'I told my wife I wasn't going to do this, because I didn't want to see this for the next three or four years. That is what Kobe Bryant does to me.'
Michael Jordan openly wept as he remembered Kobe Bryant at a memorial service Monday, and then lightened the mood by joking that he was going to have to look at another"Crying Jordan" meme as a result.
Jordan was one of several speakers at the memorial for Kobe and his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, whoalong with seven other people. Thousands attended the memorial at the home of the Los Angeles Lakers, the team Kobe played with for the entirety of his 20-year NBA career. "Maybe it surprised people that Kobe and I were very close friends, but we were very close friends," Jordan said."Everyone always wanted to talk about the comparisons between he and I. I just wanted to talk about Kobe."
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