Manny Sandoval, who arrived at the Los Angeles Lakers as a team attendant in 199...
LONG BEACH, Calif. - Manny Sandoval, who arrived at the Los Angeles Lakers as a team attendant in 1996, the same year as Kobe Bryant, said the death in a helicopter crash of the basketball legend and friend “was like a punch in the stomach”.
Sandoval, who worked 22 seasons for the Lakers, said Bryant was a very confident man intent on becoming the best basketball player in the world even, as a rookie 18-year-old. “They’re very similar and very strong willed,” he said of the two men. “Their goal was the same goal and that was to win championships.”
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