Paul George reveals an important phone call he had with Kobe Bryant in 2014
In his personal podcast, the new Sixers player talks about how the Lakers legend reached out to him after he suffered that terrible injury with the Indiana Pacers
In 2014, the career of Paul George was on the line after he suffered a terrible leg injury while training with Team USA. The Indiana Pacers star was facing one of the worst setbacks possible for his NBA career, and that's when Kobe Bryant wasted no time in reaching out to him via phone call.
This was revealed recently by the new Philadelphia 76ers player on his "Podcast P with Paul George." Together with his father, they recalled all the implications of that injury, including the moments before the player was wheeled into the hospital. Aaron Mintz, Paul George's agent at the time, handed him a phone with Kobe Bryant on the other end waiting to talk to him.
"Obviously, he was just showing his support," Paul George said about his call with the Lakers legend. "He told me, 'If you need anything from me, I'm here. I'm in this with you.' But he said, 'Rehab is going to be tough. The work is going to be hard.' And he said, 'Nobody wants to rehab,' because it was my first time being injured or breaking something."
Kobe Bryant, and a necessary message
"I messed up my ankle in college, but didn't have to have surgery, just some time off. It was the first injury that required surgery," Paul George continued explaining about his conversation with Kobe. "He said, 'The work is going to be tedious, it's going to be exhausting, you won't want to do it, but my advice is to approach rehab the same way you do working out on the basketball court. You enjoy training on the basketball court. You have to find that same enjoyment in rehab. There's no other way to get through it. Attack rehab like you attack the basketball court'."
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