Kobe Bryant Made $323.3 Million in the NBA and Wouldn’t Go to Dinner Without Saving Seats for His Alter Ego: ‘There Were Drinks Sitting All the Way Around’

Throughout his NBA career with the LA Lakers, Bryant became one of the biggest stars in basketball. This, in turn, made him one of the most valuable players in the league as having him on your team was the difference between being a championship contender and a perennial loser.

The Lakers knew this and always made sure they compensated him accordingly.

According to Spotrac, Bryant made $323.3 million with the Lakers. He also made over $20 million every season from 2008-09 until his final season in 2015-16.

Like his idol, Jordan, though, Bryant’s impact reached well beyond the NBA. People knew who he was worldwide. This led to Bryant having an estimated $600 million net worth at the time of his death in 2020, according to Celebrity Net Worth.

Bryant was able to buy almost anything he wanted with the cash he made. He could even take his alter ego out to dinner with him.

Grover, who trained both Jordan and Bryant, recently appeared on The Complex Sports Podcast to discuss his new book, and he shared a Kobe story no one had ever heard before.

“We finished a game, Kobe and I decide to go out to eat in a restaurant … and he goes, ‘I need a table for four.’ I’m like, ‘It’s just the two of us.’

Grover then said that two men came up and asked if they could sit with them since there were two free seats, but Bryant wouldn’t let them.

“Kobe said, ‘These seats are taken,

I said, ‘Kobe, who are those seats filled with?’” Grover said. “He goes, ‘Wherever I go’ … where they say, ‘everyone tries to hide their skeletons,’ he goes, ‘I bring everything and all of me with me. The good, the bad, the indifferent. And those seats are for those individuals because they make me who I am.’ So, he’s talking about his alter ego, the mamba mentality.”

“There were drinks sitting all the way around,” he added. “And then those other two drinks, they were sitting there before he was getting ready to leave.

Anonymous
May 23, 2021 at 7:11 am

He was a rapist

1. Anonymous
  May 23, 2021 at 11:55 am
  
  And has been dead for a year.
  
  No longer relevant nor a “role model”

Kobe Bryant Made $323.3 Million in the NBA and Wouldn’t Go to Dinner Without Saving Seats for His Alter Ego: ‘There Were Drinks Sitting All the Way Around’

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