Kobe Bryant is all too familiar with these Oklahoma City guys. They remind him a lot of himself. They can shrug off almost everything and keep on going, he said.
Not too many players have had that, according to Bryant. Michael [Jordan] had it. I have it. Durant has it. Westbrook has it. They just dont care about pressure situations or criticism or whatever. Its rare.
Bryant even knew where Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook learned to cop an attitude.
For sure. They watched me growing up, he said. They saw how I dealt with criticism and all this other stuff and just put my head down and kept playing Theyre cut from the same cloth.
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