'Kobe' crowd chant touches Jordan's Hollis-Jefferson

The Manila Times

'Kobe' crowd chant touches Jordan's Hollis-Jefferson  Rondae Hollis-Jefferson says it means a lot to him to have drawn 'Kobe, Kobe' chants from the Mall of Asia Arena crowd as he poured 39 points in Jordan's 87-95 loss to New Zealand. Kobe was the late Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers who died in a helicopter crash in 2020, along with daughter Gianna, and seven others. Like Hollis-Jefferson, Bryant was a prolific scorer who earned five NBA championship rings.  VIDEO BY NIEL VICTOR MASOY  Subscribe to The Manila Times Channel - https://tmt.ph/YTSubscribe    Visit our website at https://www.manilatimes.net    Follow us:  Facebook - https://tmt.ph/facebook  Instagram - https://tmt.ph/instagram  Twitter - https://tmt.ph/twitter  DailyMotion - https://tmt.ph/dailymotion    Subscribe to our Digital Edition - https://tmt.ph/digital    Check out our Podcasts:  Spotify - https://tmt.ph/spotify  Apple Podcasts - https://tmt.ph/applepodcasts  Amazon Music - https://tmt.ph/amazonmusic  Deezer: https://tmt.ph/deezer  Stitcher: https://tmt.ph/stitcher Tune In: https://tmt.ph/tunein   #themanilatimes  #fiba  #fibaworldcup2023  #basketball  #kobe

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00:20 >> Ronday, you said people doubted your offense.

00:35 Now you're hearing chants of Kobe.

00:38 How can you say about that?

00:40 >> Like I said, it's an honor, bro.

00:42 I grew up playing like, thank you, I grew up playing like all around.

00:46 Like I didn't care about scoring, it was about like winning.

00:49 I was like trying to get triple doubles, to be honest.

00:52 And then some quick thing where like, I just knew I could put the ball in the basket.

00:56 I knew if I could do that a little bit better, I could help my team tremendously.

01:00 And then I knew that if the coaches would wanna have the ball in my hand,

01:04 then I knew I was a good decision maker.

01:05 So the rest is just history, we just started to connect, everything.

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