Rocket Scientist
Superstar
Kobe was the Jordan remix .He was like a song that the remix was more memorable then original version.
Kobe and Gigi Bryant Memorial Thread (RIP)
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MenacingMonk
Tranquilo
Picked up the LA Daily News tribute mag. May be the best one out. About 200 pages and close to the same price as the ESPN and SI ones (it’s $15.95). Plus they’re giving a portion of the proceeds to the MambaOn3 Foundation. 
Don’t think it has an article on Colorado. I scanned the book and didn’t see anything.
Don’t think it has an article on Colorado. I scanned the book and didn’t see anything.
not bad from lou
pau is a great guy
ALonelyDad
Veteran
pau is a great guy
Wonderful interview. You could tell this hit Pau exceptionally hard since he made no formal statement about Kobe's death for awhile. Its nice to hear from him now. I needed this.
Only 4 million people in LA.
OJ Simpsom
Superstar
100 million people though?
100 million people though?
it'll probably be enough that it would be tough to contain all those people
ALonelyDad
Veteran
pau is a great guy
Really sad that Kobe won't be there for his jersey retirement. Kobe loved Pau like a brother
just shows how people cared about Kobe
dude is injured and flew like 15 hours with crutches to be here just in case Vanessa or the kids needed him
Been meaning to mention this all day but I only recently found the time to do so.
I have a friend I've been cool with since 6th grade. Im 28 now, so yeah. He lives out in Colorado now. Aurora iirc. When Bean passed, we weren't speaking. Had been through a falling out. When I got the call that Kobe had died and the reports began rolling in, he was the first person I thought of. Kobe was our childhood. Almost every day after school....Almost every day throughout every summer over the course of three years, I rode my bike around the corner to his apartment complex. We were getting on the asphalt and hooping, discussing Kobe and his ridiculous feats from that '04 - '06 period. I was mimicking everything I had watched and rewatched on YouTube of Kobe, while my boy was striving to be Lebron. He was a huge Lebron fan, and I was the Kobe fan, but he had a lot of love for Bean and always rode with him as long as he wasn't matched up against Lebron & Clevland. Lol.
After Bean died and it was confirmed, that night after the wife and kids crashed, I said screw it, and picked up the phone, and walked into the backyard. I had changed my number since we last spoke right at 5 months ago, so he had no way to reach out, which in my heart of hearts, I knew he had. I made the call and the phone was answered before it could ring a third time.
"Bean's gone."
Those were his first words.
Our childhood superhero was gone. Dead.
His death serving as a reminder that tommorow is never promised.
Kobe didn't even make it to lunch.
Why waste so much precious time harboring resentment over the trivial things. What if my boy had died in that stretch we went without speaking? How many years and potential memories did Shaq and Kobe miss out on? He apologized. I apologized. It didn't even matter who did what though. Bean was dead. We chatted for an hour and both expressed regret that we never got the opportunity to see him live. I told him to not make that mistake with Lebron. Last night, he was in attendance in Denver. He saw Lebron live. Happy for him. Wish I could have seen Kobe.
Edit: I have an associate who has a sibling that was friends with a couple of ladies that went to see him play in Atlanta in 2014. I hope they dont mind me sharing it.
I have a friend I've been cool with since 6th grade. Im 28 now, so yeah. He lives out in Colorado now. Aurora iirc. When Bean passed, we weren't speaking. Had been through a falling out. When I got the call that Kobe had died and the reports began rolling in, he was the first person I thought of. Kobe was our childhood. Almost every day after school....Almost every day throughout every summer over the course of three years, I rode my bike around the corner to his apartment complex. We were getting on the asphalt and hooping, discussing Kobe and his ridiculous feats from that '04 - '06 period. I was mimicking everything I had watched and rewatched on YouTube of Kobe, while my boy was striving to be Lebron. He was a huge Lebron fan, and I was the Kobe fan, but he had a lot of love for Bean and always rode with him as long as he wasn't matched up against Lebron & Clevland. Lol.
After Bean died and it was confirmed, that night after the wife and kids crashed, I said screw it, and picked up the phone, and walked into the backyard. I had changed my number since we last spoke right at 5 months ago, so he had no way to reach out, which in my heart of hearts, I knew he had. I made the call and the phone was answered before it could ring a third time.
"Bean's gone."
Those were his first words.
Our childhood superhero was gone. Dead.
His death serving as a reminder that tommorow is never promised.
Kobe didn't even make it to lunch.
Why waste so much precious time harboring resentment over the trivial things. What if my boy had died in that stretch we went without speaking? How many years and potential memories did Shaq and Kobe miss out on? He apologized. I apologized. It didn't even matter who did what though. Bean was dead. We chatted for an hour and both expressed regret that we never got the opportunity to see him live. I told him to not make that mistake with Lebron. Last night, he was in attendance in Denver. He saw Lebron live. Happy for him. Wish I could have seen Kobe.
Edit: I have an associate who has a sibling that was friends with a couple of ladies that went to see him play in Atlanta in 2014. I hope they dont mind me sharing it.
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Is this LA only?Picked up the LA Daily News tribute mag. May be the best one out. About 200 pages and close to the same price as the ESPN and SI ones (it’s $15.95). Plus they’re giving a portion of the proceeds to the MambaOn3 Foundation.
Don’t think it has an article on Colorado. I scanned the book and didn’t see anything.
I just read the NTSB preliminary report:
If I'm reading this right, the chopper at its highest point was just 100 feet away from breaking through the clouds and reorienting the pilot, but it began that left turn and descent instead
9 people on board the helicopter...9 people flew on the same one previously (FOX 11 employee shares experience of riding with helicopter pilot Ara Zobayan) and one person sat next to the pilot because it was a semi-tight fit. It's possible Kobe was sitting in the front
If I'm reading this right, the chopper at its highest point was just 100 feet away from breaking through the clouds and reorienting the pilot, but it began that left turn and descent instead
9 people on board the helicopter...9 people flew on the same one previously (FOX 11 employee shares experience of riding with helicopter pilot Ara Zobayan) and one person sat next to the pilot because it was a semi-tight fit. It's possible Kobe was sitting in the front
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