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And now, the Low Post-Podcast.

The Low Post-Podcast on a somber day, the one-year anniversary of the death of Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gigi and other passengers in their helicopter.

And to help us commemorate that day and remember Kobe Bryant, I think it's very fitting that we begin with the three most anticipated words in Niche Basketball podcasts, which were uttered by Kobe Bryant to my guest and they are, what up, Beck?

What's that, I'm not Zach. Thank you for having me on this somber day, which I don't even know how to process this a year later, still. It's strange.

And I'll tell you this before we get into it. One of the things I've noticed in the last day or so, a couple of days and working on a couple of stories about this and some video for S.I and everything.

I've realized that this still hits me in a way that I don't quite understand. Like, none of us in this business, I think we're like close, close to Kobe.

You know, I covered him for a bunch of years and up close and then covered him a bunch of years from a distance.

And the more I reread stuff and the more I talk about it, I can't even understand my own emotional response, which is a strange thing to say out loud.

But I find myself, as I start reread stuff, getting really choked up and emotional again. And this is not a family member. It's not a friend. If somebody I covered and was fond of, also had some really tense, rough moments with over the years, it still hits me really freaking hard.

I can only imagine for people who idolized him, who were mentored by him, who were just who were passionate fans of his. I can only imagine the way this affects people still.

So yeah, a year later, it still kind of rattles me a little in a way that I'm not sure I understand.

It feels at the same time like it just happened and it happened in another lifetime.

Yesterday, I found myself surprised that a year had already passed. But also because of the pandemic, everything that was pre-pandemic feels like it happened in a world that's a thousand miles away.

So even just digesting the time and everything is a little bit confusing. So a year ago today, I was flying to Los Angeles from New York. And we had just reached whatever feet that the Wi-Fi kicks in.

And I was sitting down. So we had just taken off and I was opened up my laptop and was going to pre-write some of my 10 things column to try to use my time wisely, get ahead of the week. I was going out for a week on the jump. And we got this email from our news team saying, hey, TMZ is reporting,

and I just remember sitting there thinking, what? This is obviously going to be a hoax like everybody else thought. And just I'll just never that whole flight. We had five hours left in the flight to the place where Kobe Bryant played and had so many beloved fans. It was a very strange sensation, even then.

And I find the whole where were you think a little bit morbid. And I don't really want to get into it so much more. But you wrote a piece today that I thought I didn't really have the energy to write anything more on Kobe. I wrote a big piece a day after he passed last year about him. And what he meant to the game and his, his,

will say interesting personality. And, and you wrote a piece today that I thought I'm glad you wrote this particular angle. And the angle is where Kobe Bryant's game style and spirit sort of lives on in current NBA players. And you chose five or six sort of avatars for various aspects of Kobe's personality.

Why did you choose that route? And the one that I want you to dig into the most because I think it's the most interesting is Christian wood. What drew you to Christian wood of all people as what I think of Kobe Bryant. I do not think of Christian wood perpetually late, somewhat unreliable.

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