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Kevin Durant Finally Opens Up About the Bryant Tragedy

Published 01/29/2020, 2:23 PM EST

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It has been three days after NBA legend Kobe Bryant‘s tragic death in a helicopter crash. NBA player Kevin Durant has finally spoken about Kobe. Initially, he did not post a tribute on twitter like everyone else. Durant says he struggled to put into words how much Bryant meant to him. He believes the best way to honour his legacy is for the NBA’s players to give everything they’ve got for the rest of the season.

“It’s still hard to process this,” Durant said. “It’s a tragedy. It’s made so many people in the world so sad.”

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Kevin Durant Speaks: Some Wisdom from the Wise

When asked how best to honour Kobe, Durant said on Tuesday:

I mean… anything. It’s so hard to say right now. Just every basketball player go out there and play as hard as they can every single night to honour Kobe, I think that would do.”

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“I tried to think about what I would say, what I would write, but nothing was big enough, you know? And that’s how I feel about everything when it comes to Kobe Bryant. The mark he left on the earth feels like nothing will ever be big enough to truly honour Kobe Bryant but how we approach every day, life, as people, me as a disciple, who studied him, learned from him.”

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Durant on how Kobe touched lives

“As a young basketball player, he was somebody you looked up to. As a high-schooler, not knowing much outside of just playing basketball, and then getting to the league and getting to know the person and the man and everything that comes with it with Kobe Bryant, he was just a joy to be around.”

“You would display every emotion when you were around him. As a competitor, you hated playing against him, as somebody that admired him you just loved being in his presence”, Durant said.

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“As a young hooper, he meant the world to us. But just having that time and those moments with Kobe, it was always about pressing forward and I think at this time it’s so hard to do so just with the amount of impact he had on all of us. It’s hard to keep going right now. But as a basketball community, as a world as a whole, we’re all just mourning and sticking together.”

Kobe Bryant and Kevin Durant were teammates in the 2012 Olympics. He went head to head with Bryant many times, yet has absolute respect for the legend. They shared a very close bond.

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