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TMZ reporting Kobe dead in a helicopter crash

Postby [Hyperize] on Mon Jan 27, 2020 5:53 am

WTFFFFFFFFF?!!!!!?????

TMZ is the only source at the moment but seems true.

Edit: ESPN also seems to be confirming now.
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Re: TMZ reporting Kobe dead in a helicopter crash

Postby Murat on Mon Jan 27, 2020 6:01 am

:( RIP
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Postby *DSSXe* on Mon Jan 27, 2020 6:06 am

I can't fucking believe it
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Postby I Hate Mondays on Mon Jan 27, 2020 6:07 am

What the fuck this is not real
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OT: Kobe has died!!

Postby martoluthor on Mon Jan 27, 2020 6:13 am

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Postby Xiskeg on Mon Jan 27, 2020 6:55 am

damn bro rip
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Re: TMZ reporting Kobe dead in a helicopter crash

Postby Andrew on Mon Jan 27, 2020 6:59 am

Awful news. Difficult to even process it, to register that it's real and not some hoax. RIP, Mamba.
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Postby [Hyperize] on Mon Jan 27, 2020 7:04 am

Andrew wrote:Awful news. Difficult to even process it, to register that it's real and not some hoax. RIP, Mamba.

Exactly. I heard on the MyTEAM discord and time just stopped; you have to Google cause it's unbelievable. Now a ton of rumors flying about that Rick Fox and Kobe's daughter may have been on the plane.
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Postby MadbaLL on Mon Jan 27, 2020 7:09 am

i'm devastated...
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Re: TMZ reporting Kobe dead in a helicopter crash

Postby Andrew on Mon Jan 27, 2020 7:53 am

Hyperize- wrote:
Andrew wrote:Awful news. Difficult to even process it, to register that it's real and not some hoax. RIP, Mamba.

Exactly. I heard on the MyTEAM discord and time just stopped; you have to Google cause it's unbelievable. Now a ton of rumors flying about that Rick Fox and Kobe's daughter may have been on the plane.


The Rick Fox report turned out to be untrue, but his eldest daughter Gianna was indeed on the helicopter as well, along with a teammate and one of their parents. Just terrible.
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Postby spacecake on Mon Jan 27, 2020 9:59 am

It's hard to process. A very sad day. RIP Mamba
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Postby Breems on Mon Jan 27, 2020 1:49 pm

This hasn't left my mind all day.

My wife told me this morning, and I assumed it was a hoax or meme. Got an ESPN notification a few seconds later. Hit me like a ton of bricks.

Like many others, Kobe got me into basketball. Loved his Lakers teams. RIP, and long live the Mamba Mentality.
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Postby kibaxx7 on Mon Jan 27, 2020 2:28 pm

Completely speechless. It's my girlfriend's birthday today and this just tells me to hold her even tighter tomorrow, because everything happens randomly, and one second you're here and the next everything you love just evaporates. A sad afternoon. :cry:
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Postby Manni Live on Mon Jan 27, 2020 2:36 pm

Seems like a nightmare i just cant wake up from. The NBA will never be the same, what a tragic way for him and his daughter to go out. RIP Kobe & Gianna
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Postby Andrew on Mon Jan 27, 2020 3:13 pm

It's still difficult to wrap my head around the fact that Kobe is going to be a posthumous Hall of Fame inductee.
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Postby Jeffx on Mon Jan 27, 2020 3:26 pm

Jerry West said it all....."today was just a godawful day".

Haven't felt this sad about a celebrity passing since Prince.

This f-ing sucks.....RIP to all
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Re: TMZ reporting Kobe dead in a helicopter crash

Postby Kevin on Mon Jan 27, 2020 3:48 pm

This isn't fucking real. This isn't real. No way theres just no fucking way. Im so gutted man. Ugly crying for hours cant stop it all feels so surreal.

This shit sucks so fucking much. I fucking hate it man. Kobe was basketball for me. He was the epitome of greatness. I looked up to him all of my life. This is too fucking depressing man what the fuck how can I even watch basketball now without crying my eyes out.
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Postby Pep on Mon Jan 27, 2020 4:47 pm

First Stern, now Kobe (among with others passengers), what a terrible month for NBA and basketball from around the world...
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Re: TMZ reporting Kobe dead in a helicopter crash

Postby MadbaLL on Mon Jan 27, 2020 5:46 pm

i still refuse to belive... i don't want to belive :cry: :roll:

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Postby Moz on Mon Jan 27, 2020 10:15 pm

Andrew wrote:It's still difficult to wrap my head around the fact that Kobe is going to be a posthumous Hall of Fame inductee.


There you go...
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It'll be his first year of eligibility which he'll be a sure-in. He won't have the chance to make his rebuttals on Shaq's speech and we won't see if it's Jerry West or MJ that will be with him when he go up the podium.
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Re: TMZ reporting Kobe dead in a helicopter crash

Postby eduardonba on Tue Jan 28, 2020 7:39 am

I cant believe, it seems that it was due to the bad weather conditions, they were flying very low.
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Re: TMZ reporting Kobe dead in a helicopter crash

Postby [Hyperize] on Tue Jan 28, 2020 9:31 am

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Kobe used to tell T-Mac all the time that he "Wanted to die young"... weird.
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Postby rise on Tue Jan 28, 2020 10:38 am

coming out of hiding to say I still can't believe this is real. RIP Kobe. Was really looking forward to seeing him become some sort of wise basketball wizard every nba player looks to for advice.
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Re: TMZ reporting Kobe dead in a helicopter crash

Postby mp3 on Tue Jan 28, 2020 8:32 pm

Iam still really shocked and hurt by this, the way they went was just awful.

As big of a Jordan fan I am now I wasn't able the time he played because he stood in the way of the Knicks a lot, Kobe playing out west kind of allowed me to appreciate him from day one which watching the nba since I was a 10 year old back in 91 Jordan was already going into his prime.

But for Kobe I was able to watch him coming into the league and turn in a global superstar,we all debate about LeBron and Jordan but for me Kobe was always the player I compared Jordan with, there play style there confidence and there drive to do it alone separated them from LeBron.

Kobe been taken is hard but as a parent to a daughter of my own it's hard to see young girls like this been tragically killed in this event, only peace I find is that the two young women have at least one parent there with them but I wish this never happened at all it's just my way of dealing with it.

R.I.P Kobe thanks for the memories and been an nba live head I remember the tough tough battles growing up going against the Lakers!
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Re: TMZ reporting Kobe dead in a helicopter crash

Postby skoadam on Wed Jan 29, 2020 10:14 am

:( #2 on my all time list, RIP Kobe.
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