“They were playing a virtual game of 1-on-1 at dinner,” Armstrong said, via Tim Reynolds of The Associated Press. “I just sat there and listened to them talk about the love they had for the game. They were so sophisticated; they were talking about footwork, how they conditioned themselves, how they would box out. The detail that they had, the respect that they had for the game … I wish I could have seen them play in their prime.”

“It was chaos,” Armstrong said. “And they were in basketball heaven.”

Kobe and Jordan were clearly cut from the same cloth. 

You have to love eating dinner with ultra competitive people. 

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