A Look At Kobe’s Life and Career
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🗓️ 28 January 2020
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
The tributes to Kobe Bryant and other victims of Sunday’s helicopter crash continue. A number of NBA players who were close to Kobe, including Chris Paul and Kyrie Irving, have missed games . NBA teams have continued to let the 24-second shot clock run out during games to honor the former #24. The Athletic’s Andy and Brian Kamenetzky join us to reflect on the remarkable life and career of Kobe Bryant, how he’ll be remembered and what he meant to the city of Los Angeles.
You can read The Athletic's ongoing coverage of Kobe Bryant's passing here: https://theathletic.com/tag/remembering-kobe-bryant/
And revisit Kobe's relationship with Shaq on Wondery's 7-part Shaq/Kobe series on “Sports Wars”: https://wondery.com/shows/sports-wars/
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| 0:00.0 | The Tributes to Kobe Bryant and other victims of Sunday's helicopter crash in Calabasas, |
| 0:11.8 | California, continue. |
| 0:13.4 | On Monday, the Yukon Women's Basketball team, where Kobe's daughter, Gianna, wanted to play, |
| 0:19.6 | set up a jersey with her number on it and a bouquet of flowers on their bench before |
| 0:23.8 | a game against Team USA. |
| 0:25.7 | A number of NBA players who were close to Kobe, including Chris Paul and Kyrie Irving, |
| 0:30.6 | have missed games since his death. |
| 0:33.2 | And NBA teams have continued to let the 24-second shot clock run out during games to honor |
| 0:38.8 | the former number 24. |
| 0:40.4 | Today, the Athletics Andy and Brian Kaminetski are joining us to reflect on the remarkable |
| 0:45.8 | life and career of Kobe Bryant to talk about how he'll be remembered and what he meant |
| 0:51.3 | to the city of Los Angeles. |
| 0:53.8 | From wondering on the athletic, I'm Kaby the Davidson. |
| 0:56.6 | And I'm Anders Keltow. |
| 0:57.6 | It's Tuesday, January 28th, and this is the new year. |
| 1:02.1 | It felt like something great was going to come. |
| 1:05.7 | There was just something about seeing motion in it. |
| 1:09.2 | You got to go faster, faster. |
| 1:11.2 | The failures of the past don't matter because we've got this now. |
| 1:14.0 | I have never seen anything like that. |
| 1:16.8 | This isn't a story where you interview the athlete with a home. |
| 1:21.0 | It stays with you. |
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