Kobe Bryant, the former NBA superstar, has not been shy when asked about his views on the American system of teaching kids basketball.
He hates the AAU culture.
"AAU basketball – horrible, terrible AAU basketball," Bryant said to a group of reporters in a now infamous 2016 interview. "It’s stupid. It doesn’t teach our kids how to play the game at all, so you wind up having players that are big and they bring it up and they do all this fancy crap and they don’t know how to post. They don’t know the fundamentals of the game.