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"Oh, Kobe will kill me for this one," Nick laughs when asked if he's better than Kobe. "But yeah, I think so. Right now, you know. You can't guard me right now!" Good-natured ribbing and trash talk is nothing new between ball players—The Black Mamba and Swaggy have playfully thrown shade at each other this season.

And Bryant, who has been sidelined since suffering a knee injury in December, extended his contract with the organization for two years. Once the veteran is back to fighting shape, perhaps the two can get in some one-on-one time to see if Nick's playful boasting rings true.

However, Young's future with the team is unclear. "You never know," he reflected when asked if he would return to Los Angeles next season. "I want to—it is my hometown. We shall see. We shall see." Though he's becoming a star in his own right, he does admit to occasionally getting a little star stuck by the the A-listers who sit courtside at the Staples Center. "I mean the first game of the year, we just had Rihanna here, and we had Drake there, and there were a bunch of celebs there and I was like, 'Dang, this is really Hollywood.'"