Kevin Sanchez, a former buddy of Kobe Bryant, called the deceased star “a piece of sh*t” as he discussed his complicated friendship with the late sports personality in an interview with Blood on the Razor Wire.
Sanchez talked about the period he had to start afresh after being released from prison in the interview.
When the Los Angeles Lakers bus arrived at their Philadelphia practice site, Kevin claims he stood outside in the rain and spoke with Kobe.
After a “weird” chat, the player reportedly provided him with his phone number and said he would contact him. He claims to have said, “Look man, I don’t want no money, I don’t want sh*t, I don’t want hand-outs.” to the legendary NBA star.
“This is what I require of you. All I want is to go back to you, get me out to somewhere in Los Angeles where I can support myself financially; just get me in and I’ll work for you on a project, a business, anything that will help me. I don’t want something in exchange for nothing and I don’t want to work for it.” Sanchez proposed joining Bryant’s security detail as well.
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“There’s no reason he wouldn’t do this for me; we were really close,” he continued.
The number Bryant gave Kevin however led to an assistant, and Bryant never communicated with him directly again. “This is when I really realized he was a piece of sh*t,” Kevin Sanchez remarked.
Subsequently, Sanchez stated that he had a conversation with one of the icon’s cousins during a game.
Kevin Sanchez said that his cousin agreed with him that Bryant was a “piece of sh*t.” Additionally, according to his cousin, Kobe “never did nothing for nobody,” not even his relatives.
Kobe and Kevin have a long history together, and Sanchez played a significant role in Bryant’s previous rap ambitions.
After returning from living abroad in Italy, Kobe met the other at Lower Merion High School. Sanchez [molded] Bryant into an MC, but sadly, their aspirations as a rap group were dashed. Anthony Bannister introduced the two after including them both in his rap group that eventually became CHEIZAW.
Sanchez was arrested in July 1996 after being confused for another man who had robbed a 7-Eleven. Even though Kevin insisted he was raping alongside Bannister, Kobe, and the crew throughout the heist, he was nonetheless recognized as the perpetrator.
In addition, Bryant had to post bond and show up for Sanchez’s preliminary hearing. Kobe even paid for Bannister to fly to the courts to testify, but the athlete did not show up for the two-day trial. Even though five witnesses were unable to identify Kevin, he was found guilty and given a five-to-ten-year prison sentence.
According to an initial release, Sanchez was informed by a juror that Bryant’s evidence might have changed the verdict. Sanchez also claimed in 2013 that Bryant wasn’t at fault. “My imprisonment was not Kobe’s responsibility. He recollected, “I don’t blame him.” “We weren’t sure we would require him. It was a phony identification. We were going to win, no matter what.”
