Name: Michael Strahan Remembers Kobe Bryant: "He Is a Legend for a Reason"
Uploaded: 2020-03-18T17:12:32.000Z
Duration: 5 min 33 s
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To-infinitive

-Roots, love you guys. Good to see you again.

Past simple

I want to say congratulations. That was great.

-Thank you. -They played with Gary Clark Jr.

-Whoa. No. You're kidding me. -What would happen?

-Yeah. What would have happened? Do you play instruments?

I can't even whistle with this gap in my teeth.

-Oh, my God. -Be in trouble with me, man.

It's kind of a sad day for a lot of people

everyone who died in that helicopter crash.

You knew Kobe pretty well. You've interviewed him.

Do you remember first seeing him, seeing him for the time?

-Yeah. I mean, the first time I met Kobe was years ago.

But since I retired, over the last 12 years or so,

I've gotten the chance to know him a lot better.

He would come on "GMA," and I'd interview him there,

and he called me and asked me to interview him

for "Dear Basketball" at the Tribeca Film Festival.

So I went down and did an interview for him

for that documentary he won an Oscar for.

And everyone talks about how hard people work

and how committed they are, but he had another level.

and he always showed a lot of, like, respect and --

I've just always thought the world of him.

So for him to call me up and ask me to be a part of something

that was so special to him, it meant the world to me.

-And we did a special report last night on ABC.

And after -- We're done, and I decide to walk home.

And I'm just walking. After 11:00 last night.

I didn't realize where I was or what was going on.

-Yeah. Did you get to know him outside --

-No, I never had a chance to golf with him, but, you know,

-You could sit, and you could laugh and he'd have jokes and --

He was not joking when he played the Knicks.

-He'd beat the Knicks now. But I told him.

You know one of the first things I told him? I said,

-'Cause you knew he was always going to make it and upset you.

And I was like, "Dude, I hated you as a player!"

-And he just looked at me and laughed because he realized

of excellence and he lived a life that --

You know, I was sitting around kind of in a fog,

and then I realized, like, you got to celebrate his life, man.

He lived a life that is worth talking about,

And even in the short 41 years, he left a mark

that very few people will ever leave on this world.

He is a legend for a reason, because he did iconic

and he was building, like, the basketball schools.

He was about to start a whole new chapter, you know?

-I think he was just getting started, to be honest with you.

And winning an Oscar right out of the NBA for "Dear Basketball"

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Michael Strahan Remembers Kobe Bryant: "He Is a Legend for a Reason"

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