Wembanyama's Agent Met With Rob Pelinka Last Summer to Learn How Kobe Bryant Prepared

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Wembanyama's Agent Met With Rob Pelinka Last Summer to Learn How Kobe Bryant Prepared

Last summer Wemby's agent Bouna Ndiaye met with Rob Pelinka to learn how Kobe Bryant mentally prepared, per Ramona Shelburne of ESPN. Pelinka recounted how Bryant studied great white sharks to sharpen his defense, writing later that it helped him guard Allen Iverson. "I wanted to understand how Kobe did things," Ndiaye told ESPN. "Victor is not like anybody else."

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