Kobe Bryant and others Dead in Helicopter crash
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Vanessa Bryant said she's still trying to process the loss of her husband and daughter and asked for people to continue to pray for all the victims of the helicopter crash.
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Gayle..
THIS is why we mad at your questions.
Vanessa Bryant expresses grief, anger in post
Vanessa Bryant said she's still trying to process the loss of her husband and daughter and asked for people to continue to pray for all the victims of the helicopter crash.
Gayle..
THIS is why we mad at your questions.
I can't imagine how her and the three daughters feel,right now. She lost a husband and daughter while the daughters lost a father and sister.. And,in the middle of all this you have people being major assholes...
They weren't able to stop him from earning $1 billion playing basketball through false rape accusations. I published an article that Cosby attempts at acquiring a major Historically White Corporation kicked off this violent response to rappers, athletes, and entertainers. At that time Kobe was the heir apparent to Michael Jordan. The accuser was making white supremacist dog whistle to her friends after the episode knowing it would become public. This interview that he did on CNBC was an affront to their prior effort to cripple his earnings. Now he is setting up a venture capital fund that is worth $2 billion and publicly talking about it. It enraged them and they took action to shut him down for good.
Kobe setting up this venture capital fund was a metaphor to what he suffered when he was just starting out. It reminds me of MLK when he promoted his socialist agenda and talked about the Vietnam War, linking the two events. He received a bullet coming out of his hotel room.
I think he figured out what happened to him and directly confronted the saboteurs on TV.
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Kobe Bryant was no rapist
By Andrea Peyser
February 10, 2020 | 12:42pm
Kobe Bryant, star athlete, adored husband, beloved superdad, was no rapist. That should be the end of it. Nothing to see here.
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Instead, King and others in the media continued harping on a long-ago sexual assault allegation against Bryant, which led to no prosecution, no professional penalty and no divorce.
I attended the case’s 2003 preliminary hearing in Eagle, Colorado — a kind of mini-trial to determine if there is to be a real one. I traveled to the altitude sickness-inducing town 6,000 feet above sea level expecting to see Bryant presented as a spoiled testosterone case who didn’t understand the meaning of “no.”
What I found was quite different.
It makes little sense to re-litigate this ugly chapter, but circumstances are making this necessary. At the time she encountered Bryant in the hotel in which she worked, on June 30, 2003, the accuser was 19. Bryant was all of 24, and the married father of an infant.
Soon, we learned more details about the pair’s sexual liaison than we wanted to know. The defense brought up the fact that the accuser had told a friend, excitedly, before getting close to Bryant that she expected the celeb to “put the moves” on her.
She secretly entered Bryant’s hotel room through a back door — so no one would see.
None of this precludes the possibility of sexual assault. However, among the intimate details to emerge in the preliminary hearing was this: Once the pair were having sex — over the back of a chair — the victim felt pain and asked Bryant to stop. And he did.
I don’t know what happened to make the young woman suddenly feel like a victim. Or why, after the case was prepared, she abruptly ended her cooperation with the prosecution. The criminal case against Kobe Bryant was dropped.
By Andrea Peyser
February 10, 2020 | 12:42pm
Kobe Bryant, star athlete, adored husband, beloved superdad, was no rapist. That should be the end of it. Nothing to see here.
Kobe Bryant was no rapist
Kobe Bryant, star athlete, adored husband, beloved superdad, was no rapist. That should be the end of it. Nothing to see here. Sadly, in this #MeToo era, it isn’t. So many people who don’t know wha…
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Instead, King and others in the media continued harping on a long-ago sexual assault allegation against Bryant, which led to no prosecution, no professional penalty and no divorce.
I attended the case’s 2003 preliminary hearing in Eagle, Colorado — a kind of mini-trial to determine if there is to be a real one. I traveled to the altitude sickness-inducing town 6,000 feet above sea level expecting to see Bryant presented as a spoiled testosterone case who didn’t understand the meaning of “no.”
What I found was quite different.
It makes little sense to re-litigate this ugly chapter, but circumstances are making this necessary. At the time she encountered Bryant in the hotel in which she worked, on June 30, 2003, the accuser was 19. Bryant was all of 24, and the married father of an infant.
Soon, we learned more details about the pair’s sexual liaison than we wanted to know. The defense brought up the fact that the accuser had told a friend, excitedly, before getting close to Bryant that she expected the celeb to “put the moves” on her.
She secretly entered Bryant’s hotel room through a back door — so no one would see.
None of this precludes the possibility of sexual assault. However, among the intimate details to emerge in the preliminary hearing was this: Once the pair were having sex — over the back of a chair — the victim felt pain and asked Bryant to stop. And he did.
I don’t know what happened to make the young woman suddenly feel like a victim. Or why, after the case was prepared, she abruptly ended her cooperation with the prosecution. The criminal case against Kobe Bryant was dropped.
They weren't able to stop him from earning $1 billion playing basketball through false rape accusations. I published an article that Cosby attempts at acquiring a major Historically White Corporation kicked off this violent response to rappers, athletes, and entertainers. At that time Kobe was the heir apparent to Michael Jordan. The accuser was making white supremacist dog whistle to her friends after the episode knowing it would become public. This interview that he did on CNBC was an affront to their prior effort to cripple his earnings. Now he is setting up a venture capital fund that is worth $2 billion and publicly talking about it. It enraged them and they took action to shut him down for good.
Kobe setting up this venture capital fund was a metaphor to what he suffered when he was just starting out. It reminds me of MLK when he promoted his socialist agenda and talked about the Vietnam War, linking the two events. He received a bullet coming out of his hotel room.
I think he figured out what happened to him and directly confronted the saboteurs on TV.
I hear you, and I wouldn't rule out a murder: Black people have been murdered for less.
Great explanation of Kobe by Gilbert Arenas......
This nigga gonna get one right on his forehead probably
"CALL ME NOW" *Ms Cleo voice*
The golf bag of Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland beside a green showing the special head covers for his metal woods and putter remembering Kobe Bryant during the pro-am as a preview for the Genesis Invitational at the Riviera Country Club on February 12, 2020 in Pacific Palisades, California.
Someone on here called it.. said he was gonna do something like this
The game is a member here.. brah
Yeah me...I was replying to my own post from 2 weeks ago when I said he would do this.
Kobe Bryant and his daughter have been laid to rest at a cemetery near the Pacific coast, death records show
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Kobe Bryant and his daughter have been laid to rest at a cemetery near the Pacific coast, death records show
NBA legend Kobe Bryant and his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, were buried Friday at a Southern California cemetery following their deaths January 26 in a helicopter crash, death certificates released Tuesday by Los Angeles County officials show.
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Kobe Bryant, daughter Gianna buried in private family service last week
With a public memorial service set for Feb. 24, Kobe and Gianna Bryant were laid to rest in a private burial last week, records show.
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Jennifer Hudson is set to perform a tribute to Kobe Bryant
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Tiger opens Riviera with 69, pays tribute to Kobe
Tiger Woods, seeking his first win at Riviera Country Club, eagled his opening hole and made two more birdies to shoot 31 over the first nine holes. But then he cooled off and settled for a 69.
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Kobe Bryant, Tim Duncan, Kevin Garnett headline Hall of Fame finalists
CHICAGO -- The star-studded Class of 2020 for the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame took one step closer to induction as Tim Duncan, Kevin Garnett and the late Kobe Bryant were all officially named as finalists on Friday.
They were joined by 10-time WNBA All-Star Tamika Catchings of the Indiana Fever, coach Kim Mulkey of three-time women's NCAA champion Baylor, five-time Division II coach of the year Barbara Stevens of Bentley University, four-time NCAA coach of the year Eddie Sutton and former Houston Rockets coach Rudy Tomjanovich, who won two NBA titles.
From the moment Garnett, Duncan and Bryant were all eligible to be inducted this year, there was no doubt all three -- each among the greatest ever to play the sport -- would be enshrined on Aug. 29 in Springfield, Massachusetts.
Being a lock as a finalist didn't make the moment any less special for Garnett, who was on hand for the announcement in the same city where he spent his senior year of high school playing at Farragut Academy before being drafted fifth overall by the Minnesota Timberwolves in 1995.
"He'd probably think this is pretty awesome right here," Garnett said with a smile when asked what the 18-year-old version of himself would've said back in 1995 about Friday's announcement. "The Hall of Fame is something you don't really think about. It just happens."
The basketball world still is reeling from sudden and tragic losses.
Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven others were killed Jan. 26 when the helicopter they were aboard crashed in Calabasas, California, as they were flying to a basketball tournament where Gianna was to play with her team.
In addition, David Stern, the NBA commissioner during the most successful period in league history, died Jan. 1 as a result of a brain hemorrhage. He was 77.
The combination of Bryant's passing and the enormity of the three names atop the ballot caused the Hall's nominating committee, led by chairman Jerry Colangelo, to change its rules this year by limiting the class to eight nominees to be voted upon and eliminating the direct-elect selections on a one-year trial basis.
The goal, Colangelo said, was to avoid the lesser-known honorees being lost amid the interest in the star names headlining this year's event.
"[That's] because of the enormity -- even before Kobe's death -- that we think Kobe and Duncan and Garnett bring to it," Colangelo said. "We've never had a class that strong at the top. And of course with Kobe's death, it added more focus.
"We thought the way of dealing with it was eliminating some direct-elects on a one-year basis. We have that flexibility, fortunately, to do it because some people could get lost in the shuffle, really, in terms of getting their due."
Colangelo also addressed the speculation that, in the wake of Bryant's death, he would be enshrined in the Hall without a vote.
"No, no, no," Colangelo said. "I have no idea where those things started. We have a process and you follow the process. When we met in Dallas after his death, we had to deal with that, and the way we dealt with it was we weren't going to submit a lot of names. We were going to make it a small class.
"We want everyone to get their due. It's important. It's sensitive. We have a job to do between now and the end of August, that it is that kind of a program and production. As sad as it all is, we have to deal with all of that, and life goes on in the world of basketball and the Hall of Fame and we don't want to take away from the people here who are the prospective inductees."
"To think that you were doing something that you love so much, and then they're going to give you this unbelievable award? I know it's a cliché, but it's overwhelming."
The Hall's Class of 2020 will be announced during the NCAA Final Four in Atlanta on April 4. The Hall's Honors Committee -- made up of Hall of Famers, basketball executives, media members and others -- will vote on the finalists, who must receive 18 of 24 votes to be enshrined.
CHICAGO -- The star-studded Class of 2020 for the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame took one step closer to induction as Tim Duncan, Kevin Garnett and the late Kobe Bryant were all officially named as finalists on Friday.
They were joined by 10-time WNBA All-Star Tamika Catchings of the Indiana Fever, coach Kim Mulkey of three-time women's NCAA champion Baylor, five-time Division II coach of the year Barbara Stevens of Bentley University, four-time NCAA coach of the year Eddie Sutton and former Houston Rockets coach Rudy Tomjanovich, who won two NBA titles.
From the moment Garnett, Duncan and Bryant were all eligible to be inducted this year, there was no doubt all three -- each among the greatest ever to play the sport -- would be enshrined on Aug. 29 in Springfield, Massachusetts.
Being a lock as a finalist didn't make the moment any less special for Garnett, who was on hand for the announcement in the same city where he spent his senior year of high school playing at Farragut Academy before being drafted fifth overall by the Minnesota Timberwolves in 1995.
"He'd probably think this is pretty awesome right here," Garnett said with a smile when asked what the 18-year-old version of himself would've said back in 1995 about Friday's announcement. "The Hall of Fame is something you don't really think about. It just happens."
The basketball world still is reeling from sudden and tragic losses.
Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven others were killed Jan. 26 when the helicopter they were aboard crashed in Calabasas, California, as they were flying to a basketball tournament where Gianna was to play with her team.
In addition, David Stern, the NBA commissioner during the most successful period in league history, died Jan. 1 as a result of a brain hemorrhage. He was 77.
The combination of Bryant's passing and the enormity of the three names atop the ballot caused the Hall's nominating committee, led by chairman Jerry Colangelo, to change its rules this year by limiting the class to eight nominees to be voted upon and eliminating the direct-elect selections on a one-year trial basis.
The goal, Colangelo said, was to avoid the lesser-known honorees being lost amid the interest in the star names headlining this year's event.
"[That's] because of the enormity -- even before Kobe's death -- that we think Kobe and Duncan and Garnett bring to it," Colangelo said. "We've never had a class that strong at the top. And of course with Kobe's death, it added more focus.
"We thought the way of dealing with it was eliminating some direct-elects on a one-year basis. We have that flexibility, fortunately, to do it because some people could get lost in the shuffle, really, in terms of getting their due."
Colangelo also addressed the speculation that, in the wake of Bryant's death, he would be enshrined in the Hall without a vote.
"No, no, no," Colangelo said. "I have no idea where those things started. We have a process and you follow the process. When we met in Dallas after his death, we had to deal with that, and the way we dealt with it was we weren't going to submit a lot of names. We were going to make it a small class.
"We want everyone to get their due. It's important. It's sensitive. We have a job to do between now and the end of August, that it is that kind of a program and production. As sad as it all is, we have to deal with all of that, and life goes on in the world of basketball and the Hall of Fame and we don't want to take away from the people here who are the prospective inductees."
ESPN's Michael Wilbon and Mike Breen were elected into the Hall of Fame as recipients of the Curt Gowdy Media Award. The Hall also added a pair of media awards this season -- the Curt Gowdy Insight Media Award and the Curt Gowdy Transformative Media Award -- and those went to Jim Gray and TNT's "Inside The NBA" program, respectively.
"It's hard to process," Breen said with a smile. "I just love the game, and to be able to call the games ... to me, that was the lottery. That was hitting the jackpot for the rest of my life.
"To think that you were doing something that you love so much, and then they're going to give you this unbelievable award? I know it's a cliché, but it's overwhelming."
The Hall's Class of 2020 will be announced during the NCAA Final Four in Atlanta on April 4. The Hall's Honors Committee -- made up of Hall of Famers, basketball executives, media members and others -- will vote on the finalists, who must receive 18 of 24 votes to be enshrined.
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