Tuesday night’s tribute to Kobe Bryant on TNT was an extremely emotional event. Ernie Johnson, Shaquille O’Neal, Kenny Smith, Charles Barkley, and Dwyane Wade sat center court at Staples Center to honor the late Kobe Bryant. At one point in the evening, Jerry West joined the group to share his sentiments and a previously untold story about how he convinced Bryant to not join the LA Clippers.
West called Kobe’s death “the saddest day” of his life and said the loss of his brother in the Korean War was the only comparable thing he could think of.