NBA Superstar Inspired by Kobe Bryant Reveals Big Regret About the Lakers Legend

To this day, the Los Angeles Lakers' late legend Kobe Bryant continues to inspire players who enter the NBA, athletes of other sports, and different generations. There's one actual NBA superstar who is known to be a big Kobe and Lakers fan, despite playing for the franchise's biggest rival the Boston Celtics, and that is Jayson Tatum.

Four years after the tragic passing of Kobe Bryant, Tatum has reflected on the regrets he has about his growing-up NBA inspiration, the Lakers legend black mamba.

“I wish I would’ve reached out more. I had so many questions I wanted to know the answers to. I should have called him more and it taught me a less,” Celtics star Jayson Tatum on the late Kobe Bryant who died four years ago today.

“Now I don’t hold back with older guys in the league now, like ’Bron. ’Bron is somebody that I text and call a lot, and it could be from basketball to how to take care of your body to business decisions off the court. People are willing to give you answers, you just have to ask.”

Tatum spoke on the impact Kobe had all over the world

The impact that he had on so many people around the world is evident even to this day. Even for me, a kid who grew up thousands of miles away from L.A. that watched him play watched his interviews and his workouts, and just wanted to steal so much of his game and his personality and his mindset from him. And it is just cool how somebody so far away can have such an impact on me and is a huge reason why I am who I am today and why I made it this far.