2019-20 NBA Regular Degular Season thread

There’s no words to express the pain Im going through with this tragedy of loosing my neice Gigi & my brother @kobebryant I love u and u will be missed. My condolences goes out to the Bryant family and the families of the other passengers on board. IM SICK RIGHT NOW pic.twitter.com/pigHywq3c1

— SHAQ (@SHAQ) January 26, 2020

Orange Coast College baseball coach John Altobelli dies in helicopter crash with Kobe Bryant https://t.co/A6MBn89v2o

— O.C. Register (@ocregister) January 26, 2020

watching Sports center, Doc just spoke in his pregame, he was distraught, barely could keep it together

This wasn’t even 24 hours ago pic.twitter.com/zBa6hjeDSm

— Ali عَلِي ☪ (@LoyaltyIsFirst) January 26, 2020

celtics playing zion rn my two fave teams

im at my moms place and she got rid of the sports channels please describe what is happening

its just started but zion got a good rebound/putback

lonzo just hit back2back 3s

there were apparently 9 people on the helicopter and not 5, but other than Kobe and his daughter and Altobelli, no one else has been identified.

i think Kobe was kind of a guy who was the ultimate Laker in the eyes of a lot of fans in that he was the guy who out of all the Laker superstars (several of whom at least were definitely better players) he was the one who had a full career without interruption or who was a Laker the whole time. Kareem arrived after half a dozen years as a superstar in Milwaukee, Shaq was at his peak there but also spent less than half his career in L.A., Magic of course finished 7-8 years before he could have, etc.

think its safe to say kobe was the biggest sports star in LA

theyre straight up running picture in picture of richard jefferson talking abt kobe the rest of this season is going to be kobe hell

entire league gonna have 8/24 patches on their jerseys by Monday

kobe almost trumpian in that the love/hate hero/villain divide is so stark and it’s hard to figure out what things are gonna be like without him

He should've done time for Aspen but I'm still pretty fucking gutted by this. It really seemed like he was becoming a better person.

pic.twitter.com/nwjeH3ePnK

— Becca Laurie (@imbeccable) January 26, 2020

just when lebron thought he was getting out from under kobes shadow

I just read that he, his daughter, AND wife all passed, leaving behind two other children and just...this whole thing can’t possibly be any worse. https://t.co/ZGluqnhDle

— 🌻 (@_MissRandi) January 27, 2020

I can understand people not liking Kobe. I can't understand anyone not respecting him. And yeah he seemed to be a better person now than in the past. His love for his daughters and goal of raising "strong independent women" was admirable and touching. RIP to a motherfucking real one.

he was a blast to root against. we all loved debating his place in the league and the all-time nba. he was a complicated and hugely flawed person who i think had a pretty interesting second act in him, and it's a shame we'll miss it. it's unspeakable for all the families involved. idk. it just feels wrong.

some people don’t respect him because he probably sexually assaulted somebody. It’s really hard for a lot of people to get past. Sorry.

not trying to bring “real talk” to the thread just responding to gd’s post and I already regret it

seems to be one of those cases that has benefited from happening at the time it did. I've been surprised it never became a common talking point over the past few years with #metoo.

I think he finally transcended that, which is hard to do, and like cad said, he was heading in a good direction. i think he wore his crown well and was a model superstar toward the end

kobe so obvs a psycho egomaniac narcissist who made us live through years or winning at all costs a-dog bs cultural pollution and if u think he changed i dare you to watch the childrens show about how to win he made like a year ago

still tragic tho rip

link it if you want... i'm searching out of curiosity

things kobe said after a screening of his animated short at tribecca film festival

that thread title/poll is a better memorial than anything i could post

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ab7znwmU5LQ

this title is really good too

Why Kobe must strike other players in face?

that kobe quotes thread is prob my fave contribution to ilx despite having < 100 posts rip kobe

the musecage is so fucking psycho my god

theres a good david roth piece on it iirc

https://setmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Kobe-Bryant-Musecage.jpg

i missed this but kobe is really one of the all time GOAT insane people, i love him to death

― J0rdan S., Monday, May 8, 2017 8:03 PM (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Meanwhile my feed is blowing up over the anchor who had a tongue slip and said Nakers and everyone else is saying she said the n-word

oh, kobe. i hope you are with us forever.

― Clay, Monday, September 4, 2017 2:15 AM (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink

oh no :(

thanks thread for reminding me why i have felt devastated and shocked about the whole thing but v ambivalent abt kobe himself

musecage is really one of the most hilarious and perfect concepts anyone has ever presented

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, May 9, 2017 12:15 AM (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink

otm lol

thanks thread for reminding me why i have felt devastated and shocked about the whole thing but v ambivalent abt kobe himself

― majority whip, majority nae nae (m bison), Sunday, January 26, 2020 10:34 PM (fifty-four seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah, that's pretty much it in summation

Kobe for MVP daaaaaang
― m bison, Friday, March 23, 2007 1:24 AM (twelve years ago) bookmarkflaglink

he was good that year

https://media.giphy.com/media/UK5AQccKV9OMg/giphy.gif

not morally, but at basketball

also that was almost 13 years ago holy shit ive been on the internet too long

we all have my man, we all have

we've all done a lot of posts its true

wow and posting up is so outdated in the Modern Data-Driven NBA

lol, good lead in. i was gonna post this anyway--i keep seeing stuff like this on twitter. as bizarre as his public presentation was he seems to have developed quite a good one-on-one touch with all kinds of people

Kobe & Gigi sat with us at a UConn game in March. He somehow talked to our kids as his basketball equals. Told our 10yo, “Keep getting after it, Thomas.” To our tall daughter: “Posting up is the BEST.” He was a Dad with his lovely daughter on a day out. We’re heartsick tonight. pic.twitter.com/oxvi82LRaX

— Steve Rushin (@SteveRushin) January 27, 2020