Blake Griffin on Kobe Bryant: 'In Los Angeles, everywhere he went it was like seeing God'

Blake Griffin: “You'll never take LA away from the Lakers, you guys get it. There was a good stretch of like the Lakers kind of being pretty down and like him getting hurt and stuff but like dude, Kobe was… In LA he is God. He's untouchable. I don't know how to describe it. The first time I actually met him I was doing rehab I got hurt in my first year, I was doing rehab and the lady who was doing my rehab was his like PT and so I'm sitting there in the PT clinic and I remember kind of just like sitting there, I had like heat you know, you do ice and heat to start, and I'm sitting there and I kind of like look up and like the energy in the room shifted. Like a big energy has changed and I was just like's...
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