Paul George on What Kobe Bryant Meant to Him

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00:00 What was it like for you who grew up in Palmdale and idolized him to actually get to play against him?

00:07 Oh, it was everything. It was everything at that moment. It was it was it was me and him.

00:13 Nobody on that court mattered. Nothing else mattered to me. It was just it was me and him.

00:20 I didn't have as many, you know, bullets to shoot than he did.

00:26 But to me, it was like, you know, this is the matchup I always wanted.

00:30 And it was a chance for me to see him up close and just learn from him.

00:36 So it was it was everything for me. You know, it was everything for me.

00:40 It was the best moment of my life as a professional basketball player.