One former player who can attest to that is current ESPN analyst Jalen Rose, who not only played Kobe and the Lakers in the 2000 NBA Finals, but was also on the wrong end of Kobe's 81-point explosion.
Just over a year after getting laid off by ESPN, Jalen Rose is headed back to the airwaves. Ryan Glasspiegel of the New York Post reported this week that the former NBA swingman-turned-analyst ...