Sunday night at the Golden Goggles, Michael Phelps and retired NBA legend Kobe Bryant presented Katie Ledecky with her Female Athlete of the Year Award.
When you’re in the presence of a recently-retired GOAT, it’s nearly impossible not bring up the possibility of a comeback. Even Kobe couldn’t restrain himself.
“It [representing the United States] never gets old.”
“That being said, since it never gets old, would you like just one more time?”
Bryant also mentioned that he got “hooked” on watching swimming in Beijing, and the two reminisced about their experiences at Olympic opening ceremonies.
Check out the full skit below:
Kobe Bryant tries to coax Michael Phelps out of retirement at USA Swimming's Golden Goggles last night. pic.twitter.com/23KZsICBaF
— Nick Zaccardi (@nzaccardi) November 20, 2017
Random Kobe swimming (err … kicking) at UCI story: https://pay.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/2dzolu/compilation_of_kobe_bryant_stories/cjusfjh/
With the whole country starting to at least pretend to reckon with sexual assault, Kobe Bryant gets a spot at the Golden Goggles? Feels…weird.
Cool to hear that Kobe is a crazy fan of swimming thanks to MP and the 2008 Olympics .
1. wow Kobe showing up is really cool
2. Phelps response -“see I would but theres this kid named Remel…”
When Dressel goes 1:54.6 in the 200 im at the end of an Olympic week, let me know.
I mean, he did go 49.8 at the end of a Worlds, which ain’t too shabby
It will be 1:52.6 thank you very much, even if he never really figures out backstroke which we all know he will.
Less than stellar backstroke:
24.0
30.0*
33.0
25.6*
More likely:
24.0
29.0
33.0
26.6
Give or take… breast may be a little quicker. Its definitely possible, maybe not with a heavy schedule, but he’s swimming in Florida and seems like the type to avoid the Lochteisms of 2012.
1:52.6 200 im? Not in the next 20 years.
You must be kidding with a 25.6 freestyle leg. Biedermann was 25.7 on the last 50 when he went the “unbreakable” 1:42.0 200 free record, in a super suit
I’m more of a fan of the “he’ll figure out backstroke” scenario, but its Dressel we’re talking about and I feel we still haven’t seen anything yet. Numbers in my head are like 46.4 and 49.2. Still not convinced on the 50 WR for Tokyo, it will come, but he’ll be 1:43 low at worst in the 200 in 2020 so I think he’ll have just enough raw speed for a win in the 50. This guy is going to be better than Phelps, and he’s gonna be blowing our minds for a while.
On a related note, if anyone is going a 1:41 – it’s Dressel, and yes that one will very much surprise me. A 52.4 is gonna… Read more »
True on getting home in 52.4. But if/when he’s going :46 100 free, then 49.5 front 100 is not the effort that it seems for other humans…
Exactly, IN A SUPERSUIT.
So people think that Dressel can come back in a 25 on a 209 im because Biedermann did so with an arena x glide?
Boom Shaka Laka ?
Cool to see that every topic becomes a Dressel’s topic ?
We wanna see Dressel talk
Yesss