The death of Kobe Bryant and how the world responded (1/27)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Business, Baseball

4.7 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Today's word of the day is 'carpe diem'... When I got word of Kobe Bryant's death the first thing I thought of was work (0:06). This is how the NBA reacted and why it reacted this way (3:21). NBA games were played and there were lengthy conversations about why "the show must go on. (5:17)" Here's how teams were able to turn the lights outside MSG to purple and gold and how pregame events were planned (6:34). Mark Cuban retiring Kobe's 24 for the Mavericks was a move all about Mark Cuban (17:08). Review - Dear Basketball (19:56). So You Wanna Talk To Samson!? How will the death of Kobe Bryant impact the Lakers rest of the season (24:20). Did TMZ handle breaking this news the right way (27:27)? A Washington Post journalist got ratio'd so bad on Twitter that a suspension came from it (34:24). This needs to be discussed. Why do tragic events have to be the thing that brings the best out in us? You should tell the people you love that you love them everyday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I didn't sleep a lot last night, which is normal for many people who know me know that I don't sleep.
0:12.8	And last night was one of those nights where I'm going over in my head about the show today
0:18.4	and trying to figure out exactly how I want to do it, thinking of all different things I want to talk to
0:24.0	Coco about the producer, about what's appropriate, what's not, what people want to hear, what I want to say,
0:31.2	what is being normal? Well, for starters, I'm giving you a word of the day because that's what we do
0:36.8	on nothing personal. And the word of the day is a phrase, it's two words, it's two words in Latin,
0:42.5	it's three words in English, it's three words in Filipino, Carpe Diem sees the day. I guess I first
0:51.6	learned that I had to take Latin in seventh grade. I learned that expression. General language we
0:57.0	had to take when I was in seventh grade at Harus Man in Riverdale. It's when you take a little few
1:01.8	seven weeks of every language. So I can say Doss Fadonia, that's about it. I can say Avidr
1:07.6	Shane, Obede Gato, a little bit of Spanish, more French, and Latin I can conjugate the Tobi verbs
1:15.6	like Oassat, Amus Atisant, Sumis S, something, listen, I only got to be minus. Carpe Diem
1:25.4	means Seize the day. Everyone's been talking about Seize the day and I'm going to seize the opportunity
1:30.6	you've given me and talk through the events of yesterday, the death of nine people in a helicopter
1:37.8	accident, one of whom was Kobe Bryant, the soon to be Hall of Fame basketball player.
1:44.3	One was his daughter and there were seven other souls on board as well. Kobe Bryant, you're aware.
1:51.6	I'm not this is not the show where you hear that he is a five time champion.
1:58.0	Mv2 time NBA finals MVP. He was an NBA MVP. I'm not going to debate where he stands in the
2:06.4	pantheon of greats. Is he on Mount Rushmore of basketball? Is he on the Mount Rushmore of people
2:13.0	who die too young? People dying too young. That's been going on since there was birth.
2:18.6	There's been tragic deaths left and right. I'm not going to talk about my experience with
2:25.2	young athletic death specifically on this show. Obviously I was quite involved when Jose Fernandez
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