New Brooklyn Nets head coach Steve Nash still remembers what he was doing and how he felt when he heard Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant had passed away in a helicopter crash.
Nash, who was teammates with Bryant on the Lakers for two years, says he was playing tennis in Los Angeles and couldn't believe the news.
“I was playing at tennis in L.A., and I felt … almost nothing, in that I just went cold and numb, and I don’t know if it was a defense mechanism, shock or … It took me a long time to really — and I still think I’m coming to grips with it’s actually true,” Steve Nash said about Kobe Bryant's death, via Steve Serby of the New York Post.
“It doesn’t feel real. Having competed my whole career against him, playing with him for a year basically, I hadn’t seen him probably since 2016, and so, you always feel like he’s there and we’ll cross paths one day again. It’s been very difficult for me to come to grips with it.”
It's been almost 10 months since Kobe Bryant passed away, and yet it still doesn't seem real that the Lakers icon is no longer with us.
Steve Nash, who is the new head coach of the Brooklyn Nets, had many intense battles with Bryant back in the day when the Lakers and Suns used to be rivals in the Western Conference. Bryant will be inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2021. Nash is already in the Hall of Fame.
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