Jeremy Lin, who now plays for the Kaohsiung Steelers in the P. League+, looks back at his shocking encounter with the late great Kobe Bryant after getting traded to the Los Angeles Lakers in 2014.
as his teammate. However, nothing prepared him for his shocking encounter with the fallen Lakers legend right after his move was made official.
Lin recently looked back at his time with the Lakers and how his Hollywood tenure started. One particular Kobe memory continues to stand out for Lin through the years. At this point, he still doesn’t know how Bryant was able to track him down on his secret phone:,” Lin recalled. “And this second phone was super private. Everyone else had my other number, but nobody had this number — only my family, basically, and my closest friends.
“Then I get an unknown message on my private number. And it’s like, ‘Hey, you want to work out with me? Next week at 6 am or 5:45 am’ And then it was like, ‘KB.’ I literally looked at my family, ‘Why do I have an unknown number, and who’s KB? … Oh, shoot! I think this is Kobe Bryant.’”
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