The Athletic supplies context: "Kobe, Gianna and seven others died in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, Calif., on Jan. 26, 2020, while traveling to a basketball tournament for Gianna. Two of her teammates, three other parents, an assistant coach and the pilot were all on board."
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A damn shame. One of those “didn’t have to happen” events.
I was thinking about that crash the other day. So terribly tragic.
One man's girl dad is another man's rapist.
Kobe’s father - Joe “Jellybean” Bryant - just passed away a few days ago. Old timer NBA fans will remember his playing days.
That got me thinking about that sad day in January 2020.
Saint Kobe, like Saint George Floyd, ain’t no saint.
What an interesting statue. I like how the sculpter gave Kobe and his daughter different color clothes and shoes. And he has a hat and sweat pants on, while she has her bare head and legs. I'm not sure about the color of her legs though. It seems too bright and shiney, but maybe it doesnt work with more muted tones.
9 people on a copter. I pictured a smaller copter where 4 people would be packed in. I guess it was bigger like in the military?
Not a bad statue. Usually, Althouse posts about statues provoke some mixture of horror and disbelief. But this is not too bad. RIP, Gianna and Kobe.
I like the sculpter putting them on the same folding black chairs you see at NBA courtside. Good touch.
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And he has a hat and sweat pants on, while she has her bare head and legs.
That's how I read it at first glance too, but she's wearing trousers -- maybe jeans. You can see the hem and crease down by her shoes.
Juan Brown has a good breakdown of what happened with the accident with an EMS helicopter pilot.
I HATE the worship of dead celebrities. Especially dead rapists.
Is it okay to call it a colored sculpture, or should it be a sculpture of color?
If ya’ll are referring to the case he went to trial on, you’re wrong. Might wanna read up a little.
I like the sculpture. It shows the love between a father and daughter well. I don't know how I feel about the wings though.
To those who think Kobe Bryant was a rapist, I don't know all the facts of the case but it doesn't seem odd to me that a 19 year old woman would go to the hotel room of a good-looking, tall, extremely fit, celebrity-athlete, hoping for sex. And it doesn't seem beyond to belief to me that she could get angry enough to falsely accuse him of rape after realized it was going to be a one-time thing.
Pardon the add and deletes. I just got a new phone and the learning curve is steep.
The Black Mamba was Kobe’s nick name chosen for himself. He was an assassin on the court, so he used that assassin’s name from Kill Bill: vol 2 that featured Uma Thurman wiping out hundreds of other Samurai Sword fighters.
For some reason Kobe like many men really liked that movie. Maybe because she was a skilled warrior. And at the end she told the survivors that they could leave with their lives, but had to leave behind all their arms that she had cut off which were now belonged to her
And we really respected Kobe Bryant’s attitude. Note Again that Uma Thurman was all woman.
Kobe's father had briefly been the basketball coach at the Hebrew day school that Josh and Lori Shapiro went to. Small world.
The sanctification of the tragically killed continues apace. It’s archetypal. Live heroes will inevitably disappoint. Dead heroes are static and forever heroic. Truly it’s all horseshit.
Good discussion, Xmas. I wonder what kind of pressure there was on the pilot to fly the mission. In the 80's, I was a young AF C-130 Navigator when I resisted and held up a formation flight in forecasted bad weather to go home from a weeklong airdrop training mission. Our radar was inoperable, but radar was required by regulation to fly formation using Station Keeping Equipment. They were all pissed off at me and the Mission Commander told me I was "...going to have a long talk with the DO when we got home." They finally got a waiver from Wing Standardization and Evaluation to fly, and sure as shit, en-route, we went IFR and had to breakup our formation. The pilot asked, "Hay nav, what kind of heading do I need to get out of this weather?" "I responded, how the fu@k would I know, you stupid God Damn son of a bitch!" The DO didn't say a word to me when we got home, and the Chief Nav told me, "Good job."
And this is why you'll never get me into a helicopter.
Fentanyl George got a statue too.
RMc said...
“And this is why you'll never get me into a helicopter.”
I watched the video Xmas posted and that’s exactly the conclusion I came to.
Valentine Smith said...
"The sanctification of the tragically killed continues apace. It’s archetypal. Live heroes will inevitably disappoint. Dead heroes are static and forever heroic. Truly it’s all horseshit."
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Yeah, all those loving relatives and fans don't deserve to preserve their memories. They should have gotten over it the day after it happened.
But since you feel that way: we will be happy to plop your non-heroic remains into a potter's field hole some day. No plaque. No tombstone.
Kobe should have asked the pilot to land at Van Nuys and hired a limo. He was a powerful guy and they tend to dominate people like pilots.
"That's how I read it at first glance too, but she's wearing trousers -- maybe jeans. You can see the hem and crease down by her shoes."
Yep. I zoomed in on it. I think you're correct.
'If ya’ll are referring to the case he went to trial on, you’re wrong. Might wanna read up a little.'
She wouldn't testify, but then got $2.5M in a civil trial.
You are a moron if you don't think rich people buy their way out of prosecutions.
Joe Smith said...
'If ya’ll are referring to the case he went to trial on, you’re wrong. Might wanna read up a little.'
She wouldn't testify, but then got $2.5M in a civil trial.
You are a moron if you don't think rich people buy their way out of prosecutions.
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Dolt. This was a civil trial, not a criminal prosecution.
And you are equally a moron for not knowing rich people buy their way out of lawsuits w/o admitting their liability.
Has the term "settled out of court" ever traversed your medulla oblongata?
Blogger Michael K said...
“Kobe should have asked the pilot to land at Van Nuys”
It seems it was overconfidence on the pilot’s part.
“Zobayan, 50, was the chief pilot for Island Express, where he had worked for ten years, according to a statement on the company's website, and had 8,200 hours of flight time as of July. An instrument flight instructor as well, he reportedly flew Bryant regularly and Deetz says he knew the area well.”
"....he knew the area well.”
Not well enough.
Eva Marie, the pilot had an instrument rating but like many helo pilots he had not kept it up. If he decided to go on, maybe it's his fault but lots of rich people, like Kobe, don't appreciate risk.
effinayright said...
Dolt. This was a civil trial, not a criminal prosecution.
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Dude just stop. You're embarrassing yourself.
Bryant was arrested and criminally charged for rape of a 19 (I think) year old hotel worker. The woman reported the rape the next day after it happened and she had bruises around her neck and Bryant had her blood on his clothes.
The criminal case was later dismissed after the young girl refused to testify but later Bryant paid her to settle the civil claim and issued a written apology for his behavior.
I was actually working around Aspen that summer and it was a huge deal. There was a lot of people blaming the girl and a lot blaming Bryant.
This is second of three planned Kobe statues for the arena. Hard to overstate the love for Kobe in LA, where he spent his entire long career and too short retirement.
He was a basketball player. Changed the world? Tragic death. If he had less money they’d have been car pooling.
Kobe is just another really important person that has died in an aircraft because they could not grasp that the weather doesn't care about his schedule. Continued Flight into Inclement Meteorological Conditions is a too often written phrase in NTSB accident reports. Bad enough when it's a single pilot, but worse when they get other people killed too. I hope the pilot's boss has a nightmare every night about sending them to their doom because it was Kobe Bryant, and you better fly him where he wants to go.
Sweet thought. Fiendish player.
Who cares? Another dead celebrity.
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