Kobe Bryant Dead

neckbeardthethird · 27 Jan 2020 at 18:24

Malevolence said:
Everyone? I've gamed on nearly every console since the Atari 2600 and I've never played any of those, and to be honest I can't remember any of my friends playing them either..

Ok, everyone i knew. NBA Jam was a religion in school, everyone played it.

thedoc46 · 27 Jan 2020 at 19:05

I live in the USA and couldn't tell you what team he played for. I may of possibly been able to call his name, if it was put in front of me, but no way would i of been 100% sure. The basketball players seem to be the biggest athletes, as in Michael Jordan, LeBron James and I guess the now deceased Koby Bryant. I don't expect people from the UK to know anything more than his name. Over here in the US for example, no one knew who Michael Schumacher was after his accident. I mean no-one. And F1 is supposed to be a world sport. Americans are very insular when it comes to sport. I'd hazard a guess 75% didn't even know the world cup was on, when it was on. Yet 90% will sit down and tune into the super bowl, to watch 3hrs of commercials and 1 hr of actual gameplay. Anyway RIP i guess.

neckbeardthethird · 27 Jan 2020 at 19:08

thedoc46 said:
3hrs of commercials and 1 hr of actual gameplay.

12 minutes if we're being accurate

It's the biggest con of a sport ever, 12 minutes of the ball actually being in play and 3 hours of adverts, replays, crowd shots, stat analysis and more adverts.

Yet i still find some enjoyment in watching it, weird.

Justintime · 28 Jan 2020 at 02:18

JunglistE said:
My friends and I were all in shock. Lakers were never my team but you see so much of Kobe and he dominated the sport in such a way it felt like we knew him. Weird but it felt like losing a friend

Kind of the same here. My dad was a big sports watcher and basketball was a fav of his so i pretty much went through the whole Bird/Magic/BarkleyJordan/Shaq/Kobe etc.. eras

jonneymendoza · 28 Jan 2020 at 07:16

thedoc46 said:
I live in the USA and couldn't tell you what team he played for. I may of possibly been able to call his name, if it was put in front of me, but no way would i of been 100% sure. The basketball players seem to be the biggest athletes, as in Michael Jordan, LeBron James and I guess the now deceased Koby Bryant. I don't expect people from the UK to know anything more than his name. Over here in the US for example, no one knew who Michael Schumacher was after his accident. I mean no-one. And F1 is supposed to be a world sport. Americans are very insular when it comes to sport. I'd hazard a guess 75% didn't even know the world cup was on, when it was on. Yet 90% will sit down and tune into the super bowl, to watch 3hrs of commercials and 1 hr of actual gameplay. Anyway RIP i guess.

I dont think f1 did many races there in the US during shumacher's days.

Make no mistake, i bet some of the US guys know who Lewis Hamilton is.

Its what u do off the scenes away from the sport that gets you recognised across the world.

Kobe bryant has laid a lot of ground work outside of the courts. His features in films, been on lots of video games and even has his own line of sneakers via Nike

jonneymendoza · 28 Jan 2020 at 07:18

SexyGreyFox said:
What has amazed me about this thread & Facebook is how many people watch Basketball.
I didn't know so many UK people were fans.

quite the opposite. im amazed a very small minority never heard of him.

aardvark · 28 Jan 2020 at 08:14

mmj_uk said:
I've heard his name but that's about it, upon doing a quick search the first thing I find is that he more or less confessed to rape to avoid conviction a few years ago and a journalist who brought it up has been threatened by the Twitter mafia and suspended from employment? tolerant liberals!

oh yeah, he's definitely a rapist, but lets forget about that as he was good at throwing balls.

jonneymendoza · 28 Jan 2020 at 08:15

aardvark said:
oh yeah, he's definitely a rapist, but lets forget about that as he was good at throwing balls.

Let's forget that he was found not guilty

Thekwango · 28 Jan 2020 at 08:20

jonneymendoza said:
Let's forget that he was found not guilty

Was he? I though it never made it to court as the woman in question decided not to testify?

jonneymendoza · 28 Jan 2020 at 08:24

Thekwango said:
Was he? I though it never made it to court as the woman in question decided not to testify?

Yes not found guilty meaning he is innocent by law

Thekwango · 28 Jan 2020 at 09:03

jonneymendoza said:
Yes not found guilty meaning he is innocent by law

Surely the law has no ‘view’ on it either way as it never went to court?

jonneymendoza · 28 Jan 2020 at 09:56

Thekwango said:
Surely the law has no ‘view’ on it either way as it never went to court?

If it never went to court then it never happened ie his innocent.

Thekwango · 28 Jan 2020 at 10:07

jonneymendoza said:
If it never went to court then it never happened ie his innocent.

Just because something doesn’t go to court doesn’t mean it never happened! I’m not saying he is a rapist btw I’m just confused as **** by your choice of words. You on the books of his PR firm?

mjt · 28 Jan 2020 at 10:07

jonneymendoza said:
If it never went to court then it never happened ie his innocent.

No, it means he was never found guilty. I never went to court for stealing that Haribo from the tuck shop in Year 6. Doesn't mean I'm innocent, and it definitely happened!

Jeez man, that's some crazy deduction there.

jonneymendoza · 28 Jan 2020 at 10:17

Thekwango said:
Just because something doesn’t go to court doesn’t mean it never happened! I’m not saying he is a rapist btw I’m just confused as **** by your choice of words. You on the books of his PR firm?

It does mean so.

I can easily criticise you of same allegation. Does that mean your guilty too without it going to court?

That's why we have a court system, to determine if someone is guilty or not

Thekwango · 28 Jan 2020 at 10:26

jonneymendoza said:
It does mean so.

I can easily criticise you of same allegation. Does that mean your guilty too without it going to court?

That's why we have a court system, to determine if someone is guilty or not

holy ****.
you said because it didn't go to court it didn't happen, ergo (in your mind) he's innocent. i simply said that just because something didn't go to court doesn't mean it didn't happen. i'm not suggesting he's guilty or innocent. but you can't state something didn't happen because it never went to court.

jonneymendoza · 28 Jan 2020 at 10:33

Thekwango said:
holy ****.
you said because it didn't go to court it didn't happen, ergo (in your mind) he's innocent. i simply said that just because something didn't go to court doesn't mean it didn't happen. i'm not suggesting he's guilty or innocent. but you can't state something didn't happen because it never went to court.

Your talking as if his guilty. My point is his not!

Thekwango · 28 Jan 2020 at 10:45

Thekwango said:
Just because something doesn’t go to court doesn’t mean it never happened! I’m not saying he is a rapist btw I’m just confused as **** by your choice of words. You on the books of his PR firm?

Thekwango said:
holy ****.
you said because it didn't go to court it didn't happen, ergo (in your mind) he's innocent. i simply said that just because something didn't go to court doesn't mean it didn't happen. i'm not suggesting he's guilty or innocent. but you can't state something didn't happen because it never went to court.

jonneymendoza said:
Your talking as if his guilty. My point is his not!

i'll highlight it for you in my posts to make it stand out more.
and i'll repeat myself again, all i am saying is you cannot say that something didn't happen just because it never went to court. there was an example posted a couple of replies up you're conveniently ignoring that explains it better.

cheesyboy · 28 Jan 2020 at 10:47

jonneymendoza said:
Your talking as if his guilty. My point is his not!

I guess his, presumably very expensive, lawyers agreeing for him to pay damages and to put out a statement saying (paraphrase) "I understand how what I did gave her the impression she was raped" does give the impression to any reasonable observer that he didn't do it.....

Thekwango · 28 Jan 2020 at 10:53

cheesyboy said:
I guess his, presumably very expensive, lawyers agreeing for him to pay damages and to put out a statement saying (paraphrase) "I understand how what I did gave her the impression she was raped" does give the impression to any reasonable observer that he didn't do it.....

Mike Tyson should have probably used the same legal team as Bryant