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Lakers fans were not as fired up, but they were hot, booing when news of Adebayo’s 83 points was delivered inside Crypto.com Arena before the Lakers’ 120-106 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves. “Honestly, it hurts,” said Los Angeles’ Erik Ortiz, who was 6 years old when Bryant had his 81-point night. “And it’s kind of messed up. All those free throws? No disrespect, but it didn’t feel earned.” “A disrespect to the game,” said Robert Horry, who played with Bryant in L.A. for seven seasons. “To me, don’t cheat the game. If you’re gonna play like that, that’s cheating the game.” “But,” Horry added, diplomatically, “scoring 83 points is still hard regardless if you cheat the game or not.”
Dan Patrick: How would your Rockets have done against Jordan's Bulls? Robert Horry: We would have beat him. We would have beat him. You know, it’s… Everybody wants and everybody's like, "Well, Jordan actually loses sometime. All the greats lose sometime." If you just go by our record against the Bulls when we were there and we were pretty good. I think when it comes to matchups, and I think Vernon matching MJ was a pretty good matchup. Myself against Scottie was a good matchup… So now, who was gonna match up with Dream (Hakeem Olajuwon)? Nobody. So playing for Phil, and knowing Phil's mentality, I think we would have won that series. And I know a lot of people like, ‘man, you crazy!’ I'm like, people forget Jordan came back in ’95. He had a double nickel against the Knicks, but he got beat by the Orlando Magic. Why? Because his team wasn't good enough.
Rush: Marcus Smart tosses an errant lob to LeBron that lands in the stands, and then he says, "My bad, GOAT." Robert Horry found it amusing, lol. #NBA Threads
Marcus Smart tosses an errant lob to LeBron that lands in the stands, and then he says, "My bad, GOAT." Robert Horry found it amusing, lol. #NBA Threads
— Rush (@yorush.threads.net.ap.brid.gy) 2026-01-19T04:50:39.000Z
Richard Jefferson: Give me your top two game winners and why. Robert Horry: Western Conference final against Sacramento Kings. Jefferson: Oh, that was a beautiful one. Horry: Just because it was done at home and the every athlete has an ego, so you want to hear the fans chant your name. And of course the second half of Game 5 in the 2005 Finals against Detroit.
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Lakers Daily: Robert Horry rips Luka for foul baiting “His game is predicated on getting fouls called, and the refs dont give him a call, he starts hunting even more to try to prove the refs wrong. You’re too good of a basketball player to hunt for fouls.“
Robert Horry rips Luka for foul baiting
— Lakers Daily (@LakersDailyCom) January 10, 2026
“His game is predicated on getting fouls called, and the refs dont give him a call, he starts hunting even more to try to prove the refs wrong. You’re too good of a basketball player to hunt for fouls.“pic.twitter.com/wi0WMR8FV3
Robert Horry: “I told you a story about when all of a sudden the hand goes up and everybody like Dennis about to say some profound f*cking and he goes to tell Kurt, ‘This is the worst f*cking coaching job I ever seen in my life.’ Has Shaq ever told y’all that story? Oh my goodness, man. We had just got Dennis Rodman on the Lakers, right? Kurt Rambis had took over as coach and we’re in a locker room and you know usually you, you know, you know make halftime adjustments. Rodman ain’t said [__] to nobody. He been in like a month. All of a sudden he just does this little hand goes up and everybody’s like, ‘Okay, Rodman, say something.’ We all look like, ‘Oh, Rodman about to say something. Here we go.’ ‘This is the worst [] coaching job I ever seen in my life. Ain’t no [] adjustments on the board.’ And he just goes off. And we’re all like, damn. Well, tell us. And then the next day, Kurt threw him off the team. Eye for an eye.”
Robert Horry: I get a steal, hit a three, get a block shot. Three minutes in, I go to the bench and I'm like, "Danny Manning coming to get me?" What? Oh, f*ck no. Uh-uh. And so I said, "Why you subbing me?" And Danny Ainge said, "Shut the f*ck up and go sit down." I said, "Did he just say what I think he said?" So I went down. I said, "Who you f*cking talking to like that?" He said, "You." I said, "Man, f*ck you." And that's when I threw the towel in his face. So at the end of the game, we in the locker room. So you got Chucky Brown, Mark Bryant, me sitting next to each other. Joe Kleine comes in there and says ‘Man, we don't f*ck do that around here’. I’m like, ‘Man, you shut the f*ck up, you bigheaded f*ck’. I mean, y'all got to excuse my language. I'm hot. ‘I’mma whoop your big head ass right now’. And Mark Bryant and Chuck are like ‘Yeah!’ So, basically, it's the three Houston guys against the whole Suns. Wayman Tisdale said like, "Guys, calm down." I'm looking around like, "This is all you punk f*cks right here ain't going to do nothing." And the only person that calmed me down cuz I was about to tear some locker room up, and I love this guy, was Paul Silas. He was like, ‘Rob, calm down. Calm down. Let's go in the back’. So, he took me into the room. I said, "No, man, f*ck this." And I'm hot. So, and I'm usually a mild man of God, right? I'm hot because it's just… I hated Danny Ainge. I hated the situation I was in. I was missing my kids. It was just a lot of stuff going through me at the time. After all everything died down, I wasn't even going to get on the bus. I was just going to make find my own way back to wherever I was going to go. Paul Silas says ‘come on, get on the bus’. We get on the plane, we go back, I get suspended for two games. And then Ainge called me after submission. He said ‘Hey, I just want to let you know I probably just won you another championship.’ I'm like, ‘Why?’ He says, “because I just traded you to the Lakers”. Click! I hung up the phone in my car, and I was driving to LA. I ain't even know who I got traded for who I was with. I ain't give a f*ck! I was out. I was out.
Robert Horry: "The other ring that means a lot to me is 16-1, man. You got to think about that. That one damn game against Philly, game one. We just wanted to go 16-0. There’d be no doubt in anybody’s mind that that was the greatest run of all time... We smacked everybody in the West. Then we come up and lose that one game to Philly in overtime. Makes me mad to this day to talk about it."
Horry, however, never bought the tale of Bron wanting to leave in the first place. The seven-time NBA champion discussed this topic on Big Shot Bob, reminding listeners and viewers that, financially, no one in the NBA could afford to have Bron on their roster. Plus, there’s another reason why Horry thinks James would never leave Los Angeles. “I think sometimes you forget how much money LeBron makes. You can’t just say, ‘Alright, LeBron, we gonna ship you off.’ Nobody can afford him,” stated Horry.
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Q. Last season the Lakers locked Austin Reaves up for just 13.9 million. Next summer, he's expected to decline his player option, hit free agency. Do you think they're going to lock him up as Luka’s number two, or do you think they're just going to see what happens here? Robert Horry: If the Lakers were smart, they would do a sign and trade. And the reason I say that is because when you have a team with two players who are pretty much the same, meaning Luka and AR, and I'm not saying they have the same skill set. They play the same position, they pretty much do the same thing. It's a wash. And don't get me wrong, I love AR and I think he could play, but you don't need two of the same players. You think about the NBA is all about a fit. You look at all the great teams, they all have something different. There's no two no Jokers. There's no two Giannises, no two Shai Gilgeouses.
Mitch Richmond, when he won the 2002 title in Game 4: Shaquille O’Neal ended up talking to Phil Jackson and was like, "Yo, man, put him in the game, man. Was just tripping, man. Put the dude in the game, man. Come on, man." I'm like, "Okay." He puts me in the game. I end up getting the bucket. Robert Horry brings the ball over to me, and the game is over. I hit the last bucket. The game is over. Shaq comes over and gives me a big hug. As Shaq gives me a big hug, I got the ball right here. I'm like, "Oh, he's still hugging me." The ball is out. I'm like, "Oh, the ball." And you know who picks it up? Rick Fox. He comes and runs and picks up the ball and runs to the locker room. I tell Rick every time, I want to kill you. He said, "Man, you want that ball? I'll send it to. You've been saying that sh*t for 15 years. He hasn't sent me that ball yet. The last time I saw him was in Dubai. He was like, "Hey, man. How are you doing?" I said, "Man, where’s that ball, man?" And he’s like, “I’ll send it to you, man.” He ain't sent me that dang ball yet. I'm going to have to break into his house.
Ice Cube: The basketball world really does hold Charles Barkley career over Robert Horry. The way he's treated and the way what he means to basketball. At the end of the day, the fans get it right. The players who were star players that didn't get a championship are treated like superstars.