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  • THANKS SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE

  • I'M SURE YOU ARE FEELING THE SAME AS I AM, AS SO MANY PEOPLE

  • ARE YESTERDAY.

  • IT IS STILL SO HARD TO FATHOM THE NEWS YESTERDAY THAT WE LOST

  • KOBE BRYANT.

  • AND THE SHOCK OF HEARING THE NEWS THAT THERE HAD BEEN A HOLD

  • KEPTER THAT CRASHED OUTSIDE OF LOS ANGELES AND TAKING KOBE AND

  • HIS DAUGHTER GIANNA AND SEVEN OTHER PEOPLE.

  • IT DIDN'T FEEL REAL WHEN I HEARD IT.

  • AND IT IS SO UNSPEAKABLY SAD.

  • ALL OF IT, YOU KNOW.

  • GROWING UP IN BRITAIN, LIKE IF YOU GROW UP IN BRITAIN,

  • BASKETBALL IS NOT A MASSIVE PART OF YOUR LIFE.

  • NOT MANY PEOPLE PLAY BASKETBALL AT SCHOOL.

  • NBA GAMES WEREN'T ON TELEVISION WHEN I WAS GROWING UP.

  • THERE WERE WERE SOME ATHLETES THAT TRANSCEND THEIR SPORT,

  • BEFORE YOU EVER EVEN GET A CHANCE TO SEE THEM PLAY.

  • AND KOBE BRYANT WAS ONE OF THOSE ATHLETES.

  • HE REALLY, REALLY WAS.

  • AND I KEEP FINDING MYSELF THINKING ABOUT THE LAST TIME

  • THAT KOBE WAS HERE ON THE SHOW.

  • HE WAS FRESHLY RETIRED.

  • AND HE COULDN'T STOP TALKING ABOUT HOW EXCITED HE WAS TO HAVE

  • ALL THIS FREE TIME TO DE VOTE TO HIS FAMILY AND TO COACH HIS

  • DAUGHTERS.

  • AND I REMEMBER LOVING HEARING HIM TALK LIKE THAT, A MAN WHO

  • HAD ACHIEVED SO MUCH IN HIS LIFE.

  • HE WAS SO EXCITED JUST TO GET TO BE A DAD FOR AWHILE.

  • AND OUR HEARTS BREAK AT THIS TRAGEDY.

  • OUR THOUGHTS AND OUR LOVE GO OUT TO KOBE'S WIFE AND TO HIS

  • CHILDREN, HIS FAMILY, HIS FRIENDS.

  • WE MOURN THE OTHER SEVEN PEOPLE ON THAT HELICOPTER WHOSE LOSS IS

  • NO LESS PROFOUND.

  • AND OUR HEARTS GO OUT TO THEIR FRIENDS AND FAMILY TOO.

  • I WISH I COULD SAY SOMETHING TO MAKE SENSE OF IT ALL.

  • AND I CAN'T FIND THE WORDS TO SAY, ALL I CAN THINK OF IS THIS,

  • IF YOU CAN, TAKE A MOMENT TONIGHT, TOMORROW, TO CALL UP

  • SOMEONE YOU LOVE, TO JUST LET THEM KNOW.

  • WE'LL BE RIGHT BACK FOR MORE OF THE "LATE, LATE SHOW."

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THANKS SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE

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