After battling it out in the 2004 NBA Finals, Kobe Bryant and Tayshaun Prince became teammates four years later at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
Known as the ‘Redeem Team,’ Bryant and company were tasked with restoring order after only winning bronze medals at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens and 2006 FIBA World Championship in Japan.
As Bryant is an international superstar especially in China, Prince revealed every opposing player wanted to guard him, according to Ben Rohrbach of Yahoo Sports:
“Out of anybody on our team, those international guys, no matter who we played against, all them dudes wanted to guard Kobe,” says Prince.