😢😢😢💜🙏🏽 https://t.co/InOcnK45AE
— Douglas Christie (@TheDougChristie) January 27, 2020
We are all devastated. I hate this day. I hate the pain his family must be in. But I love what he did for the game, for equality and for the world. I’ll forever remember this intro. #RIPMamba https://t.co/8sko9EjBDb
— Scott Moak (@AnnouncerScott) January 27, 2020
I was at his last game in Sac. and his final NBA game. I'm devastated.We are all devastated. I hate this day. I hate the pain his family must be in. But I love what he did for the game, for equality and for the world. I’ll forever remember this intro. #RIPMamba https://t.co/8sko9EjBDb
— Scott Moak (@AnnouncerScott) January 27, 2020
Why are they even playing games today? Absolutely no one is in the mindset to play today and aside from a few loudmouth idiots everyone would have understood.
Ice Cube says that after he heard the news, he hit up Kobe to see if he would text him back 💔 pic.twitter.com/sQBMyckpcy
— ESPN (@espn) January 27, 2020
Such a beautiful, well said post. Thank you.I've spent all day (I literally woke up to the news of Kobe's death here in Japan) trying to process what's happened.
Kobe and David Stern both gone in weeks. Two pillars for me to direct bile and many expletives at in my youth (the WCF still hurts but now it's a most wistful, meaningful pain) who both also would up being among Sacramento's most ardent supporters when the rest of the world seemed to be on board with moving the team to Seattle.
Thank you for being such a huge part of my formative years and in your own ways a part of my own life.
I made fun of Kobe for taking too many shots or seeming to forget he had teammates for long stretches of the game or forgetting to play defense for the last ten years of his career but it was only because he was so damn good and so damn scary and, even after his retirement, I always lived in the constant fear that the accursed Mamba would somehow come back and hit one last buzzer beater to steal the day and leave me heartbroken and in tears.
Well, yet again he got me on that one. And just like every other time, I really wish he hadn't.
May he and his daughter and the other victims and their families find peace.
This was work, but also a bit of therapy for me. Kobe loved playing in Sacramento, loved playing the villain and the crazy environment that he always encountered. https://t.co/YtIrZqWLF8
— Jason Jones (@mr_jasonjones) January 27, 2020
I will remember you 24/8. pic.twitter.com/9IdJTbFPN2
— Jimmy Fallon (@jimmyfallon) January 28, 2020
I was at his last game in Sac. and his final NBA game. I'm devastated.
I had been waiting for Shaquille to say what he had to say, and even though we brace ourselves for it, it doesn’t make it any easier to hear.
— Carmichael Dave (@CarmichaelDave) January 29, 2020
But his message is one every ear should pick up.
Tomorrow is not a given.
You just want to hug the big man. https://t.co/xxLbfEw5J2