Kobe Bryant on Competitiveness in Practice

Practices are meant to be competitive. They're meant to be competitive. If your practices are more competitive than the games themselves, you're doing the wrong thing. And most of these teams and coaches have gotten into a mindset of resting players. Oh, it's too much, you know, we're not going to practice. Light day. Light day. Light day. Phil never gave us a light day. There's no days off. You show up and you work, you practice. Yeah. And practices are going to be worse. They're going to be more physical. There's going to be more trash talking. And I'm going to let you know. Right. If you didn't show up today, I'm going to let you know. It's going to be embarrassing and you're going to hate it. But when game seven rolls around, the NBA Finals, you will be prepared.