Corey Maggette explains how he became friends with Kobe Bryant and why it helped him to become a better basketball player ...

Kobe was a basketball purist who was content being by himself and working on his game. Numerous former NBA players attested ...

This only adds more weight to Corey’s original story about Kobe. Maggette saw himself as a dedicated student of hard work, yet Kobe still outworked him. That’s what basketball is all about.

I put Kobe on speaker, and he's like, 'If you want me to play, it's going to cost $500,000. Now, if you want the Mamba cape to come out and play, it's going to cost you a cool million,'" Corey ...

Maggette shoved Martin to the court, and Martin got up and went after Maggette. No one else was involved in the fracas, which detracted from a 32-point night by Kidd as he shot 13 of 20.