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"When it comes to preparation for the game, understanding the game, work ethic for the game, who taught you more? Was it Mike or was it Kobe? Because you played with Kobe on the Lakers as well." Kwame Brown: "I would say Mike because Kobe did like to isolate himself when he worked out. You see it, but it is like you see it in passing. ut you will see him leaving the weight room when you are coming in, and you will see him going out on the court doing his individual stuff. So you get to see him sometimes getting it in, but MJ would do it with you. MJ had the breakfast club. You get to up close and personal see the way he worked, the way he talks, the way he interact with people. So he was a more personable person than Kobe, but he worked just as hard."
Kwame Brown: "I think Kobe worked a little bit harder on defense, and he was obsessing over Michael Jordan a little bit. I remember he would practice carrying the little 45-pound dumbbells all around the court because his hands weren't as big as Michael Jordan. I think that is the only thing that set them apart. Michael Jordan's hands are like mitts. Kobe's hands are regular. So he had to work on his hand strength, so he would walk around the court with these 45-pound dumbbells on each hand, and every morning you see him doing that just to make sure he had his hand strength together. I am like, damn, let me try that too. He would pick up different traits. I never seen somebody do that."
Kwame Brown: "He was terrified of girls after that situation. And he is Kobe Bryant, so he can't even get close to a female because if they do, the tabloids can make it into something that is not. So it would be fans that want a picture because it is female, he can't even say anything to her. He got to walk by. I am like, your life got to suck. I am the bus, but I can talk to all these girls and have a good time. You know, so I am like, so we can't have these girls over and have a drink and you not doing anything and we like, we can't just chill? He was like, no. And I am just sitting there chopping it up with him and I am just listening to his life and I am like, man, that is terrible."
Jason Whitlock: I’ve been talking about like hey man uh the white boys are taking over basketball that you know Illinois got all these white dudes this Mullins from Connecticut then you look at the NBA and Cooper Flagg and Jokic, and all of this other stuff… What's your take on the exciting whites in basketball? Kwame Brown: I predicted this a couple years ago. The whole league is moving Euro. I said this. I said they're taking away the ability to impose your will. There's not going to be any more Reggie Evans that's going to come in and impose his will, get 20 rebounds and knock guy around. They're taking that. They're making it more skill-based. And a lot of these guys, they have skills, they don't have to be rough and tumble anymore. They can sit out, load manage. I think it's going to be it's going to be the Euro and the white league, because some of us black players, it's always too much that come with our superstar guys outside of LeBron James, Steph Curry, maybe KD. A lot of our superstar guys, they come with a lot of baggage. I don't I don't want to bring up any other players that got in trouble because I got in trouble myself, but and myself included, we come with baggage. And so a lot of these European players, they come with a whole country behind them. Think about the advertising dollars that Luka Doncic is creating, being the top of the league. We saw the thing with Jeremy Lin. Jeremy Lin wasn't even a top player in our league, but he sold out arenas all over. It was Linsanity. So, they're looking at it from an advertisement standpoint. Why would we get that little kid from the hood that the black community is not really going to um promote and push anyway? They're going to be divided on talking about them and disrespecting them and every other community is not going to push them. So, why would we go for that kid instead of a kid from Venezuela or any other country, Mexico? They're going to get an entire country that supports them. We don't support each other.
Etan Thomas: Frank Isola has such a big problem with former athletes having podcasts like he always talks about it. Why do you hate that so much? Like we're not like we're infringing on something that he's supposed to have. It's supposed to be special to them. Kwame Brown: It’s like what else do you want from me?’ It's like ‘you already rich. You got money. You're already tall. You played in the NBA. Now you're going in my podcast page?! I think he mad.
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Kwame Brown on Bronny James: “This ain't year one. This is year two. This is year two. This don't make no sense. We got high school players better than Bronny. Absolutely got high school players better than Bronny. Bronny was never the best high school player on his team. He was the never the best college player on his team. And he still gets 12 shots in a preseason game where everybody's auditioning where nobody normally passes the ball. Everybody trying to get their [__] off cuz it's new people out there. It ain't just you.”
Kwame Brown: “And for every young man that think that you can just be the president or you can get in the league and you gonna get a fair shake at it. I think LeBron James situation just proved. [__] the narrative that they tried to say, 'Oh, it's nepotism.' No, I think this LeBron James situation just proved that politics is in everything. Politics is in everything. Politics is in sports. It's in — It's in everything. It's at your job, my job. It's in everything. It's all about politics.”
Gilbert Arenas on Kwame Brown: "This [] probably didn’t sleep. This [] did three—he did three videos. Those three videos did more—combined—than all the videos he’s done in 2025." "I’mma just be honest with you—this [__]’s videos on me did more than all the rest of his videos combined. That’s crazy." "Like, he should be thanking me. He gonna get a nice little $300–$400 check from YouTube, you feel me?" "He gonna get a nice little YouTube check, boy. Them numbers, boy. I know he be sitting on the internet just waiting for [__] to get in trouble."
Kwame Brown on Gilbert Arenas: "Why the [ __ ] would he do that with all that money he making? That was the only reason why I popped up on here, man. I had to ask you that one, dog." "Cuz he don't know how to do no goddamn business. That's the problem. I don't get it, man. I hope he beat the charge, cuz that's stupid. He got a son that's goddamn hooping." "Why in the hell would you be trying—like how much money is enough is what I'm trying to figure out? My question is, why would you do this after—like your podcast is really popping off, don't get me wrong—but now you about to lose a lot of endorsements and sponsorships just off of that bad publicity. I told that boy he's a dummy and he self-sabotage everything. It don't matter how good he have it—he going to do something stupid."
Kwame Brown is celebrating following today’s news about Gilbert Arenas and Shannon Sharpe pic.twitter.com/PlOIvXBIDn
— NBACentral (@TheDunkCentral) July 30, 2025
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Former Lakers big man Kwame Brown, who previously warned that James could turn out to be a bust, slammed the guard, as well as his famous father, superstar LeBron James, in a YouTube video (at 0:20). "Bronny's performance last night, it was horrendous, like I just don't understand," Brown said. "He has a father who's arguably the best player who ever played the game, but it shows that it was just off of his athleticism, because his son don't know the basic principles."
Kwame Brown: "He’s supposed to cut, or if the guy drives, you fill in behind. I don’t understand how he doesn’t understand these basic concepts if his daddy is LeBron. These are simple concepts. This is not bashing him; it’s just that these commentators are not going to talk basketball talk."
Kwame Brown: "No, I'm not an MJ fan. Listen, I got no reason to be an MJ fan. That motherf****r slapped me in the back of my head one day. But I'm just, I got no reason to do — no reason at all. I'm just, I just saw the work and the dedication. This old Negro was getting up at 39 years old. He never cheated the game, whether he went out, whatever he did. The Breakfast Club was real. I’m like, I joined the Breakfast Club because I couldn’t believe it. I’m like, ain’t no way this old, after being up standing there all night gambling, no way this gonna be here at 6:00. That dude was already in the weight room lifting at 5:45. I’m like, he's a machine. I couldn’t believe it. Every morning, he’s like that. No matter what he does, he never cheated the game."
Kwame Brown on LeBron James: "But the problem is, when he plays teams like Chicago or Boston, who have real solid principles, he has trouble. And so the old-school players wouldn't have any trouble with LeBron because, at 39, he should have developed a mid-range and a post game, and he still hasn't yet. He still has the athletic ability to just go 94 feet — which, I don't know how, but he still has it. But if he didn't have this athleticism, his game really hasn't evolved outside of a three and putting his head down and going to the basket. He doesn't go like Paul Pierce, getting to a spot, pulling up. Those are the things you normally see out of a superstar player."