{"id":1317911,"date":"2020-01-26T17:22:26","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T00:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1817237"},"modified":"2020-01-26T17:22:26","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T00:22:26","slug":"country-stars-shocked-and-saddened-by-kobe-bryants-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/country-stars-shocked-and-saddened-by-kobe-bryants-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Country Stars Shocked and Saddened by Kobe Bryant\u2019s Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:687930?width=1200&amp;height=675&amp;.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"byline\"> by <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/author\/bonaguroa\/\" title=\"Posts by Alison Bonaguro\" rel=\"author\">Alison Bonaguro<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\"><br \/>\n21m ago<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span> <\/p>\n<p>After the tragic news of Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant\u2019s death broke on Sunday afternoon (Jan. 26), country stars who knew him and\/or looked up to him started to share their condolences on social media. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B7zDv4UgMPX\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"12\"><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">R.I.P to the legend Kobe Bryant <\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kane Brown (@kanebrown) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kanebrown\/status\/1221534827574329345?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 26, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9fA85yaTNZ\">pic.twitter.com\/9fA85yaTNZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Keith Urban (@KeithUrban) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KeithUrban\/status\/1221539005814185996?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 26, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"ht\" dir=\"ltr\">Wow!! RIP Kobe!! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4HMyIREKMq\">https:\/\/t.co\/4HMyIREKMq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Darius Rucker (@dariusrucker) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dariusrucker\/status\/1221521212964311040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 26, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I don\u2019t even know what to say\u2026seeing news like this is so incredibly sad. RIP Kobe<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ChrisYoungMusic (@ChrisYoungMusic) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChrisYoungMusic\/status\/1221530009568870401?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 26, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"ht\" dir=\"ltr\">RIP Kobe <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/mamba?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#mamba<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Scotty McCreery (@ScottyMcCreery) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ScottyMcCreery\/status\/1221521718931488771?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 26, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">My brother never traded me his Kobe rookie card. So sad for his daughters and family. Sitting here with my tiny family sending nothing but love to them.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ryan Hurd (@RyanHurd) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RyanHurd\/status\/1221523098337447949?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 26, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Bryant, 41, and his 13-year-old daughter Gianna were in his private helicopter when it crashed in the Los Angeles County suburb of Calabasas. According to L.A. County Fire Chief Daryl Osby, the crash was reported at 9:47 a.m. where Las Virgenes Road and Willow Glen Street meet. All nine people aboard the helicopter have died. <\/p>\n<p>CNN.com is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/01\/26\/us\/calabasas-helicopter-crash-trnd\/index.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">reporting <\/a>that the Bryants were on their way to a basketball game at the Mamba Sports Academy in Thousand Oaks. Bryant was expected to coach his daughter\u2019s team at the game. <\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n<div class=\"description\"> Alison makes her living loving country music. She&#8217;s based in Chicago, but she&#8217;s always leaving her heart in Nashville. <\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/alisonbonaguro\" target=\"_BLANK\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@alisonbonaguro<\/a> <\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1817237\/country-stars-shocked-and-saddened-by-kobe-bryants-death\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Alison Bonaguro 21m ago After the tragic news of Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant\u2019s death broke on Sunday afternoon (Jan. 26), country stars who knew him and\/or looked up to him started to share their condolences on social media. R.I.P to the legend Kobe Bryant \u2014 Kane Brown (@kanebrown) January 26, 2020 pic.twitter.com\/9fA85yaTNZ [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1317911","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 02:28:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1317911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1317911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1317911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1317911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}