Atlanta Hawks’ Kobe Bufkin Pre – Summer League Availability
Oh yeah. First, um Kobe, just how has this off season been for you to getting healthy, being ready to go for summer league? Yeah, that’s been my main focus, just getting healthy, uh getting the shoulder right, you know, somebody fun. Um it’s been good. It’s been real good. Um I was back early in the summer shooting stuff, contact a little bit later, so now I’m fully live. It feels good. I mean, how is the contact been feeling with trying to adjust especially like what you had to deal with? Yeah, I had a a very successful surgery. The contact has been good. Um, so far, so far it’s been good. So, Kobe, was it like a joint conversation for you to to be participating in summer league or was it your idea? No, I definitely wanted to play just to, you know, get out there with them striped shirts. It’s a little bit different than playing over run. So, um, yeah, just get my groove back, play with these guys, I mean, younger guys are guys that’s trying to still get it. So, yeah, it’s been a good experience. And what has it been like for you seeing, you know, the new rookie Asa out there and like playing with him? Yeah, he’s going to be talented. I like him. He got a lot of natural length and bounce. He can shoot the ball really well. So, um, yeah, he looks good so far. A little bit of a sillier question. You have another Kobe on the team. Like, how do you how does the coaches go about sort of like acknowledging Kobe Johnson? Calling both Kobe and you know, this is my first time playing with a Kobe. Yeah. And then for him to ask you to spell his name P OB is the first time I’ve seen that from a different person like in person. So yeah, it’s it’s been a weird experience, but you know, I’m not used to calling somebody else Kobe. So when that happens, you guys both look at the coach and like film and stuff. Yeah. What What is What is the biggest thing doing you think you need to work on? Uh really the defender. Um, just constantly getting better at that so I can, you know, get on the court, contribute somewhere, and then just shoot the ball and playmaker. There you go.
