"I have nothing in common with lazy people who blame others for their lack of success."
"Horrible, terrible AAU basketball. It's stupid. It doesn't teach our kids how to play the game at all so you wind up having players that are big and they bring it up and they do all this fancy crap and they don't know how to post. They don't know the fundamentals of the game. It's stupid."
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Source: Kobe: Europe's players more skillful by Arash Markazi, www.espn.com. January 3, 2015.
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