Kobe Bryant recently imparted his “Mamba Mentality” to a fan.
The retired NBA star stopped to take a video with one of his fans, who goes by Timbo Thymes, to send well wishes to his mother. According to Thymes’ Twitter, his mother has been diagnosed with triple-negative breast cancer. Thymes, a content creator for SLAM HS Hoops, said he and his mother loved the Los Angles Lakers and the former shooting guard was their favorite player.
In the video, which was posted to Twitter, Bryant told Thymes’ mom that she’s in his prayers.
“God don’t give us nothing we can’t handle. So just know you’re in our thoughts, you’re in our prayers and you’ll be just fine. Mamba mentality this thing all the way through,” he said.
Recently my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer and is Triple Negative. As a child, my mom and I loved the Lakers, with Kobe being our fav player. Thank you @kobebryant for the motivational words, prayers and being there mentally and emotionally for us ????????#mambamentality
pic.twitter.com/xZhYgK7Rmn— Timbo Thymes (@partlightskin15) January 5, 2020
The 41-year-old retweeted the video, adding “all love my brother.”
Thymes hasn’t been the only one recently to be blessed by the Mamba. A few weeks ago, Bryant witnessed a t-bone car crash right in front of him in Newport Beach, California. Instead of fleeing the scene, the former champion got out of his car and approached those involved, according to TMZ. He even directed traffic for a little bit before police arrived on the scene.
Bryant has been busy the last few weeks sitting courtside during NBA games. He’s had a little fun during the games, getting in on the fan experience — including trash-talking players. He was enjoying the Lakers-Mavericks game when he started heckling Mavericks point guard Luka Dončić. The Slovenian basketball player didn’t know who was taunting him until he turned around and saw the GOAT. The two laughed it off and dapped each other up.
Kobe was heckling Luka so he turned around and dapped him up ???? pic.twitter.com/TASYCSness
— ESPN (@espn) December 30, 2019
Dončić later revealed that Bryant was actually speaking Slovenian.
“I was like ‘who’s talking my language?’ and I saw Kobe and I was really surprised,” Dončić said.
Mavericks’ Luka Doncic on meeting w/ Lakers legend Kobe Bryant: “He was talking Slovenian. He was talking my language. I was really surprised.” pic.twitter.com/IE9sLtZ2TZ
— Ben Golliver (@BenGolliver) December 30, 2019
Bryant attended the game with his eldest daughter, Natalia. His daughters have accompanied him to many of the games he’s attended lately.
He went to the Hawks vs. Nets match at the Barclays Center with his second daughter, Giana, recently. Cameras caught the 18-time All-Star explaining the game to the 13-year-old. The cute father-daughter moment has since become a meme.
My guardian angel telling me what we not finna do this year pic.twitter.com/8fVaGPdTA7
— Son of Isaac (@mensahmusa) January 1, 2020
Me explaining to my girl that if I haven’t seen the movie either… I can’t tell her what’s going on.
— Ian Harris (@ianharris) January 1, 2020
Me explaining that just because I take forever to text back, doesn’t make it acceptable for you to do the same pic.twitter.com/H5MtISy2ZO
— I am a Melon. (@SmdSzn) January 3, 2020
Me explaining to my younger siblings how I would’ve got my ass beat for the bullshit they pull. https://t.co/GpXvOEQP6D
— Big Stepper Rell ???????? (@lowlifeBM7) January 1, 2020
May the courtside content keep coming.
