LeBron James - Kobe Bryant Tribute

ladies and gentlemen please welcome LeBron James before I get started on a speech that I have I want to acknowledge all the lives that was lost Sunday morning ELISA Altobelli John Altobelli carry-out sabelli Payton Chester Sara Chester Christina Mauser our was a banya Gianna Bryant and Kobe Bryant now I got something written down no they asked me to kind of stay on course or whatever the case may be but Alegre Nation man I will be selling y'all short if I read off this so I'm gonna go straight from the heart the first thing that come to mind man is all about family and as I look around his arena we're all grieving we're all hurt we're all heartbroken when we going through things like this the best thing you can do is lean on the shoulders of your family and from Sunday morning all the way to this point now I heard about Laker nation before I got here last year about how much of a family it is and that is absolutely what I've seen this whole week not only from the players not only from the coach's staff not only from the organization but from everybody everybody that's here this is really truly truly a family and I know Colbert Gianna and Vanessa everybody thank you guys from the bottom of your heart as Kobe said now I know at some point we will have a memorial for Kobe but I look at this I look at this as a celebration tonight this is this is a celebration of the 20 years of the blood the sweat the tears the broken down body that getting up to sitting down to every day in the countless hours the determination to be as great as he could be tonight we celebrate the kid that came here at 18 years of age retired at 38 and became probably the best that we've seen over the past three years man tonight is a celebration before we get to play love y'all man Kobe is a brother to me and from the time I was in high school to watching him afar to get in this league at 18 watching him up close all the battles that we had throughout my career the one thing that we always shared is that determination that just want to win I just want to be great and the fact that I'm here now means so much to me I want to continue along with my teammates to continue his legacy not only for this year where as long as we could play the game of basketball that we love because that's what Kobe Bryant will walk so in the words of Kobe Bryant mama out but in the words of us not forgotten live all brother you

Channel: Los Angeles Lakers

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Length: 4min 34sec (274 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 31 2020