Kobe and Gigi Bryant Memorial Thread (RIP)

[Mʀ2ᴋDᴇᴇᴢ]

I’ve accepted it, I been through quite a few sudden deaths to family members. It’s more so the feeling of the universe fukked up and produced the wrong result is something that will never go away. Like something will always be off, and your new normal ain’t the same as the old one.

That’s the fukked up part you will always have to deal with that for life. I still do it to this day with my pops, be sitting there randomly and be like man I can’t believe that shyt really happened and that was 12 years ago I feel for his oldest cuz I was the same age when it happened to me and the shyt is always just gonna feel like one big ass mistake/glitch in the universe that you never get over, you just learn to deal with it

 

[stepbackj34spud]

He said to him when he scored 81 on him

Rose tried to pant the picture of Kobe never being a trash talking when everybody knows that’s untrue. Kobe wasn’t some noble, go about his business player. Rose is such an idiot.. I don’t know why he’s name of espn.

 

[Yayo Toure]

Don't know if it was mentioned here already but Amazon has the official NBA docs showcasing the Lakers last five title runs available to watch on Prime. Really fun to look back on those last two Lakers title runs.

 

[concise]

I have a feeling that this is photoshop.

 

[JordanWearinThe45]

Don't know if it was mentioned here already but Amazon has the official NBA docs showcasing the Lakers last five title runs available to watch on Prime. Really fun to look back on those last two Lakers title runs.

 

[CBalla]

Rose tried to pant the picture of Kobe never being a trash talking when everybody knows that’s untrue. Kobe wasn’t some noble, go about his business player. Rose is such an idiot.. I don’t know why he’s name of espn.

no. he was saying when kobe was gettin higher in his points towards 81 he wasnt talkin trash, he was telling the youth this because, when folks start shyt talkin , the opposing D will double and triple team or try to hurt you to shut them down

 

[Sterling Archer]

anyway this shyt made me dead ass cry like 5 times.

i don't know why i kept watching it, think i'm tryna get it all out even though i never will.

first half inspiring as fukk, second half really sad, but also inspiring.

I still dont know why they chose Lebron to speak when you have so many other people that were closer to Kobe and more attached to the Lakers than Lebron. Magic shouldve spoke, or Jeanie. Rob. Many people other than Lebron. Felt very forced with him.

 

[Paper Boi]

I still dont know why they chose Lebron to speak when you have so many other people that were closer to Kobe and more attached to the Lakers than Lebron. Magic shouldve spoke, or Jeanie. Rob. Many people other than Lebron. Felt very forced with him.

i ain't gonna clown him for speaking if that's what he felt he needed to do. he is pretty much the most famous basketball player on earth besides kobe and jordan.

all those people clearly got the clout/literal power within the lakers to speak if they wanted to, he chose to. rob looked too hurt to speak, he clearly knew kobe the best. cant speak for the other two.

 

[Optimus Prime]

 

[Trece]

i ain't gonna clown him for speaking if that's what he felt he needed to do. he is pretty much the most famous basketball player on earth besides kobe and jordan.

all those people clearly got the clout to speak if they wanted to, he chose to. rob looked too hurt to. cant speak for the other two.

I don't know how to deal with Bron going forward..

I used to be the biggest Bron hater ever but Kobe death got me reevulating my stance. I feel like Bron was genuinely hit hard by this. His insta post was perfect for me to read at the time.

Him and Kobe were never close because they were competing even in their legacies. The fact that Kobe passed the day after he was able to make peace with Bron on his career accomplishment of climbing the scoring list makes this even seem more like pre determination.

All I can say is I am not going to hate Bron going forward - not sure if I am going to watch these current Lakers but I am not wasting energy on negativity..

Thing is Bron doesn't have to win a chip to honor Kobe- he just has to play hard and not back down from challenges (ala guarding Kawhi) to really honor Kobe and show he will take that mantle.

 

[Lord Scion]

I can’t

My boss asked if I watched the SuperBowl and I was like “yea”

Then he said “I couldn’t even enjoy it, I’m still in mourning “

 

[Sterling Archer]

i ain't gonna clown him for speaking if that's what he felt he needed to do. he is pretty much the most famous basketball player on earth besides kobe and jordan.

all those people clearly got the clout/literal power within the lakers to speak if they wanted to, he chose to. rob looked too hurt to speak, he clearly knew kobe the best. cant speak for the other two.

My first thought was they were too emotional to speak. I know Rob would be. I assumed Magic would, especially since he has gone on talk shows after speaking about Kobe. Seemed he would be able to do it emotionally. I was very surprised. I am not clowning LeBron for speaking at all. I'm just saying they missed the mark and pretty far by having him speak. LeBron's celebrity does not trump Magics in Los Angeles so how big he is everywhere else doesn't matter to me. I'm just saying that as a life long Laker fan, I absolutely did not care to hear from Lebron at Kobe's honoring with all the people this affected more intimately. It's like having a neighbor speak at funeral instead of family.

 

[Sterling Archer]

We need to get this shaded in Laker colors. @3Rivers @Supercoolmayo

 

[Trece]

 

[Trece]

My first thought was they were too emotional to speak. I know Rob would be. I assumed Magic would, especially since he has gone on talk shows after speaking about Kobe. Seemed he would be able to do it emotionally. I was very surprised. I am not clowning LeBron for speaking at all. I'm just saying they missed the mark and pretty far by having him speak. LeBron's celebrity does not trump Magics in Los Angeles so how big he is everywhere else doesn't matter to me. I'm just saying that as a life long Laker fan, I absolutely did not care to hear from Lebron at Kobe's honoring with all the people this affected more intimately. It's like having a neighbor speak at funeral instead of family.

LeBron wasn't my first choice either but I feel like he did the best he could..

Phil would have been great, we still have to hear from him.