Dan Lawrence

So Kobe said to him, four o'clock tomorrow, fine, come and watch me.

Just, you know, don't get involved.

Just come and watch me.

Absolutely fine.

You can come down to the gym.

Alan then looked at the schedule and said, 4 o'clock, we've got a game at 4 o'clock.

You're playing this game with these other school kids or whatever.

He said, oh, no, no, 4 a.m.

All right, okay, fine, no issue.

Alan Stein Jr.

gets in the taxi, goes to wherever he was playing at probably 3.45, wanted to get there a bit early, make an impression.

That's the standard.

But he could see the lights were on as he got closer.

He could hear basketballs going, lights were on.

What's going on?

It's only 3.45 a.m.

He told me 4 a.m.

He goes in, Kobe's sweating profusely, evidently been there for probably 45, 50 minutes.

And he's there with his notepad out thinking, I'm going to get the secret sauce here.

I'm going to get all of these hacks now that I'm going to take into all of my practice moving forward with all of these youth athletes.