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I've been very quietly mourning the death of Kobe Bryant.
It was too painful to even post about for the first week.
The first week i ignored it like it didn't happen.
I had been avoiding the unavoidable. Everywhere i looked in the net it was Kobe this. Kobe that. Slowly I began to accept and watch.
I would see articles, read them, and ask myself, truly, is this even real? I couldn't believe this. This just cant be real. I went on his Wiki many times, just to see the posting of when his life ended. The date, the time, the circumstances. Many things ran through my mind. He will never make his HOF speech. We will never be able to say what he could of said. The stories he could have told. The things he could have made us think and laugh about. How? He was only 41. He had kids. How could one of my sports heroes die like this? Watching simulations of the crash. Watching tributes. Reading comments on youtube saying how they didnt even watch basketball, or know kobe, but feel something they cant explain. Those hurt. What is this?
Watching. Quietly. No emotion.
I didn't mention it to my fiance, from the initial shock.
For weeks I went on not mentioning a word about Kobe.
Just quietly watching the murals. Mural after mural. Tribute after tribute around the world. Still not accepting his death.
There has never been i player i followed or watched so closely like Kobe Bryant. There probably wont ever be another. 20 years going to staples looking for Kobe. Thinking about Kobe. What can Kobe do today? Come on Kobe you can do it. Ruptured Achilles you can do it. Year after year of criticism. Year after year of saying hes paid to much. Hes not good anymore. 2011 Harden is better than Kobe lol. Then his last game. He had the most prolific Ending to a career in history, of any sport, of any great athlete. Fuck score 60 in a pick up game, put in twenty years at the highest level of being a world class athlete, and score 60. God damn i want to knock down the ten foot jumper lol.
As a lifelong Laker fan, a diehard basketball fan, the only game i truly love to play and watch even if it isn't the Lakers, the news of Kobe Bryant's death has been devastating. Its hard to explain to someone what its like to feel this way for someone you didn't know. But me and Kobe grew up together. He in a very public spotlight, me in a very dark and dim one. I watched and cheered for Kobe for 20 years. Kobe wasn't just a basketball player. He inspired me. He gave me something to get excited about when there was nothing else. Who wouldn't have wanted to live the life of Kobe Bryant.
Its the dream.
ESPN Special Tribute issue. They no longer print on a regular basis, only under special circumstances. Get it at CVS. Buy it in person, not online lots of fakes.
The Draft.
Kobe was only 17 years old when he was drafted by the Charlotte Hornets out of Lower Merion High School, in a suburb of Philadelphia, in 1996 and quickly traded to the Lakers. He was the youngest player ever drafted by the NBA.
“Kobe was a minor when he came to us,” Vitti recalled. “If I wanted to give him an Advil I had to call his mother.”
The Dunk Contest.
The Airballs and Questions.
The First title In the showers. Bad ass jacket. Find me one lol.
The Second title against he pound for pound greatest.
The third title, and Keith van Horn lol
Kobe Bryant leads the barely making the playoffs Lakers against he Number one team in the league. Who won the most games, and scored the most points in league history, to a 3-1 series lead. Long live smush.
81 points the second greatest scoring game in NBA history.
Kobe Bryant describes the victory as his "sweetest" against the Celtics in 2010 finals game 7.
It was too painful to even post about for the first week.
The first week i ignored it like it didn't happen.
I had been avoiding the unavoidable. Everywhere i looked in the net it was Kobe this. Kobe that. Slowly I began to accept and watch.
I would see articles, read them, and ask myself, truly, is this even real? I couldn't believe this. This just cant be real. I went on his Wiki many times, just to see the posting of when his life ended. The date, the time, the circumstances. Many things ran through my mind. He will never make his HOF speech. We will never be able to say what he could of said. The stories he could have told. The things he could have made us think and laugh about. How? He was only 41. He had kids. How could one of my sports heroes die like this? Watching simulations of the crash. Watching tributes. Reading comments on youtube saying how they didnt even watch basketball, or know kobe, but feel something they cant explain. Those hurt. What is this?
Watching. Quietly. No emotion.
I didn't mention it to my fiance, from the initial shock.
For weeks I went on not mentioning a word about Kobe.
Just quietly watching the murals. Mural after mural. Tribute after tribute around the world. Still not accepting his death.
There has never been i player i followed or watched so closely like Kobe Bryant. There probably wont ever be another. 20 years going to staples looking for Kobe. Thinking about Kobe. What can Kobe do today? Come on Kobe you can do it. Ruptured Achilles you can do it. Year after year of criticism. Year after year of saying hes paid to much. Hes not good anymore. 2011 Harden is better than Kobe lol. Then his last game. He had the most prolific Ending to a career in history, of any sport, of any great athlete. Fuck score 60 in a pick up game, put in twenty years at the highest level of being a world class athlete, and score 60. God damn i want to knock down the ten foot jumper lol.
As a lifelong Laker fan, a diehard basketball fan, the only game i truly love to play and watch even if it isn't the Lakers, the news of Kobe Bryant's death has been devastating. Its hard to explain to someone what its like to feel this way for someone you didn't know. But me and Kobe grew up together. He in a very public spotlight, me in a very dark and dim one. I watched and cheered for Kobe for 20 years. Kobe wasn't just a basketball player. He inspired me. He gave me something to get excited about when there was nothing else. Who wouldn't have wanted to live the life of Kobe Bryant.
Its the dream.
ESPN Special Tribute issue. They no longer print on a regular basis, only under special circumstances. Get it at CVS. Buy it in person, not online lots of fakes.
The Draft.
Kobe was only 17 years old when he was drafted by the Charlotte Hornets out of Lower Merion High School, in a suburb of Philadelphia, in 1996 and quickly traded to the Lakers. He was the youngest player ever drafted by the NBA.
“Kobe was a minor when he came to us,” Vitti recalled. “If I wanted to give him an Advil I had to call his mother.”
The Dunk Contest.
The Airballs and Questions.
The First title In the showers. Bad ass jacket. Find me one lol.
The Second title against he pound for pound greatest.
The third title, and Keith van Horn lol
Kobe Bryant leads the barely making the playoffs Lakers against he Number one team in the league. Who won the most games, and scored the most points in league history, to a 3-1 series lead. Long live smush.
81 points the second greatest scoring game in NBA history.
Kobe Bryant describes the victory as his "sweetest" against the Celtics in 2010 finals game 7.
