to get some street cred? before tattoos or post tattoos?


    another interesting read on that site: "peyton sits on female trainers face" going to have to read that.
     
  17. Codman

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    What I want to know is why the Rockets even tried to go after Walker way back then.

    His game was trash. Seriously, trash. 2 decent seasons in Dallas and then....nada
     
  18. SamFisher

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    Does it really surprise you?

    The Rockets went through about a billion garbage 4's in the early 00's.
     
  19. Pukimonster

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    NBA players have no clue how to throw a punch
     
  20. eslate22

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    Eddie griffin was not trash... had the potential to be a true stretch 4 which at the time the league still hadn't seen..had serious alcohol issues that I wished he could have tried to control...sad he's gone
     

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