It was about 11:30 a.m. on Sunday, Jan. 26, and I was getting dressed for church.
My roommate announced across the hallway: “Kobe died.”
Halfway dressed, I ran up to him and refused to believe him, declaring that the news was fake.
It was not.
No, this can’t be.
The Kobe Bryant can’t die. He is “Mamba Mentality” — the coldest assassin in NBA history. He had the ultimate killer will and refused to lose no matter what, which very few in the history of humanity have displayed.
But then reality hits: Kobe is human just like all of us – a human who experiences life and death, except the death part came way too soon.