Kobe Bryant and others Dead in Helicopter crash
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20,000 fans attend memorial honoring Kobe Bryant and daughter Gianna
Thousands of mourners flocked to the Staples Center in Los Angeles on Monday to say goodbye to Kobe and Gianna Bryant, who died along with seven others in a helicopter crash last month.
Vanessa Bryant files wrongful death lawsuit against helicopter company
Attorneys for Vanessa Bryant have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the company that operated the helicopter that crashed last month, killing her husband, Kobe, and their daughter, Gigi.
Beyonce looks to the heavens as she honors her late friend Kobe Bryant
Beyonce looked to the heavens as she honored her late friend Kobe Bryant at his public memorial on Monday.
I'm pretty sure that was Beyonce.
Faggot! Shut the fuck up and enjoy the tiddies you cracka rapist loving cunt. Caping for a cracka rapist and complaining about tiddies. What kinda hoe ass shit is that.
he's trolling. don't fall for it.
Comes on again tonight in ESPN2 at 11
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Wonder what gayle and barkley gonna say today
Thats wasted time & energy wondering what they think!
Both of the above mentioned pay their invoices early & or on time. Does that matter ? Yes, because we are Black & doing business. And both are extremely generous on top to those who provided the services rendered.
Wake up an hour early, or go to bed an hour late & allocate that 1 hour to your passion. Whether its your your gig, business or hobby or working out. Your results will bloom !!!
You will slowly eliminate the need the apply others success to some fucking conspiracy & see that real time dedicated will equal results. Actual gifts & talent with that dedication to said craft can equal greatness!
Wow...
Seeing Jordan like that
The way he spoke it was so heartfelt
I think will change his image forever
Seeing Jordan like that
The way he spoke it was so heartfelt
I think will change his image forever
Eliminate the need for excuses & your quality of life will improve.
Thanks man. It's not on my DirecTV schedule. I would have missed it
Imagine Bill Russell having to explain himself to some crackas. Bill, you owe zero explanation.
They need to do a 30 for 30 on the hell Boston put black players thru
Especially Russell and Ewing
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Shit don’t even need to be explained. He’ll probably wasn’t even Bill replying to those fuck boys. Some shit is bigger than sports. Couch potato armchair hoes don’t get that.
Man this shit sad. This shit just don’t feel right. Father and daughter.......shit still don’t feel right. Can’t even imagine being Vanessa......
Pix?
That "thank you Kobe" montage is incredible-- He really did get to see his own eulogy.
Kobe Bryant Taught Himself How to Play Piano to Stop His Wife Vanessa From Divorcing Him
BYCHRIS YUSCAVAGE
News Editor. @cyuscavage
Apr 19, 2016
Image via @kobebryant on Instagram
Yesterday was Kobe and Vanessa Bryant’s 15th wedding anniversary. Looking back now, it’s kind of crazy that Kobe and Vanessa got married just four days before the start of the 2001 NBA Playoffs, which ended with the Lakers winning the NBA championship. But that’s when they decided to get hitched, and they're still going strong all these years later.
As you probably know, though, marriage hasn’t always been easy for the couple. They nearly broke up after Kobe was accused of sexual assault in Colorado in 2003, and back in 2011, Vanessa actually went as far as to file for divorce from Kobe. She cited “irreconcilable differences” as her official reason for wanting a divorce, and at the time, numerous sources told TMZ Sports that infidelity was at the heart of her decision to divorce Kobe.
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But Kobe was determined not to let his marriage end in divorce. According to an excellent new The Undefeated story on Kobe—written by Ramona Shelburne—Kobe worked tirelessly to try and convince Vanessa not to divorce him. But he didn’t do it by sending her dozens of flowers (or by buying her a $4 million ring!). Instead, he did it by learning to play Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata” on the piano. And since this is Kobe we’re talking about it, he didn’t learn to play by hiring someone to teach him. He taught himself.
“I wanted to play something nice for Vanessa,” he told Shelburne. “Sitting down and taking lessons would be too easy. So I taught myself by ear.”
It wasn’t easy, but Kobe spent hours listening to “Moonlight Sonata” on loop, and eventually, he was able to learn how to play the song.
“If you just sit down and say, ‘I’m going to learn this thing until I do,’" he said, “there’s not really much out there that you can’t figure out eventually.”
Kobe was also able to convince Vanessa not to divorce him.
You can watch Kobe play the song here:
He also tweeted about playing the song after a loss to the Bulls in 2013:
Talk about setting the bar high for the rest of the guys in the world...
Shelburne’s Kobe story is filled with tons of gems just like this one. You can check it out here. You can also check out a great look at Kobe’s final game here.
BYCHRIS YUSCAVAGE
News Editor. @cyuscavage
Apr 19, 2016
Image via @kobebryant on Instagram
Yesterday was Kobe and Vanessa Bryant’s 15th wedding anniversary. Looking back now, it’s kind of crazy that Kobe and Vanessa got married just four days before the start of the 2001 NBA Playoffs, which ended with the Lakers winning the NBA championship. But that’s when they decided to get hitched, and they're still going strong all these years later.
As you probably know, though, marriage hasn’t always been easy for the couple. They nearly broke up after Kobe was accused of sexual assault in Colorado in 2003, and back in 2011, Vanessa actually went as far as to file for divorce from Kobe. She cited “irreconcilable differences” as her official reason for wanting a divorce, and at the time, numerous sources told TMZ Sports that infidelity was at the heart of her decision to divorce Kobe.
ADVERTISING
But Kobe was determined not to let his marriage end in divorce. According to an excellent new The Undefeated story on Kobe—written by Ramona Shelburne—Kobe worked tirelessly to try and convince Vanessa not to divorce him. But he didn’t do it by sending her dozens of flowers (or by buying her a $4 million ring!). Instead, he did it by learning to play Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata” on the piano. And since this is Kobe we’re talking about it, he didn’t learn to play by hiring someone to teach him. He taught himself.
“I wanted to play something nice for Vanessa,” he told Shelburne. “Sitting down and taking lessons would be too easy. So I taught myself by ear.”
It wasn’t easy, but Kobe spent hours listening to “Moonlight Sonata” on loop, and eventually, he was able to learn how to play the song.
“If you just sit down and say, ‘I’m going to learn this thing until I do,’" he said, “there’s not really much out there that you can’t figure out eventually.”
Kobe was also able to convince Vanessa not to divorce him.
You can watch Kobe play the song here:
He also tweeted about playing the song after a loss to the Bulls in 2013:
Talk about setting the bar high for the rest of the guys in the world...
Shelburne’s Kobe story is filled with tons of gems just like this one. You can check it out here. You can also check out a great look at Kobe’s final game here.
Hours after honoring Kobe and Gianna Bryant, Oregon star Sabrina Ionescu makes NCAA history
Oregon's Sabrina Ionescu became the first player, man or woman, to tally 2,000 points, 1,000 assists and 1,000 rebounds in NCAA Division I history.
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Vanessa Bryant sues helicopter operator in crash that killed Kobe Bryant and 8 others
Vanessa Bryant at a public memorial Monday in Los Angeles for her husband, NBA great Kobe Bryant, and their daughter Gianna. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters)
By
Lori Aratani
Feb. 24, 2020 at 9:20 p.m. EST
Lawyers for Vanessa Bryant, the widow of Lakers great Kobe Bryant, on Monday filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the company that operated the helicopter that crashed into a California hillside last month, killing her husband, 13-year-old daughter and seven others.
The suit was filed on the same day that thousands of fans gathered at the Staples Center in Los Angeles to remember Bryant and his daughter Gianna. The lawsuit alleges that the helicopter company, Island Express, was “vicariously liable” for any and all actions of pilot Ara George Zobayan, including his “negligent and careless piloting.”
“Defendant Island Express Helicopters authorized and/or permitted a flight with full knowledge that the subject helicopter was flying into unsafe weather conditions,” the suit filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court alleges.
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A memorial to Kobe Bryant is one of the new murals to appear on the art wall at the Vertical Church in Yuma, Ariz. (Randy Hoeft/The Yuma Sun/AP)
The suit also faults Zobayan for failing to “properly monitor and assess” the weather before takeoff and for failing to “abort the flight when he knew of the cloudy conditions.”
In an emailed statement, a spokesman for Island Express said: “This was a tragic accident. We will have no comment on the pending litigation.”
Bryant, who regularly flew in helicopters, was traveling with Gianna and the others to a basketball tournament at his Mamba Sports Academy in Thousand Oaks when they were killed in the Jan. 26 crash near Calabasas, Calif., about 30 miles northwest of Los Angeles.
The investigation is ongoing, but many have focused on the poor weather conditions the morning of the crash. There were low clouds and restricted visibility in the area.
Video included as part of an update released this month by investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board showed the helicopter disappearing into clouds before emerging. A witness on a nearby mountain bike trail spotted the helicopter shortly before it slammed into a hillside. The NTSB report did not indicate why the helicopter crashed. An analysis of the crash site and the account by the witness indicated the engine was supplying power to the helicopter’s rotors up until the moment of impact.
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A full report into the crash is likely to take a year or more to complete.
Zobayan, 50, had amassed about 8,200 hours of flight time and had held a commercial pilot’s certificate since 2007. Former colleagues described Zobayan, who spent a decade working for Island Express Helicopters, as cautious and professional. In his time at the company, he regularly served as Bryant’s pilot.
However, the lawsuit noted that in May 2015, Zobayan had previously been cited by the Federal Aviation Administration for violating visual flight rules by flying into an airspace of reduced visibility from weather conditions.
On the day of the crash, Zobayan had requested and received permission to pass through controlled airspace near the Burbank and Van Nuys airports in worse-than-normal visibility. Shortly after, he followed a helicopter route along Highway 101. He ascended to 2,300 feet and started to turn left before, for unknown reasons, the helicopter began diving at a high speed into a hillside.
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Helicopter carrying Kobe Bryant disappeared into clouds, then emerged in front of witness who saw deadly crash, NTSB says
The Bryant crash was the most high-profile of several recent deadly incidents involving helicopters. In December, a tour flight crashed in Hawaii in bad weather, killing seven people. In June, a helicopter hit a skyscraper in New York, bursting into flames and killing the pilot. In all, 51 people were killed in helicopter crashes last year, according to the U.S. Helicopter Safety Team, a joint industry and government group.
Bryant was a teenage phenomenon who entered the National Basketball Association straight out of high school in 1996. He was selected by the Charlotte Hornets but was immediately traded to the Los Angeles Lakers, where he spent his entire 20-year career.
He retired as the NBA’s third-all-time leading scorer with 33,643 points and was expected to be inducted to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on the first ballot this summer. He was a headlining member of a star-studded class that also includes Tim Duncan and Kevin Garnett.
Legal: Vanessa Bryant sues helicopter operator in crash that killed Kobe Bryant and 8 others
Vanessa Bryant sues helicopter operator in crash that killed Kobe Bryant and 8 others Vanessa Bryant at a public memorial Monday in Los Angeles for her husband, NBA great Kobe Bryant, and their daughter Gianna. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters) By Lori Aratani Feb. 24, 2020 at 9:20 p.m. EST Lawyers for...
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