Kobe Bryant and Rajon Rondo are both otherworldly basketball players, both champions, and both -- most everyone agrees -- pretty bizarre, hyper-competitive, occasionally disagreeable guys. Their teams faced off Friday night in Boston, the Lakers without Kobe and the Celtics with Rondo for the first time all year. As both have dealt with rehabbing injuries amid losing situations, the two were asked about one another, and exchanged pitch-perfect compliments:
Kobe Bryant and Rajon Rondo call each other names, lovingly
This, between borderline sociopathic competitors, is real flattery.
Ronald Martinez
Kobe on how Rondo will survive the rebuild: "From what I understand he's an asshole like me, so he'll manage."
— Paul Flannery (@Pflanns) January 17, 2014 Rondo, on being called an asshole by Kobe: "That's a great compliment, coming from Kobe. I feel the same way about him."
— Baxter Holmes (@BaxterHolmes) January 18, 2014 Awwwwwww guys.
