RIP Kobe Bryant

I remember a caller to Howard Stern -- there's an obit in the making -- when Wilt died:

"Big deal, a tall guy was good at putting a rubber ball through a metal ring."

 

I was watching this live and mentioned it much earlier on the thread. It really sounds closer to Knickers than the n-word.

 

Obviously his first statement was just a rough draft

 

Oh, she's probably going to lose her job over this.

 

Grammys at Staples Center tonight
Lots of Kobe mentions already

 

15 pages and no one's asked if he's A1 unless Phil Collins dies?

And on a serious note, I think Wolf Blitzer is gonna lose it during this broadcast.

 

If you intend to say Los Angles Lakers and say what she said, how in the world do you make that slip of the tongue?
It would be hard to say even if you meant to say it.
If you were trying to say New York Knicks and let it slip, you might be able to play it off as a stutter.
Otherwise, WTF, and I say that as someone who isn't politically correct or hasn't ever heard certain words.

 

Another passenger on that helicopter was also a SoCal sports figure:

Orange Coast College baseball coach John Altobelli, wife and daughter die in helicopter crash with Kobe Bryant – Orange County Register

 

Of course they did.

The Grammy’s are the largest collection of narcissists in America since The Donald dined alone.

. They are each in competition with each other to attempt to make themselves Kobe’s best friend, their greatest mutual influence and most affected by his death.

 

Any relationship to Joe Altobelli, Manager of the 1983 World Series winningBaltimore Orioles?

 

The Grammys is the annual reaffirmation that I don't listen to new music. About the only people I recognize are Ozzy, Tanya Tucker and Billy Ray Cyrus.