<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>The "Stop Snitching" video cameo. The extortion and blackmail attempt against him. The charge of marijuana possession. A poor showing at the 2004 Athens Olympics. And a fight in a New York City nightclub. All those issues weighed heavily on Nuggets star Carmelo Anthony early in the 2004-05 season.But at that time when a stressed and depressed Anthony needed a respected word of wisdom, he received a surprising text message from "K.B." in December 2004."I got a text from him that said, 'Don't even worry about that,' and this and that. I was like, 'Really? For real? Who is this?' It didn't have his name. It just had his (cell) number and 'K.B.' I was like 'Who is this?' It was Kobe," Anthony said. "He's been through a lot so you know he has the people against him. He's his own person. He's in his own world."Since Kobe Bryant's message to Anthony, 22, more than two years ago, the all-stars quietly have developed a big brother-little brother relationship.Whether the subject is Anthony's struggles against the Los Angeles Clippers in the 2006 NBA playoffs or his 15-game suspension this season for fighting, Bryant, 28, has continued to be supportive with advice at a moment's notice."I just check on him to make sure he's OK," Bryant said. "It really upsets me when I see people come down hard on him and things like that. I just try to stick up for him because he's with the younger generation coming up."It's our responsibility to make sure they are being taken care of. He got a raw deal by that. I was a young player once, too."While Bryant still has his naysayers, Anthony remains one of Bryant's biggest fans."When I was going through my trials and tribulations, he reached out to me," Anthony said. "He had already been through what he had been through. So he was just telling me how to deal with it. He was telling me don't even worry about it, things are going to change, they are going to get better."At that time you don't want to hear none of that. But we just started going back and forth. He started calling me. He started telling me 'good game' and all this stuff every time I saw him. It just evolved like that."Anthony was the NBA's leading scorer this season until Bryant got hot in March, which included a four-game 50-point streak. Bryant is averaging a league-best 31.0 points per game, while Anthony is averaging 29.1."(Bryant's) on a mission," Anthony said. "I guess he got tired of everybody in the media (messing) with him so he went on a rampage."Bryant and Anthony were teammates for the first time at the 2007 All-Star Game. And this summer Anthony expects their friendship to grow when they play at the FIBA Americas Championships in Las Vegas."I'm looking forward to this summer," Anthony said. "I'm looking forward to it right now."</div>http://www.denverpost.com/sports/ci_5579778
This is cute. If this keeps up, Kobe will turn Melo into a egotistic-self centered-arrogant-all about me-Mr.Hollywood type person, just like Kobe is
This is expected though... Kobe, AI, and some of the other veteran stars have been taking guys like Carmelo, LeBron, etc. under their wings and helping them with off the court things if they need it.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (LAZY @ Apr 3 2007, 06:50 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>This is cute. If this keeps up, Kobe will turn Melo into a egotistic-self centered-arrogant-all about me-Mr.Hollywood type person, just like Kobe is</div>
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BigMo763 @ Apr 3 2007, 08:19 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>This is expected though... Kobe, AI, and some of the other veteran stars have been taking guys like Carmelo, LeBron, etc. under their wings and helping them with off the court things if they need it.</div>Those sure are two great role models to have. W/E, they are friends just like many NBA players.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BigMo763 @ Apr 3 2007, 11:19 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>This is expected though... Kobe, AI, and some of the other veteran stars have been taking guys like Carmelo, LeBron, etc. under their wings and helping them with off the court things if they need it.</div>Yep exactly Kobe/AI and other veteran players been thru stuff so they can help out the younger guys who are having problems.<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (ASUFan22 @ Apr 4 2007, 12:06 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Those sure are two great role models to have. W/E, they are friends just like many NBA players.</div>Actually it is what's wrong with having AI/Kobe for role models? People say sh*t when they just here media stuff they have no idea what really happens just what the media makes stuff out to be. What the media says don't mean those stuff are true or even close to as bad as they make it out to be. They do w/e to make more money even if they make it up, or so called change things around a little.
