kidane essayas

Ish Verduzco Verified account @ishverduzco · Jan 3, 2025

my favorite Kobe story is the "kill list"

"at 13 years old I had a kill list"

"Going into my sophomore year I was ranked somewhere in like the top two hundred,"

"Something like that. And then it kind of went up, one hundred, top fifty, and then by the time I was a senior it hit number one."

"They used to these rankings, it was Street & Smith's basketball rankings and I was like 57 on the list. So I would look at 56, 55, all the way up to No. 1, who these players are, what club teams they play for,"

"So when we go on the AAU travel circuit, I gotta hunt them down, right? And so that became my mission in high school, is to check off every person, all those 56 other names, and hunt them down."

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