Kyle Kuzma credits Kobe Bryant's mantra "keep the main thing, the main thing" for shaping his early NBA career. The philosophy kept him focused on team success over individual stats. Later, watching LeBron James reinforced the same lesson.
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you're afforded the opportunity by coming to the Lakers to build a relationship with Kobe. Yeah. How did that relationship help you, especially early on?
You know, the biggest thing he always ever said was keep the main thing, the main thing, right? That was like my north star. You know what I'm saying? You may never get there, whatever, but it's what you get out of it is what you're trying to reach, right? So having this type of mentality, like, yo, like I'm here for a reason. This is my purpose. Like my purpose tonight is to kill. My purpose tonight is to go out and help my team win. Like having somebody like that early on my career, I mean, changed everything for me. You know, I could say the same thing about, you know, Bron coming year 2 and seeing it from a player perspective. 'Cause you know, Kobe was here, he was gone retired at this point. So it was just like, you know, word of mouth, but like, Bron, I'm really seeing it too. So, you know, just having that relationship with Kobe, it was, man, it was everything. Yeah.