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12 minutes ago, the admiral said:

It doesn't feel real yet, the idea that Kobe Bryant would just be dead all of a sudden.

 

The idea that Kobe Bryant is no longer with us, it's been almost a full day and I still feel shocked from the news.

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20 minutes ago, the admiral said:

It doesn't feel real yet, the idea that Kobe Bryant would just be dead all of a sudden.

 

I wished this dude death so many times on the court. I NEVER thought it would actually happen, because he had that feeling of absolutely invincibility you don’t often see in an athlete. 

 

 

Ive pretty much pulled a complete 180 on Kobe from his playing days to now. There’s nobody I’ve ever ABSOLUTELY HATED more than him, but as I got older, I finally realized how special that kind of guy is. His game was horrifying if he was playing against your team. You hate it, but you really sort of need that. 

 

It’s just, like... If this dude I’ve seen as a super villain for so long can get snuffed so quickly, just like that, then what’s in store for the rest of us mere mortal beings? 😳

 

 

This one is really :censored:ing with my head, man. 

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On 11/19/2012 at 7:23 PM, oldschoolvikings said:
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I was pretty anti-Kobe until the late 2000s run with Pau. Before then, I thought he was a rapist who was skating by on money and reputation. I thought the 2002 series against the Kings was trash, and I actively rooted against him and the Lakers.

 

But then they played the Celtics in the 2008 Finals and I flipped, and then I began to admire old man Kobe going it alone in 2012 onward for the love of the game. 60 in his final game is a top ten sports moment for me.

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28 minutes ago, Bucfan56 said:

Ive pretty much pulled a complete 180 on Kobe from his playing days to now. There’s nobody I’ve ever ABSOLUTELY HATED more than him, but as I got older, I finally realized how special that kind of guy is. His game was horrifying if he was playing against your team. You hate it, but you really sort of need that. 

 

It’s just, like... If this dude I’ve seen as a super villain for so long can get snuffed so quickly, just like that, then what’s in store for the rest of us mere mortal beings? 😳

 

To your first point, I did the same thing with Larry Bird. As a Lakers fan, I hated Bird and the Celtics with an irrational passion. As I got older, it seemed kinda silly to hate a guy simply because he always played well against my team. (I still don't like the Celtics.) Over the years, Bird went from Public Enemy #1 to one of my all-time favorite players. He was a stone cold killer on the court. 

 

To your second point, I don't mean for this to sound callous, but that's life. I'm not going to go all Facebook meme and spout some "tomorrow isn't guaranteed" BS, but the hard truth is that life can end at any moment for any person. It's something we all do our best not to think about, but we all live with it every day. Again, I don't mean to sound callous, but Kobe's family wasn't the only one to suffer unimaginable tragedy today, his was just the most famous. It sucks, but it's how it is.  

 

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3 hours ago, habsfan1 said:

 

My sources were TMZ and a couple other random sites like TMZ. I thought there might maybe be a chance it was a hoax.

 

Once the news was confirmed by the major sports stations, then I believed it.


For better or for worse, TMZ is the major source on things like this. TMZ is celebrity sleaze most, if not all, of the time and it’s what they have made their bones in. I do believe they wouldn’t have reported it if it wasn’t credible, their entire reputation is built upon getting things like this right and getting it wrong would have been a major blow to them.

 

 

I’ll echo what a lot of people have already said. I wasn’t really much of a basketball fan until a couple years ago, but Kobe transcended basketball. I knew who he was before I became a basketball “fan”. He wasn’t your regular, everyday athlete, just look to the fact everybody says “Kobe” when throwing something in the garbage.

 

And his daughter, and the other teammate, dying really hit me too, especially because of the relationships I’ve built over the past couple years with kids around that age. They are still so young and it’s heartbreaking.

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Holy :censored:. I wanna cry right now 😭

 

 

 

In a weird way, this type of sadness could breed some positivity in terms of NBA talk. SO many people stan for one particular guy and trash talk their opponents. Maybe this will put some of the debate into better perspective for fans. It ultimately doesn’t matter who was the best. We’re so lucky to have had this level of talent to enjoy for as long as we have. Maybe we’ll stop taking it for granted so much. 

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On 11/19/2012 at 7:23 PM, oldschoolvikings said:
She’s still half convinced “Chris Creamer” is a porn site.)
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2 hours ago, DG_Now said:

I was pretty anti-Kobe until the late 2000s run with Pau. Before then, I thought he was a rapist who was skating by on money and reputation. I thought the 2002 series against the Kings was trash, and I actively rooted against him and the Lakers.

 

But then they played the Celtics in the 2008 Finals and I flipped, and then I began to admire old man Kobe going it alone in 2012 onward for the love of the game. 60 in his final game is a top ten sports moment for me.

I mean, that 2002 series against the Kings was trash. The foul disparity was huge and Mike Bibby got called for a foul after Kobe elbowed him in the face. It’s one of the worst examples of the league allegedly slanting things towards certain teams. 

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This one is getting to me in a weird way like no other death has. I've never been a basketball fan, I don't think I've seen as much as 2 full minutes of Kobe playtime, yet, this one is effecting me pretty harsh. This man was only 41 years old. He was with his daughter. They were going to a youth basketball game together, something I'm sure they were both looking forward to. Then, all of the sudden, they weren't.

 

Kobe had only been retired for a few years, he's leaving behind a wife, three other children, and one on the way. I can't even imagine with his wife and kids are going through. I'm on the exact opposite spectrum of life: unmarried, no kids. But damn, this just makes me really sad. 

 

I thought 2020 was gonna bring some bright changes to overturn some of the misery of the past few years. 

 

What a tragedy. RIP Kobe. 

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As was everyone else, I was completely shocked when I heard the news. I was getting ready for bed last night but I decided to turn on ESPN (something I rarely do besides for live sports) and I was so deeply moved. I was never a Kobe fan at all but something this tragic is heartwrenching, especially when you add in the death of his 13 year old daughter. 

 

I have to give credit to ESPN. They did a great job in covering all of the tributes and the large body of work of Kobe. I went to bed feeling like an 8 year old kid who just watched a really scary horror movie. I woke my wife up when I started bawling my eyes out. He was only 41 years old, only 3 years older than me. The whole thing reminded me of my brother who took his life a couple of years ago at the age of 38. Different circumstances, I know, but it really dredged up every feeling of sadness and confusion I have had in these past 2 years. It is just ironic that it took a death of a basketball player that I could never ever root for to really bring up all of those feelings again. 

 

It is a long winded post but in short, life is strange.

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4 minutes ago, charger77 said:

Not sure if this was mentioned earlier and I am really hoping it is not true but I read earlier this morning that the Bryant family found out via TMZ.


It might be, unfortunately. The word yesterday was that TMZ broke the news without telling the Bryant family. This all still feels unreal. It feels like he’s not dead, but he sadly is. Rest In Peace.

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26 minutes ago, charger77 said:

Not sure if this was mentioned earlier and I am really hoping it is not true but I read earlier this morning that the Bryant family found out via TMZ.

 

Yeah that's pretty disgusting, and the police officer in the press conference said so as well.

 

While looking for some other confirmation that it was real, I saw:

"Kobe and three others killed"

"Kobe and his four daughters killed"

"Kobe and four others killed"

"Rick Fox was aboard the helicopter as well"

 

The first three were all on various news broadcasts on television. And the last one somebody decided to make that up on social media I guess, because the was the only place I saw it. And then people ran with it. It's pretty gross that everyone (news-related or not) wanted to just be the first to report anything rather than be accurate in any way. If your first thought when someone dies is to post it anywhere so you can be the first to share a piece of news that someone else doesn't know (because that's all the dead person is to you at that point), then that's sad.

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9 hours ago, the admiral said:

It doesn't feel real yet, the idea that Kobe Bryant would just be dead all of a sudden.

 

This is exactly where I'm at.

 

I wasn't a huge Kobe fan, nor was I a huge Kobe hater. I never met the man, I never saw him play basketball in person. But the idea that Kobe Bryant is no longer alive seems like a weird alternate reality that nobody was prepared for or ever even considered.

 

Is this what it felt like when Roberto Clemente died? That's the only sports figure I can think of that compares to his magnitude of both superstardom and very premature death.

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22 minutes ago, sc49erfan15 said:

Is this what it felt like when Roberto Clemente died? That's the only sports figure I can think of that compares to his magnitude of both superstardom and very premature death.

 

To me this evokes sad memories of the death of Thurman Munson, my favourite player when I was a kid.  Kobe's tragic loss is similar in its suddenness, in the sense of a young life being snuffed out so cruelly, and in that Thurm, like Kobe, was killed while trying to do something for his beloved family.  (Munson was practicing takeoffs and landings in a private jet that he had bought in order to be able to get to his Ohio home more often during the season.) 

But of course the difference is that Munson, while the leader of those Yankee championship teams and probably its most important player, was not a celebrity on the scale that Bryant was (and would not have wanted to be).  Still, to Yankee fans, and, to some extent, to New York in general, his death was a big shock.

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And yet Jake "The Snake" Roberts, his body still mostly composed of Chick-Fil-A and crack, is somehow still alive by the grace of DDP Yoga. 

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