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00:00 I'm Jill Painter Lopez for Sports Illustrated joined by Melissa Roland.
00:06 And Melissa, one of the things I love is all the Kobe Bryant stories that we keep hearing.
00:11 And Charles Barkley just had an interesting one.
00:13 What did he recall about a Kobe moment?
00:15 Well, Charles Barkley criticized Kobe Bryant, calling him very selfish on television after
00:21 in a game Kobe only took three shots in the second half.
00:25 After Kobe heard Charles Barkley's comments, he was extremely angry and he ended up texting
00:31 Charles Barkley for three straight hours.
00:34 Obviously, Kobe was always criticized for not passing enough.
00:37 So the one game when he passed the lot, he also got criticized.
00:41 So he felt like he was just trying to get his teammates involved.
00:44 But Charles Barkley felt that he was trying to prove a point.
00:48 Anyways, so they had a three hour long text exchange.
00:52 And then afterwards, in recent years, they reconnected and apparently that whole incident
00:57 had turned into an inside joke for them.
00:59 There weren't any hard feelings and they both were able to just laugh about it afterwards.
01:03 It's good to hear.
01:04 Thanks, Melissa.
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