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Kobe and Gigi Bryant Memorial Thread (RIP)
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Boosie responds to Gayle King who keeps bringing up the sexual assault case.
For all my gripes about social media the outpouring and love shown to Kobe and Gianna is amazing. It must really help Vanessa even in a little way to post a photo and have like five million likes and hundreds of thousands of comments you can read.
levitate
I love you, you know.
Still depressed over this to be honest.
levitate
I love you, you know.
Reality
Make your own luck.
I've come to terms with the fact that this may never feel like a distant memory. I still can't believe it and it still feels like a bad dream.
No exaggeration, now that Obama's safe and out of office, I'd be shocked if there'd be anything that comes as close in terms of being a JFKish type moment for me and a lot of people in this thread.
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Reality
Make your own luck.
Kobe stans are known for being the most vocal, crazy, loyal stanbase there is. Why did our guy have to go so earlyThis shyt fukking sucks man
I ain’t want to be selfish but I couldn’t help but think that. Nobody went harder than us, I been warring with nikkaz over Kobe longer than America been in Afghanistan.
Kobe was just born to be one of those people to do everything young, death included...
I've been reflecting on why Kobe meant so much to so many people, and I think it's in large part because he had so many hater that he made fall back in a time pre-social media where athletes could still have that aura about them.
I literally can't remember why I decided I fukked w/ Kobe, but I just remember growing up the debates on who was better: Kobe, AI, TMac, Vince Carter and then later D. Wade. Like, I remember getting into heated arguments about this shyt as a kid, and then it felt like Kobe went out and backed me up by vanquishing all of his competition.
You had to defend Kobe against AI, TMac, and Vince and then Kobe made it clear he was just better
You had to defend Kobe against Shaq fans and detractors saying he could only be 2nd fiddle, and then Kobe made it clear he didn't need Shaq and he could be that fukking guy
You had to defend Kobe against the people who said he was a rapist and he was acquitted, the chick was found to be mad sketchy, and generally speaking his image recovered in the public eye out of recognition of the fukkery
This guy held his fans down for damn near 2 decades! Never disappointed you for riding with him. That shyt meant a lot to people - people's own personal stories growing up, they saw reflected in him.
I know it was that way with me growing up black in a white area where people stayed trying to pigeon hole me. I was in a place where white people's main exposure to black people was people from the hood, and they expected me to be that.
Kobe wasn't that, was yamming on dudes who were that, but also wasn't on some c00n shyt. Looking back, that was HUGE to me! You never saw Kobe shying away from being Kobe or trying to be an early 2000s hypebeast or any shyt like that. He was just getting his shyt done, wouldn't be put in a box, and also didn't take being from a different background, growing up overseas, as a license to be on some
c00n shyt. He role modeled that for me at the same time I was reading about Malcolm X and defending my own sense of identity.
whenever i think of basketball i think of kobe
I remember fall having sega genesis and nba live 97 with mitch richmond on the cover and I played that game to death and kobe was in that game. Before I had the internet and all that as a kid in canada the only way I knew about basketball was slam magazines and videogames and the odd raptor game on tv. And I think thats one of the things as well, when I think of other people who have passed even like ten-15 years ago most of the footage is old and grainy and ish and makes it feel like another world. You can see old and grainy footage of kobe and 4k even ten years from now it'll still sting
Trece
Superstar
James Dean
All Star
Get super sad seeing vanessa post. Cant even imagine.
