Former Los Angeles Lakers shooting guard Kobe Bryant is one of the greatest players in NBA history, and gave his fair share of buckets to players across the league for the entirety of his 20-year career, Kenyon Martin among them.
Bryant beat Martin’s New Jersey Nets in the NBA Finals in 2002, and knocked off his Denver Nuggets in the 2009 Western Conference Finals. Both of which likely factored into Martin telling Kevin Garnett on “Area 21” that Bryant was the player he hated playing against the most during the course of his NBA career for reasons that had nothing to do with his transcendent talent.