When the shots u take r the shots the defense wants u to take but r the shots ur comfortable taking #curryriddle
— Kobe Bryant (@kobebryant) May 22, 2015
Leave it to the always quotable Kobe Bryant to tweet a riddle about defending MVP Steph Curry. The 12 x All-Defensive player sent out the riddle after Curry torched the Rockets for 33 points on a series of impossible to guard shots.
Impossible to guard shots like this one, which Kobe had so much respect for he slapped Curry on the butt after the 3.
Now that’s respect, and that’s how Kobe’s brain works. A brain that only processes “winning.”
“My brain, it cannot process failure,” Said Kobe during his documentary MUSE. “It will not process failure. Because if I sit there and have to face myself and tell myself, ‘You’re a failure’ . . . I think that’s almost worse than death.”
As for this game, Curry came out blazing with 12 points in the first two and a half minutes against a sad Lakers starting line-up of Kobe Bryant, Wesley Johnson, Jordan Hill, Carlos Boozer, and Steve Nash.
The butt-slap three happened midway through the third. Curry stumbled with Kobe guarding him, got back up, pushed Kobe back, and then knocked down a three. Kobe just smiled and slapped Curry on the butt as they went back down the court.
Both stars sat out the final quarter of the Warriors 41-point win. Kobe finished with just six points on 3-of-13 shooting, and Curry had 25 on 8-of-11.
KOBE’S THOUGHTS ON STEPH
ROOKIE STEPH TRIED TO TALK TRASH TO KOBE
NICK YOUNG TALKING ABOUT KOBE TRYING TO GUARD STEPH
STEPH’S LAST GAME AGAINST KOBE
RESPECT
Kobe signs Steph Curry’s jersey after the 2016 NBA All-Star Game in Toronto 🙏
Via @TSN_Sports pic.twitter.com/mwt888QaGM
— Kobe Bryant Stories & Motivation (@kobehighlight) December 15, 2021
Steph Curry wearing a Kobe jersey at the Warriors/Lakers game! pic.twitter.com/VT2XSbtloA
— Ballislife.com (@Ballislife) February 9, 2020