Kobe Killed in Helicopter Crash

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I’ve ridden a helicopter once in my life and found it to be very uncomfortable. Was envisioning this situation the entire ride.
 

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Fox News has is talking to Jim Gray right now with video at crash site.
 

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I am absolutely stunned right now. As a 29 year old, Kobe Bryant was the greatest NBA player I ever witnessed from start of career to end. Sorry for game threading.
I’m 26 and feel similarly. I loved rooting against him but there is no doubt that he has an all time great and a legend of the game. This is absolutely stunning and a huge loss for the game. Biggest NBA news I can remember.
 

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Forget basketball, he seemed like a genuinely good person who had the means and the desire to help society be a better place to be. Whoever said Clemente was right, this is pretty much this generation's version of that.
 

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I’ve ridden a helicopter once in my life and found it to be very uncomfortable. Was envisioning this situation the entire ride.
Funny was about to say the opposite...I’ve always considers helicopters very safe, safer than Cessna-style airplanes at least. Will be interesting to learn the whole story behind this although it doesn’t change the ultimate tragedy obviously.
 

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I’m 26 and feel similarly. I loved rooting against him but there is no doubt that he has an all time great and a legend of the game. This is absolutely stunning and a huge loss for the game. Biggest NBA news I can remember.
One of them. Magic Johnson's announcement was pretty huge too.
 

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I’ve ridden a helicopter once in my life and found it to be very uncomfortable. Was envisioning this situation the entire ride.
I hate riding in helicopters. They seem to fall out of the sky for no reason. I had a colleague who lost her husband in a crash. He was an instructor pilot. Not a fan of those things.

I always rooted against Kobe but have to respect the career. He was an all time great. Terrible loss for the NBA and obviously his family.
 

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I hated everything about the Mamba mentality bullshit, the underbite mean mug he'd sport and essentially his entire demeanor.

That said, he was one of the greatest to ever do it, and was as tough a competitor as they come. Watching Tony Allen and him go toe-to-toe the way they did was truly incredible basketball.

It was wonderful having him as the ultimate villain. And it's a damn shame that this is the way it ended for him. Feel for his entire family, and even Laker nation on this one.
 

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Forget basketball, he seemed like a genuinely good person who had the means and the desire to help society be a better place to be. Whoever said Clemente was right, this is pretty much this generation's version of that.
I'm not here to piss on his grave - but let's not white wash the man's history, either.

https://thinkprogress.org/the-legacy-of-the-kobe-bryant-rape-case-6a42f159be7b/
https://www.latimes.com/sports/la-xpm-2011-apr-13-la-sp-kobe-bryant-lakers-20110414-story.html
View: https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2087013-smush-parker-kobe-bryant-told-me-not-to-talk-to-him-in-practice


Great athlete. Probably even a greater asshole.
 

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Weird that CNN has a headline of "BREAKING Five killed in helicopter crash in Calabasas, California", without any mention of why that might be top world news.
 

Cesar Crespo

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How many celebs have died in small aircrafts?

I would be terrified to get in one at this point with as much frequency as they probably do.
Doesn't the frequency matter? There's a big difference between 1 in 1000 rides crashing or 1 in a million. Plenty die in cars too.
 

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Kobe lived in Newport Beach and would commute to LA by helicopter during his playing days.

This is incredibly tragic for his family and for LA. He was beloved in this city to a level beyond what I've seen elsewhere.
 

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I hated everything about the Mamba mentality bullshit, the underbite mean mug he'd sport and essentially his entire demeanor.

That said, he was one of the greatest to ever do it, and was as tough a competitor as they come. Watching Tony Allen and him go toe-to-toe the way they did was truly incredible basketball.

It was wonderful having him as the ultimate villain. And it's a damn shame that this is the way it ended for him. Feel for his entire family, and even Laker nation on this one.
Basically sums up my thoughts too. I thought the Mamba shit was annoying self-promotion and the Kobe stans to this day annoy the heck out of me; but I don’t know if anyone loved basketball more than Kobe.
 

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I hate riding in helicopters. They seem to fall out of the sky for no reason. I had a colleague who lost her husband in a crash. He was an instructor pilot. Not a fan of those things.

I always rooted against Kobe but have to respect the career. He was an all time great. Terrible loss for the NBA and obviously his family.
I might be completely wrong about this, but it seems like if you're in a plane then at least you have some chance of gliding to a "safe" landing, or at least one that doesn't end up in a pulverized mess. If your helicopter craps out, you're in a free falling hunk of metal.