Gigi, the one with him at the game recently with clip that went viral. On their way to practice at Mamba Academy.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Sunday, 26 January 2020 21:03 (four years ago) link
oh god, such terrible news.
― circles, Sunday, 26 January 2020 21:14 (four years ago) link
awful
― lag∞n, Sunday, 26 January 2020 21:26 (four years ago) link
I was at the Sixers-Lakers game last night. First NBA game in person; tons of fun and the Sixers unexpectedly won. When LeBron scored the bucket that passed Kobe, they announced the achievement on the PA and the crowd gave LeBron a huge cheer.
RIP Kobe. You tore my heart out in 2001. Best to his family.
― We're jumping on the road with @Nickelback this summer! (PBKR), Sunday, 26 January 2020 21:26 (four years ago) link
idk what happened but one witness they spoke with heard the low flying helicopter and didn't say it sounded like it was in distress, just flying very low, and then he heard it go right into the hillside. it crashed less than half a mile from the freeway. it's very hilly the spot where it crashed wasn't very high up, so the fog wasn't necessarily a factor, it could have been some kind of engine issue. but obviously since it was so foggy one would imagine it would be relevant to the cause. down here this morning it was vv foggy, low visibility.
fuck who knows, what bullshit.
― omar little, Sunday, 26 January 2020 21:28 (four years ago) link
this is so all awful and so very difficult to process
― Clay, Sunday, 26 January 2020 21:29 (four years ago) link
very hilly *but the spot wasn't very high up. not so high up that the copter was flying at high altitude and ran into an unexpected mountainside.
it he was going to Mamba Academy there would have been a few miles to go yet.
― omar little, Sunday, 26 January 2020 21:29 (four years ago) link
Speaking to residents in Calabasas who heard the helicopter crash this morning that killed Kobe Bryant describing it as “a falling noise” and that you could tell “something was wrong”— Ramona Shelburne (@ramonashelburne) January 26, 2020
who knows. wonder if any video will come out, seems like it always does these days
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 26 January 2020 21:30 (four years ago) link
shit.
just dreadful.
― omar little, Sunday, 26 January 2020 21:30 (four years ago) link
unbelievable
total madman but one of the best to play the game, very very sad.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 26 January 2020 21:33 (four years ago) link
Remarkable moment to start the Raptors-Spurs game. pic.twitter.com/thmt9ZU1Ra— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) January 26, 2020
― Clay, Sunday, 26 January 2020 21:42 (four years ago) link
Jerry Kocharian was standing outside the Church in the Canyon drinking coffee when he heard a helicopter unusually low struggling overhead. “It [didn’t] sound right and it was real low. I saw it falling and spluttering. But it was hard to make out as It was so foggy,” Kocharian said. The helicopter vanished into a cloud of fog and then there was a boom.
― lag∞n, Sunday, 26 January 2020 21:51 (four years ago) link
fuck i always worry when i hear abt people who travel all the damn time via pvt planes or copters, i suppose the stats on those crashes aren't necessarily damning so it's probably irrational but idk.
― omar little, Sunday, 26 January 2020 21:57 (four years ago) link
i looked into it a while ago and cars are still way more dangerous than even small planes and helicopters
― lag∞n, Sunday, 26 January 2020 21:58 (four years ago) link
what a loss, this is horrible
― I have not yet begun to fart (rip van wanko), Sunday, 26 January 2020 22:01 (four years ago) link
I’ve got twitter friends saying the nba should cancel all games today and it’s like guys... the dude in question last thing he’d want is there not to be ball today seems like
― Clay, Sunday, 26 January 2020 22:02 (four years ago) link
as a friend said to me the odds of any given helicopter or small plane crash involving a rich and famous person are inflated.
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Sunday, 26 January 2020 22:02 (four years ago) link
I’ve followed this guy his whole career,certainly more closely than anyone on the site, I’ve been to countless games in person and watched every playoff game .When he was on it was for reals some of the most entertaining hoops you’ll ever see! He could take over a game with style .
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Sunday, 26 January 2020 22:03 (four years ago) link
― Clay, Sunday, January 26, 2020 5:02 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
yeah if they really want honor him players shd play w a broken finger or smth
― lag∞n, Sunday, 26 January 2020 22:07 (four years ago) link
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
― omar little, Sunday, 26 January 2020 22:07 (four years ago) link
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
― lag∞n, Sunday, 26 January 2020 22:19 (four years ago) link
watching Sports center, Doc just spoke in his pregame, he was distraught, barely could keep it together
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 26 January 2020 22:38 (four years ago) link
This wasn’t even 24 hours ago pic.twitter.com/zBa6hjeDSm— Ali عَلِي ☪ (@LoyaltyIsFirst) January 26, 2020
― omg what did you type to find this gif? (Spottie), Sunday, 26 January 2020 23:01 (four years ago) link
celtics playing zion rn my two fave teams
― lag∞n, Sunday, 26 January 2020 23:25 (four years ago) link
im at my moms place and she got rid of the sports channels please describe what is happening
― ciderpress, Sunday, 26 January 2020 23:26 (four years ago) link
its just started but zion got a good rebound/putback
― lag∞n, Sunday, 26 January 2020 23:27 (four years ago) link
lonzo just hit back2back 3s
― lag∞n, Sunday, 26 January 2020 23:29 (four years ago) link
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.
― omar little, Sunday, 26 January 2020 23:29 (four years ago) link
think its safe to say kobe was the biggest sports star in LA
― lag∞n, Sunday, 26 January 2020 23:31 (four years ago) link
theyre straight up running picture in picture of richard jefferson talking abt kobe the rest of this season is going to be kobe hell
― lag∞n, Sunday, 26 January 2020 23:34 (four years ago) link
entire league gonna have 8/24 patches on their jerseys by Monday
― Clay, Monday, 27 January 2020 00:00 (four years ago) link
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
― Clay, Monday, 27 January 2020 00:02 (four years ago) link
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.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Monday, 27 January 2020 00:07 (four years ago) link
pic.twitter.com/nwjeH3ePnK— Becca Laurie (@imbeccable) January 26, 2020
― Clay, Monday, 27 January 2020 00:10 (four years ago) link
just when lebron thought he was getting out from under kobes shadow
― micah, Monday, 27 January 2020 00:26 (four years ago) link
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
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Monday, 27 January 2020 00:28 (four years ago) link
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.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Monday, 27 January 2020 01:57 (four years ago) link
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.
― call all destroyer, Monday, 27 January 2020 02:04 (four years ago) link
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.
― brimstead, Monday, 27 January 2020 02:23 (four years ago) link
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.
― akm, Monday, 27 January 2020 02:31 (four years ago) link
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
― I wanna publish memes and rage against machimes (rip van wanko), Monday, 27 January 2020 02:38 (four years ago) link
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
― lag∞n, Monday, 27 January 2020 02:59 (four years ago) link
still tragic tho rip
link it if you want... i'm searching out of curiosity
― I wanna publish memes and rage against machimes (rip van wanko), Monday, 27 January 2020 03:15 (four years ago) link
things kobe said after a screening of his animated short at tribecca film festival
― lag∞n, Monday, 27 January 2020 03:17 (four years ago) link
that thread title/poll is a better memorial than anything i could post
― ciderpress, Monday, 27 January 2020 03:18 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ab7znwmU5LQ
― Clay, Monday, 27 January 2020 03:20 (four years ago) link
this title is really good too
Why Kobe must strike other players in face?
― lag∞n, Monday, 27 January 2020 03:21 (four years ago) link
that kobe quotes thread is prob my fave contribution to ilx despite having < 100 posts rip kobe
― Clay, Monday, 27 January 2020 03:21 (four years ago) link