THE MIND OF KOBE BRYANT - NO EXCUSES
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- Опубликовано: 13 май 2024
- "Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses."
I am going to upload the last instalment of this series 1 week before the season resumes. I hope you enjoy this tribute and the rest of the "MIND OF BLACK MAMBA" playlist.
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Old Kobe would've been one of the greatest teachers of the game... And one hell of a philosopher on life. Still can't believe he's gone man.
Thats why Hollyweird killed him. He would be insanely too smart and would figured it out to teach it to the world .
@@isaaspirit9895 Thats maybe the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
@@Klocks420 your welcome , truth is also perceived like that so
Woulda been like Bill Russell
U and me both ,holding back tears as I watch
These videos need to exist for people to understand what went into the greatest mind in sports. thank you
man not only sports. all of us can use mamba mentality to do what we need or love
Kobe learned from the most competitive mind in sports...Jordan
Lol kobetard.........the greatest mind in sports?😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@lucyaklar6345 Jordan didn't share any knowledge tho
@@franknice187 who are you bronsexual or mjtard
Hit everyone hard. Yes. Esp when he said ''sitting here when I'm 70 80''. Never got to see even 42. Such a gifted man.
Hearing him say "when I'm 70 or 80 years old..." 😪😪😪 chills and tears. RIP Kobe 💔
I will love it when kids grow up and wonder about the story of Kobe Bryant and then seeing what he was all about.
If i ever have kids i will tell them and the grandkids about Kobe
*“The storm eventually ends, and when it ends you wanna make sure that you’re ready.”*
This man’s influence will be a deciding factor once I make it into pro ball. I promise it will be
Keep working bro! ✊🏿
Keep working hard and always develop that mamba mindset to be the best you can be.We're rooting for you
@@trentonpearson7353 Appreciate it Trenton will do!!!
@@ParablePreacher Yessir u know it!
Believe in yourself will succeed
"As a competitor I'm not ducking shit" 😭😭😭😭 og was talking that talk 💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿🗣️🗣️🗣️😭😭😭🥶
I just realized last night that No excuses is another way to say don't let external things control you and your life. Only you can change your life.
❤❤❤❤😘😘😘💝💝💝💝💔💔🙏🙏
yes, the external can never break the internal. you gotta build up your internal, so that way anything thing that comes at you external won’t break you.
Facts
It’s not just external. We think it’s just external when it’s a battle against the INTERNAL. Once you realize it’s about a battle with the INTERNAL, how can the external even effect you?
Every time I’m feeling down or any sort of doubts in myself I watch anything with Kobe sharing his wisdom and I instantly feel motivated and strong again his impact is so surreal even after life
Same!!!
Miss Kobe man!! Get better every single day #mambamentality
🌷 Yes! That part about getting better everyday was on target.
Kobe Bryant -- so inspirational...
_No seriously._
These videos helps me get through rough times in my life journey.
Me too as well still tho fo realz and not juss in basketball 🏀 but could mean anything in life but for ball it's the ultimate thing that cheers me up tho no matter what since everything else has failed me tho so yeah.
"I'mma push myself to exhaustion." 🙌🙌🙌
I paused it for a second when Kobe said when I get to 70 or 80 years old. My god! Live life! I never in one million years thought it would be you out of all people that would pass away. I was blessed to watch you play in New Orleans for the farewell tour and watching you play growing up. Can't forgot earlier that year in 2016 I came to Miami vs Lakers game and even though you never played you still showed up and supported your team and fans in a suite. Thank you my man. Love!
#KB24EVER
Mj & Kobes mindset & obsession is what separates them from the rest!
I have always enjoyed playing basketball, but watching Videos on Kobe and on his mentality and his grinding mindset has pushed me to another level in terms of motivation. Thank you Kobe and Rest In Peace.
6:12 hits different. Thank you for this wonderful upload.
“Are you able to negotiate with yourself” I just needed to hear that one sentence. That one sentence is, though I already know that, is just so impacting. Because of KB I will be aware of asking myself that exact question with his voice.
Man, things are never given to you. Straight up. Kobe was a prime example of that you gotta bust your ass up everyday to get better and not make any excuses. Thank you Kobe, miss you man💛🖤🐍
Wow. What a legend. What a great mind. The world is worse off without Kobe in it.
Basketball player turned philosopher. You can just tell by the way he just breaks down the game, very articulate. Rare to see, especially in pro sports.
The more excuses you make, the more you move away from success. Kobe is a legend and will live among us forever why because of his will not to give up and keep moving.
THE GREATEST basketball mind of all time. THE HARDEST worker of all time. ONE OF THE GREATEST basketball players of all time. rest in peace💛💜
And then lebron
#KB24EVER
Lol there’s an argument for him being better then Jordan.
@@westwarrenmade70 na Lebrons mindset aint it bro he has so many excuses and he fakes getting hit lol das being a coward das a big reason why u cant compare him 2 Jordan
Damn, I miss Kobe. All that hard work and sacrifice he put in over the years for him to die tragically at only 41 smh. Life is so unfair.
6:09-6:15 as time goes on and sitting there 70-80 years old. Damn Kobe! I wish you had lived that long!
Reporter: "how much harder will you work in this off-season in order to get back to the championship"
Kobe the goat bryant: pauses..."ill push myself to exhaustion"
Wow!!!! Amazing love for the game
Crazy Kobe always rubbed off as a cocky player to me so I was never a fan but actually looking into his mentality I have nothing but respect and thank him for this inspiration. 🙌🏻
"When the game is more important than the injury, you don't feel that damn injury!"
RIP Black Mamba 🐍
Greatness rests at the feet of failure while success is just a visitor. Thank you for showing me effort isn’t wasted if it inspires others.
After watching the Last Dance, you really see how similar Kobe and Michael are. Even for the super talented, success doesn’t exist without hard work.
I look up to this man .
Appaling, you must be a moron--Pamela Mackey
Mark Hurlbert: Kobe Bryant Would Have Been Convicted In Colorado
January 30, 2020 at 11:48 am
DENVER (AP) - The prosecutor who pursued sexual assault charges against Kobe Bryant 17 years ago believes he would have won a conviction if the case had gone to trial and that the woman who accused Bryant would have received more support if the case had been filed in the current #MeToo environment. Mark Hurlbert said in an interview with The Associated Press that he is shocked and saddened by the deaths of Bryant, his daughter Gianna and seven others this week in a helicopter crash. Still, he remains confident he would have won a conviction against Bryant in 2003-2004 had the accuser not decided to end the criminal case during jury selection in the Rocky Mountain town of Eagle.
“I do think it would be different today,” said Hurlbert, now a chief operating officer for an internet startup in the ski resort town of Breckenridge. “Because of #MeToo, there’s a lot more support for a victim.”
The woman, 19 when the case began, was a former high school cheerleader and college student. She moved out of state as she was pursued relentlessly by reporters during 18 grueling and polarizing months of pretrial discovery and motions.
“She was getting death threats. The tabloids were camped out at her door, and one was trying to infiltrate her therapy sessions” by offering money to a session participant, Hurlbert recalled.
Hurlbert’s comments underscore a shadow - one brought out on social media this week - cast over the outpouring of grief and the celebration of Bryant’s life by a case that forever changed the lives of the NBA champion and the alleged victim. The AP does not generally use the names of alleged victims of sexual assault.
A young Bryant admitted he committed adultery but emphatically insisted he was innocent of assault. If convicted, the then-24-year-old Bryant faced a potential life sentence.
The woman’s personal attorneys and her parents had also expressed concern about whether she could get a fair trial following leaks and mistakes by the court, including her name being accidentally posted on a court website.
At one hearing, defense attorney Pamela Mackey stunned observers by suggesting the accuser had sex with multiple partners in a short amount of time surrounding her encounter with Bryant. The woman’s sexual history was headline fodder for months before the criminal case was dropped.
“It was just exhausting on top of being threatening,” Hurlbert said. “Ultimately, she just decided she could not take it anymore.”
As jury selection began in Eagle County District Court, the woman called Hurlbert to tell him to drop the case. He asked her to reconsider and call in a couple of days. She did; she hadn’t changed her mind.
“I was disappointed. I would have loved to go to trial and have an Eagle County jury decide. But I completely understood,” he said.
After the criminal charge was dropped, Bryant issued a statement apologizing for his “behavior that night and the consequences she suffered.”
Ultimately, Bryant and the woman reached a civil settlement in 2005.
A consequence of the case, Hurlbert recalls: There was a drop in the number of sexual assault cases being reported to local authorities.
“Victims’ advocates reported that their clients felt they didn’t want to be dragged through the mud just like the victim was in the Bryant case,” he said. “They didn’t want to report. It was years later that the numbers were back up.”
Bryant helped the Los Angeles Lakers win three straight NBA championships from 2000-02, but at the time he was accused, he was far from the beloved figure he would become later in his career.
He feuded with teammate Shaquille O’Neal, and he was often viewed as a petulant and selfish player who wouldn’t sacrifice his own game to mesh with the dominant O’Neal. But as long as the Lakers were winning and he was playing brilliantly, many of the negatives were overlooked.
That changed after Colorado.
McDonald’s dropped Bryant as an endorser, Nike halted his use in ads, and sales of his jersey plummeted. The Lakers stuck by Bryant, who sometimes arrived at games after first traveling to appear in court earlier in the day. But coach Phil Jackson acknowledged that their relationship was damaged by the accusations because his own daughter, Brooke, had been the victim of an assault in college.
“The Kobe incident triggered all my unprocessed anger and tainted my perception of him. … It distorted my view of Kobe throughout the 2003-04 season. No matter what I did to extinguish it, the anger kept smoldering in the background,” Jackson wrote in his book, “Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success.”
Bryant was a candidate to play for the U.S. Olympic team in 2004, which could have boosted his reputation. Instead, the proceedings left him unavailable to play in Athens, where the Americans finished third, and his Olympic debut didn’t come until 2008.
Hurlbert, meanwhile, took solace at the time from residents in his district.
“People were pretty proud of what we were doing,” he said. “It was less about the mentality of having Kobe in the case and more a reaction toward the media.”
Mackey didn’t immediately return messages seeking comment. The alleged victim’s attorney, L. Lin Wood, didn’t respond to a message for comment; co-counsel John Clune declined to comment.
By JAMES ANDERSON and BRIAN MAHONEY Associated Press … Mahoney reported from New York. Associated Press writer Colleen Slevin also contributed to this report.
(© Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)
@@theamberheardplaylist6768 ofc a yt feminist trying to tear down a black man bc of false accusation
@@theamberheardplaylist6768 every big star in the world were accused of rap . Stop your bullshit . And guess what the most rapist guys are actually the one in power . So this is non sens like you do always
Kobe's my favorite player of all time and my inspiration. I've been absorbing his words for a decade now, but I will say now: it's okay to both have mamba mentality AND also give your body and mind some space. Resting and recovering is part of progress, and ignoring that is not maximizing your potential. It's up to each individual to find their limits and know what to do with it to get your best effort.
Who’s better?!?!?!You see my children, to be a true legend in basketball you have to be a legend in the way you perceive life. If you can’t grasp the concept then....
Damn I miss Bean 😭 that mentally to go out and be the best and to have that Killa instinct .
My favorite player of all time. RIP to all the lives lost that tragic day!!!
those videos are the reason I started to hear kobe talk, then watch him then picked my first basketball.. it's been a healing process for me.. really thank you!
“Pain unlocks a secret doorway in the mind, one that leads to both peak performance, and beautiful silence” - David Goggins
R.I.P Kobe and your daughter and the other 7 beautiful people that lost there life.He was A true lion and what he do.2021
GREAT VIDEO 💯
KOBE FOREVER 🐍
Thank you so much for this series (if possible pls continue this series🙏), love you kobe ♥️ , rip mamba 🌹
Right on time thank you God. I know you are still with me Kobe Bryant I love you dearly miss you like crazy 💜🙏
My hero love you kobe.
MAMBAFOREVER
This is the greatest motivational speeches ever made l have a New Respect for Kobe Bryant
Im going to leave this comment and comeback to it when I accomplish my goals, i aspire to play Division I Basketball for the UCLA bruins and win as many championships as possible. Right now, i’am freshman in highschool currently living in Canada. Kobe inspired me to be the greatest player off and on the court and too always give the task at hand all my effort. Even though Some odds may be against me, i strongly believe in myself that i can accomplish anything if you put your mind 2 it. Thank you Kobe, im glad too say you inspired me.
Thank you for creating the best Kobe videos !! Hearing his voice... his wisdom... is timeless guidance -- the world (ironically) really needs to hear it now!
#KB24EVER
Pure genius, absolute legend.
RIP to the Greatest Of All Time 🙏🏾🕊
I was just thinking about Kobe a while ago and then I get this video on my feed. That's tough. 🖤
The hardest working athlete ever, RIP to the 🐐
These hit different now 😔
U will always be remember legends never die!!
❤️❤️❤️❤️ Kobe 🏀🔥
REST EASY KOBE #MambaForever
Pamela Mackey
Mark Hurlbert: Kobe Bryant Would Have Been Convicted In Colorado
January 30, 2020 at 11:48 am
DENVER (AP) - The prosecutor who pursued sexual assault charges against Kobe Bryant 17 years ago believes he would have won a conviction if the case had gone to trial and that the woman who accused Bryant would have received more support if the case had been filed in the current #MeToo environment. Mark Hurlbert said in an interview with The Associated Press that he is shocked and saddened by the deaths of Bryant, his daughter Gianna and seven others this week in a helicopter crash. Still, he remains confident he would have won a conviction against Bryant in 2003-2004 had the accuser not decided to end the criminal case during jury selection in the Rocky Mountain town of Eagle.
“I do think it would be different today,” said Hurlbert, now a chief operating officer for an internet startup in the ski resort town of Breckenridge. “Because of #MeToo, there’s a lot more support for a victim.”
The woman, 19 when the case began, was a former high school cheerleader and college student. She moved out of state as she was pursued relentlessly by reporters during 18 grueling and polarizing months of pretrial discovery and motions.
“She was getting death threats. The tabloids were camped out at her door, and one was trying to infiltrate her therapy sessions” by offering money to a session participant, Hurlbert recalled.
Hurlbert’s comments underscore a shadow - one brought out on social media this week - cast over the outpouring of grief and the celebration of Bryant’s life by a case that forever changed the lives of the NBA champion and the alleged victim. The AP does not generally use the names of alleged victims of sexual assault.
A young Bryant admitted he committed adultery but emphatically insisted he was innocent of assault. If convicted, the then-24-year-old Bryant faced a potential life sentence.
The woman’s personal attorneys and her parents had also expressed concern about whether she could get a fair trial following leaks and mistakes by the court, including her name being accidentally posted on a court website.
At one hearing, defense attorney Pamela Mackey stunned observers by suggesting the accuser had sex with multiple partners in a short amount of time surrounding her encounter with Bryant. The woman’s sexual history was headline fodder for months before the criminal case was dropped.
“It was just exhausting on top of being threatening,” Hurlbert said. “Ultimately, she just decided she could not take it anymore.”
As jury selection began in Eagle County District Court, the woman called Hurlbert to tell him to drop the case. He asked her to reconsider and call in a couple of days. She did; she hadn’t changed her mind.
“I was disappointed. I would have loved to go to trial and have an Eagle County jury decide. But I completely understood,” he said.
After the criminal charge was dropped, Bryant issued a statement apologizing for his “behavior that night and the consequences she suffered.”
Ultimately, Bryant and the woman reached a civil settlement in 2005.
A consequence of the case, Hurlbert recalls: There was a drop in the number of sexual assault cases being reported to local authorities.
“Victims’ advocates reported that their clients felt they didn’t want to be dragged through the mud just like the victim was in the Bryant case,” he said. “They didn’t want to report. It was years later that the numbers were back up.”
Bryant helped the Los Angeles Lakers win three straight NBA championships from 2000-02, but at the time he was accused, he was far from the beloved figure he would become later in his career.
He feuded with teammate Shaquille O’Neal, and he was often viewed as a petulant and selfish player who wouldn’t sacrifice his own game to mesh with the dominant O’Neal. But as long as the Lakers were winning and he was playing brilliantly, many of the negatives were overlooked.
That changed after Colorado.
McDonald’s dropped Bryant as an endorser, Nike halted his use in ads, and sales of his jersey plummeted. The Lakers stuck by Bryant, who sometimes arrived at games after first traveling to appear in court earlier in the day. But coach Phil Jackson acknowledged that their relationship was damaged by the accusations because his own daughter, Brooke, had been the victim of an assault in college.
“The Kobe incident triggered all my unprocessed anger and tainted my perception of him. … It distorted my view of Kobe throughout the 2003-04 season. No matter what I did to extinguish it, the anger kept smoldering in the background,” Jackson wrote in his book, “Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success.”
Bryant was a candidate to play for the U.S. Olympic team in 2004, which could have boosted his reputation. Instead, the proceedings left him unavailable to play in Athens, where the Americans finished third, and his Olympic debut didn’t come until 2008.
Hurlbert, meanwhile, took solace at the time from residents in his district.
“People were pretty proud of what we were doing,” he said. “It was less about the mentality of having Kobe in the case and more a reaction toward the media.”
Mackey didn’t immediately return messages seeking comment. The alleged victim’s attorney, L. Lin Wood, didn’t respond to a message for comment; co-counsel John Clune declined to comment.
By JAMES ANDERSON and BRIAN MAHONEY Associated Press … Mahoney reported from New York. Associated Press writer Colleen Slevin also contributed to this report.
(© Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)
@@theamberheardplaylist6768 ofc a yt feminist trying to tear down a black man bc of false accusation
Holding my iPad like a child holding and idea
I thank you for this vid
Half way thru in tears at what Kobe meant to me
A teacher beyond death
And a friend for life
Rip kobe
12:00 RIP a legend and the most savage player ever
This shi had me dead bruh
These are the memories
As a college athlete I def look up to Kobe
Wonderful words to strive for every day to accomplish all you were meant to do with your life ! We love ❤️ you Kobe !
Absolutely phenomenal! This video captures the essence of Kobe Bryant's mindset brilliantly. 'The Mamba Mentality' is all about no excuses, just pure dedication and hard work. Kobe's approach to challenges and his relentless pursuit of excellence is truly inspiring. This video is a great reminder that to achieve greatness, one must have an unwavering commitment and a mindset that doesn't entertain excuses. A must-watch for anyone looking to be motivated and learn from one of the greatest athletes of all time. 🏀💪
I'll tell ya this, his videos have helped me in situations where if I never saw these I'd be lost. Thanks Kobe!
Savage mentality 💯🔥👍🏽
Great man, great father figure, rest in paradise
Look at piotrekzprod man, so inspirational
Keep Grinding Bro RIP KOBE 💯🔥
MISS U KOBE. THANKS FOR EVERYTHING U BLESSED US WITH.
Still can't believe he's gone. You keep us going with your mentality, Kobe. Mamba Forever
listening to this a year after he passed just feels so surreal. RIP to everyone that was lost that day.
Kobe I miss you a lot, been seeing you since your school days and till the end, why GOD you had to end it for Kobe so quick. Luv u Kobe rest in peace.
6:50 This man is absolutely amazing
What a strong Man he was. That kind of mentality will Win you everything. RIP Brother.
Oh man so amazing still to hear such touching moments from mr.bryant himself tho fo realz still tho so yeah to make sure you does stayed locked 🔒 in no matter what with absolutely no excuses still tho so yeah!.❤😊
Never short change yourselves!! 💯
Who still misses this guy like crazy? I do
Every day. He felt like the eldest brother I never had.
Kobe is The G.O.A.T.💪🏽🙏🏽🏀
Mr. Bryant we never met but you are my biggest inspiration, im not sad because you are gone im happy i got to share the earth with you for a short period of time..thanks they will never be another.
Thank you Piotrekzprod for this GREAT tribute for A GREAT ONE♥️. There are a lot of GREAT lessons, it show us how strong was THE MIND OF KOBE BRYANT. Thank you. MAMBA FOR LIFE 🐍
Present is so important, man I miss Kobe. He died too young!
LONG LIVE KOBE. A TRUE CHAMPION. A TRUE LEGEND. 🕊 🏀
RIP MAMBA!! Great player and person, may he rest in peace. Miss him so much, but he'll live in our hearts and his legacy will exist forever.
6:14 made me feel some type. RIP to the greatest
"Next season starts right now" - Kobe Bean Bryant
YOU HAVE BEEN WAY TOO GOOD FOR THIS WORLD. RIP
RIP.........definitely top 25 all time
No excuses, that should be everyone's mindset.
i come back to this video every month for motivation.. rest easy kobe thank you for everything ❤️
This guy was different 🐐
6:12...wow😭😭😭😭
I miss you, Kobe
Kobe remains one of a kind untouchable not stoppable. God Bless the Bryant family
Kobe is one of the most inspirational people that we've had the honor to witness and experienced. That killer work ethic is admirable and the humility gives us all something to aim for... REST IN POWER BLACK MAMBA
🔥Vid as always...Long Live Mamba♾💛💜
INDEED THANK YOU KOBE....ONE OF THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME. BEEN DOWN SINCE THE HIGH SCHOOL ALL AMERICAN GAMES! AND HELL YEAH IT'S A PUZZLE, AND I PERSONALLY HAVE FIGURED OUT MINE. YOU MAKE UR MISTAKES IN LIFE AND SOME TIMES SOME ARE BIGGER THAN OTHERS, BUT IF UR LUCKY YOU GROW UP AND HOPEFULLY WISER. SOME OF US GET BETTER WITH AGE AND IN SOME CASES MORE COMPLEX. KOBE IS JUST ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE.
Thank you for not having the orchestra in the background to make me feel like im in a damn movie
🙏
thank you so much for always putting these videos together. #MM4L
Ohh, how I love Kobe! Still can’t get over the loss of this Legendary, yet relatable guy!✌️
RIP all 9 victims of that tragic day on January 26th, 2020. Today is June 20th, 2020. I’m still as hurt as I was when I found out the news in January. This loss hits different and the fact his daughter was with him along with other friends of hers and their parents, the fact we won’t see the great many things yet to come like his HoF speech, Lakers potentially winning their first ring since 2010, GiGi getting drafted one day, seeing beautiful pictures of Kobe with his family seeing the growth of his beautiful daughters into women and spend the rest of his life into old age with Vanessa... got me emotional just typing this. Kobe is my legend, my GOAT, he felt like a mentor of sorts to me, a teacher. His wisdom, his intelligence, everything about his mind and soul was beautiful and rare to this Earth. We had a gem and it slipped away from us forever. Kobe wasn’t just a basketball player, he was a hero because he has helped me overcome my depression. For 39 days I’ve been happy, finally feeling it after 10 years. After so many suicide attempts, after so many days of crying, feeling numb, wanting to kill myself, wanting to quit, I always thought about the wisdom and foundation he layed out for you and I. I don’t give up because of what I’ve seen him do, what he’s demonstrated and taught us. His career wasn’t just a legendary career to me, for 20 years he gave us life. And 4 years later, losing him was like losing ours. Your heart ripped out of you forcefully, the pain hits you like a million boulders rolling down a hill so suddenly crushing you. I couldn’t believe he was gone for that entire week. Straight, utter, pure denial.. I always said I wanted to meet him and have a whole day to talk to him about life and other things, now that that opportunity is gone, physically it is, but spiritually I talk to him. I thank Kobe for what he has given me in life, though I became a fan of him late, which pains me knowing I should’ve appreciated him more and not have fallen into the negativity from the press around him, a reason why I truly take the time to appreciate LeBron James and other current legends and stars playing today. I thank you, Kobe Bean Bryant, for assisting in my journey of life, 19 years old, but I wasn’t happy until just 39 days ago and that was the first time I had been naturally well and on since I was at least 9 or 10. In order to be great on this Earth, you must suffer. Only the greatest men have suffered to get to the achievement of greatness. And Kobe, thank you for your time here. Though time was lost in tragedy, our together on Earth with you whether fans have met you before or not, time was appreciated in your life. I don’t care if I have never met someone, if I believe they impacted my life, I feel connected. If someone means that much to you, let your feelings out. Your feelings are valid. I will make sure to honor the Mamba Mentality and to honor what it is to be a Kobe fan. Thank you, Kobe. I love you. I will make you proud. RIP all 9 victims from the crash.
If this Angel were alive right now he would probably be the spokesperson to heal this country. I hope he can do something from heaven to help us. Every time I listen to him I feel his loss I can't imagine what his family and the world goes through every time they see one of his videos his heart and spirit where so profound. Why are the great ones taken away from us so soon. I know that Gigi's is with you and that you will always watch over your wife and children here on Earth. If there is an afterlife may you all be together again one day.
Kobe + Carter = ❤
Love you Kobe bruh forever
RIP to the greatest!
The greatest what?THE New York Times
Kobe Bryant and the Sexual Assault Case That Was Dropped but Not Forgotten
Kobe Bryant and the Sexual Assault Case That Was Dropped but Not Forgotten
A 2003 rape accusation changed how many saw the Lakers star, but it did not change the trajectory of his career.
By Kevin Draper
Jan. 27, 2020
Even as Kobe Bryant moved beyond his career in the N.B.A. and into his next chapter as a Hollywood and tech mogul, he could never fully leave the ugliest part of his past behind.
Bryant - among nine people, including his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, who died on Sunday in a helicopter crash outside Los Angeles - was charged with sexually assaulting a 19-year-old woman in 2003. But as in the vast majority of cases involving accusations of sexual violence, there was no clear resolution. There was no verdict.
Prosecutors dropped the case just before it was scheduled to go to trial, citing the accuser’s unwillingness to testify. A lawsuit the woman filed against Bryant ended in a settlement, the details of which have never been made public.
In the era before #MeToo - the societal reckoning with the frequent sexual harassment and abuse women endure at work and in their personal lives - Bryant resumed a career that had never really paused. Throughout the 2003-04 season, while the case was still being litigated, he flew back and forth between court appearances in Colorado and games, often arriving just minutes before tip-off.
The Lakers made the N.B.A. finals that season but lost their bid for a fourth championship in five seasons. Bryant, however, would win two more N.B.A. titles, plus two Olympic gold medals, before his retirement in 2016, and he continued his evolution into a global celebrity, an international ambassador for both his sport and Nike, his major sponsor.
Yet in 2018, just seven months after he won an Academy Award for best animated short film, Bryant was dropped from the jury of a film festival.
“This is an urgent time to say NO to toxic and violent behavior against women,” read a petition urging organizers of the Animation Is Film Festival to disassociate themselves from Bryant.
As he had in the past, Bryant declined to discuss the sexual assault case. He said he was “disappointed” with the decision of the festival organizers but was now focused on changing the world “through diverse stories, characters and leadership.”
For a moment, Bryant was back where he had been in 2003 - someone who, like Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey, operated at the pinnacle of his profession but stood accused of a terrible crime.
Weinstein is currently being tried in a rape case in New York City, the rare celebrity who has had to face such criminal charges.
The case against Bryant began on June 30, 2003, when he checked into the Cordillera Lodge and Spa in Edwards, Colo. He was there to have a knee operation at a clinic in nearby Vail.
After being led to his room by a concierge,, Bryant asked her to return later and give him a private tour of the property. She did, and then Bryant invited her into his room. They both said later that they began kissing, but what happened in the next few minutes became the heart of the dispute. The woman told the police that Bryant had raped her. Bryant said they had consensual sex.
Prosecutors seemed to have a strong case. According to court documents, an examination of the woman at a hospital revealed a bruise on her neck and tears in her vaginal wall. Both her underwear and Bryant’s shirt were bloody. Bryant told the police he had not explicitly asked for consent.
While the issue of consent has long been at the heart of sex crime laws, how it is understood and taught has evolved - in part because of high-profile cases like the one against Bryant. “No means no” has given way to “yes means yes,” and the idea of explicit consent has become the standard, rather than an expectation that an objecting participant must say no.
Almost immediately the case against Bryant became a news media circus, the biggest celebrity prosecution since the O.J. Simpson trial. Quickly though, the accuser’s reputation came under attack. Bryant’s lawyer, Pamela Mackey, said the woman’s name in open court six times during one hearing - even though the police and court officials had tried to preserve her anonymity - and asked if her injuries could have been caused “by having sex with three men in three days.” Television crews camped outside the home of the accuser’s parents, and her name was leaked by the court system three times.
Like the Simpson case a decade before, the Bryant case quickly became about much more than what had happened in that hotel room. It was seen through the historical prism of white women falsely accusing black men of sexual violence (the woman in the Bryant case was white). At the same time, the case sparked commentary that perpetuated stereotypes about false accusations of rape.
After the case was dropped, Bryant issued a lengthy statement, apologizing to the woman and acknowledging her perspective of their encounter, which is farther than most public apologies go. “Although I truly believe this encounter between us was consensual,” he said in statement, “I recognize now that she did not and does not view this incident the same way I did.”
With the legal troubles behind him, Bryant created an alter ego, calling himself “Black Mamba” - after Africa’s deadliest snake, which figured in the 2003 movie “Kill Bill.”
“The whole process for me was trying to figure out how to cope with this,” Bryant told The Washington Post in 2018. “I wasn’t going to be passive and let this thing just swallow me up.”
Eventually there were Mamba shoes, a Mamba Sports Academy and the nickname “Mambacita” for Gianna,, the second-born of the four daughters Bryant shared with his wife, Vanessa.
Before the sexual assault case, Bryant was sometimes in the shadow of Shaquille O’Neal, playing Robin to Shaq’s Batman. After Bryant adopted the Mamba persona, he emerged as his own man. He helped create the dissension that led Phil Jackson to retire and the Lakers to trade O’Neal, though Jackson returned to coach Bryant and the Lakers again.
But years after saying “I also want to make it clear that I do not question the motives of this young woman,” Bryant seemingly did just that.
To explain why he would not comment on the death of Trayvon Martin, the black teenager who was shot to death while returning home from a convenience store, he had a conversation with the journalist Jemele Hill. “He was speaking from the experience of someone who had been on trial for sexual assault,” she wrote in a column on Monday, “and, in his mind, had been wrongfully accused.” Bryant later apologized to Martin’s family.
And in 2018, reflecting on the sponsors that cut ties with him after he was arrested, including McDonald’s and Coca-Cola, Bryant said they did so because he was too “gritty.”
Later in his life, Bryant became a big supporter of women’s athletics. He took his daughter Gianna to watch the Connecticut Huskies basketball team, recorded voice overs for the N.C.A.A. women’s basketball tournament and talked constantly about the W.N.B.A.
And at those 2018 Oscars? Hours after Frances McDormand, winner of the Best Actress award, gave a powerful speech about the need to include more women in the film business, she was hobnobbing with Bryant at a post-show party.
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Correction: Jan. 28, 2020
An earlier version of this article incorrectly described the Lakers' playoff status going into the 2003-4 season. The team was chasing its fourth title in five years, not a fourth straight championship.
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