Kobe Bryant Discussion: Mamba Out!

I guess you haven't been paying attention to this Harden guy...

 

hugged my eldest daughter extra hard tonight, and my eardrum was fluttering.

thought this should go here.

 

I'm rewatching the memorial...

We should give Kobe two rings just for making MJ break down the way he did. That s*** speaks volumes.

 

Been meaning to post this for a few weeks now but haven't been able to because it makes me too emotional. But you may recall that the 2020 LA Marathon took place the weekend before everything went absolutely crazy. Well, 10 years ago when I was in my late 20s, I decided it would be fun to try and run a marathon. I set 4 hours as the goal, which I figured was attainable since I was young and healthy. But as luck would have it, I'm pretty injury prone, and all my attempts at running LA have been met with one debilitating injury after another, and my training has been derailed every single year. Most times I can't even run it, and when I have made it to the starting line (2010, 2015, 2019), I've been hobbled, disappointed, and ended up limping across the finish line. But not this time. I FINALLY managed to get through the whole training season healthy, and I got to the starting line prepared and confident. But more importantly, since I am NOWHERE NEAR over losing the Mamba, I threw his jersey on and ran in it as a tribute. And even though it was rough, every time I felt like slowing down or taking a break, I just repeated "Mamba mentality" and told myself Kobe was watching and he wouldn't tolerate me taking my foot off the gas. And it was "Mamba mentality" the whole last 6 miles. There were a lot of people wearing Kobe jerseys out there and the people on the sidelines would all cheer and chant "Kobe, Kobe" as I passed. My buddy (who ran with me) and I ended up having the perfect race, and finished 3:51:56, which I thought was pretty cool since I'm in my late 30s now. The event is now, really, the last normal day we had, and it's been pretty bleak ever since. But it was an absolutely beautiful day, and a wonderful memory for me. And I will ALWAYS think of Kobe when I look back on it. He was truly my inspiration and his spirit really carried me there. Mamba4life.

 

Awesome man! Thanks for sharing.

 

this thread never gets old

 

in a time like this i wonder what kobe would be up to...im sure he would be tweeting and interacting on social media like so many other celebrities and athletes have been.

 

he mostly seemed to dismiss social media, and "saved it for the good stuff"

He's not your Taco Tuesday kind of guy.

 

Congrats dude on the life goal, Kobe would be proud.

 

thats my point. he may not have been posting much, but the stuff he did was gold. i have no doubts we would have gotten some good stuff during this whole lockdown

 

Well, the world moves pretty fast, doesn't it? Seems like a couple of weeks ago, this awful helicopter accident happened, and now we're swept away on this virus wave.

I posted when Kobe died that one of my biggest memories of him was a regular season Jazz game, in Utah. He went nuts on the Jazz that night.

And last night my son found the highlights. So I thought I'd come back and post it.



I'm not the most sophisticated poster, so I hope I've done that correctly.

If you go to the 2:30 mark, Kobe drives and slam dunks, and then unleashes one of, if not the most aggressive screams I ever saw from him.

Hope everyone's well. Stay the F home.

***Edit!!! It's at roughly the 3:20 mark, not the 2:30 mark. Sorry. And I can see the actual video in the post, not just the address. Very cool. Thank you.