{"id":803514,"date":"2020-01-27T09:36:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T16:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/x-games-aspen-athletes-bazzi-pay-tribute-to-kobe-bryant\/"},"modified":"2020-01-27T09:36:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T16:36:00","slug":"x-games-aspen-athletes-bazzi-pay-tribute-to-kobe-bryant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/x-games-aspen-athletes-bazzi-pay-tribute-to-kobe-bryant\/","title":{"rendered":"X Games Aspen athletes, Bazzi pay tribute to Kobe Bryant"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"swift-gallery p402_hide\" readability=\"5.8969696969697\">\n<ul id=\"imageGallery-378098-854\" class=\"gallery list-unstyled\">\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/XkoBE-ATD-012720-03-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/XkoBE-ATD-012720-03-1024x684.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Nate Krause\/Special to The Aspen Times | Snow bike athlete Jackson Strong competes in the snow bike best trick final in a Kobe Bryant jersey.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-1.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"8\">\n<p><strong>Snow bike athlete Jackson Strong competes in the snow bike best trick final in a Kobe Bryant jersey.<\/strong><br \/>Nate Krause\/Special to The Aspen Times<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/XkoBE-ATD-012720-03-1024x684.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"Snow bike athlete Jackson Strong competes in the snow bike best trick final in a Kobe Bryant jersey.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"caption-toggle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/x-games-aspen-athletes-bazzi-pay-tribute-to-kobe-bryant\/#\" class=\"show-captions\">Show Captions<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/x-games-aspen-athletes-bazzi-pay-tribute-to-kobe-bryant\/#\" class=\"hide-captions\">Hide Captions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">ASPEN \u2013 After the news of Kobe Bryant\u2019s death spread across the sports world, some of those connected to X Games Aspen paid their respects to the Los Angeles Lakers star who died Sunday in a helicopter crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Before his first run, Australian snowbike racer Jackson Strong stood up over his bike. He pulled at the gold-and-purple Bryant jersey he was wearing for the finals. The crowd gave a loud cheer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Strong, 28, won bronze Sunday night and afterward said he latched onto the Lakers and Bryant through X Games competitions at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cIf I put on an American accent ever at home I\u2019d say \u2018Kobe Bryant from the Lakers.\u2019 That\u2019s as American as I can get,\u201d Strong said. \u201cIt\u2019s very unfortunate, very sad. When something like this happens in the athletic world, it\u2019s good to have everyone stick together. It\u2019s important.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">ESPN moved its X Games programming through the day. The announcement came while there was four-hour break in the competition schedule and just before the final concert of the X Games Aspen weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Los Angeles-based singer Bazzi paid tribute to Bryant early in his Sunday afternoon set on the X Games music stage. He said the NBA legend was a hero to him growing up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cI want you all to remember how lucky we all are to be at the X Games in Aspen right now alive and healthy,\u201d he told the crowd at the Buttermilk venue. \u201cLet\u2019s make some noise for Kobe Bryant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">ESPN\u2019s X Games announcers posted on social media and came on to pay their respects to the Bryant family and added, \u201cWe\u2019re going to continue our competition in honor of his spirit and his love of sports.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/x-games-aspen-athletes-bazzi-pay-tribute-to-kobe-bryant\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snow bike athlete Jackson Strong competes in the snow bike best trick final in a Kobe Bryant jersey.Nate Krause\/Special to The Aspen Times Show CaptionsHide Captions ASPEN \u2013 After the news of Kobe Bryant\u2019s death spread across the sports world, some of those connected to X Games Aspen paid their respects to the Los Angeles [&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":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-803514","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-24 12:55:37","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":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}