So today was supposed to be one of our favorite episodes the mock trade deadline

We had to postpone that obviously with the tragic news of the passing of Kobe Bryant and his daughter near Calabasis, California today

And so instead Danny and I just wanted to

talk a little bit about Kobe and our memories of him and

Some of the moving tributes that we saw around the league Danny

What's the first thing that you think about with your own personal experience covering Kobe?

There's a lot. I mean he was a giant in the league

I started covering the league in 09 and I remember the first time I was in the locker room with him

And it was one of those players who genuinely gave me goosebumps

I lived in LA for some of the Shaq Kobe hey day and I mean I remember just the way the way that he

Commended a room especially in some ways in his later career

What's he understood the magnitude of everything?

But for me the indelible one was actually a time that he wasn't in the building with me

It was on the last day of the 2016

1516 regular season the Warriors were at work all and they it was the last the last game of that season

There were two games that I can recall it might benefit and it was the Warriors were going to get to Memphis, Grizzlies for their

73rd win break the Jordan Bulls record and we're at that game both you and I are sitting together and

During that game which the Warriors won for their 73rd media members and fans in their seats at an NBA game are watching their phones and watching their

Computers because Kobe was scoring 60 on net on the jazz and it's one of the most indelible

moments of my media career and I mean it's to have the amount of love and

His place within the NBA community is it's it's unique and it's remarkable and it was such a great

culmination of so many different threads in that moment. Yeah, and at the end of this episode

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