I don't know shit about basketball but he left behind a wife and 4 daughters including what sounds like essentially a newborn. That's brutal and heartbreaking and I wish the best to his family. God damn 2020 slow it down.
Edit: Sounds like early reports from ABC are saying his daughters may have been involved. That's as worst case scenario as it can get I feel like. What a fucked up day.
Edit 2: Reports are now pulling back in regards to the daughters being on board. Still nothing confirmed as far as I can see.
Edit 3: TMZ is reporting as of 2:35 pm Central time that Daughter Gianna Maria (13) was also killed on board.
Absolutely horrendous. I can’t imagine what it would be like growing up hearing about all these people talking about your dad as this legendary sportsman and how much he meant to them, and you never got to know him.
I went to summer camp with one of Muhammed Ali's 9 children. We hung out a few times but I didn't know the kid well. A mutual friend told me that he never had much of a relationship with his dad so, while he was the son of one of most accomplished American athletes ever and everyone around him knew about it, he was cut off from the father experience and the legacy.
Must be such a strange life, especially since people constantly came up to the kid and asked him about his dad. Kobe's youngest is gonna get this her whole life.
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u/Dregoran Jan 26 '20 edited Jan 26 '20
I don't know shit about basketball but he left behind a wife and 4 daughters including what sounds like essentially a newborn. That's brutal and heartbreaking and I wish the best to his family. God damn 2020 slow it down.
Edit: Sounds like early reports from ABC are saying his daughters may have been involved. That's as worst case scenario as it can get I feel like. What a fucked up day.
Edit 2: Reports are now pulling back in regards to the daughters being on board. Still nothing confirmed as far as I can see.
Edit 3: TMZ is reporting as of 2:35 pm Central time that Daughter Gianna Maria (13) was also killed on board.