Joel Embiid may be one of the best big men in the entire NBA in just his second season. However, the Philadelphia 76ers star is still in the process of getting better. One such way he's trying to do so is by learning from one of the best in Kobe Bryant.

According to ESPN's Ramona Shelburne, Embiid has sought Bryant's counsel in terms of how to break that mental barrier and find the confidence to be able to shoot as much as the Mamba.

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Bryant didn’t take all those shots because he had no conscience. He took them, Embiid says, because he knew he could make them. “He was always working on his shot, so that’s why he felt like he could. “When everyone else was partying, he was working on his shot. I have to get a little of that.”

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Embiid says he’s reached out to Bryant on several occasions, drawn to Kobe’s supreme confidence. How do you shoot 30-plus times in a game and never feel even the smallest twinge of guilt about it? “After 15 to 20 shots, I feel like my teammates might be looking at me,” Embiid says. “I don’t want that to be on me. But I feel like sometimes I need to.”

Embiid already showed he has a little bit of Kobe in him in terms of the ability to make just about every shot when he smoked Bryant's old team, the Los Angeles Lakers, for 46 points and 15 rebounds in one of the most dominant performances of the entire season thus far.

And as Embiid has exhibited multiple times with his trash talk, he's certainly not short on confidence. It's likely just a matter of him working a little bit more on his game and gaining the self-belief to take over like he did against the Lakers more often.