Amin El-Hassan

But when he was first coming up, there was a game when Mike Brown was actually the coach.

He gets the ball at the top of the key, shoots a three with like 15 on the clock.

Mike Brown goes crazy, pulls him out the game.

After the game, all the reporters rushed to Kobe's locker because they think, oh, Kobe's going to rip this kid a new one.

Like, how dare he take that shot or whatever.

And they said, Kobe, what did you think of that shot by Andrew Bynum in the third quarter?

And Kobe sat back and said, sometimes when you're great, you need to test the limits of your greatness.

Like, he wasn't mad at all because he understood.

He's like, oh, this is the only way I know.

Wait, what can I actually do?

I've told this story as well.

When I worked for the Suns, Steve Nash –

in a playoff game, threw a behind-the-back left-handed pass between someone's legs against the Spurs.

And I was like, why would he do that?

And sometimes you just want to know, can I do this?

Can I do this with the stakes this high?

And so for Kevin Durant, and I have to do this disclaimer because otherwise I'll get a DM from him.

I haven't spoken to Kevin Durant.

I don't know anything.

But it would seem to me when you're that talented,