Kobe Bryant challenges Dwight Howard in the Lakers' pitch.

When keeping it real goes wrong... (The Kobe Bryant Edition)

From Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports:

"You need to learn how it's done first, and I can teach you here," Bryant told Howard during the Lakers' presentation, witnesses in the room described to Yahoo! Sports. 

Bryant didn't come to Howard's recruitment meeting in Beverly Hills to appease him, but to challenge Howard to stay and embrace the burden of the franchise's culture and embrace Bryant's demanding disposition. Bryant invoked Michael Jordan's hard-driving ways as his blueprint, and how it pushed the Chicago Bulls to six titles. 

Bryant, a five-time NBA champion, insisted he wouldn't retreat in pushing Howard every day, that as much as the Lakers needed Howard, Howard needed Bryant and the Lakers, too. 

"You have to learn how it's done," Bryant told Howard, witnesses described. "I know how to do it and I've learned from the best – players who have won multiple times over and over." 

"Instead of trying to do things your way, just listen and learn and tweak it, so it fits you," Bryant told him.

Yep, that will definitely go over well. I am sure Dwight will be thrilled to do things Kobe's way. I mean why would he leave to go play in a place where there are lower taxes, and a more promising future, when he can stay and take another load of Kobe's criticism on a team that is now supposedly "his"? Kobe can be so Ko(ld)be sometimes.