RIP Kobe Bryant

[John Price]

 

[Stylizer1]

 

[Voight]

That magazine may break records for most sold ever.

 

[CokenoPepsi]

A thought occurred to me the other day

If LeBron had never signed with the Lakers, the course of events as we know them would've been different, and it's likely Kobe would still be alive

If Stern didn't veto the Chris Paul to Lakers it is very possible Kobe wins 2 more rings and against Lebrons Heat.

If that happens Kobe probably doesn't get hurt in 2013 and might still be playing today.

You could do it in a million ways but it doesn't matter he gone

 

[Neutrinos]

 

[Stylizer1]

This video makes it look like the pilot took a nose dive and crashed.

 

[Cloned]

He was within 100 feet of clearing into VFR conditions, then for some reason (possibly spatial disorientation), turned left and entered a spiralling descent.

 

[Terry Yake]

hate hearing all this stuff about how close they were to making it

makes it all so much worse

 

[swimmer77]

The video is interesting but just so very sad. I know what a challenge it can be to drive in fog even on roads one is very familiar with. The advantage is of course that you are in contact with ground. Can't imagine flying in fog.

Time heals but this still seems so unreal that this happened. May all of those affected continue to heal the best way possible. So tragic.

 

[Voight]

 

[The Roy Of Ottawa]

 

[Del Preston]

 

[John Price]

 

[John Price]

 

[Dubi Doo]

This is one of those deaths I'll never forget where I was when I found out. I was sitting at a bar with my dad when someone told me. People thought it was fake since TMZ broke the news, but for as outlandish as TMZ is- I doubted they break a story this major without knowing for sure. The news only got worse as the day went on...

 

[John Price]

 

[PhillyWings]

One less we got to worry about

 

[Mr Fahrenheit]

Crazy that Kobe was the 3rd NBA MVP to die

 

[DoyleG]

He was Kobe Bryant’s ‘Mr. Pilot Man.’ Now he’s blamed for Kobe’s death

The chopper touched down east of Los Angeles. Its rotor whirred to a halt. And on a mild afternoon three years ago, a rangy man in camo-print Nikes stepped out. Kobe Bryant chartered helicopters regularly in retirement. Nov. 22, 2018, was just another day in his charmed life.

Except that it was Thanksgiving.

And there was a crisis.

Someone in the Bryant family had forgotten the candied yams at home.

Rather than risk an incomplete feast, Kobe returned to the helicopter. Waiting for him was a pilot he trusted more than any other. A pilot who went to great lengths to meet Kobe’s every need. One who flew him back to Orange County that day; who stood by as Kobe hustled to his Newport Beach mansion; who flew him east once more with the candied yams in tow.

As Kobe increasingly turned to helicopter travel to evade LA traffic, he wouldn’t just fly with any pilot. Two were effectively blacklisted, one because the Bryants, in the words of their transportation coordinator, simply “didn’t care for him.” Only a few pilots were even approved to fly the Laker legend. And only one was ever requested.

Ara Zobayan, to Kobe, was "Mr. Pilot Man."

 

[Terry Yake]

Crazy that Kobe was the 3rd NBA MVP to die

had to look that one up since i figured some of the 50s and 60s winners had passed on but nope, guys like bob petit, bob cousy, and bill russell are all very much alive

kobe is the 4th though. wilt, wes unseld, and moses malone are the others

 

[Mr Fahrenheit]

had to look that one up since i figured some of the 50s and 60s winners had passed on but nope, guys like bob petit, bob cousy, and bill russell are all very much alive

kobe is the 4th though. wilt, wes unseld, and moses malone are the others

No, I was just saying he was the 3rd one to die, as in the order not total

 

[Vamos Rafa]

Kobe was my childhood all the way through my 20s.