(01-27-2020, 02:23 PM)iolide Wrote: Was in shock when i heard this. I lost a friend that was like a brother to me just last week. And then this.

I legit lost two legends in a week. 

I've been reminded twice in the past 9 days how short life is and how meaningless everything around you is - besides Love. And that Love entails family, friends, and faith. Life is but a vapor in the wind.

Everything in the world at his tips, gone too young; and now like the rest. Back to the dust.

RIP Legend. RIP GG. Death Sucks, but life after death is a treasure everyone should strive for.

(01-26-2020, 10:29 PM)J817 Wrote:

(01-26-2020, 10:05 PM)fifteenth Wrote:

(01-26-2020, 09:32 PM)J817 Wrote: This was not the time to announce this. This day is not about Mark Cuban and Dallas Mavericks making impulsive decisions. He should have just given his condolences and left it at that.

No good deed goes uncriticized

Look I’m broken up about all this. I wasn’t Kobe’s fan, though he was someone I watched during my childhood. I have spent hours today watching the news about this tragic event. Feeling numb and tearing up as I watched. I respect Cuban for feeling what I’m feeling right now but to announce something like he announced today almost seems like he is trying to one up the other twitter posts that were posted today. Maybe he isn’t idk. I do know it was unnecessary to announce it today. Maybe tomorrow but not today. Also, the number #24 should have been in the rafters years ago.

(01-27-2020, 05:25 PM)mavsluvr Wrote: I thought it was an odd move, myself. Not just announcing it so soon, but doing it at all. If Kobe were still alive, and the Mavs had retired his number, I seriously question whether Kobe would have wanted any part of that. There is just something that seems a bit presumptuous about a team retiring the number of a guy who never played for them. 

(01-27-2020, 07:08 PM)Chooch Wrote: I guess Mark Cuban wanting to honor Kobe makes sense considering the Dallas Mavericks organization's reputation for the way they treat women.  I guess that whole rape thing bothers me more than most.

(01-27-2020, 01:51 PM)vfromlmf Wrote: Petition to change the NBA Logo

https://www.change.org/p/nba-petition-to-make-kobe-bryant-the-new-nba-logo?recruiter=1036768137&recruited_by_id=130213c0-4086-11ea-baef-01552a1e2b31

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/27/sport/kobe-bryant-nba-logo-intl-scli-spt/index.html

(01-27-2020, 10:14 PM)radioaktiv Wrote: I'm not a fan.  There is no need to uphold Kobe's legend further especially at the cost of phasing out Jerry West's.