transcription2/"Fans Recall Kobe Bryant as an Inspiration" (January 2020), VOA News.webm.en.srt

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An outpouring of grief outside Staples

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Center home of the LA Lakers where Kobe

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Bryant spent most of his career. He died

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in a helicopter crash with his 13 year

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old daughter and seven others. Thousands

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have come to mourn at this growing

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memorial.
- Kobe was my son's basketball

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idol and I allowed him as a little boy

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growing up to watch Kobe play and

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brought him to the Staples Center. So I'm

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here to kind of bring closure to a

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family and to let his family know that.

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We care about them and love them and

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we'll always have them close to us in

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our heart.

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Kobe came from Philadelphia
but made LA his own

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- They bring a lot of people

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together he did a lot for the community

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and he's not even from LA but

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you know he's from Philly but he still

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did a lot for the community. You know,

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you know, he gave me back.

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Touching many lives.
- He's you know like a celebrity

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you've never met him but like when I was

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younger I broke my leg and I would just

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sit at home well everyone oh it was out

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playing and I would just watch him play

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and it's just like he was just like

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somebody to to help you keep going and

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it's just like yeah like part of your life.

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Students at Marymount California

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University also grew up with Kobe Bryant

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-2005 6/7 years old he's bringing

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championships to LA. They're having the

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parades. You see everything's Kobe and

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it's like you grew up idolizing him.

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His intensity was inspiring.
- You kind of

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taught a lot of people how to live life

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and just go for everything that you

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possibly could think of I get what you

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want and get we deserve.
He overcame

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obstacles a quotation from Kobe Bryant

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on recovering from an injury inspired

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another fan.

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I have the the quote here on my phone

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actually and I sometimes look at it to

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kind of like find strength.

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Coping with the shock

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of lives cut short in a tragic accident

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a sports icon among the victims

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Mike O'Sullivan VOA news Los Angeles.