Bob Myers tells hilarious story of playing H-O-R-S-E with Kobe Bryant

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Before he joined the Warriors as assistant general manager in April 2011, Bob Myers served as an NBA player agent.

He worked for the legendary Arn Tellem, who was Kobe Bryant's first agent. So naturally, Myers crossed paths with Kobe quite often in the late 1990s and early 2000s. And during a radio appearance Monday morning on 95.7 The Game, Myers shared the following story about the NBA legend who tragically died Sunday morning in a helicopter crash.

"This guy embodied the antithesis of load management. He would play when he shouldn't have played. He would play against doctor's orders. We were doing a commercial -- I didn't have any money then -- he was with Adidas then. He was doing an Adidas commercial and he said, 'Do you want to be an extra on a commercial?'

"I said, 'All right, fine.' So I went there and we were playing H-O-R-S-E. And on these commercial shoots, it's thousands of dollars every time a second (is wasted) because they're paying the crew. I was winning -- I had him H-O-R-S. They had this crane set up where he was gonna be in the air dunking, and they were waiting for him.

"So the director said, 'Kobe, we're ready.' And he said, 'No, no. I got to finish this game.' And I looked at him and I said, 'You got to go do your commercial, man. It's fine, I won. I won this game.' He goes, 'No, no, no. We're finishing the H-O-R-S-E game.' 

"Then the director and hundreds of people are looking at me going, 'You got to stop him.' I said, 'What do you guys want me to do?' I said, 'Fine, I won't play.' Kobe said, 'No, you got to finish.' Of course he comes back and beats me.

"That's who he was. He competed."

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What a great story. But we aren't supposed to be hearing about these types of memories right now. Kobe is supposed to be with us still.

Life just isn't fair.

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