{"id":11114,"date":"2023-01-26T10:14:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T10:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/tarik-black-remembers-kobe-bryant-he-taught-me-bigger-than-basketball\/"},"modified":"2023-01-26T10:14:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T10:14:00","slug":"tarik-black-remembers-kobe-bryant-he-taught-me-bigger-than-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/tarik-black-remembers-kobe-bryant-he-taught-me-bigger-than-basketball\/","title":{"rendered":"Tarik Black Remembers Kobe Bryant: He Taught Me Bigger Than Basketball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-1454154\">\n<p>    <span class=\"visually-hidden\" itemprop=\"dateCreated\">2023-01-26T11:14:34+00:00<\/span><br \/>\n    <span class=\"visually-hidden\" itemprop=\"datePublished\">2023-01-26T11:14:34+00:00<\/span><br \/>\n    <span class=\"visually-hidden\" itemprop=\"dateModified\">2023-01-26T11:38:34+00:00.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"float-left single__author\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Person\">\n      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/50264240cd8298326974210e55ac3535?s=46&amp;d=mm&amp;r=g\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/50264240cd8298326974210e55ac3535?s=92&amp;d=mm&amp;r=g 2x\" class=\"avatar avatar-46 photo\" height=\"46\" width=\"46\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"author__name visually-hidden\" itemprop=\"name\">Antonis Strogilakis<\/p>\n<p>      <span class=\"single__date\" itemprop=\"dateCreated\">23\/1\/26 11:14<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>    <span class=\"visually-hidden\" itemscope=\"\" itemprop=\"publisher\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Organization\">\n      <link itemprop=\"url\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\"\/><span itemprop=\"name\">Eurohoops.net<\/span><br \/>\n      <span itemprop=\"logo\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><\/p>\n<p>              <img decoding=\"async\" itemprop=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/wp-content\/themes\/eurohoopsV2\/assets\/img\/logo-header.png\"\/><br \/>\n      <\/span><br \/>\n    <\/span><\/p>\n<p>    <span class=\"visually-hidden fa-author\" itemprop=\"author\"><\/p>\n<p>        Antonis Strogilakis<br \/>\n    <\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"single__image\" itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.eurohoops.net\/2023\/01\/92fa1704-kobe-bryant-tarik-black-625x375.jpg\" class=\"attachment-largepost size-largepost wp-post-image wp-stateless-item\" alt=\"Utah Jazz vs Los Angeles Lakers Kobe Bryant Tarik Black\" data-image-size=\"largepost\" data-stateless-media-bucket=\"images.eurohoops.net\" data-stateless-media-name=\"2023\/01\/92fa1704-kobe-bryant-tarik-black.jpg\"\/><meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/images.eurohoops.net\/2023\/01\/92fa1704-kobe-bryant-tarik-black-300x150.jpg\"\/><meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"\"\/><meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n<div class=\"single__teaser orange\" wp_automatic_readability=\"9\">\n<p>To mark the third anniversary of Kobe Bryant&#8217;s death, his former Los Angeles Lakers teammate Tarik Black shares his memories of the greatest player of all time with Eurohoops.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"single__content\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" wp_automatic_readability=\"60.395669291339\">\n        <!--LiveBlog--><br \/>\n                  <!--\/LiveBlog-->\t<\/p>\n<p>      <!-- \/banner--300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>      <!-- \n\n<div id=\"reminread\"><\/div>\n\n\t  --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Eurohoops Team \/ info@eurohoops.net<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A week before Kobe Bryant was tragically killed in a helicopter crash on January 26, 2020, Lakers teammate Tarik Black met him in Los Angeles. In his final conversation with Kobe, Black asked how proud the NBA legend was.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was in rehab and flying back to Los Angeles,&#8221; Black told Eurohoops and Achilleas Mavrodontis.  &#8216;He said to me, &#8216;Young man, I am proud of you. I am really proud.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We had that conversation and then boom&#8230;a week later. Damn man. Damn.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A current Olympiacos Piraeus player, Black played for the Lakers from 2014-2017, sharing a locker room with Kobe for two years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My memoir is a personal conversation, just me and him. It&#8217;s texting and the relationship values \u200b\u200band fairness we&#8217;ve built for each other,&#8221; Black said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He taught us something bigger than basketball.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe title=\"Tarik Black on Kobe Bryant: He taught us things bigger than basketball (Greek subs)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2S2PZawPFpQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n\t!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n\t{if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n\tn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n\tif(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n\tn.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n\tt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n\ts.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,'script',\n\t'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n\tfbq('init', '1768901460005054'); \n\tfbq('track', 'PageView');\n\tfbq('consent', 'grant');\n\t<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/__i\/rss\/rd\/articles\/CBMie2h0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmV1cm9ob29wcy5uZXQvZW4vbmJhLW5ld3MvMTQ1NDE1NC90YXJpay1ibGFjay1yZW1lbWJlcnMta29iZS1icnlhbnQtaGUtdGF1Z2h0LXVzLXRoaW5ncy1iaWdnZXItdGhhbi1iYXNrZXRiYWxsL9IBf2h0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmV1cm9ob29wcy5uZXQvZW4vbmJhLW5ld3MvMTQ1NDE1NC90YXJpay1ibGFjay1yZW1lbWJlcnMta29iZS1icnlhbnQtaGUtdGF1Z2h0LXVzLXRoaW5ncy1iaWdnZXItdGhhbi1iYXNrZXRiYWxsL2FtcC8?oc=5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] 2023-01-26T11:14:34+00:00 2023-01-26T11:14:34+00:00 2023-01-26T11:38:34+00:00. 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