Former NBA players Raja Bell and Kobe Bryant have played each other many times, and Bale has also been called "Kobe's finisher" by some people, and has fouled Kobe Bryant. In a recent interview, Bell said he hated Kobe Bryant but later respected each other.
"We elbowed each other and sprayed a lot of trash, but some of my favorite memories are the time we were jetting at the media after the game. I don't know how Kobe felt, but I honestly hated the cat. I really don't like him. ”
"And then the coolest part for me was that as these things got past and I saw him later, we started to build some respect. We started developing some nice relationships. We've never been close friends or anything like that, but for a while, if he came to our home city, I would contact him and ask him where he wanted to find, like how to spend Thanksgiving, or I would ask his family and talk. I think that's cool. It's about my favorite part of the relationship between me and him. We started to have a certain level of mutual respect, and when you can say that you have mutual respect with a player who is one of the best players in history, that's great for me. ”