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Tatum tore up the league in his rookie season. This summer, along with his trainer Drew Hanlen, he got a chance to work with one of his basketball heroes — former Laker Kobe Bryant. After working with Tatum, and seeing a mashup of Tatum and Bryant’s games that circulated Twitter, Bryant wanted to know why the Lakers didn’t simply take Tatum.
From Evan Daniels’ podcast with Hanlen: “We actually showed Kobe it yesterday, and he was like, ‘Why didn’t the Lakers draft him?