Kobe Bryant has died

[SlyPokerDog]

 

[Dougnsalem]

Wow. I've never seen that before. Lmao. That was a good one....

 

[BigGameDamian]

 

[illmatic99]

He will try to get 81 points

The narrative will be about Lebron, but I think Dame gets closer to 81.

 

[Chris Craig]

So other helicopters intentionally grounded that morning but the pilot thought not?

Yeah, it's looking like the pilot is very at fault here. He thought for some reason he could safely navigate the fog. His experience should have told him otherwise. He brought 9 people to their deaths.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

Kobe's death reminded me of the Busby Babes. Difference is, they were just starting out.

 

[illmatic99]

This logo thing, number retirement, etc all aside, i think the best way to honor his legacy was suggested by someone on twitter: name the All Star MVP trophy after him. He's won it 4x and routinely gunned for it. And all the All Stars look up to him. I think it makes perfect sense.

 

[BigGameDamian]

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Nike suspends the sale of Kobe Bryant merchandise on its online store ‘to stop resellers from profiting on the NBA legend's death’

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ly-suspends-sales-Kobe-gear-online-store.html

 

[Jon]

Nike suspends the sale of Kobe Bryant merchandise on its online store ‘to stop resellers from profiting on the NBA legend's death’

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ly-suspends-sales-Kobe-gear-online-store.html

more like....

"we have to suspend the sales of Kobe Bryant apparel, because we are trying to figure out a way for us to do the same thing without pissing off the public"

 

[Jon]

This logo thing, number retirement, etc all aside, i think the best way to honor his legacy was suggested by someone on twitter: name the All Star MVP trophy after him. He's won it 4x and routinely gunned for it. And all the All Stars look up to him. I think it makes perfect sense.

that i could go for. the logo thing, not so much.

 

[BlazerBeav]

Here's the cheapest pair of tickets on Stubhub for our game there Friday:

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Here's the cheapest pair of tickets on Stubhub for our game there Friday:

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WTF is up with that service fee?!?

 

[kjironman1]

Here's the cheapest pair of tickets on Stubhub for our game there Friday:

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$500 in service fee?
So after you get serviced it seems you will also have to pay for being Fulfilled?

 

[Shaboid]

Here's the cheapest pair of tickets on Stubhub for our game there Friday:

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This is dark, but, your post made me look up the cost of flights to Wuhan so I could go to that Chinese market and eat a Black Mamba. Terrible joke, I know. Unfortunately (or maybe it is fortunate) there are no flights to the Wuhan airport from the US.

 

[tlongII]

I blame it on Ticketmaster.

 

[RipCityWarrior]

With pricing like that the lakers should donate all proceeds to one of the charities that Kobe supported. A statement like that would be very appropriate.

 

[1eyedjack]

Yeah, it's looking like the pilot is very at fault here. He thought for some reason he could safely navigate the fog. His experience should have told him otherwise. He brought 9 people to their deaths.

or Kobe pushed the pilot to take off in the fog so they could get to game on time. So many circumstances I hate to blame everything on pilot

fog was bad that day and they probably waited hoping it would clear like normal, when it didn’t they had to decide if they had enough time to drive to game or if they took chance and flew through flog. That’s my thought

 

[Chris Craig]

Here's the cheapest pair of tickets on Stubhub for our game there Friday:

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wtf? Where are those seats at? Up Lebron's ass?

 

[trailblazer18]

This is dark, but, your post made me look up the cost of flights to Wuhan so I could go to that Chinese market and eat a Black Mamba. Terrible joke, I know. Unfortunately (or maybe it is fortunate) there are no flights to the Wuhan airport from the US.

All travel is banned currently, in and out of Wuhan.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

 

[Chris Craig]

Players with #8 and #24 jerseys have officially began changing their numbers. Dallas will retire #24

 

[Chris Craig]

or Kobe pushed the pilot to take off in the fog so they could get to game on time. So many circumstances I hate to blame everything on pilot

fog was bad that day and they probably waited hoping it would clear like normal, when it didn’t they had to decide if they had enough time to drive to game or if they took chance and flew through flog. That’s my thought

It was ultimately the decision of the pilot regardless of what Kobe wanted. The pilot was experienced. He should have known better.

 

[Wade Garrett]

Players with #8 and #24 jerseys have officially began changing their numbers. Dallas will retire #24

I don't understand this.
But it does show the influence Kobe had on the generation playing in todays NBA.

 

[e_blazer]

It was ultimately the decision of the pilot regardless of what Kobe wanted. The pilot was experienced. He should have known better.

Chris, I think it's a bit premature to be assigning blame. While the weather is likely an important factor, we do have input from one of our posters here that it wasn't that bad in the area where the crash occurred. I don't think that mechanical failure can be ruled out either. The records show that the pilot climbed to get above the clouds/fog and then show the copter descending at a rate of more than 4,000 feet per minute. That's an uncontrolled crash, which it seems to me would only happen if something major broke or the pilot lost consciousness for some reason. The investigation will ultimately give a better picture of what the causes were.

 

[Chris Craig]

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/planters-cutting-super-bowl-commercial-160400310.html

In light of the death of Kobe Bryant, Planters is cutting the super bowl marketing campaign involving the death of Mr. Peanut who the company killed off in a firey car crash.

It is unclear if the commercial involving Mr Peanut's crash, and his scarificial fall into a pit of fire, leading to his cream-ation, will still air.

Planters has said they will suspend all social media advertising on the campaign.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Jesus H Christ, they didn't finish recovering the bodies until today.

 

[blazerfan11]

No accident, be it motorcycle or cars, does as much damage to the human body as an aircraft. This helicopter was going 161 knots (185mph) and did not slow down once they got the OK to travel through Burbank.

Only three have been recovered so far. This shit is a nightmare.

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It was ultimately the decision of the pilot regardless of what Kobe wanted. The pilot was experienced. He should have known better.

Chris, I think it's a bit premature to be assigning blame. While the weather is likely an important factor, we do have input from one of our posters here that it wasn't that bad in the area where the crash occurred. I don't think that mechanical failure can be ruled out either. The records show that the pilot climbed to get above the clouds/fog and then show the copter descending at a rate of more than 4,000 feet per minute. That's an uncontrolled crash, which it seems to me would only happen if something major broke or the pilot lost consciousness for some reason. The investigation will ultimately give a better picture of what the causes were.

There have been cases where a pilot becomes disoriented spacially or confused by instrument readings and performs a maneuver that makes the aircraft uncontrollable resulting in a high-impact crash. Not saying that is the case here.

"The Boston Globe talked to Randy Waldman, a helicopter flight instructor in the Los Angeles area. “If you’re flying visually, if you get caught in a situation where you can’t see out the windshield, the life expectancy of the pilot and the aircraft is maybe 10, 15 seconds, and it happens all the time, and it’s really a shame,” he said."

 

[Chris Craig]

Jesus H Christ, they didn't finish recovering the bodies until today.

Damn