{"id":38595,"date":"2020-01-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/graham-cornes-wasn-t-far-from-where-kobe-bryant-s-helicopter-crashed\/"},"modified":"2020-04-15T09:49:18","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T09:49:18","slug":"graham-cornes-wasn-t-far-from-where-kobe-bryant-s-helicopter-crashed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/graham-cornes-wasn-t-far-from-where-kobe-bryant-s-helicopter-crashed\/","title":{"rendered":"Graham Cornes Wasn\u2019t Far From Where Kobe Bryant\u2019s Helicopter Crashed"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>FIVEAA\u2019s Graham Cornes says he was staying close to where Kobe Bryant\u2019s helicopter tragically crashed on Sunday morning (LA time).<\/h3>\n<p>Cornesy called into the FIVEAA sports show from the US on Tuesday where is currently on holidays:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThey\u2019re devastated here,\u201d he told Rowey &amp; Bicks. \u201cThe papers have got massive tributes of course.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt happened really close to where we were. We were at dinner at Malibu on Saturday night, we were staying quite close to there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was really foggy and there were alerts anyway, some of the choppers were grounded. I\u2019m sure there will be some sort of investigation. Given the fact that there were children involved\u2026 tragic\u2019s probably not a strong enough word.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know how to describe it. You do get a sense how big an impact it\u2019s had. All of the shops are down and depressed. Television stations are full of it. It\u2019s probably similar to when Princess Di passed away, when John F. Kennedy passed away\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On another trip a few years ago Cornesy said he had a brush with the NBA superstar at a media conference.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI was standing right by him. I wasn\u2019t game enough to ask him a question to be quite honest, but I wouldn\u2019t have been any more than a metre from him. He had an enormous presence about him.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>LISTEN:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"188\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.acast.com\/roweybicks\/interview-grahamcornes-28january2020\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden;\"><\/iframe>&#13;\n&#13;\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">An incredible scene outside Staples Center as thousands of mourners have left countless items to honor Kobe Bryant.  <br><br>(: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Rachel__Nichols?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Rachel__Nichols<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZZQe4SLXhA\">pic.twitter.com\/ZZQe4SLXhA<\/a><\/p>&mdash; theScore (@theScore) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theScore\/status\/1222298353364623360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 28, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FIVEAA\u2019s Graham Cornes says he was staying close to where Kobe Bryant\u2019s helicopter tragically crashed on Sunday morning (LA time). Cornesy called into the FIVEAA sports show from the US on Tuesday where is currently on holidays: \u201cThey\u2019re devastated here,\u201d he told Rowey &amp; Bicks. \u201cThe papers have got massive tributes of course.\u201d \u201cIt happened [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":38596,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247,231,143],"tags":[246,248],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-38595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiveaa-sports-show","category-show","category-sport","tag-fiveaa-app","tag-sport"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Graham Cornes Wasn\u2019t Far From Where Kobe Bryant\u2019s Helicopter Crashed - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/graham-cornes-wasn-t-far-from-where-kobe-bryant-s-helicopter-crashed\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Graham Cornes Wasn\u2019t Far From Where Kobe Bryant\u2019s Helicopter Crashed\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"FIVEAA\u2019s Graham Cornes says he was staying close to where Kobe Bryant\u2019s helicopter tragically crashed on Sunday morning (LA time). 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