You could write an entire book on the tall tales that surrounded Kobe Bryant throughout his career. He’s like Paul Bunyan.
Jay Williams once said that he showed up to a game 4 hours early thinking he was going to be alone in the gym and “getting in more work than anyone”, only to find Kobe already there in a full sweat mid-workout. Shaq says he’d see Kobe doing full-on workouts where he wouldn’t even be using a ball, just him working on cuts where he would sometimes mime dribbling and shooting. Dwyane Wade once told a story where, during Team USA, everyone had just woke up and come down for breakfast, only to have Kobe show up in sweaty workout clothes with ice packs on his knees because he’d already been up for hours getting work in.