{"id":40948,"date":"2020-01-27T03:35:41","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T03:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40948"},"modified":"2020-01-27T03:35:41","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T03:35:41","slug":"kobe-bryants-death-has-robbed-world-of-future-greatness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40948","title":{"rendered":"Kobe Bryant’s death has robbed world of future greatness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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It is beginning to sink in.<\/p>\n

Kobe Bryant’s death this morning in a fiery helicopter crash — along with the demise of his young daughter and seven other people — has brought tears to the eyes of grown men.<\/p>\n

They are crying over the memory of Bryant’s remarkable basketball skills, which elevated him to “legend” status over a 20-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers.<\/p>\n

Although I appreciate the amazing talent he exhibited for virtually all that span of time, I was not a giant Kobe fan. I have cheered other contemporary NBA stars more fervently.<\/p>\n

Kobe Bryant’s death saddens me nonetheless.<\/p>\n

What is sinking in<\/em>, though, as I listen to commentators offer various perspectives on this young man is the sense of a future<\/em> realm of greatness that was yet to be built.<\/p>\n

I have heard most of the evening about all the projects he intended to pursue. They involved his daughter Gianna’s desire to be a pro basketball player. Gianna, tragically, was among the victims in that helicopter crash. His projects involved working with inner-city youth to show them the path out of despair. Bryant wanted to parlay his good name to do good for others.<\/p>\n

Bryant played his last pro season in 2016, just three seasons ago. He won his share of pro basketball championships; he won many individual honors; he achieved all he could possibly could during a career that began straight out of high school, as he chose to forgo a college education before getting paid big money to play pro basketball.<\/p>\n

However, I am feeling increasingly saddened by the loss over this great athlete’s accomplishments not yet achieved.<\/p>\n

So very tragic.<\/p>\n\n

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It is beginning to sink in. Kobe Bryant’s death this morning in a fiery helicopter crash — along with the demise of his young daughter and seven other people — has brought tears to the eyes of grown men. They are crying over the memory of Bryant’s remarkable basketball skills, which elevated him to “legend” … Continue reading Kobe Bryant’s death has robbed world of future greatness<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[9188,9189,3232],"class_list":["post-40948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-news","tag-kobe-bryant","tag-la-lakers","tag-nba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40950,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40948\/revisions\/40950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}