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The Welcome in everybody to the Lockdown Nuggets podcast.

I'm your host Adam Matas from D&R.

A somber edition of the Lockdown Nuggets podcast.

Maybe one of the more difficult days as just a sports fan for me personally is Kobe Bryant passed away today in a helicopter crash.

I'm sure, I don't even know why I'm recapping that, I'm sure everybody listening to this

knows that news by now.

Just to kind of set the tone, I mean, obviously this is a, this was a really, really

tough one for me, to be honest with you.

And I'm going to spend a lot of today's show on this news at least the first

segment i will get to what happened in the nuggins rockets rockets game but i i guess i have to

apologize up front just about being a little bit um you know a little i don't i don't exactly

know where to go with this, with this episode.

It's probably going to take me a lot of different takes, to be honest with you.

I'm not a person that, that gets emotional at celebrity deaths.

In fact, I don't think I ever have really felt this way about a celebrity death before.

It's not that I'm not affected by them.

You know, movies, music, athletes, whatever.

It's just that it's always compartmentalized, I think, for me, or at least always has been.

And, but Kobe was different for me in tonight.

And I think all the circumstances just coming together to make

this such a you know a night I'll obviously always remember um but Kobe Bryant played a really

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