Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant isn’t called “The Black Mamba” only because of his on-court exploits during his playing days. He also earned that label for being one of the most venomous trash talkers the NBA has ever seen.

The future Hall of Famer even revealed to the University of Connecticut Huskies women’s basketball coach Geno Auriemma that he also liked to talk junk to former Husky Richard Hamilton, especially when the Big Dance comes around. Here’s what Bryant had to say about it during an appearance on Auriemma’s Holding Court with Geno Auriemma podcast.

“I only miss it when the tournament time comes around and I see Richard Hamilton, they’ll show clips of him winning and stuff like that. I just feel compelled to text Rip and say, ‘You know, you only won because I didn’t go to college?’ That’s when I miss it. I just miss the competitive bantering that could’ve taken place.”

Kobe Bryant did not indeed go to college, which isn’t exactly a big piece of trivia. The five-time NBA champion skipped college and turned pro right after high school in 1996, while Hamilton went through the traditional route to the NBA, playing three years for UConn before entering the 1999 NBA Draft, where he was selected seventh overall by the Washington Wizards.

Of course, Richard Hamilton always has an ace up his sleeve to shout back at Kobe, and that’s the fact his Detroit Pistons team beat the star-studded Lakers team Bryant was part of in the 2004 NBA Finals.