Even though he has been retired for over a year now, Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant has remained in the news pretty regularly. Most recently Kobe appeared on The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon where he performed a slam poem in honor of the 1990s sitcom ‘Family Matters.’
That show was, of course, most known for character Steve Urkel, one of the most iconic TV characters of the era, who was played by Jaleel White. Back in the 90s, White attended UCLA, where many NBA players would play pickup basketball during the offseason.
As White told TMZ Sports, Bryant would come in during the summer of 1996, before his rookie season with the Lakers, and destroyed the UCLA Men’s Basketball Team:
“I’m telling you, probably the greatest pickup games I’ve ever seen in my life, I watched him destroy young men’s dreams at 17 years old.