Lakers News: LA Champ Reveals LeBron James' Reaction To Hearing About Kobe Bryant
Your Los Angeles Lakers heard about LA legend Kobe Bryant's untimely January 2020 passing in a helicopter wreck while they themselves were in the air, traveling from Philadelphia home to Los Angeles.
Brandon "Scoop B" Robinson of Bovada Casino spoke with journalist Lindsey Granger regarding the exploitative journalism she felt was committed in the immediate aftermath of Bryant's death and her recent conversation with 2020 Lakers champion Danny Green.
As you'll see, Green illuminated LA All-Star forward LeBron James' reaction when he first got the news.
"I know what reporters should and shouldn't have done in that situation," Granger noted. "I know [about] taking advantage of the moment for clicks... There's certain ways to do the job before you call yourself a journalist that you need to understand. And I think after those two things connected and I... showed [Green] what I had said about the topic, and he already knew on his own and then he was coming to Denver, he was happy to do the interview. And a lot of what he just talked about was... LeBron's face when they landed. They found out when they were all on the plane. I remember he told me what that was like to find out in the sky and then land."
James and Bryant were teammates on the 2008 U.S. Olympic basketball "Redeem Team," but otherwise had generally been rivals during the time their Hall of Fame careers overlapped. James joined Los Angeles as a free agent in 2018, two years after Bryant had retired.
"It was just devastating because I think LeBron had just gotten to the Lakers and I'm sure he was looking forward to... holding the torch from Kobe, who would be at those games sometimes celebrating the entire team," Granger continued.
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