Los Angeles Lakers GM Rob Pelinka wondered, through a conference call with several reporters, on how his friend Kobe Bryant would face the current world crisis.
“I think in a time like this a friend like Kobe is especially missed,” Pelinka said via the LA Times. “If you were on a nice journey with him and a huge fire-breathing dragon ended up in the pathway, you’d say, ‘OK this is why this is good right now, we’re going to meet this challenge’ … that was just his nature is that obstacles and hard times would lead somehow to growth.”
The Lakers’ GM admitted that he is going to look at 2020 with this type of mentality in order to grow stronger through tough times.
“That’s the way I’m going to look at 2020, not just in terms of the loss of Kobe but just in general. I think some of these hard times will have to grow through to get stronger.”
