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Mario Chalmers Reveals How Kobe Bryant’s Text Caught Him By Surprise Following Achilles Tear

When the Miami Heat drafted Mario Chalmers in the 2008 NBA draft, Chalmers had just won the NCAA Championship. Not only did Chalmers win the title, but he also hit the finals-winning three-point shot with 2.1 seconds left in the final game.

Winning in general is something Chalmers got used to pretty quickly, especially after LeBron James and Chris Bosh joined the team in 2010. Until James’ departure in 2014, the Heat went to the NBA Finals for four straight years, while winning two titles.

Chalmers career though unfortunately took a turn for the worse when he ruptured his Achilles in a game against the Celtics in 2016. In a recent appearance on the ‘Posecast’, Chalmers now remembered how following his injury, Kobe Bryant, with whom he wasn’t in contact with or even have his number, reached out to him, catching the point guard by surprise:

“He just texted me, he said, ‘the worst is behind you and the best is coming’… Just to say like, you went through the worst part of Achilles tear like you tore, now it’s just time to focus on getting better and keeping your spirits high. But like when he said this, I was like, who is this? I typed, who’s this? He said, ‘Bean’. I didn’t know nobody named Bean. I’m looking, it’s a Cali number. I’m like I know this, like Kobe Bryant texted my phone. Immediately I hit DWade, I’m like hey man, Kobe? He said, ‘Yeah I told Kobe to reach out to you just to…’, he said Kobe reached out to me, asked me for your number so he wanted to highlight.”