https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ter-crash.html
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/...licopter-crash
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobe_Bryant
And it’s on his Wikipedia page
He was the same age as I am. Unbelievable.
TMZ is reporting that his daughter was onboard and also died.
This made me cry and I'm not big on sports. So tragic. Aweful.
Terrible. At first they seemed to say all his daughters were safe, then they confirmed his 13 year old died with him. She must have been so scared.
The trolls are fucking relentless. I think I liked it better when Internet use was a very rare and occasional thing for me, and what I used it for was much more limited. I've been seeing troll posts about it all day, and sharing one of them was... not the best thought out idea on my end.
I feel worse for his daughter. Not in a context which says I feel any less for Kobe himself or the rest of his family... I mean, Kobe was able to at least realize his dreams and had the opportunity. His daughter, while I'm sure she was well provided for in those 13 years, isn't going to be able to do that. Makes me wonder what her aspirations were, especially being at an age and circumstances where a sense of idealism can still be comfortably retained.
I have been depressed all day. I can’t handle death well. And he was SUCH a good person.
I feel so bad for the family
So sad and heartbreaking, especially that his daughter was with him. She was quite a basketball player too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvGQhWe5hyg
So young, an imperfect person at best.
My first honest reaction was, damn, at 41 he had the possibility of really growing into the person he wished to be, reading how his daughter brought him back to the game... really sad
His wife, damn, this is the time she had put up with all the BS for, his post career life, being a dad.
And her daughter too, and with a little one who will only see him in pics.
Tremendously tragic. There is really nothing else to say about this event.
A lot sadder about his daughter being with him. He'd at least lived a little while.
It sounds like the pilot was very reckless. I read that he was flying at 160 knots (about 180 mph) with very poor visibility. The fog was so bad that the LAPD grounded their helicopters. I'm disgusted that he would fly like that with passengers on his helicopter, especially children.
Life is all about the unexpected and surprises, good and bad.
I've avoided getting into helicopters ever since I learned the stats on how often they crash compared to planes. I am still so sad about this. I cannot imagine how Vanessa Bryant feels right now. Terrible.
Pardon me and all... But wasn't this guy a rapist?
^idk was he ever proven guilty or serve any time? The charges from that case were dropped I believe
He settled with his accuser out of court.
^hey I’m not one of those people crying over this or going into elaborate remembrances of his legacy. Honestly he’s just another immortal human happened to die just like the other 24,789 other people that day. However, I wasn’t there when those events went down nor do I condone predatory behavior but can’t really call someone a rapist unless they raped you or they were convicted of rape
This is all part of his legacy, and, he will be remembered in both ways.
If you knew his accuser/victim it is really part of being a human to believe her, accept her story at face value and do what you can to support her.
IF you are on the outside looking in, the best thing you can say about him is that he cheated on his wife.
I think what I was trying to get at in my previous comment is that I was starting to imagine him as an old man, and the sum total of his life was starting to look far more positive.
I think we sometimes forget how young professional athletes are, and while youth in no way excuses criminal behavior, it gives you time to make up for it.
I think when we are being our best selves, we allow people to improve, to redeem themselves, virtually whatever they have done.
His support of the WNBA , his raising of what appeared to be a powerful, independent woman, who sadly died with him; these are the things that make me sad about his passing, not really the death of a basketball star.
It's the redemption story we will not get to see play out in full.
Well said oldster
Might I add
A good majority I’d say 90% of pro athletes have sex with women who are not their wives. They accept it in exchange for the lifestyle they probably wouldn’t be able to afford otherwise
The wives just don’t want to be publicly humiliated (ex. tabloids finding out, side babies, stds) as she was when the media found out about the allegations.
So technically it’s not cheating if they have a private arrangement which 90% of pro athletes wives do.
I highly believe they had an arrangement at the beginning of their marital relationship so he could sow his young wild oats but maybe once his daughters came into the picture, once he started thinking with his head on his shoulders/realized he had too much to lose, and after that case he probably cut all that out and became the 10%of faithful pro athletes.
With regards to the Colorado case, I would never say that woman’s account wasn’t accurate (especially given how many young people are ignorant about true consent and since I wasn’t a witness) however it appears he hasn’t been involved in any controversies since then and perhaps he did learn n grow from that.
You can tell men who truly don’t respect women have a pattern of behavior and they oftentimes don’t even respect the women closest to them (their mothers, wives, daughters)
Kobe Bryant's widow is suing the helicopter company over the crash.
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/02/kob...r-fatal-crash/
It has become unusual to take this long to file suit.
She's right to sue. They shouldn't have flown under those weather conditions. Kinda reminds me of the JFK Jr/Carolyn Bessette crash
Dont passengers sign waivers though?