"That was my young fella," Brown bragged of Bynum. "I taught him everything he knows. ... I'm one of the better defenders in the league and we played against each other every day in practice. I told him if you can score against me, you can score on anyone."
That's a joke, right? Apparently not.
When asked if this could possibly be true, Bynum admitted being buddies with Brown, but claimed they mostly would "talk about cars" and go bowling.
As always, confidence is an important ingredient for success in professional sports and since confidence has supposedly been a problem for Kwame Brown over the years, it's not necessarily a bad thing for him to think highly of himself. Still...when you have an NBA resume that is, shall we say, a little bare, quiet confidence might be the way to go. That's not to say Kwame didn't help Bynum at all - I guess we can't say that for sure - but there are others who surely have to share in that credit including Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Phil Jackson and most all, Bynum himself. He has put in the hard work after all and it probably wasn't just because he once had to face Kwame Brown in practice.
