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2020 NBA Championship belongs to the Los Angeles Lakers.

Hello, Lakers Nation.

Welcome and Trevor Lane here for Lakersnation.com. You're home for everything. Lakers.

This is the Lakers Nation live offseason show right now, but it's also Kobe Bryant's birthday.

Happy birthday, Kobe, joining me to talk all things Lakers, including Kobe's birthday and tomorrow being Mombaday.

Is Matt the Optimus Peralta? Matt, how are you doing, man?

I'm good, Trevor. Before we start, happy birthday, Kobe. Everyone here at Lakers Nation misses you. Happiest birthdays would have been 43 today, Trevor. Yeah, it's still, you know, I was talking to somebody about this earlier. It's still surreal. It still, it doesn't. And I don't think it'll ever change.

I think it is always going to just not feel right. Like even when we were watching games this past season, I'd be watching the game and I would be like almost half expecting Kobe to just like

come walking out and sit in the front row. It just, it's just weird. It's just weird. And I don't know

that that feeling's ever going to go away. I don't think so either. You know, people obviously

grieve in different ways for me personally. You know, I also just haven't really accepted the fact

quite fully yet. But, you know, I still think Kobe's here with us in spirit. Obviously, that 2020 run is special. I tell people this all the time, but I think that title is going to mean the most to me, regardless of, you know, any other future titles going forward. So, you know, it's a tough day for some people, you know. Obviously, we prefer to celebrate Kobe's life here on the podcast and on the live stream. But yeah, you know, it's a tough day for some people. You know, obviously we prefer to celebrate Kobe's life here on the podcast and on the live stream.

But, yeah, you know, it's a tough day for sure. And, you know, obviously the birthday and then Mamba Day being tomorrow 824, it's a pretty Kobe heavy week today. So, you know, for anyone out there still sad and still, you know, trying to process the loss, just trust me. I think we're there with you. Yeah, absolutely.

It's something that will always be a tough time for Lakers fans.

But again, we get through it together. And that was always, even when we go back to when

Kobe passed, the silver lining to it, I suppose, if we even want to go so far as to call it that.

But the way Lakers Nation, as a community, all the Lakers fans leaned on each other and supported each other,

I don't know if I'd seen something quite to that level.

That was, I don't know, that was certainly um a moment that that really impressed me the way

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