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Who else was shocked when they heard about Kobe Bryant today?

 
 
Reply Sun 26 Jan, 2020 07:29 pm
I'm still in a state of shock it really shook me up
 
Region Philbis
 
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Reply Sun 26 Jan, 2020 07:44 pm
@singlesucks13,

we all were...
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roger
 
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Reply Sun 26 Jan, 2020 08:32 pm
Well, what did he say?
oralloy
 
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Reply Sun 26 Jan, 2020 08:35 pm
@roger,
https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/1221521133608079368
roger
 
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Reply Sun 26 Jan, 2020 08:37 pm
@oralloy,
Oh!

Thanks much,
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izzythepush
 
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Reply Mon 27 Jan, 2020 05:17 am
@singlesucks13,
I was shocked how much time was taken up on the news for someone who is relatively unknown in a sport very few people watch.

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Setanta
 
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Reply Mon 27 Jan, 2020 05:26 am
While basketball may not be of much interest where you live, it is not accurate to suggest that very few people watch it. It's a big deal in many, many other countries. According to Global Atlas-dot-com, 825 million fans follow basketball. That's more than ten times the population of the UK.
izzythepush
 
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Reply Mon 27 Jan, 2020 06:54 am
@Setanta,
Obviously I was talking from a UK point of view. I didn't know who he was so I was surprised when the BBC devoted so much air time to it.

I know you're from a much larger country with a shitty health system, daily school shootings and a cretinous president determined to destroy the planet. You don't need to be so defensive.
Linkat
 
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Reply Mon 27 Jan, 2020 07:42 am
@izzythepush,
izzythepush wrote:

Obviously I was talking from a UK point of view. I didn't know who he was so I was surprised when the BBC devoted so much air time to it.

I know you're from a much larger country with a shitty health system, daily school shootings and a cretinous president determined to destroy the planet. You don't need to be so defensive.


What the hell is up your a$$.

The world does not revolve around izzy and his family and the UK.

A, from what appears to be, a kind man pretty young and his child die in a tragic fashion - he is well loved in a good part of the world because of his athletic ability and considered to be one of the best in his sport - the sport itself doesn't matter - he has given back to the community with his time and especially supported women sports increased his likability.

And you have to turn it around about you and anything you might dislike about a country that this man is from.

Funny if there were a known celebrity or some other person well known in your country that you deemed worthy you would be "shocked" and feel a bit sad but you cannot give the same understanding to someone else.

Most reasonable people who do not know such a person would simply not comment rather than rant and make rude and inappropriate comments - people died here have just a small bit of sympathy.

Pretty low.
izzythepush
 
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Reply Mon 27 Jan, 2020 07:45 am
@Linkat,
I never said it did. I said I was surprised to see so much airtime devoted to someone who is relatively unknown over here.

That's all I said until Setanta decided to revisit his Anglophobia.

I know you get very upset when we don't bow and scrape to Americans.

Big deal you're the most powerful country on Earth. You're making a right pig's ear of it.
Linkat
 
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Reply Mon 27 Jan, 2020 07:50 am
@izzythepush,
Your direct words.

Quote:
Obviously I was talking from a UK point of view.


Quote:
I know you're from a much larger country with a shitty health system, daily school shootings and a cretinous president determined to destroy the planet. You don't need to be so defensive.


You really hate Americans without very likely knowing many. I always feel sorry for someone with so much hate in their hearts. There is so much good in the world and so much better to feel love rather than spend your time hating. It might do you some good to actually see some of the good that is done in the world and even believe it or not in America - just for your own heart. yes there are some horrible things that happen here - but there is so much more good that does, but you would not know that because you have a dark hate that seems to feed on hating. Hate really hurts the person more who has it - rather than those that the hate is turned against.
izzythepush
 
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Reply Mon 27 Jan, 2020 08:00 am
@Linkat,
You know nothing about me. You were the one to bring my kids up and then you have the brass neck to accuse me of hate.

I've never brought up your kids in an argument with you, I wouldn't sink to such depths.

I don't hate all Americans, I do hate the ones who come over here to murder our children, and then flee justice. Kopbe Bryant wasn't murdered and he was over twice the age of Harry Dunn.

We need to close those bases down now.

That reason enough for you, foreign occupying troops murdering our children?
Linkat
 
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Reply Mon 27 Jan, 2020 08:15 am
In Europe, Kobe Bryant recalled for his ‘Italian qualities’

In Europe where Kobe Bryant grew up, the retired NBA star was being remembered for his “Italian qualities.”

“All of the NBA players are important, because they’re legends, but he’s particularly important to us because he knew Italy so well, having lived in several cities here,” Italian basketball federation president Giovanni Petrucci told The Associated Press. “He had a lot of Italian qualities.”

“To hear him speak and joke in our language and to remember when his father played here and he was a kid drew a lot of people to the NBA,” Messina said. “He was also always very attentive to help Italian kids arriving in the NBA and to help them enter such a tough and competitive world. He also did that with me when I arrived at the Lakers and I’m still very grateful to him for that. It’s very sad that his family has been devastated like this.”

https://www.boston.com/sports/nba/2020/01/26/in-europe-kobe-bryant-recalled-for-his-italian-qualities
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Setanta
 
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Reply Mon 27 Jan, 2020 08:34 am
@izzythepush,
Defensive? Ha . . . this is typical of what passes for a debating style with you. I made no personal remarks about you, but you can't engage with someone who disagrees with you without that. It was not obvious at all that you were talking from a so-called "UK point of view." Nor did you mention the BBC. My response was simply to point out that the sport is popular world-wide, which was an appropriate response to a statement that was not qualified by reference to your little, local point of view. You're not even parochial--it's all personal with you.

The only one here who is defensive, and, as usual, thin- skinned, is you. As it happens, basketball was invented by James Naismith, a Canadian (which Canadians are always quick to point out). I don't follow basketball, which I consider a boring and uninteresting activity. I rate it right behind football, either the North American version or the international version. Either one is a wonderful soporific for me--I go right to sleep. Now give me another of your silly, scatter gun response, full of personal invective and irrelevant, unfounded claims.
izzythepush
 
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Reply Mon 27 Jan, 2020 09:10 am
@Setanta,
You acted like the bully you are. You used Mussolini's might is right argument to try to intimidate by saying how big and powerful you Americans are.

What I was trying to say is that Kobe Bryant is more well known than I realised considering how much time was devoted on the BBC news.

It is a shame when someone that young dies.

If we're talking sport, the premiership is the most popular sporting league in the World.
Linkat
 
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Reply Mon 27 Jan, 2020 11:22 am
@izzythepush,
Quote:
. You were the one to bring my kids up


Never said anything about your kids - just said you, your family and UK - simple explaining how it appears you view the world from your little perspective. not one word of hate in it.

izzythepush
 
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Reply Mon 27 Jan, 2020 11:24 am
@Linkat,
You brought my kids up because you have troops occupying my country.

It was more than hate, it was an implied threat. We all know how good you Americans are at killing children.
Linkat
 
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Reply Mon 27 Jan, 2020 11:40 am
@izzythepush,
izzythepush wrote:

You brought my kids up because you have troops occupying my country.

It was more than hate, it was an implied threat. We all know how good you Americans are at killing children.


Well that is perfectly logical - because we all know, me, a simple financial person has direct ability to control and send American troops to the UK just to murder your children.

Yes makes perfect sense.

Izzy I am very sorry - there is something seriously wrong with you as no reasonable person would ever be able to connect the comment the world does not revolve around Izzy, his family and the UK to whatever nonsense you are saying.

At the very least thank you very much as I am laughing my butt off at how crazy you sound.

Anyone else find the humor in this?
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Linkat
 
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Reply Mon 27 Jan, 2020 12:06 pm
Chinese fans in mourning: Kobe Bryant's death draws an outpouring of shock and grief

The death of basketball great Kobe Bryant was felt as far away as China, where fans mourned his passing along with millions of others across Asia.

Within hours of his death, Bryant's death became one of the most-searched topics on Weibo, China's Twitter-like platform, where he had nine million followers, compared with 15 million worldwide on Twitter.

The pinned post on his Weibo account was a short video uploaded on Friday of Bryant wishing his "dear friends in China" a happy Lunar New Year and thanking them for their support for the past year. Underneath that post, tens of thousands of fans have left tributes and messages of mourning.

"Please, don't you pass away," read the most liked comment, posted at 3:38 a.m. Beijing time, shortly after news of Bryant's death first broke.

The former Los Angeles Lakers star remained the most popular NBA star in China, even three years after his retirement in 2016, according to a 2019 report by the Mailman Group, a digital sports marketing company.
Bryant said recently that China was like his "second home."

A whole generation of Chinese basketball fans grew up watching Bryant, as he made his way through the league and into the annals of sporting greats. Along with Michael Jordan, he was one of the first real NBA superstars to win a following in China, which embraced the American sport as the country opened up to the world.

He enjoyed unparallelled popularity as an icon of their youth, when basketball surged in popularity in China.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/27/asia/asia-mourns-kobe-bryant-intl-hnk/index.html
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Setanta
 
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Reply Mon 27 Jan, 2020 12:58 pm
@izzythepush,
You are surreal . . . I said nothing about how "big and powerful . . . Americans are." You just make it up as you go along. Whenever contradicted, or in any way disagreed with, you go from zero to hysteria (with concomitant lies) in no time at all. Really, grow up and calm down.
 

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