Kobe Bryant Calls out ESPN for Twisting Words About Lonzo Ball

After dishing out advice on how to better run Big Baller earlier this year, Kobe Bryant has now been speaking out about ESPN misrepresentation of a quote he made about the Los Angeles Lakers and Lonzo Ball.

Initially Bryant discussed a number of topics on Connected With – including everything family to the triangle offense and his former team’s issues — but it’s the latter comments that have garnered the most interest:

“He needs to get better now,” Kobe said. “Kuzma, better now. Randle, better now. It’s like, players, you want that now…We never thought we were gonna win four years from now. We thought—really thought—’This is our year. We’re gonna get this done. We’re gonna push, push, push, get better now.’ And in the process of having that kind of impatience…you develop, right? If you’re just patiently going about it, you’ll never get there. So it’s kind of a…for players, it’s kind of a patient impatience.”

However, ESPN took a segment of this comment and turned it into the following Twitter post:

Kobe says he wants to see a sense of urgency from Lonzo. pic.twitter.com/8PW3cQh8M0

— ESPN (@espn) December 9, 2017

Bryant took exception to this and responded with a series of tweets before retweeting the full quote from Adam Hargreaves.

This is what @kobebryant said. Don’t click on @ESPN. pic.twitter.com/mbSuZJPQl5

— Adam Hargraves (@Hargraves24) December 10, 2017

We recently spoke to LaVar Ball about Lonzo’s Laker career so far.