Jimmy Kimmel Films Without Live Audience to Honor to Kobe Bryant: 'A Comedy Show Didn't Feel Right'
, Kobe checked in with me repeatedly. He made a point, once Billy was out of the hospital to meet him. He wanted to meet him. And from time to time, he’d check in on how he was doing.”
“It’s all bad. It’s all sad,” Kimmel said in conclusion. “He was a bright light, and that’s how I want to remember him.”The Tonight Show “Kobe was such a life force, so strong and creative and inspired that in my head I thought that he would live forever,” Fallon said before telling the story of how he and the NBA star met.
“We just got along, we hit it off. He was telling me he was into poetry. I met his sister. Then the guy that was having the party said, ‘Hey guys who wants to make a beer run?’ and Kobe wasn’t drinking he was 17, so he goes ‘I’ll do it, Jimmy you want to come?’”LeBron James Spoke with Kobe Bryant Hours Before His Tragic Death: ‘I’ll Continue Your Legacy’
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