Kobe and Gigi Bryant Memorial Thread (RIP)

[Cynic]

This is horrible . I went to sleep and woke up to a messages from a lot of people since they knew I'm a huge Kobe fan.

I've been trying to go back to sleep so I can wake up from this.

.No way this is true

 

[Milk N Cookies]

How did you guys react right when you found out? How did you find out?

Prolly a 1/2 hr after the news broke... espn reporting it. My friend who i share my ig with hit me up saying post something about Kobe. He was my favorite. I’m like what’s the significance??? I googled him and saw the reports...


And it set in like Kobe Bryant is dead??? Then when it was rumors about who else was on board... Rick Fox... his daughters... his whole family...
All that was confirmed was Kobe...


When they said Gigi was on board it broke me. Thinking that their last moments was literally him comforting her of what was to come...

I never claimed to be LWO or a Kobe Stan. But I respected him for him athleticism, mentor ship, a man who knew how to sell pop and gym shoes... a man who rapped and sucked at it ... a man I grew up with when he entered the league... a man who messed up in his marriage and fought to fix it...

A father who loved his family. A daughter going in the steps of her father and grandfather...


Damn it I’m crying again.

 

[Conscious Pilot]

 

[Rev Leon Lonnie Love]

Has Lebron or MJ said anything about this? His daughter going with him is what had me the most

 

[True Blue Moon]

I did once, but at a Richard Sherman celebrity softball game in Mariners stadium but not basketball.

I still saw the magic aura Kobe embodied tho

Kobe struck out the first couple at bats, but then when the squad was behind near the end of the game... he hit a home run

 

[ALonelyDad]

its truly amazing how much of an impact he had across multiple sports

 

[RammerJammer]

I remember the night Kobe announced that 15-16 would be his last season and he was speaking to foreign reporters in their languages and I thought that was so dope.

 

[obarth]

Yoooooo
I hit up all my homies to tell them I love them, in the most Harlem way possible. This fukking hurts.

 

[klientel]

I always used to say it was like a cruel punishment that one of the greatest athletes of all time never had a son to carry on his legacy. Then recently I saw Gigi play and how proud he was of her and thought....oh nah he’s straight.

You could just see the bond between them two was special. He didn’t need a son at all.

 

[Michael's Black Son]

Just read what these folks in animation have to say. None of them are even connected to sports but still put some respeck on Kobe’s name



Animation Industry Reacts To Kobe Bryant's Death

 

[CASHAPP]

He gonna have all the NBA legends as his pallbearers at his funeral

 

[360Waves]

Can’t sleep brehs

 

[obarth]

I always used to say it was like a cruel punishment that one of the greatest athletes of all time never had a son to carry on his legacy. Then recently I saw Gigi play and how proud he was of her and thought....oh nah he’s straight.

You could just see the bond between them two was special. He didn’t need a son at all.

Now I'm crying again. Yeah, I'm off my phone for the night, brehs

 

[Sly Cooper]

*poof* back into the vault

RIP to Kobe, GG, and all the lives lost, I hope the families find some peace.

 

[qnsfinest]

I still can’t believe this is real. I got real emotional when I read that Kobe had died.

But as a father of a daughter, I broke down in tears at the gym with my wife when I read his daughter was with him. I had to leave the gym and rush home to hug my 2yr old.

I was just away from her for 8 months, and spent 30 day with her and now I’ll be heading back out for 4 more months. Saying goodbye 8 months ago was tough, but I don’t see how I can goodbye again on Wednesday.