Kobe Bryant on love of the game first Message for parents

You know, at 12, I'm, like, having a hard time remembering what I was doing in basketball at 12. And I'm like, kids nowadays try to do too much, you know, like, from a skill standpoint. They try to have them do all this fancy stuff versus, like, the basic stuff. And so I teach my kids the most basic stuff. We just do it over and over. But I asked Mike, I said, what were you doing at 12? Do you remember what you were doing at basketball at 12? And he goes, dude, I was playing baseball. Yeah, that's right. Let that sink in for a second. For people out there who are, like, over training their kids at 12 and, like, doing all this fancy stuff, just let that sink in for a second.