Kobeland

I wrote this in February 2020, just a few days after Kobe died. I wrote it for the magazine I was working for at the time, at my university, but never sent it to my editor. I think this is a better place for it, two years later.

It was the last day of January and Mumford Brewery in downtown Los Angeles was already packed by 7 p.m. True, it was a Friday, so all the nine to fivers had likely rolled straight out of their offices and into the…