Lakers head coach Luke Walton was a guest on the Uninterrupted‘s Open Run podcast recently, along with Cavaliers vet Richard Jefferson. Toward the end, Jesse Williams, who’s one of the podcast hosts, asked Walton if he had a good Kobe Bryant story to share, since everyone who played with Kobe has a legendary story to tell.

Walton delivered. He recalled the one time he showed up to a Lakers practice as a rookie smelling like alcohol, and how Kobe ruthlessly went at him (h/t Silver Screen & Roll).

Walton said:

“I remember one time my rookie year, I came in a little, uh him (Kobe Bryant) and Shaq like to do this as, I think it was just rookies, but any young guy, I probably had too much to drink the night before, so I came in, I was a rookie, I felt good, and they could smell some alcohol on me. And Kobe informed the rest of the team that no one was allowed to help me on defense, and that I had to guard him the entire practice. “I was laughing at first like, ‘Oh, this is funny,’ but in Kobe’s mind, in his eyes, it was like, ‘No, I see and smell weakness, I’m going to destroy you today.’ He taught me that lesson. He probably scored 70-something in practice that day, and I was begging for help, none of the teammates would help. But yeah, his killer instinct and his work ethic, they’ll stick with me forever.”

Then, Walton added that Shaq did the exact same thing to him.

“Shaq did it to me too one day. Yeah, Shaq made me guard him, and then I just started trying to foul him, and he told me that if I kept fouling him, he was gonna punch me, so then I stopped fouling him. It wasn’t fair. I felt like I was a child trying to play a grown man’s game.”

This tells us that Walton had a grand old time partying it up in Los Angeles as a player, and it reminds us how great Kobe and Shaq were as a duo. Good times.