35 Burst results for "Kobe Kobe Kobe Kobe"
AP News Radio
Manjon, Vanderbilt jolt No. 23 Kentucky at SEC quarters
"Top SEC seed Alabama took care of Mississippi state 72 to 49. Vanderbilt knocked off number 23 Kentucky 80 to 73 and 18th ranked Texas a and M overcame a 13 point deficit to beat Arkansas 67 to 61, but the gem of the slate was number 17 Tennessee versus number 25 Missouri in a game that saw 13 lead changes in 15 ties, the tigers outlasted the volunteers 79 to 71. Senior guard Kobe Brown says Missouri's experience kept them calm under pressure. All we do is work on a situation that in practice so it's like, it's no situation we haven't seen yet. Missouri advances to take on Alabama and the semifinals while Texas saying it and we'll square off against Vanderbilt. Jeremy cake over Nashville
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
Kendrick Perkins Says Racial Bias Plays Role in NBA MVP Voting
"Kendrick Perkins. What's this guy's deal? I'm not familiar with him terribly much. He was a subpar NBA player and he's above average broadcaster, but he does, this is not abnormal for him to do. And he is not white. That is correct. All right, so take a listen, cut forward to this guy's very upset because a white guy may be in the running here. Got 14. JJ, I need to know. Is the uchu Wally or is it one mic? I need to know when it comes down to the criteria moving the gold post for the MVPs because I understand you and the analytics. I understand you are a story you know the game of basketball, but I went and did a little research myself and since 1990 has only been three MVPs. That wasn't top ten in scoring that one letter ward. The whisky, Steve Nash, and yogurts. Now with all, what do they have in common? I let it sit there and marinate. I'm just trying to see, you know what I'm saying? When I walk into the club, do I need my J zone or is it a dress code? Do I need to put another, you know, a church shoes or some red bottoms or I need a note. Is it uchu Wally or is it one might? Like, what's the criteria when moving the gold post for certain players to win the MVP? I need to know. Because it seemed about the gold post move every single time where we want to push it out there, this particular pill that we want to win every piece 'cause we all know in 2006 when Kobe was averaging 31 when the Lakers were the 7 seed and the roster that he had compared to Steve Nash and Steve Nash won his second consecutive MVP in 2006, was he really supposed to win that? Was he really supposed to outdo COVID that year? I'm just trying to figure it out, bro, I'm trying to get on understanding what's the criteria why the goal posts move for certain players is the utility or is it one might carry on? So this is
AP News Radio
Vanessa Bryant reaches $28.85M settlement over helicopter crash photos
"Kobe Bryant's family accepts a $28.5 million settlement in the lawsuit over photos from the helicopter crash that killed him. Attorneys say Los Angeles County agreed to pay Bryant's widow Vanessa Bryant and three of their daughters $13.5 million on top of the $15 million at jurors awarded her at trial in August. County deputies and firefighters had shot photos of the bodies and shared them with others at county lawyers said the pictures were part of their job but Vanessa Bryant's lawyer said they were shared as visual gossip. Kobe Bryant daughter Gianna and 7 others were killed in the 2020 helicopter crash, federal safety officials blamed pilot error for the crash.
The Doug Collins Podcast
Are You Where You Want to Be?
"You, but it's the getting to be mid February. I mean, we're riding in the middle of February, getting a little bit over. We've been into 2023 if you can believe it for almost 8 weeks now coming up on late weeks. And you know, one of the things that I hear a lot about and I read about it, and especially I've been doing a lot of flying a lot of planes. You see these stories that are always the first year about goals, goal setting, you know, are you hitting where you want to be in your professional life, your career, your family life, you know, just the different areas and I've been thinking a lot about this. And this is one I thought about today and we've had a lot of news stuff lately and going through, but I wanted to just take the time today and this one is one of those that's as much as I deal with and struggle with is as I feel like most of our most people do. And it's coming up and you always find that one or two people that can always say, here's my goals, here's my piece of paper, they keep it in their pocket. You know, whatever, you know, you've seen those people. And they're so goal orientated that everything they do is focus to that one go. You see this sports a lot. We've talked about it over the past weekend with the Super Bowl. You see it in, you know, they make your championships, you see those great players, that intense focus. I mean, Michael Jordan, you know, in that intense focus off the court. Deion Sanders, you know, saying that his best plays that he ever had were never on the field. They were always in practice. It was always that practice that got him to his goals and got him to worry, you know, he wanted to be. And I think these are the kind of things, you know, Kobe Bryant, you know, again, that intense focus. Making sure that when time to achieve and time to reform was there, they were they were at it. But you know, not all of us, in fact, most of us are not professional athletes. Most of us are not, you know, high profile figures that excel in something like that on a grand stage that everybody sees. But the reality is, is all of us perform on our own stage. We
AP News Radio
Tatum scores All-Star record 55, Team Giannis wins 184-175
"Jayson Tatum scored an NBA All-Star Game record 55 points to lead Tim Yanis to a one 84 one 75 victory over team LeBron. The Celtics forward scored 27 points in the third quarter, positioning him to eclipse Anthony Davis's record of 52, and when the Kobe Bryant MVP award. I went to win MVP. I didn't think I'd be at 55. But that's icing on the cake. The Cavaliers Donovan Mitchell added 40 points in his return to his former home court in Salt Lake City for team Giannis. Tatum's Boston teammate jaylen Brown led team LeBron with 35. LeBron and Janis each sent out most of the game with injuries. I'm Tom merriam.
Forkast
Huobi to expand in Hong Kong as it bets on China
"4 p.m. Friday February 10th, 2023. Huabei to expand in Hong Kong as it bets on China. Kobe global plans to expand its operations in Hong Kong, anticipating that Mainland China will soon follow the city's recent pro crypto shift, says Justin sundae.
AP News Radio
Gholston's 3-pointer at buzzer lifts Missouri over Tennessee
"Missouri pulled out an 86 85 win at number 5 Tennessee on Deandre goldston's three pointer at the buzzer. The team kind of looked at me and kind of said, just makes that happen. Took an inbound pass and dribbled up the court before firing from 30 feet out, giving him 18 points. Kobe Brown scored a team high 21 points for the tigers, who wasted a 17 point lead before improving to 7 and 5 in the SEC. Sean east chipped in 17 points in Des Moines Hodge added 14 from Missouri. Tyree key nailed 5 three pointers and scored 21 of his 23 points in the second half for the vols. I'm Dave ferry.
AP News Radio
Brown, Hodge lift Missouri over No. 12 Iowa State 78-61
"Missouri downs number 12 Iowa state 78 to 61 at Missouri's draining 14 of 30 shots from three point range, the tigers are led by Kobe Brown and who scores 20 points while hauling in 12 rebounds. It was one of our greater performances, I would say so. Especially with our connectivity and how we work with each other and, you know, we hit shots, so that was a good thing for us. Iowa state gets 19 points from Jared Holmes as their record false to 15 and 5, the tigers are 16 and 5, and now have four wins this season against top 25 ranked opponents. Mike Reeves, Columbia, Missouri.
AP News Radio
Missouri rallies to down No. 25 Arkansas 79-76
"Kobe Brown scores 18 points to lead the Missouri offense as they improve their SEC record to three and three Devante Davis leads Arkansas with 18 points the 25th ranked razorbacks have lost four in a row and fall to one in 5 in conference play, Arkansas commits 21 turnovers leading to 31 Missouri points.
Epicenter
Anna Rose and Kobi Gurkan Talk Applications
"So I think it might be a perfect time to start talking applications because I think that was where you wanted to sort of hear some of these novel cool ideas, right? Absolutely. That's what I'm here for. All right, so yeah, we did before this interview we compiled a bit of a list and a lot of these are coming, by the way, from these interviews that we've done recently and trying to pull together, what Dan, for example, this interview we did with Dan Bonet, it was episode 56, like four weeks ago. The wrong number. It's a good number. But. In that he went through a bunch of examples. So we can definitely share those. I also know in the interview I did with Matt green. I learned about some new ideas and generally, I mean, look, if you look at what zero X park releases in their videos when they do showcases, that's like an amazing space to find out about new ideas. And not the truth is not all of them are feasible at this moment. I think, but still set the goal, put the flag in the sand in the future and then let's build those tools so we can actually make these things possible. I'm curious if you've been keeping up to date on this. Kobe, have you been paying attention to constitution doubt too? Just a bit. So I like the concept of this anonymous multi sign. So that's kind of the nuclear team is doing. So they're using privacy technology to of the things that they're doing is to hide who exactly participated in the multi sig, but in constitutional, they're using it to hide the total amount that you would be. Yeah, exactly. They're using these to hide the amount that you would be because we don't know what happened with the first constitution though, where just, because of the amount of public, it was just outbid. So yeah, I think they're using this in a very cool way to hide this. But yeah, that's the extent that they know
AP News Radio
Mitchell scores 71 points, Cavs beat Bulls 145-134 in OT
"Donovan Mitchell scored a team record 71 points in leading the Cavaliers to a one 45 one 34 overtime win against the bulls. Not only did I do that, but I did it in an effort where we came back in one end. It's how we won. That's really what for me was like, man, this is nuts. To be honest. Mitchell scored 13 points in the extra session. He also forced OT by grabbing his own intentionally missed free throw and making a circus shot with three seconds left in regulation. Mitchell was 22 of 34 from the field, he hit 7 for 15 from three point range in the league's highest scoring performance since Kobe Bryant's 81 point game in January 2006. I'm Dave ferry.
AP News Radio
A recap of Week 16 of the NFL season
"NFL week 16 roundup. I'm Dave ferry. The Buccaneers remain atop the NFC south after scoring the last 13 points in a 1916 overtime win at Arizona. Buccaneers coach Todd Bowles. I think it was a total effort in the second half, especially the fourth quarter. Defense getting stopped and the offense cashing in timely plays seemed like we play better in the fourth quarter if we can transfer that to the other three, you know, it would be pretty consistent, but it was a hard fork when we needed it. We got it. No matter how pretty it looked or it didn't look pretty. Ryan suck up entered it by hitting a 40 yard field goal and tied it on a 42 yard kick with two 27 left in regulation. The rally began after the Cardinals took a 16 6th lead on James Connors 22 yard scoring run with ten 47 remaining in regulation. Tom Brady threw for 281 yards, one TD and two interceptions. I would play better there in the fourth quarter. We executed pretty well. Hit a bunch of Brooks and tackles, you know, ran hard, a lot of guys made plays in the past games and contested catches. Got to hear as soon as they caught it and came up with it. So defense really stepped up. This was a great way to down ten in the fourth quarter on the road. It's great to find a way to win. Trace mcsorley had 217 passing yards and his first NFL start, but the Cardinals fell to four and 11. The packers playoff hopes are very much alive after they intercepted to a tongue of violet on three consecutive possessions, securing a 26 20 win at Miami. The first pick set up mason Crosby's tie breaking field goal early in the fourth quarter. Tongue of valoa was intercepted with 6 minutes left. And again, around the two minute warning. It was just terrible how everything ended. And like I told the guys, that's on me and I'll definitely get better from that. Aaron Rodgers threw for 238 yards and a touchdown as Green Bay improved to 7 or 8. A half came out of a playoff spot with two games remaining. Considering where we were a few weeks ago, a lot has happened in our favor. All the games that need to go a certain way win a certain way. Now there's obviously much much left. But again, we're going to be we played meaningful games in December. We want all three of those. Now we're playing meaningful games in January. We got to win those. The 8 and 7 dolphins led 20 to ten before losing their fourth in a row. Jaylen waddle and tyreek hill each had over 100 yards receiving. The defending Super Bowl champs finally enjoyed a blowout win. Mark Myers was there. Cam Akers ran for three touchdowns part of the rams 51 to 14 Christmas Day win against the Broncos. I mean, it's a big deal, you know, obviously I helped to contribute to a win today, so that's pretty much the biggest. The biggest highlight of it for me, you know, Christmas Day, we gotta win. Baker Mayfield through two touchdown passes to Tyler higbee and Kobe Durant had an 85 yard pick 6. Denver's Russell Wilson threw one touchdown three interceptions and was sacked 6 times. It was the 5th time Wilson has thrown three interceptions. They're more in a game. Twice against the rams. We feel like we can be better. We feel like we're more capable of being better or feel like we've had some good moments and all that. But nobody wants to put out what we put out today. That was terrible. The Chargers will face the colts on Monday night. Los Angeles will clench an AFC playoff birth with a win. Next week, the bills can clinch the number one seed in the AFC with a victory over the Bengals and a loss by the chiefs against the Broncos. Should the Bengals beat the bills and their ravens fall to Pittsburgh, Cincinnati wins the AFC north. The Jaguars are in control of the AFC south and take on the Texans in Houston. Jacksonville could lose that game and still capture the division by beating the Titans in week 18. The eagles will take the number one seat in the NFC by winning one of their last two games or having the Vikings split their last two games. A victory over the cults will put the Giants in the NFC playoffs. I'm Dave ferry, AP sports.
AP News Radio
Mayfield, Akers lead Rams' 51-14 blowout of Wilson's Broncos
"Cam Akers ran for three touchdowns part of the rams 51 to 14 Christmas Day win against the Broncos. I mean, it's a big deal, you know, obviously I helped to contribute to a win today, so that's pretty much the biggest, the biggest highlight of it for me, you know, Christmas Day, we got to win Baker Mayfield through two touchdown passes to Tyler higbee and Kobe Durant had an 85 yard pick 6. Denver's Russell Wilson threw one touchdown three interceptions and was sacked 6 times. Mark Myers englewood California
Unchained
2022: Crypto Year in Review
"Today's topic is 2022 year in review. Or, as I've been calling it, the crypto carnage of 2022. Here to discuss our Kobe, crypto investor and host of up only, and CRISPR niski, partner at placeholder ventures. Welcome Kobe and Chris. Hello, mate. Thanks, Laura. Chris, it was lost my money this year, me, are you? We both lost, but we're both surviving. Yeah. It's me then. Well, the last time we had both of you on, it was to talk about the crypto bear market, which at that time was just kind of starting, it's only been about 6 months, which is kind of crazy to me because in that time, so by then, Tara Luna had already collapsed, but by then, or since then, now we've seen, you know, additional collapses. We've seen an even bigger drawdown in prices that took us below the highs of even the previous cycle. We've seen additional falls from grace of previously lionized figures in the crypto community. So as you guys are looking back on this year, what are your main takeaways? Kobe? I saw a tweet, I was a great tweet. I don't remember who it was from. Maybe thinking USD, and it just said crypto companies be like, our CFO, yeah, our chief fraud officer is the best. I think that sounds a little bit of 2022 for me. And like 2022 in summary, it's also like the hangover of 2021, right? So people are just borrowed a lot of stuff from the future that they have to pay back in 2020. I don't just mean like leverage borrowing money and stuff. They took shortcuts and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So yeah, I mean, it's been pretty brutal. And what's remarkable about it is how much of it was just fraud, not necessary. It wasn't, you know, some stuff is business practices that are, you know, either incompetent or really juiced to the max or whatever. But some of it was just theft
AP News Radio
Judge tosses suit that tried to deem books obscene for kids
"I'm Mike Gracia reporting a judge tosses a lawsuit that tried to deem two books obscene for kids A lawsuit seeking to declare two books as obscene for children was dismissed by a Virginia judge Tuesday before it could proceed to trial Tommy Altman of Virginia of each tattoo shop owner and one time Republican congressional candidate had sued in April seeking to restrict the distribution to minors of the book's gender queer a memoir by Maya Kobe and a court of mist and fury by Sarah J Maz Circuit court judge Pamela S baskerville struck down the lawsuit on jurisdictional grounds writing Virginia law does not give her specific authority to determine whether books are obscene for minors and also that restricting distribution of the books would authorize prior restraint of speech and violate the First Amendment Book challenges and bans have surged across the U.S. targeting in large part books that have focused on sexuality gender identity or race I'm Mike Gracia
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Kobe Bryant widow awarded $16M in trial over crash photos
"Kobe Bryant's widow has won her case over the photos from the site of the helicopter crash that killed the basketball star and their daughter in 2020 I'm Ben Thomas with the verdict A federal jury awarded Vanessa Bryant $16 million for emotional distress as part of a $31 million verdict against Los Angeles County after deputies and firefighters shared grisly photos of the NBA star his 13 year old daughter Gianna and other victims taken at the scene of the 2020 helicopter crash jurors agreed with Brian and her attorneys that her privacy was invaded In tearful testimony Vanessa Bryant said news of the photos compounded her grief county attorneys argued they were necessary to assess the scene but acknowledged while never made public they should not have been shared with everyone who saw them Kobe Bryant would have turned 44 this week I'm Ben Thomas
ESPN Daily
"kobe " Discussed on ESPN Daily
"Nate Johnson, the associate head coach, said Kobe as being the best of the best in the NBA and Kobe saw to be in the best of the best in junior college baseball. So in May of 2018 now, John altobelli has this surprise for his baseball team, Chris? What exactly happened? Well, the video is amazing. You know, the players are kind of sitting in the dugout and, you know, they're kind of wondering what's going to go on. And all of a sudden, here comes Kobe Bryant. We got a special appearance. Kobe Bryant is right in front of them and he's going to like pep them up a little bit. He comes out and goes, hey guys, how you doing? All of a sudden Kobe Bryant is talking to this team and telling them to do well. One of the players asks, so what is the mamba mentality exactly? And well, we can't say what Kobe's response was. Maybe we'll just say screw him. That's about as good as we can do. Screw him. A calling card for the Bomba mentality and for their march to success. Well, that march for success. I mean, I want to be clear about this too because a year after Kobe visits with the team in May 2018 as we just said, John altobelli and his pirates, they're going for another state title here. Again, in the very competitive state of California, what happened on that big day? This is just a thrilling
The Right Time with Bomani Jones
The WNBA Got It All Wrong With the All-Star Game MVP Trophy
"All saw the biggest reason of the biggest weight, the WNBA got it wrong. Or more accurately, the smallest way that the WNBA got it wrong. And what is that way that the WNBA got it wrong? Y'all see that all star trophy. All right, now if you did not see the all star MVP trophy. If you did not see it, I want you to pause right now and go check out that trophy, okay? Go ahead. I'll be here when you get back. Don't you worry. Now, congratulations to you, Kelsey plum. You were the All-Star Game MVP. Bruh. That trophy was like one of the cup trophies, you know what I'm saying? With the handles on the side. That woman was holding that trophy up with both hands, and I guess because it would have made for a more symmetric photograph. They should have just let her hold that thing in the palm of her hand. That trophy was so atrophy look like they got it from the trophy shop. Like, you're all star trophy shouldn't look like a trophy that you could conceivably hand to every member of the team. It should look too expensive for that. No, no, no. And who knows, man, maybe that thing with Sterling silver, maybe they got that thing from Tiffany. I ain't got no idea. I just could not believe how small that trope he was. I think they was joking online and they were saying that you could find a better trophy on Amazon. Yes, you could. I've seen it. I've seen it. You can find it. This is the same year where they redid the All-Star Game MVP trophy as a tribute to Kobe. Steph looked like he had to bend his knees to raise that thing over his shoulder. Is WNBA trophy? Like, you could put that in a trophy case, but you really just gonna put that thing on a mantle. Like. Come on, man. Y'all can't do that, right? Even if you wanted to go a little bit too late, gender specific on it. Give them a plate like Wimbledon. You know what I'm saying? Give you something that you could hold up over your head. I feel like that should be the rule about the size of your trophy. Don't matter to circumstance. That thing got be big enough that you could hold it up over your head. That ain't what they gave though.
The Right Time with Bomani Jones
Bomani Dissects the Lakers' 'LeBron Era' with Domonique Foxworth
"It's so hard to talk about the Lakers and LeBron without people taking things and directions that as I start, I'm not necessarily trying to go to or did not want, right? But it happened to me because I do think there's something very interesting about this LeBron era, which by the way, has been four years. Like, those four years ran up on us pretty quick. LeBron spent 13 straight years where his teams got at least to the second round of the playoffs, right? You know, you got all those years with the finals, but at least the second round of the playoffs. He's been with the Lakers for four years. They've made the second round of the playoffs one time. They've missed the playoffs twice, but they got a championship, right? Now, it's an interesting championship because on one hand, it was in the bubble, you didn't get the parade, all of that stuff. All the other hand, it was the year that Kobe died, which I imagine comes with its own significance for the Lakers, but at least for me, as an unattached party, right? Like a party observing this from a distance. I would think this has been a little bit disappointing if I were a Lakers fan. That's how I would see this. It's just like, you want the championship and I guess there are more relevant than they used to be but normally when you're in a place like that, even if you are not winning the championship, you go into the Conference Finals. You go on to the NBA Finals, like you win these in this push. And that really isn't what this has been for the course of this four years. And I can't think of anything quite like that. Like somebody pulled up the stat for me that the only team in a ten year span to win a championship, but not make it out of the first round within that span where those mavericks, where they won the championship in 2011, and then around that didn't get past the first round. I haven't seen anything like those are the only examples that we have. And so Lakers fans that I'm Friends with, they haven't really enjoyed this as much as they thought they would. That's what I was thinking is you were saying you think it would be a disappointment. I think that we know, or at least anecdotally. It doesn't feel like Lakers fans on the tweets or in our life in our lives feel like they have really enjoyed this run. And that's I think not to get to like the analytics versus the kind of feel or trust your eyes, guys, but it feels like from a purely quantitative way to look at it. I would say I take a championship and three years of missing the playoffs over no championship in every year and the finals.
The Crossover NBA Show with Chris Mannix
"kobe " Discussed on The Crossover NBA Show with Chris Mannix
"Idea the layers of drama and some of the details in their road to the championship game, which I will not spoil here. I want people to read your book. There are things there where I'm like, this is a made for TV movie or this is or this is a script. This like some of the stuff that happens, just some unforeseen drama. And that story in itself, I feel like, you know, weird way all of these decades later as this kind of fun revelation, at least for me, who I thought I knew, you know, not necessarily think there was to know, but quite a bit. Well, I appreciate you picking up on that, Howard, because that was one of the two main narrative threads. And it was the one that my editor on the project really accented. He said, the road to the state championship is going to be the backbone of this book and this narrative. So I kind of kept that one in mind and then I kept the evolution of Kobe in mind as the other one. And that I could get into along the road to the state championship in some ways. But those were kind of the brackets that I had set up for myself. It was, okay, I've got to get lower Marion to the end of Kobe senior year as a basketball team. And then I've got to get Kobe from the sounds like we phrased this the right way. The book begins and ends with aircraft. The book begins with the helicopter crash and it ends with a plane landing. And I came up with that very early on in the process. So I had those two kind of lines of demarcation. I've got lower Marion, and I've got the helicopter crash in the plane landing. And those were kind of my guiding narrative post so to speak throughout the writing of the book..
The Crossover NBA Show with Chris Mannix
"kobe " Discussed on The Crossover NBA Show with Chris Mannix
"And of course, Lucas gets fired before the 96 draft rolls around. But that summer is kind of the holy shit moment I think. It's just it was holy shit morning after morning night after night at saint Joe's and an episcopal. Yeah. You mentioned stockhouse and I think stack has done his own part in this to try to dispel some myth making or mythologizing that had happened over the years, but there was this idea that Kobe went in and destroyed Jerry stackhouse one day and like that was the holy shit moment, but also like this humiliating moment for stack allegedly. You do go into some detail about what truly happened that day. So what truly happened that day? Well, truly happened is that they sometimes Kobe got the better of him and sometimes stacked out the better of them. And I think this is one of those things Howard where, you know, you know this as well as anybody. We're in myth into the game of myth making at times when it comes to great athletes. And if you put again, putting Kobe in his time and place at that time, he's a 1617 year old kid playing against among other guys, Jerry stackhouse, who was the number three pick in the 1995 draft and who was presumed to be the sixers savior before they take Allen Iverson the following year. So the deck is stacked against stack in that in that dynamic, right? If he destroys Kobe, well, of course he's supposed to destroy Kobe. And the people who are there watching this, they bring that expectation to what they're seeing. If Kobe holds his own or is able to score on stackhouse here and there, it's like, could you see what this kid was doing? He's better than stackhouse. Well, maybe they were playing evenly, but the fact that one has got a year of NBA experience under his belt and took North Carolina the final four. And one is playing at a suburban Philadelphia high school that doesn't have a particularly good basketball history. You know, that's not an even playing field when it comes to evaluating them. So if they're even close to even, you're going to elevate and vault Kobe over him. It was interesting. I reached out to stack through Vanderbilt and he declined to talk to me for the book. And I understand why, because he's been living with this for so long, this idea that Kobe's school you in 95, man. It's like, here's the whole story. Here's what really happened. It sounds great, but et cetera, et cetera. And you got other people who were in the gym. Yes, exactly. So even stack did not have to necessarily defend himself for the book's sake, although I'm sure that his stack being descriptive and colorful as he is in a great interview. Would have added plenty. But you had people in the gym. You have the, I think, probably the most thorough accounting of it that has been done since this myth was launched all those many years ago. And I get it, right?.
The Crossover NBA Show with Chris Mannix
"kobe " Discussed on The Crossover NBA Show with Chris Mannix
"Of had this flaky personality. It was kind of a nardo, the kind of guy who'd missed the team bus to practice and things like that. So and then once his career ends, he's bitter about what happened. You know, I didn't get the shot. I should have gotten and Kobe hears this over time. And Kobe looks at his dad and says, I'm not going to be him. I'm not going to let what happened to my dad happened to me. I'm going to redeem the Bryant name when it comes to basketball. So you've got these two forces, right? You've got motivation from talent coming from the dad's side of things. And of course, the experience that comes with having been an NBA player. And you've got the mentality from Pam brine from the mom. And you put those together and I think that's where you get this melding and Kobe of the two. He had it within him, but then he has the environment and the upbringing that it kind of harnesses that desire in the way to make him the greatest player on the planet for a while. I mean, certainly in his work ethic, his dedication, his self discipline when it came to basketball, it seems to me that those are things that he or it's the course correction from Joe Bryant. There is a little bit of a, as you mentioned, dad was kind of flaky. Joe Bryant and his career probably maybe he was the wrong player at the wrong time and he would have been phenomenal in today's NBA as a 6 9 guy who could do it all out on the perimeter. But it seems to me that somewhere in there, Kobe finds a kind of he's got this north star and it drives him and focuses him in a way that maybe his father didn't have. It does go to the extreme. There's another passage again. Like some of these just strike me as, you know, if you want to look at them as, you know, here's a kid who just knew exactly what he wanted and how to get it. It's admirable, but it makes me sad to read some of these passages. Who was Kobe Bryant? I'm quoting your writing here. Who was Kobe Bryant during the spring and summer of 1994? He was a kid who had no free time because he wanted no free time. A kid who played in at least 6 basketball leagues in at least two basketball camps and traveled the east coast for AAU tournaments and it goes on to a few other details because there's more and more and then it finally ends with he was a kid obsessed..
The Crossover NBA Show with Chris Mannix
"kobe " Discussed on The Crossover NBA Show with Chris Mannix
"When you see yourself as being on a different plane from everybody else around you, it's going to make those connections more difficult. And you see that time and time again in his relationships with his peers at that age and his relationships with his adults. For instance, I'll give you a quick example, one of my kind of favorite anecdotes in the book is he had a friend named Matt Matt coffe who he met in 8th grade. I knew it was kind of the biggest cheerleader for Kobe among Kobe's group of friends. Matt cop was not nearly the basketball player that Kobe was. Obviously nobody would be at that level. But it wasn't even quite good enough to play in lower marines varsity team. By the time senior year rolls around, Gregg downer, the head coach at lower Marion and his coaching staff are debating, hey, are we going to have to cut mad cough from the team? And if we do, should we be worried about that? Because he's Kobe's best friend..
The Crossover NBA Show with Chris Mannix
"kobe " Discussed on The Crossover NBA Show with Chris Mannix
"So there was an intellectual hurdle that I had to get over in my own head about. Am I telling a story that's already been done to death? And the more I thought about it, the more I thought, okay, Philadelphia is really parochial. It's kind of gotten under the dome kind of sensibility if you're familiar at all with the area. So while people here might know the lower Marion story or a little bit more about the Italy side of Kobe's story, the rest of the country in maybe the rest of the world don't. And I really wanted to put Kobe in his in the proper sense of time and place, like the era of him being a teenager. The place of lower Marion. What is it about this community? What was it about this high school in some ways that allowed him to become who he was? It wasn't totally because of that. It wasn't totally that, he grew up in lower Marion, therefore, he adopted the mamba mentality. But that aspect of his story really appealed to me. Because, as you said, nobody had really gone that deep on it. You read stuff, and it's like, yeah, we played it lower Marion high school. Okay, well what does that mean? There are certain connotations to that. If you're familiar with the place of lower Marion township or the mainline on Philadelphia, there are certain kind of stereotypes and connotations that come up. But what was the actual history there? What aspects of his Kobe's story in that setting had not been told and how can I put him in his time and place in that spot to show how he became who he became? So let's talk about that. The family moves to lower Marion when he is 12. Yes. In December of 1991, he had just turned 13. Just turned 13, who is Kobe Bryant, you know, son of Joe Bryant, former NBA player who has now grown up mostly in Italy and has moved with his family at age 13 to the outskirts of Philadelphia, who is Kobe in that moment and what about that? Do you think does now inform us about the Kobe that we would all come to know? Well, in a lot of respects he's an outsider, okay? So he steps into the lower Marion community. He's not in high school just yet. He's he shows up at balakin with middle school in 8th grade and kind of the middle of the school year. He doesn't know what's cool. He doesn't know what kind of clothes to wear. What clothes are cool? What music is cool? What TV shows are cool. He doesn't know that everybody's watching the Cosby show or cheers or The Simpsons or listening to this kind of music or that kind of music..
The Crossover NBA Show with Chris Mannix
"kobe " Discussed on The Crossover NBA Show with Chris Mannix
"Hosted by Sports Illustrated's Chris mannix and Howard back. It's a whole new level for you and me, Chris. This relationship. Like and subscribe for the best weekly NBA content these two are capable of. What does that mean? Could be the best duo ever. I don't see how you can beat that. Here they are. Chris mannix, and Howard back. Now, very pleased to be joined by the author of the rise Kobe Bryant and the pursuit of immortality. Use Mike seal ski Mike. How are you sir? Thanks for joining us. Howard, thank you so much for having me. I've been looking forward to this. Me as well very much. So, congratulations on the book. I read it cover to cover. Including every end note, no, I did not read all the notes. I otherwise read it cover to cover. It's beautifully written. Incredible details. And as you know, I covered Kobe for 7 years up close in LA. There was a lot here. I didn't know, but that's because you focused on a portion of Kobe's life that I feel like, while not unexamined, certainly not explored in the level of precision and detail that you did in this book. And so it was really just a phenomenal read. So congratulations on that and all the success to come behind it. We are, of course, as you and I speak nearing the two year mark since Kobe's death. A lot was said and written at the time, but that was, in fact, mostly about the Kobe we knew or thought we knew through the course of his NBA career. His public life, your book is like 99.9% before that. What is it that you want people to learn or understand about Kobe Bryant pre NBA pre fame really? So a couple things. First of all, thanks for having me. Second of all, I do remember the immediate aftermath of Kobe's death. And I remember reading your piece for bleacher report about Kobe. And I would say this even if I weren't talking to you right now, I thought your piece was the best of all the obituary tributes, you know, it was really well done really beautiful. So kudos to you for that..
The Crossover NBA Show with Chris Mannix
"kobe " Discussed on The Crossover NBA Show with Chris Mannix
"What up? It's the crossover pod, Friday edition. We are coming up on a very sad anniversary. This Wednesday January 26th will mark two years since the helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant. His daughter Gigi and 7 others, I wanted to remember and celebrate Kobe's life in some way on this podcast that felt appropriate and I can think of no better way than to bring on my guest today, Mike sesky, who is the author of a new book about Kobe's life, but especially Kobe's formative teenage years and Mike's book takes us there in a way that I don't think any other book has to date and there have been, of course, a lot of books about Kobe Bryant. The book's called the rise, Kobe Bryant, and the pursuit of immortality, it takes us into Kobe's upbringing in Italy, his move with his family to lower Marion township, Pennsylvania, when he was 13 and throughout his entire high school years, I can't recommend it highly enough. There are quotes from Kobe in this book that we've never seen or heard until now because they were recorded back in 1996 97, Kobe's rookie year and never saw the light of day until now. The why and the how of that is fascinating. The book explains it and Mike steel ski will explain it during our chat. If you've been listening to me for a while, you know, I open every podcast and have an opening all of my podcasts since before this one with some version of what up and that's because of Kobe. If you heard me over the years on Zack Lowe's podcast, you know he greets me every time with what up Beck because as Zach recalled back when I first started going on a show, he recalls a moment during the 2011 NBA lockout, a player meeting in midtown Manhattan at a hotel, dozens of players are filtering through the lobby of the Sheraton hotel and Kobe strolls through at one point and sunglasses on looking coolest can be and as he passes by the gathered media contingent waiting for them. He sees me and says simply what up Beck? I didn't recall that moment, but Zach loved it, kind of mentally filed it away, introduced to me one day with it on his pod and it sort of stuck ever since. And so when I started my own podcast in 2017, I decided to incorporate it myself a little subtle homage to Kobe. I covered Kobe up close for 7 years from 1997 to 2004, got to know him. As well as a reporter can, given the professional limitations and the nature of the job. And I still learned so, so much from Mike seals, he's new book about those formative years of Kobe's life. His teenage years really enjoyed the book really enjoyed the chat with Mike. I think you will as well. Okay, my conversation with Mike sesky is coming up next. So.
ESPN Daily
"kobe " Discussed on ESPN Daily
"Would look at his brand new toys on Christmas. And he looked at Wilson and he said, can I have them all? And that's because Kobe Bryant model shoes for complicated reasons have become one of the hardest to.
The Dream Team Tapes: Kobe, LeBron & The Redeem Team
"kobe " Discussed on The Dream Team Tapes: Kobe, LeBron & The Redeem Team
"Hey, my name is Kobe Bryant. And I love to play basketball. Where did it come from? I'm always looking. I love the smell of the leather. The hard way to kind of get on the playground, switch it in there. What if we could go back in time before he became the icon and ask him? How did you become? Kobe Bryant. This is gonna be the same person that I've been up to this point. They're in high school as a basketball player with a lot of confidence that we're not doing play works when the basketball game. You know, that's what I'm gonna do. I am Kobe tells the story of Kobe Bryant's early life through his coaches, his family, his friends, with never before heard intimate tapes of Kobe himself. His thoughts, his dreams, his goals from his teenage years. All revealed for the first time. Yeah, they realized that on a nightly basis, got to come out and kill you. Yeah. If a guy comes out and kill me, I'm not going to sit back and that'll kill him. Everything I can not. Listen to I am Kobe from diversion podcasts for free on the iHeartRadio app. Apple podcasts and all the places you get podcasts. Listen to his voice. November 16th. I came from the valley of the shadow of death waiting for a self spoon don't hold your breath
If I Were You
"kobe " Discussed on If I Were You
"Banks helix okay. I'll let you. I'll let you Redeem yourself while more time before we go okay. Kobe put up. How many points when he won the nba. All star game. Mvp in twenty eleven by helping the western conference defeat the eastern conference slough. I do not remember. that is it. I'll give you the numbers okay. Twenty eight thirty two thirty seven or forty four again. It's probably one of the high to. I'll go thirty seven. Thirty seven is correct. They get a little harder now. Actually all right. Let's keep going. Let's see what happens. Specific points scored in an all star game level of obscurity. Okay in his twenty year career. How many all defensive teams did. Kobe make eleven. No eleven's okay. Eleven not an option. There are eight ten twelve and fourteen eight ten or fourteen. I'll go twelve then. Seems reasonable correct. Which former legend from the lakers do kobe pass. Twenty ten to become the all time leading scorer for the franchise. He passed a laker legend. Oh to become the leading. Score for the lakers. Yeah in what year two thousand ten. Tell me if you want the The options will be like elgin. Baylor jerry west will chamberlain kareem or something very close. There's one other one. That's not kareem. Not jerry west elgin baylor or not wilt chamberlain. You got the other three. What was the magic. That's right magic. Magic on the lakers for a while but he was more of an assist guy. I think it might have been jerry west. I'll say jerry west. It's correct ou. These are getting harder. I like it. Yeah and the two thousand five to two thousand six nba season. Kobe averaged thirty five point. Four points per game to take home his first scoring title. Who did he beat out for scoring that title. Wow okay. that's a great question number two in scoring in two thousand five two thousand six. Yeah interesting is iverson one of those not not that i'm saying iverson is the answer but does that is one of the is one of the three is lebron. What are the options. Lebron's another one. Is vince carter. One of the options. No dwayne wade one of the options. Yes so i've probably named like number two three and four and just can't remember who finished second two thousand. Let's go lebron. I'm sure he averaged over. Thirty is third or fourth year. So you don't want to give paul pierced. I do not. I would never get the celtic that. I'm hoping it's not him. And it is lebron correct. How many games did bryant play in the twenty thirteen to twenty fourteen seasons when fans still elected him to the all star game. Twenty thirty one thirty one is not available there. Six fifteen twenty three and thirty. Let's go thirty but it might be number six games. How that's awesome those nudist cool yet. What year did kobe win his second. Nba scoring title. Guess the year after two thousand five two thousand six. The next available in is two thousand seven. There's also eight nine ten. Let's go two thousand seven correct. But now i'm really just guessing here. Great educated guesses. Let's so to more okay. When did kobe win his first of four. Nba all star game. Mvp's was it. Nineteen ninety nine two thousand two thousand and one or two thousand two. Yeah this one. I don't know either. This might have been when. He was booed and philadelphia for winning the all-star mvp in two thousand one is my guess two thousand and two. Kobe scored a series high. Thirty eight points in which game of the twenty ten nba finals gave. Who i was gonna say game seven. But i don't think it was. I think everybody was struggling. Game seven But like why would they say it. If it's game six. God are the options game. Four five six and seven there two four five and seven. Gimme game seven. Let's go for a game. Five excess a whole lot of sense. How many questions are on this quiz. There are actually. I thought there were a lot more this is. We're on the last question last question. We did it. How many years did it take kobe to become a full time. Starter for the lakers Y two three or four. I'll say two three interesting all star but not a starter good on him third season. Yeah wow i think i mean i learned a lot site can only imagine how much you learned. I knew most of that. The all star game stuff to the draft thing was and i and i think everyone listening heard you get a little tripped up so that one. I can't deny all the other ones. I basically a new. I wasn't sure. If it was paul pierce or lebron james leading the second leading into thousand five six but then i did remember that paul pierce an mc l. early part of that season. So i should have known and and yeah and was the third leading scorer obviously and tween. That's all right sweep. Finally a quiz. I can excel at feels good. Thanks for administering. Thanks for listening. I'm sure wardak soon enough and next week with another classic episode of testing testing. Is this thing good. Nice was a hit dumber original..
Afternoons with Marcellus & Kelvin
"kobe " Discussed on Afternoons with Marcellus & Kelvin
"Last week on agency and to think that kobe bryant would be forty three years old right now and and you know we. Don't we all talk about kobe. But obviously his daughter was on that helicopter as well. There were several other people and children on that helicopter. And and you know. Sometimes we kind of forget about it was more than just him you know. And it's it's just it's just hard to believe because what you think is. Is that when you're a superstar celebrity and your ultra wealthy and you have access to that sort of technology. Well you're as safe as can possibly be. I mean it could have been cloudy that morning and it could have been dangerous. And if kobe would have said to me. Let's go. i would have gone okay as long as you assign ya. Not giving them the second thought. Yeah you know i remember. I was on the radio in saint louis when this all went down kobe's last game and i was almost getting in fistfights because i still don't know how to approach this with people. Who do this whenever you bring up kobe. They bring up the negative. I they bring up the thing like you said that almost changed his life. What happened in colorado. They always bring that up. I and i'm like it's his last game. Why do we have to spend twenty minutes talking about x. y. z. But i wind up looking like you. The grotesque like i'm dismissing. What happened. no. It's i get it happened but can't we just appreciate his last game. He's got he's got sixty points in his last game. Can't we just appreciate that. Some people want to bring up the negative constantly. They're not the kobe fans. Obviously hey demarco. We're just getting going here on a tuesday afternoon. Coming up corporate greg bergman with a game of overrated or underrated. Let's all play together. That is coming up next. This is sodano and cap on seventeen. Espn thank you very much chris. All right let's go right into the birthdays for overrated underrated. Like we always do who wants to go first today. Let's go with up laura pointing at demarco marco. You go first. Let's go vince. Mcmahon oh or dave chapelle underrated overrated overrated under. Pick one for each I'll go. Dave chapelle easily underrated. I that guy is. I still don't think we've seen the best of him. Yeah he's so talented. And i don't care if he talks for nine hours. Yeah i'm there. I'm in i'm involved. I'm i'm engrossed He's funny he's he's very now he's everything i guess. I'll go. Vince mcmahon overrated. I hate even saying that. Because he put wrestling on the map He's a genius when it comes to that business. But when's the last time you watch the wrestling match. When's the last time you cared about wrestling. Goes eight years old. Been a minute. Yep that's what you watch cap you watch wrestling but you won't watch anything else. Last night i watched a little bit of wrestling i I wanted to see what was going on. It's monday night raw. And i decided i wanted to check on wrestling because last week we had a full conversation demarco. Who's your favorite wrestler from your childhood. All time yeah. Well i mean this is a whole 'nother show it used to be the hulk. Yeah and then. I can't like him anymore. So it's either the rock or stone cold. Oh well see. I was a little further deep into my my wrestling history. I would not the road. The american role heck yeah to come on l. air. Yeah so so for me. I'm gonna go the opposite here. you know. i like dave chapelle. I will watch any comedy special. The dave chapelle puts out any one of them He does one thing that is. I'm a huge stand up comedy fan. He does one thing that bothers me when he tells a joke and he delivers the punchline. He hits the microphone as if to say to me. That was the punchline and it drives me nuts. And i'm a huge stand up comedy fan so i like chapelle very much. But in this equation overrated underrated. I'm going with vince. Mcmahon is underrated because there is no pro wrestling in twenty. Twenty one. Without vince mcmahon. And by the way this isn't new there's been going on for thirty five forty years. Vince mcmahon is a multi-billionaire incredible business guy because of what he did with pro wrestling. And so in this equation. i'm going vince. Under and dave chapelle over all right everyone has their own alright. Not right not the popular opinion. Sign everyone. that's your choice. This is actually a pretty tough one this. I thought this was a tougher one. The normal alright cap. Jared dudley who cal- kuzma has said is the best teammate. He has ever had. And it's not close is leaving the lakers to become an assistant coach with the mavericks. Lebron found out and replied to a tweet. A tweet from real with this congrats to my guy. If this is true which it probably is it ended up being but man and then he wrote out the word that the a bad word that starts with an f. I don't that i'm not gonna say. Oh my gosh. Thank you laura. Say fudge this response from lebron overrated underrated. I'm going to say it's underrated for this reason. I thought lebron and jared dudley. We're tight. And i thought jared dudley was kind of like lebron's backup quarterback sort of his valet you know. Sort of his go-to guy. Take care of the little things. Because jared dudley can't help you win anymore as a ball player in uniform but he can help you with so many other things in your life and off the floor..
Afternoons with Marcellus & Kelvin
"kobe " Discussed on Afternoons with Marcellus & Kelvin
"Yeah let's do it. Sodano and cap demarco is in big night tonight for the dodgers and padres in a big day around l. a. Today mom day demarco. What is good man. Same old stuff listening to that call on the way in. I'd never heard it. I'd never heard the michael. John call about Kobe's last game. I did get emotional. I saw it on tv. I'd love to see that with the video that coal like they go into youtube. I'm doing it now. I want to hear that and see that at the same time that was that was awesome. Yeah yeah i mean listen. It's yesterday was the birthday. Today is eight twenty four and You know people can help really demarco get emotional because you have to be just purely a laker fan to be a kobe fan. You know and and i know listen. I don't mean to to get cheesy about it. But seriously like in my in my life i think to myself i didn't call it. The mamba mentality probably a year plus ago but now anything that includes like determination grit heart effort ambition etc. I i now refer that as mamba mentality. i don't know about you. I i do Every time i walked up a piece of paper or a straw wrapper and you know. Shoot it into the basket. Kobe for three. It just comes out. You know what i mean. I have my daughter doing it. She's never seen him play and she does it. She has no idea who kobe. Bryant is except for picture and a couple of posters. But she does it so yeah just a huge deal and what a huge deal just. Kobe bryant going out with a sixty you know. Wasn't it autumn coming back to win a game in his last game tremendous. You couldn't write that any better. Yeah i met a guy the other day i was. I talked about this just the other day. But i was at the del mar racetrack on saturday and i met a young guy and on my i'm scott. What's your name and he goes. I'm kobe and i'm like you're kidding. Me no and i'm like wow like what a name and you'd probably they're probably lots of other kobe's out there now. I don't have the guts do you. Oh gosh no. I mean would you have the guts to name your son koby. That'd be like my kid. michael. Jordan kaplan yes. You know how. 'bout michael kobe. Far better come home with all as all the time right and win every right. That'd be new when everything well demarco. We've got a long day. And i say a long day a good day. Great day as a matter of fact ahead of us and tonight i. I'm really excited about this. The dodgers and the padres tonight. We'll talk about kobe the afternoon. Progressives but i gotta ask you. Did you happen to see the news from earlier today. That a small plane. And i'm gonna call it crash but it's really it was an emergency. Landing is probably a better phrase. A small plane had an emergency landing. On the southbound five in north san diego and i bring this up to you because i'm seeing a lot of dodger fans on twitter saying this is the way the padres are attempting to shut out the dodger fans from showing up at the game. Wow land plane on i five. Wow are you serious. I didn't see this real. I swear to. You is totally true story for anybody. That hasn't seen this yet. There was a really small plane. I don't know all the details of what kind of plane it was. It was a really small plane and the pilot somehow got into distress and had to put the plane down and literally landed the plane on the five southbound. This is in del mar so north gig. Yeah yeah i got it and so here you have tonight. Demarco this huge game. When i say huge i would say dodger fans are not necessarily feeling like this is such a huge series whereas the padre fans are feeling like this is it. The whole season comes down to this. Because the last time these two teams played which was in mid june the padres actually swept the dodgers and between then and now it's been a whole different world where the dodgers have gone tear. The padres have fallen apart and if the padres have any chance of putting their season back together it has to start against the dodgers. The dodgers are probably feeling like well. We don't even know who their pitcher is. We've never even heard of pierce johnson. We thought he was a double o seven actor. So i'm really excited about this series. And i think it's because for waiting. Are you excited or nervous. Because i'm here in a little bit of nerves there. Well i would say because i think i think you're doing the dodgers a disservice. If you dismiss the padres because of how poorly they played really. I really do. This is still a great rivalry. They still have a lot to play for. The wild card is within reach. So if you're a big blue big blue fan heading down on the five are you. Are you happy now laura. I everybody in the nuts. When i said i five so the five and you almost get a plane landed on your roof if you think this is going to be a sweep and easy sweep for the dodgers. I you got another thing coming. They're battling for their playoff lives. They're trying to save their jobs down there in san diego. Well i feel this way. I feel like the padres. This is make or break because you lost three out of four arizona and you got no hit by a pitcher making his major league debut you got swept by the colorado rockies. So you're in the middle of a playoff race and you're letting the teams beneath you sweep you or no hit you. You got major problems. Then you come home. And you've got philadelphia. And they take to edit three from the padres in san diego. Here's my thought. My thought is the dodgers should not just win this series. The dodgers should sweep this and the dodgers should be thinking of themselves while you know the padres were feeling real good. They won seven out of ten against the dodgers so far this year. They swept them last time they played in san diego. And it's like we're going down there to put it to him. That's what i would be selling. If i were dave rob's well you know what if they do. Then i o travis and greg an apology for being delusional. If you go down there and sweep the padres and you close ground on san francisco at least in theory. You actually have a chance to pull this thing off like winning. The west is actually possible. If you can go down there and sweep san diego if that's actually true. That's the dodgers squad that's down there then. I owe you guys a big fat apology now. I'm not. I was shocked to hear this from you. Dead serious article on this. Yeah yeah you're right. Look it's two and a half games with what is it. Thirty seven games left to play there right there. There's a all it takes a couple of games and they play the giants three times so that could be. That could change everything right there. You sweep the giants which is not easy but if you sweep the giants urine first place even if nothing changes until then so i mean it's still very much in the dodgers hands of what they're gonna do. But i want to tell you guys that i was going back today and i was looking at some numbers..
Mason & Ireland
"kobe " Discussed on Mason & Ireland
"O'clock ramona. Were you at kobe's last game. The sixty points per game courtroom. I guess is you've never heard michael and i call the into that game have you. I might have heard it when we played it back but okay so we played it back twice before we played it back right after it happened. We played the whole game like three nights later and then we. Kobe passed away. We played the game again at three o'clock today. We're gonna play the very end of the game. We'll put the last three minutes It was the honor of our careers. For michael i to describe what happened. It was kobe's love letter to the laker fans as they as he said goodbye in his final game. It is when you listen to it. You you know the reaction we always get is. I never knew. I could feel that way. You know blah blah we and and so on monday we get a lot of requests for it will do it at three. O'clock spread the word for people who have never heard it. The end of the game were kobe. Basically takes it over and on his way to soaring sixty points a record by the way which will never be broken. No one will ever score sixty points in the final game of their career. It just it hadn't happened before. I don't think it'll ever happen since. What do you remember about that night more than anything else. I remember afterwards. While i was sitting there watching and we all just couldn't believe it. Because he got to forty. And we're like whoa. Maybe he's going to get to fifty and then he got to fifty. We're like maybe he's going to get to sixty. But i think the thing. I remember the most of all as after the game of talking to horace grant because they had all his former teammates. And all of them you can. If you can think of a teammate. Even guys only played that one year. Gary payton was there from other teams. Baron davis was there. There was like just everybody who had played with him and all in the front row in front row. Shack derek fisher. Everybody and and horace goes. He took fifty shots. It would've taken me like four weeks to take fifty shots fifty in that game and it was as memorable a night as and by the way we. I had greg bergman that night walking around used to called the third chair and we looked around and rather than trying to decide who were going to put in the third chair. You know we grab a celebrity and have them call part of the second quarter with us because frankly back in those teams weren't very good and we wanted to up the entertainment value of the broadcast. And so we always had some fun. You know everybody. From andy garcia to jeanie buss to the cast the big bang theory. You know we justin bieber up there once jack black up there once. You know ramona week. Couldn't decide there were so many celebr- knees in the crowd that night. We decide who to bring up there. So we got bergman to take a portable microphone headset and just walk up to people around the building. That's cool and and he got everybody. He got jack. Nicholson we allow. Nicholson on before. And jack did like two three minutes with and you know i was really proud of great because we just basically said to him. Look don't be afraid if anyone tells you know. I think every this is a party. It's a celebration. I think everybody you ask is going to say yes and sure enough. You know arsenio hall snoop dog. And nicholson andy garcia and dust. And everybody said yes. And we just started mixing them into the broadcast. Until the end of the game the lakers were trailing by fifteen and the game had pretty much been decided and kobe. Just said screw it. I'm taking over well also. They kept passing him. The ball mean coda said afterwards. It's like i was forced to keep shooting like they just kept making shoot and and and in the it's the most koby game of all though fifty shots one game like like his career. Everybody said you shoot too much take shot your and then in his last game. They're forcing him to shoot. It's great so we will get to all of that and again at three o'clock you'll hear the end. What it sounded like that night when michael called the end of kobe's career. We're gonna run that right at three o'clock we've put together at ten minutes of the end of that game that we think you'll like so in. That's all in honor of day but let's circle back room and and so obviously we've got a ton of stuff to cover. Let's circle back to the dodgers who have this huge series tonight opening san diego. Tonight's game and tomorrow night's game both nationally televised on. Espn right now. The dodgers are chasing the giants or two and a half the giants in the national league west but if they don't catch the giants they'll host the wildcard game. They're like ten games up in the wildcard but who they play could be determined over the next three nights right now. The season ended today they would play the reds cincinnati has the second wildcard spot. One game ahead of the padres. The padres ramona literally loaded up in the offseason spent hundreds of millions of dollars to try and compete with the dodgers in the national league. West they. They went out and got blake snell. They went out and got you darvish. They went out and basically grow right. They loaded up their pitching rotation they. They made trades at the all star break. They picked up an all star. Second baseman from the pirates. They they've done everything they can do behind the scenes to try and catch the dodgers. But it's not working. They fired their pitching coach over the weekend. They now find themselves trailing the reds by a game if ramona the dodgers could sweep the padres and by the way the dodgers are going to try it tonight. They're pitching julio ludicrious tomorrow night. They're pitching walker bueller and thursday night. They're pitching max scherzer. So that the dodgers have lined up their pitching rotation to try and knock the padres out if they do it. How big of a deal is that. Momo and european huge i mean the dodgers went thirteen. They're pass over the past fifteen games out of ten and picked up only a game and a half on on the giants. I mean that's how tough this race is right now. The giants are really good. We've been all waiting for them to fade the whole time. When you thirteen to fifteen and you only pick up a game and half that is demoralizing so for that for the for the dodgers is to me the ga- the series where they can really swing it. They got swept the last time. I play the padres and the padres are much better at home than they are on the road. So this is a really tough series if they get swept here if they lose two out of three we incredibly tough to catch in san francisco. will not only that. It'll be tough for the dodgers san francisco but if the padres gas wept i think positions the reds basically to play the dodgers in the wildcard game And and i did not want to one game playoff. Anything could happen and the reds have a have a pretty formula lineup to padres have a brutal schedule down the whole time i was just gonna bring that up the toughest schedule of any team in major league baseball so if they were to get swept it would be devastating to the padre and they play the dodgers the giants the astros the braves and the cardinals down the stretch all posts. An all teams have figured to be in the postseason. So it's it's a huge series tonight. Seven o'clock in san diego by the way. You've been in that ballpark. Petco so fun. It is maybe the nicest stadium in the big leagues. It's it's right in the middle of the gasoline quarter in san diego. It is. I know a lot of dodger fans are gonna make the trip down there. The dodgers travel very well especially for padres and giant games. Should be very fun to watch tonight tomorrow. Night thursday night and again tonight tomorrow night walker bueller and thursday max scherzer so the the dodgers are going for it. They're going to try and do this now..
The Relaxed Dog
"kobe " Discussed on The Relaxed Dog
"And and that to this day i just i just think of that picture of coming in and seeing him and just the realization of what had happened to going. Oh my gosh you've got to be kidding me. This little dog did all this work to get to the carrot cake. so able table decide. I'm done yeah almost like as a cartoon right of rolling over with this huge belly but like mild like well not my even my intensely satisfied with himself what he had accomplished but now wising how uncomfortable he was like it. Just all of those emotions being communicated in his in his eyes some some place to meet. Act out on the floor near. Yes yes. I do need a little bit of assistance and i need to go take a nap. Yeah and then after we had had our first child. You know you you kind of get in the motions of of caring for your your baby and part of that is using diaper wipes and wiping up a mess and throwing them in the trash and we had just done that we had Dan left kobe inside. And because we need to run some errands and when we came back We noticed. Kobe was kind of laying funny. And we couldn't quite figure it out and the next day He went he went poop. And when i looked This little thing was hanging out from the back. And i went and i pulled it out. And it was a full diaper. Wipe and i ran back inside in realized he'd eaten about six. Defer y ou out of the trash can and so over the next couple days. We got our diaper whites. We got all of them given back to us We counted them all and make sure they were all. There was one of those things where he was obviously very. He was very happy with what he had done but then realizing he was also very uncomfortable ever come back after being outside and rolled in anything interesting. You know not that we know of we have. There was one time where we were wa. Came with him on the leash. And he's a he's when we do go on walks he's not a. I'm going to walk. Walk walk walk. He's a definitely. I'm going to sniff every seven seconds and every seven feet seven seven inches To to figure out what's going on and so we're used to him stopping and smelling things and He was doing that by this bush. One day and you know he's smelling and all of a sudden he just starts rolling in..
The Relaxed Dog
"kobe " Discussed on The Relaxed Dog
"Kobe definitely takes more of a. This is my house dominance thing. I mean he's a dachshund so he's not going to be he's not overly dominant but he lets them know where his spot is and where his toys r. or his pillow is When he goes over to other dogs homes he's definitely in the curiosity mode and kind of plays by their house rules More than ever they are over here. but He always finds the most Cushion ever that he can find. We call it he. No kobe loved. Softness is what the kids are kids. Stay a lot and it's true. If there are three pillows on the floor and one by itself in two or stacked on top of each other he will go and sit on top of those two pillows that are stacked on top of each other so he can have most softness so during sort of out about what sort of environment disease look usual. Sort of luck walker outside space. Look so we do go on walks throughout the week Not every day and he and as kobe has aged He has started to develop a some back problems. you can tell it's it's sore and nothing has there's no been no slipped disc or anything degenerating at this point. He's just getting older right. And so you can kind of tell that long walks aren't exactly his thing anymore and we're trying to protect his backing and keep him healthy So he will go out into our backyard and on our back deck and lay in the sun and just lay there. He loves especially now. It's getting warmer here. And finding sunshine is one of why when he's not finding the softest place to sit he is trying to find sunniest place to sit and warm himself up and go out in the tall grass or on the concrete even in hill kind of move himself and can't self regulate the temperature as he's se sunbathing in some basking But when we go on walks He's still very interested in in everybody coming alongside and when we meet other people you know he. He doesn't bark Actually just comes up to them and asks for attention and Is is always greeted others. I'm very enthusiastically and Has never known stranger Even when we're out out in about traveling us so you mentioned the enjoys a bit of sun. Biking flipped that. And how is he in the winter there. And how bad does he hates it. He is not know puppy at all this past winter. We had about a week of wind chills minus thirty degrees fahrenheit. Well for some nights and he was very displeased and so he would Giving him to go out with I would have to keep..
The Lead
"kobe " Discussed on The Lead
"So michael. The year after. Kobe and the lakers beat the sixers in the nba finals. Kobe comes back to philly and he seems excited to try to reconnect with his hometown. Fans the all star game in philadelphia in. It's like a dream come true for kobe. To be home to be an all star to be at the top to be a champion a two time champion. No less at that point going for three in a row. He wore his dad's number. Twenty three throwback jersey imon everything to him and so he knew he was gonna go out there and put on a show in front of his hometown fans at least we thought were hometown fans and he scored thirty one points. One all star game. Mvp tonight with thirty one points. Five rebounds and five assists the star of stars of the greatest players in the world was in two thousand two. Mvp kobe brian hobie is holding the mvp trophy in fans are loudly. Booing him they are blowing him to the point where they wanted him to know how much they disliked him and he was crushed. Mona's are on our is out there trying to play and have a good time. Also i heard talked to people who said that after the gain at kobe had to be consoled because he has such a deep affection and love of philadelphia and appreciation for philadelphia. He knows that everything that he is a basketball player because of philadelphia and he wanted to give philadelphia to show any did and i think for the rest of his career. It always deng. He was rejected in the most public way possible. And despite it all you know koby really did love philly. Even when philly didn't love him back yeah he did because he's still have family here he's still came back so something he never deny you know. We still have the eagles when they won the super bowl years ago. You know he cried tears of joy mark in the last public <hes>. Images of him. When last time. He's out publicly at a basketball game. In the lakers game. He was rocking a of eagles. Nick calf he loved this place. And i think it meant a lot that in his final game in philadelphia with the lakers. He got cheered six where he won the title. In ninety ninety six number twenty four hobie made the announcement that that was going to be his last season before he played his final home game until serbia in everyone will say. It's not a coincidence. You know because. I think that you know he knew. His journey for basketball began with philadelphia in that. If he could start this. This retirement tour there. I think it meant a lot to him. Make that announcement and <hes>. The fans really responded that night. They gave him kobe chance. He got a standing ovation. And you can just see us really choked up you know. He beat his chest and like blew a kiss to the crowd. Because i think it meant the world him it took twenty years. It took twenty years to happen but the philly fans finally gave him the love that he really just hoped could be requested.