Welcome to the Audible presented by Trader Joe's.

I'm Stuart Mandel, joined as always by Bruce Feldman.

Bruce, we have a special guest on this episode. That is new Baylor coach, Dave Miranda,

fresh off the LSU national title run and now starting up in his new job. I think people

will be really interested in that. Before we get to it, though, I think this is our first episode since

obviously the most tragic story in sports, Kobe Bryant's helicopter accident. And I just wanted

to bring it up because you are in L.A. And I think people who have been following this story,

even, you know, no matter how much you read,

no matter how much you watch,

I don't know that that really tells you

how much, how much he means to that city.

Yeah, I think it, I actually didn't really grasp the depths of it until you start talking

to people here.

The Lakers are by far the biggest deal, especially that you're a Lakers team in Los Angeles.

It's a star-driven market unlike any other place in the country.

There is, or there was for a long time, and certainly for his run, there was no NFL team here.

So it was Kobe.

And what I think you've seen a lot of on social media is how not just basketball players but how many athletes you know kind of

pattern their their themselves and their mentality after Kobe's mamba mentality and another

thing that that I kind of realized over the last year or two here is that his Mamba Academy in

Southern California, there's tons of athletes who go there. And so there's that piece of it. But

after on Saturday morning, after the news starts to get out, I remember just taking my son to the supermarket and you'd see

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