re: Biggest sports deaths

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There's no world where this is bigger for example than Ali's death. Because we expected 40 more years of Kobe doing great things with his kids and his in depth profiles he was doing for the playoffs it seems bigger

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I mean, we're all going to die so suddenness certainly has to be factored into the equation. Ali made it to 74 after years of poor health making it a foregone conclusion. I wouldn't call his death 'bigger', even if he was the bigger icon in American sports and pop culture history with a much wider range of influence.

Kobe was one of those things where I'm going to remember where I was when I first saw the news. To me, that's the ultimate test.