Kobe Bryant Dead

iamtheoneneo · 27 Jan 2020 at 10:22

If your in your mid 30s you should know who he is...he was talked about quite a bit in the school playground whilst trading panini stickers!
I think its more of an age thing to be honest especially in the UK where most aren't watching basketball regularly.

weathmatth · 27 Jan 2020 at 10:41

What a legend. RIP

Scania · 27 Jan 2020 at 11:07

Afraid I also had no idea who the guy was.

RIP anyway.

jonneymendoza said:
I guess you dont know who Micheal Jordan is either?

Something to do with trainers?

Nope, I’m afraid I know the Michael Jordan name but off the top of my head I don’t recall what he’s famous for, probably because his sport / whatever isn’t in my interest group.

VincentHanna · 27 Jan 2020 at 11:09

iamtheoneneo said:
If your in your mid 30s you should know who he is...he was talked about quite a bit in the school playground whilst trading panini stickers!
I think its more of an age thing to be honest especially in the UK where most aren't watching basketball regularly.

I'm 37 and though I had heard of the name and associated it with a huge Basketball star, I really had no clue who he was.

Basketball panani stickers weren't a thing at my school. It was always football.

Efour · 27 Jan 2020 at 11:28

Yep Michael Jordan was my generations star, if he had died I'd be oh that guy.

Or Shaq attack on some reebok pump trainers.

VincentHanna · 27 Jan 2020 at 11:36

Efour said:
Yep Michael Jordan was my generations star, if he had died I'd be oh that guy.

Or Shaq attack on some reebok pump trainers.

Yeah, Jordan did that Space Jam movie in 1996 which I remember was big at the time (I never saw it)

SPG · 27 Jan 2020 at 11:36

jonneymendoza said:
So no, you dont know micheal jordan....

Dont you watch the news? reportages? documentaries??

Im sure even on ocuk forum there has been threads about kobe bryant about other topics in here.

My point is you have to be living under a rock for the past 20 years to not know who this man is

It seems so, each to their own but its a boring game with only the last 30 seconds being interesting, but then its much shorter than F1 which is boring for the entire race so it this on F1 i guess.

byeo · 27 Jan 2020 at 11:55

iamtheoneneo said:
If your in your mid 30s you should know who he is...he was talked about quite a bit in the school playground whilst trading panini stickers!
I think its more of an age thing to be honest especially in the UK where most aren't watching basketball regularly.

Really? I know who he is but can't remember people talking about him at school or trading basketball stickers, Premier League stickers on the other hand..

robfosters · 27 Jan 2020 at 11:57

byeo said:
Really? I know who he is but can't remember people talking about him at school or trading basketball stickers, Premier League stickers on the other hand..

It wasn’t called trading, it was swopsies

byeo · 27 Jan 2020 at 12:13

robfosters said:
It wasn’t called trading, it was swopsies

Don't forget, shinies are worth more

uncle_rufus · 27 Jan 2020 at 12:40

A lot of people know his name at least purely because in a lot of fps games it has become commonplace to yell out "Kobe!" either before attempting, or in response to, a particularly tricky throw (of a grenade or other thrown projectile) - if that's not a sign of how well known he was I don't know what is

Gman · 27 Jan 2020 at 12:45

It good to see no one gives a **** about the pilot and his family.

BowdonUK · 27 Jan 2020 at 13:05

Kobe Bryant death: BBC apologises for TV news footage mistake
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51259479

The BBC has apologised after footage of LeBron James was mistakenly included in its coverage of the death of his fellow basketball star Kobe Bryant.

Footage of James beating Bryant's career points tally appeared in the BBC's News At Ten programme on Sunday.

b00merang69 · 27 Jan 2020 at 13:09

ThestigGT999 said:
then why would you post in this thread?

also, you could idk find out about someone by searching online

(edited out links to keep tidy)

I was not going to post in the thread until I found out some of you think its unbelievable and we are making it up to be cool that we have never heard of him, so since I posted that it would not be right to not say RIP for ALL who died.

You really need to grow some common sense!

linktoinsanity · 27 Jan 2020 at 13:26

Have heard the name and associated it with basketball. Did not know much until reading up on him since this news. Sad to read, RIP.

RIP to everyone else involved in the crash as well, must be heartbreaking for their families.

Junglist · 27 Jan 2020 at 13:36

This still hasn't sunk in for me just yet it's really scrambling my brain. High profile deaths rarely bother me but this one just doesn't sit right, not at all. It's weird but at some point I almost expect some news to come out saying it wasn't true.

Yas786 · 27 Jan 2020 at 14:06

JunglistE said:
This still hasn't sunk in for me just yet it's really scrambling my brain. High profile deaths rarely bother me but this one just doesn't sit right, not at all. It's weird but at some point I almost expect some news to come out saying it wasn't true.

Yeh same here, at first I thought it was some sort of joke then more and more news started coming out and I was just gobsmacked. Especially as his daughter was onboard, that made it even more tragic

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God knows what his family, his remaining kids are going through. His little baby born a month ago will never meet him as well which is just tragic.
Also the others that were killed in the crash, it’s just as tragic for them as Kobe’s family

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May they all RIP

randomshenans · 27 Jan 2020 at 14:12

TBH it's hit me more than I thought. I really admired the guy and his work ethic. He was a huge influence growing up. I feel terrible for everyone involved. Someone else lost a daughter and husband too.

ThestigGT999 · 27 Jan 2020 at 14:24

b00merang69 said:
(edited out links to keep tidy)

I was not going to post in the thread until I found out some of you think its unbelievable and we are making it up to be cool that we have never heard of him, so since I posted that it would not be right to not say RIP for ALL who died.

You really need to grow some common sense!

read the posts I quoted and yes my condolences go out to the friends and families of all involved.

R.P.L · 27 Jan 2020 at 14:24

RIP - one of the all-time great sportspeople.

As it's being discussed here, I've often wondered why people come into this type of thread to say that they've never heard of the person. Who gives a ****? Google them if you want to know, or go and do something else if you don't care.