20 Amazing Kobe Bryant Facts You Should Know

Published on February 6, 2020 By Leah Goldberg

Kobe Admitted He Didn’t Really Have Any Friends

Kobe Bryant was close to certain people in his life that followed the same career as him, like Shaquille O’Neal and LeBron James, but he admitted in a GQ Magazine interview back in 2015, that he honestly just didn’t have time for friends and definitely was not Kobe’s father, a good friend. He stated he was not the kind of person that remembered friends’ birthdays.

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Kobe admitted in the interview that his work was his life and that’s what he was focused on and obsessed about. He knew he could relate to people like actors, musicians and businessmen who also worked as hard as he did and were similar to him. In his own words, “Do we have time to socialize and to hangout aimlessly? No…I enjoy working.”