Kobe Bryant is gone, helicopter crash near LA, 41.
I've had very little use for Kobe for a lot of years. Pretty much Jordan's successor in the Ballhog Basketball Association and all the stuff surrounding Eagle, Colorado and all.
Certainly also Jordan's successor in some of David Stern's machinations of the NBA (in both directions! -- see above), but an innocent helicopter flight ends in a crash and that's all she wrote.
*sigh*
And all this the morning after LeBron passes Kobe on the scoring list for #3.
And obviously, the newly-launched NBA Twitch channel will all-but-certainly have a tribute marathon -- but an ironic decision... Their normally-scheduled Hardwood Classic for Saturday night was Kobe's last game in Philadelphia.
Obviously, especially in LA, this is going to be the sports news cycle out here for the foreseeable.
I mean, there's really not much to say about it endemic to this blog which isn't completely "not the time for it". So I'll leave it here for now.
Though Magic Johnson said it well in a statement: "He was supposed to be talking about me passing away. Not me talking about him..."
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