Lakers star now on 33,655 regular-season points in careerPair played together for Team
USA at 2008 OlympicsLeBron James was a teenager when he first met Kobe Bryant at a youth
basketball camp.
“I was just listening,” James said of hearing Bryant’s advice that day. “I was just trying to soak everything up I could. I remember one thing he said was that if you want to try and be great at it, and want to be one of the greats, you’ve got to put the work in.”