Shane Heard
Brownlow Medallist
- Mar 11, 2018
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- AFL Club
- Essendon
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NBA dot com Facebook page has footage of the chopper spiralling down to its demise. Sickening vision.
Comments about her starting to say Knicks then changing to Lakers halfway through, leading to Kni**ers.
Do we buy it?
Well she just got herself fired
Comments about her starting to say Knicks then changing to Lakers halfway through, leading to Kni**ers.
Do we buy it?
I dont follow basketball at all and I barely know this guy, however that was my first thought hearing about this incident, in a heli crash there would have been maybe half a minute where you'd realise something is wrong and you wont get out of the situation alive, Kobe would have been devastated not because he knew he would die but because his young daughter would.Hearing the news of his daughter dieing by his side the ultimate tear jerker for me, can't imagine how they felt in their final moments together and how it would be as a father not being able to protect your daughter from danger.
In my lifetime, the only premature Sporting Star's tragic/premature death that has resulted in such universal/worldwide grief was Aryton Senna's in 1994 .
Schumacher is/was the GOAT F1 Driver (whom sadly is living in a vegative state these days due to his skiing accident) but IMHO Senna was the most beloved global F1 star of all time, a real maverick and playboy who played by his own rules and was beloved especially in South America.
He was such a charismatic legend who was never aftaid to prove how good he was, rather like Kobe in many respects.
I still recall state of sheer disbelief over Senna's death, same feeling I got when I learned Reggie Lewis died (my first real introduction to death/mourning someone I cared about) and Princess Di.
The loss of Kobe ane his young daughter and The rest of the poor people on that helicopter is a real sucker punch to the guts.
It's a cliche, but I never knew how much I truly admired Kobe till he left us.
some incoherent thoughts...
He was the natural heir apparent to Jordan for my generation.
Really, none of us saw MJ play but Kobe's post-Shaq career was being replicated on every high school basketball court across the country.
Probably half the reason I hated Kobe stans before I hated the Lakers themselves.
An insurmountable loss that still doesn't feel real.
Colorado is very complicated, but one way to view that part of his life is to see how he has lived since and whether he actually learnt from it.
He died next to his daughter, Gigi, and countless others, on their way to a basketball practice. Something tells me he did.
Payne stewart in the plane that crashed was tragicThe tragedy of Phil Hughes is up their particularly for the other players involved. Cricket safety has changed as a result similar to F1 safety post Senna’s passing.
Can only imagine was US basketball fans are feeling ATM, amazing athlete.
i think plenty of us saw mj play.
This has been such a surreal day. I'd woken up early and was just about to go back to sleep when this started to break, instead I spent all morning reading as it unfolded. Maybe I'm blanking but I feel like this has been maybe the biggest news event since 9/11 and the biggest event in the post-Facebook/Twitter era. Michael Jackson's death was just before social media really took off, and back then you'd either just hear about it in an article online or you'd watch a slightly solemn news report on the TV and that would have been the extent of your emotional involvement unless you were a huge fan of Jackson. Today, because of social media, I've seen clip after clip of people who knew Kobe completely breaking down when talking about him and I keep shedding tears even though I've never had any real attachment to him. And I'm not a parent but then finding out his daughter also died just really hurt.
Hearing the news of his daughter dieing by his side the ultimate tear jerker for me, can't imagine how they felt in their final moments together and how it would be as a father not being able to protect your daughter from danger.
Not quite true on Jackson, his death took down a number of sites (Twitter included) due to the spike in traffic
Jackson dies, almost takes Internet with him - CNN.com
How many people does it take to break the Internet? On June 25, we found out it's just one -- if that one is Michael Jackson.edition.cnn.com