Robert Horry is the latest former athlete to take his thoughts to The Players' Tribune, and the former Los Angeles Lakers champion had plenty to say about his former teammate Kobe Bryant. In the first paragraph he outright calls Bryant the "hardest working player" he's ever played with, and the anecdote he offers regarding the relentless mentality of Kobe even as a rookie only seals the deal.
Horry was traded to the Lakers during the '96-97 season -- Kobe's first in the NBA. Despite the Black Mamba actually putting up 136 threes while shooting 37.5 percent from deep (second-best mark of his career), Robert remembered Kobe as a player that struggled to match his veteran teammates in a shooting game they played after every practice.