Running his mouth against Kobe Bryant wasn't the best idea Luke Cunningham ever had. But it was Narberth, outdoor summer ball. Cunningham, a ballplayer himself at Monsignor Bonner High, was like, what kind of name is Kobe? And so what if his father played in the NBA?
Cunningham remembers telling Kobe, just off the cuff, how he heard his father wasn't a very good NBA player.
Kobe must have heard him.
"He blocks my shot," Cunningham said. "He essentially caught the ball and threw it into a jungle gym like 40 feet away, over a fence.