My youth went with him……

Socrates once said that life is an unrepeatable choice. I wish there was another way to open the year 2020. China does not have “Wuhan pneumonia” and Kobe and his daughter are not gone. It would be great if we could reboot in 2020.

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As the 80th generation of Chinese basketball fans, I like Michael Jordan and Shaquille O‘Neal. Until kobe Bryant appeared in the NBA, I was impressed by his excellent jumping ability and almost all-round ball control. I even believe he is the next basketball genius after Michael Jordan. Although I was in China at the time, I lived and worked on American time. Because of the convenience of work, my friends and I watched every NBA game on satellite TV. I could even get first-hand information and photos from a-list reporters in Los Angeles and become one of the closest fans to an NBA stars in the “print age”.

When Michael Jordan announced his retirement in 2003, as sad as I was, I was still glad he could finally live the life they wanted. After all, the NBA also has a younger generation, such as Allen Iverson, Kobe Bryant, Steve Nash, LeBron James, Stephon Marbury and Marcus Camby , who have become the golden generation in NBA history. Until 2007, I left my job, lost the convenience of watching games, as well as my like-minded partners. In the small city where I lived, I was further and further away from the NBA. Even though Shaquille O ‘Neal and Yao Ming both retired in 2011, I had a deep feeling that half of my passion for basketball as a young girl had disappeared, and none of that was as devastating as the news of Kobe’s death.

Today, however, when I learned of Kobe’s death, I was so sad. He was still so young, and his passing made me feel like a part of my youth had gone with him. Youth only once, even if there is a second Kobe, I do not have a second youth to follow him.