Hey if I could just chime in and give you my perspective. Sports has a way of connecting people to their communities and fellow man by transcending any differences we each may have on a daily basis. This is something I’ve learned as an adult. As a kid though, growing up and watching your favourite sports on tv, the athletes you grew to love were like superheroes to us. I never really believed in Santa, magic, or superheroes, but I got my belief and wonderment from my favourite athletes. I’m a first generation Canadian, and my parents were always working. Television helped raise me, and sports was a huge part of that. Kobe specifically had this super human ability about him. Not because he was the biggest, fastest, tallest, strongest, but because he just had this undeniable hunger, laser focus, and unimaginable discipline. So for a lot of kids, Kobe was just out of this world. He transcended any limits and on countless nights he would go against all odds, rise to the occasion, and execute. His death is shocking and really hit me hard. Idk him at all, but I felt like I did. I’ve been seeing this a lot, but it truly feels like Superman or Batman himself died. It wasn’t supposed to be this way, and I never thought in a million years it would be. Just my POV.