Caron Butler says Kobe Bryant signed a $136.4 million contract with the Lakers and immediately asked if he was ready to “black out” with two-a-day workouts “The first thing that happened when I got to LA, during the press conference, Kobe signs for $135 million. I’m on his left, Lamar Odom in the middle, and Brian Grant is to the right. He signed the paper, and he was like, ‘Hey, you ready to fucking black out?’” “That was the first thing. It wasn’t like, ‘Oh man, I just got this $135, $136 million. I’m good.’ It was like, ‘You ready to really work now?’ And I was like, ‘What the fuck is a blackout? What is that?’ He’s like, ‘Yeah, we’re about to black out. Be here tomorrow, 6 o’clock 7 o’clock in the morning,’ whatever the case was” “I get there the next day, we’re in the gym doing two-a-days, blacking out from a workout standpoint. Blacking out to the point where you can’t even function. That’s what we were doing, two a days. We finished our first session from like 7am to 1030am, then we lift weights. It’s like, ‘All right, man, I’m done.’ He’s like, ‘No, be back at 4pm. We going again’” “But I did it, and it taught me so much about discipline, about the game, about having counters, about having first, secondary and third moves, what you do in the double team, what you do in the blitz, just reading the game and seeing it through his lens. I was like, damn, that’s why he’s different”