Quote (ThatAlex @ Jan 27 2020 11:54am)
Same. I don't know why it has hit me so hard. I mean, I didn't know him. But I guess we all felt like we did get to know him watching him play for so long. Seeing so many other basketball people get choked up about this just kills me. And the fact that his daughter and 8 other people.... just an awful tragedy. Jerry West's interview and Shaq's tribute hurt me the most.
We did know him though, watched him grow up. How many kids took the basketball route in life that grew up in poverty because they idiolized Kobe? Hell I remember being a kid shooting basketball, “Kobe at the buzzer” and shoot.
But yeah, his wife and kids must be heartbroken. Lose your dad and sister, and the others. Truly a tragedy.