As a player, Cleveland Cavaliers head coach Tyronn Lue is most famous for being the dude Allen Iverson stepped over during the 2001 NBA Finals.
Apparently, he nearly had another claim to fame—fighting Kobe Bryant.
On Tuesday, one day before the Cavs host his old team, the former Los Angeles Lakers guard shared a story about the Black Mamba's dark side.
Per ESPN’s Dave McMenamin:
We're playing 5-on-5 one day and it was the gold team against the white team. It was myself, Devean George, Brian Shaw, Mark Madsen and I want to say Slava Medvedenko, playing against the first unit -- against Fish (Derek Fisher), Kob', Shaq (Shaquille O'Neal).
Long story short is, it was a game point and [Bryant] drove baseline and I was at the elbow. And he drove baseline and I went down the lane and I pinned his dunk against the glass. He tried to dunk it and I blocked it against the glass. We came down, Devean George made a layup for game and Brian Shaw went, ‘Ahhh, he blocked you!' He went crazy. Kobe wanted to fight me at first and then, second, he wanted to play one-on-one after practice.
'We going to play one- ...
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Tyronn Lue Says Kobe Bryant Tried to Fight Him After Getting Blocked in Practice
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