PRETTY EERIE, THIS WAS POSTED HERE IN 2016
just an eerie coincidence
just as eerie as him leaving said game w/ 4.1 secs on the click
Kobe and Gigi Bryant Memorial Thread (RIP)
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just an eerie coincidence
just as eerie as him leaving said game w/ 4.1 secs on the click
I remember when MJ died. I was 19 and absolutely didn't care. I mean I liked some of his music but I wasn't a fan like that. Everyone around me was so distraught. Now I finally get it with Kobe.
Trece
Superstar
I would say GOAT president Abe Lincoln and he went early too
You forget GOAT guitarist Jimmy Hendrix
GOAT drummer John Bonham
It's like God says "alright you got too good for this plane of existence we gonna take you".
It's the only way to reach immortality.. like Pac said you have now reached sports martyr status, immortalized in pictures.
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Trece
Superstar
I can remember the Kaminetsky brothers saying how it had a celebratory funeral memorial type feel to it..
It was exciting af and maybe the best game I had ever seen personally.. L.A. went wild like the Lakers won a chip.. but it was also sad in some way, at the time I could never put my finger on why it was sad.. except that was the last time I would ever see him play basketball.
He made a smirky reaction on Tim westward show when big pun was announced dead.. disrespectful camel, then again, it takes a piece of shyt to get where he is at in this capitalist world.
https://nypost.com/2020/02/10/kobe-bryant-was-no-rapist/
Kobe Bryant, star athlete, adored husband, beloved superdad, was no rapist. That should be the end of it. Nothing to see here. Sadly, in this #MeToo era, it isn’t.
So many people who don’t know what they’re talking about have been mewling lately about the “tarnished legacy’’ of the NBA superstar, who died tragically in a helicopter crash along with his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, and seven other people on Jan. 26.
Leading the pack was CBS broadcaster Gayle King, who pointedly asked former women’s basketball player Lisa Leslie in an interview if being loyal to Bryant is “complicated for you as a woman, as a WNBA player?”
Leslie told King forcefully that it was not. “I just never, have ever seen him being the kind of person that would do something to violate a woman or be aggressive in that way,’’ she said.
But King pressed on, suggesting that Leslie may have overlooked questionable behavior because she was Bryant’s friend. She should have let it go.
Instead, King and others in the media continued harping on a long-ago sexual assault allegation against Bryant, which led to no prosecution, no professional penalty and no divorce.
I attended the case’s 2003 preliminary hearing in Eagle, Colorado — a kind of mini-trial to determine if there is to be a real one. I traveled to the altitude sickness-inducing town 6,000 feet above sea level expecting to see Bryant presented as a spoiled testosterone case who didn’t understand the meaning of “no.”
What I found was quite different.
It makes little sense to re-litigate this ugly chapter, but circumstances are making this necessary. At the time she encountered Bryant in the hotel in which she worked, on June 30, 2003, the accuser was 19. Bryant was all of 23, and the married father of an infant.
Kobe Bryant with wife VanessaGetty Images
Soon, we learned more details about the pair’s sexual liaison than we wanted to know. The defense brought up the fact that the accuser had told a friend, excitedly, before getting close to Bryant that she expected the celeb to “put the moves” on her.
She secretly entered Bryant’s hotel room through a back door — so no one would see.
None of this precludes the possibility of sexual assault. However, among the intimate details to emerge in the preliminary hearing was this: Once the pair were having sex — over the back of a chair — the victim felt pain and asked Bryant to stop. And he did.
I don’t know what happened to make the young woman suddenly feel like a victim. Or why, after the case was prepared, she abruptly ended her cooperation with the prosecution. The criminal case against Kobe Bryant was dropped.
He then publicly apologized to the accuser. Not for a rape, but for a misunderstanding.
He concluded with, “Although I truly believe this encounter was consensual, I recognize now that she did not and does not view this incident the same way I did. . . . I now understand she feels that she did not consent to this encounter.”
I think the hoops star’s apology amounted to a classy way to end this mess. That, and the undisclosed sum he paid the woman to prevent a civil suit.
As I see it, this matter was between Bryant and his wife. And she forgave him (reportedly after he presented her with a large diamond).
They remained married and had three more daughters, including basketball-loving Gianna — Gigi — who died with her dad. I would hope we could put this sordid chapter behind us, and remember Kobe Bryant as the good, loyal man he was.
Let the dead rest in peace.
Kobe Bryant, star athlete, adored husband, beloved superdad, was no rapist. That should be the end of it. Nothing to see here. Sadly, in this #MeToo era, it isn’t.
So many people who don’t know what they’re talking about have been mewling lately about the “tarnished legacy’’ of the NBA superstar, who died tragically in a helicopter crash along with his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, and seven other people on Jan. 26.
Leading the pack was CBS broadcaster Gayle King, who pointedly asked former women’s basketball player Lisa Leslie in an interview if being loyal to Bryant is “complicated for you as a woman, as a WNBA player?”
Leslie told King forcefully that it was not. “I just never, have ever seen him being the kind of person that would do something to violate a woman or be aggressive in that way,’’ she said.
But King pressed on, suggesting that Leslie may have overlooked questionable behavior because she was Bryant’s friend. She should have let it go.
Instead, King and others in the media continued harping on a long-ago sexual assault allegation against Bryant, which led to no prosecution, no professional penalty and no divorce.
I attended the case’s 2003 preliminary hearing in Eagle, Colorado — a kind of mini-trial to determine if there is to be a real one. I traveled to the altitude sickness-inducing town 6,000 feet above sea level expecting to see Bryant presented as a spoiled testosterone case who didn’t understand the meaning of “no.”
What I found was quite different.
It makes little sense to re-litigate this ugly chapter, but circumstances are making this necessary. At the time she encountered Bryant in the hotel in which she worked, on June 30, 2003, the accuser was 19. Bryant was all of 23, and the married father of an infant.
Kobe Bryant with wife VanessaGetty Images
Soon, we learned more details about the pair’s sexual liaison than we wanted to know. The defense brought up the fact that the accuser had told a friend, excitedly, before getting close to Bryant that she expected the celeb to “put the moves” on her.
She secretly entered Bryant’s hotel room through a back door — so no one would see.
None of this precludes the possibility of sexual assault. However, among the intimate details to emerge in the preliminary hearing was this: Once the pair were having sex — over the back of a chair — the victim felt pain and asked Bryant to stop. And he did.
I don’t know what happened to make the young woman suddenly feel like a victim. Or why, after the case was prepared, she abruptly ended her cooperation with the prosecution. The criminal case against Kobe Bryant was dropped.
He then publicly apologized to the accuser. Not for a rape, but for a misunderstanding.
He concluded with, “Although I truly believe this encounter was consensual, I recognize now that she did not and does not view this incident the same way I did. . . . I now understand she feels that she did not consent to this encounter.”
I think the hoops star’s apology amounted to a classy way to end this mess. That, and the undisclosed sum he paid the woman to prevent a civil suit.
As I see it, this matter was between Bryant and his wife. And she forgave him (reportedly after he presented her with a large diamond).
They remained married and had three more daughters, including basketball-loving Gianna — Gigi — who died with her dad. I would hope we could put this sordid chapter behind us, and remember Kobe Bryant as the good, loyal man he was.
Let the dead rest in peace.
Man she goin thru it
This is a fukking nightmare
Ron Mexico
Superstar
Dynamite James
The Main attraction
Yeah people are really understating how major MJs passing was at the time. It came as a shock. The man was selling out football stadiums and was weeks away from running his final tour ("This Is It.") He wasnt Amy Winehouse. It stunned everybody. Similar to how Kobe touched everyone with the basketball as his instrument of choice, MJ had done the same with the microphone, and like Kobe, the world had literally seen him grow up. He was in the industry from the time he was 7 or 8 years old and he was dubbed the greatest entertainer of all time before 30. Folks were devastated. Google literally crashed. I think over time we've forgotten that MJ was arguably the most famous man alive and the most recognizable celebrity internationally from the moment he dropped Thriller in 1982. People literally fainted upon meeting him. I have a neice thats 5 and she was singing Smooth Criminal a month ago.
Both of these guys were special and it's a testament to how special Kobe really was that he had anywhere near the impact globally in his passing that names such as Princess Diana, JFK, and Michael Jackson had considering his initial reach (basketball) was such a smaller platform in comparison to music, the presidency, and a monarchy. The NBA has only become more accessible globally on a mass scale in the last few years. That wasn't the case for half of Beans career. Again, he was just special. I dont think we'll see anything like it again in our lifetime.
These dudes must be young. It was an ABSOLUTE shock.
THE MACHINE
night owl
Not sure, but I hope if they want it private that it stays private.
Michael Jackson death was crazy
I went to my grandma's neighborhood and saw people who shoot people crying like their mama died