Epic Kobe Bryant-Pau Gasol Story Revealed in ‘The Redeem Team' Clip

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In a clip of the upcoming Netflix documentary “The Redeem Team”, members of the 2008 Team USA squad recounted an epic Kobe Bryant-Pau Gasol story.

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"Kobe said he was gonna set the tone to start the game and he said, 'I'm running through Pau's f***ing chest.'"LeBron James:"He said, 'First play of the game, I know what they're gonna run.' And he knew Pau was gonna be the last screen and he said 'I'm running through that motherf***er.'"Pau Gasol:"

He just went right to the middle of my chest, tried to get right through me to send a message, not just to me, but to his teammates, to say 'Hey, this might be my brother, I play with him, we're close, but I don't care about anything else but winning.'" "He was like, 'Nah, he ain't my teammate right now. F*** him. Get up.' I'm like, 'I love this energy. This is what we need.'"We was like, 'He did that to his teammate? Oh my god.

Gasol added that Bryant paid him and some other Spain players a visit before the game, a move Gasol believes might have been part of Bryant's"strategy to soften me up." Just another story that shows how Bryant was an ultimate competitor.James proved to be right, too: the Americans did go on to demolish Spain following Bryant's hard foul in a 119-82 rout. They then defeated the Spaniards again in the championship game by a score of 118-107 to recapture gold.

While Bryant took a championship away from Gasol in the 2008 Olympics, the two combined to lead the Lakers to the first of back-to-back Larry O'Brien Trophies the following NBA season.

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