Kobe Bryant Discussion: Mamba Out!

Couple things from all the content I digested last night...

The Woj pod was a good listen. First time I've heard this but apparently Kobe had a convo with local LA ESPN radio about a potential GameDay radio show while he was in transit to the games. No mention of what year this was, if I had to guess it was probably in one of his last 2-3 years. That would've been special.

Another recommended viewing is yesterday's The Jump. It's a 2 hour Celebrating Kobe special. Several of the segments are on YouTube. Some of the clips are above (Pau and everyone's 1st time against Kobe). Horry and Barnes are the co-hosts. They talk to Z-Bo, Kobe coached his girl. Also talk to Scott about being there for the bookends to Kobe's playing career.


Here's how I've approached yesterday and all the articles, podcasts, interviews, clips, and videos that flooded the interweb...I leaned all the way into it. I wanted to be a part of the honoring, remembering, and celebrating one of the biggest influences and role models in my life. I thought about trying to avoid it, but at the end of the day, I think about him or his family daily. I have a "Legends Never Die" mouse pad at work with him on it that I've had for 5 years. I have a NBA 2K 17 magnet of him sticking to the wall of my cubicle. He's always around. So by not diving into the deep end of yesterday, I felt like I'd be robbing myself. The emotions are there. I try to wall it off to a degree, because I know how far I can go down a road (mentally) before getting emotional over it all... whether it's Kobe, Gigi, or Vanessa and the girls. But last night, before bed, I spent about 3 hours going through every shred of material I could find and letting myself feel whatever emotions accompanied it. It was rough, but it was also cathartic to an extent. I know everyone is dealing with this differently, but that was my process.

 

Cried (again) watching a lot of stuff yesterday sitting on the couch between my sleeping girlfriend and our 3-week-old son, about whom many of my friends jokingly said they were surprised that he wasnt named Kobe. For the first time since that day crying felt somewhat good. I think closure is BS but I could think about what joy and lessons he gave and that I will tell and show my son some of him soon and that made me smile in between. Cheers to all of you who were hit again yesterday as well. How amazing that a person we never met and is famous for playing a sport gave us so much.

 

Kid probably knew then, that he was going to be a superstar!

 

this one was the best.

both the black and white and the background make that photo look like it was from the 40s or 50s, right?

 

Love that Posey story!!!

 

Damn that doesn't seem like 3 years ago. Obviously a completely different reaction watching it now vs. when it went viral then. 0

 

Damn. So great to see again. But always then the reminder.

 

I am not sure why, but I love this!

 

If only these 2 could play together, damn. Better duo than Kobe/Shaq or Bron/AD.

 

Trez's reading material tonight

 

hamburgers and woot beer

 

What Cookie said with WTF added.

Luv In-n-Out though