Earlier today we ran an excerpt from the great Roland Lazenby’s latest book, Showboat: The Life of Kobe Bryant. The book is fantastic (I am not yet finished, but what I have read is tremendous) and you can get yourself a copy right here through Amazon.
However, we have a special surprise for a couple of our readers — we are also doing a giveaway!
We have two copies to give out, so two of you will get a copy shipped to you. Our contest is straightforward enough:
- In the comments below, give your favorite Kobe story, anecdote, or comment about what his career meant to you.
- The two commenters with the most “likes” on their respective comment will win a copy. (Via livefyre, you have the ability to “like” someone’s comment — you will see the option for this underneath the comment and to the right. If you do not have a livefyre account, you will need to create one but that is free.)
It is really that simple. I will tally the “likes” on Sunday, November 6th. If you won, I will contact you to get your mailing address and then ship you your copy. The only disclaimer is that there is only one entry per commenter.
So, get to it and good luck!
Rossel64 says
This is a story one of the Lakers staffers [not going to give his name] told me about Kobe, and it’s absolutely amazing.
At one of the Thanksgiving parties for the team, held at a big hotel as the team was on the road, there was a ping pong table in the venue. The staffer was pretty good at ping pong so he started taking down some of the players who were just playing for fun, and the whole time Kobe is sitting and watching, talking crap to the staffer. The guy tells Kobe to stop talking and pick up a paddle, so Kobe goes up and starts playing.
At first, it’s clear Kobe’s barely played before and the staffer is crushing him. But just like Kobe on the court, as the game goes along, Kobe’s learning the game at an alarming pace, and by the end of the just a few games, it was like Kobe was a different player. Picking up angles, putting spin on the ball, smashing hits, the whole deal.
At the end of the third match, the staffer just barely escapes with a win, and Kobe goes over to his security guard and says, pointing to the ping pong table, “By the time we get home, you better get me one of these for my house.” Now whenever the staffer sees Kobe, they joke about how he plays with his kids and he can get ruthless at it.
It’s not a basketball memory but it’s amazing that his drive existed even at a team holiday party with no stakes. That’s the Kobe I’ll always remember.
KJJallday says
Outside of all the titles, the personal accolades, and the game winning shots, this Kobe moment has always stood out to me. It occurred in 2012, after a miserable season that marked the beginning of the end of the Lakers’ latest string of dominance.
Kobe basically willed the team to the playoffs that year. He had a string of memorable games down the stretch that allowed the Lakers to make up enough ground to sneak into the 8th seed and face off against the San Antonio Spurs. Unfortunately, his body broke down on him before the first round started, and it was up to Dwight Howard and Pau Gasol to carry the team forward. To put it bluntly, they failed miserably.
After getting into a quick 0 – 3 hole, the Lakers were slated to make a final stand at Staples. Once again, they looked terrible. Dwight Howard seemed completely uninterested and the Spurs jumped out to a quick lead. Dwight picked up a first technical, and kept jawing at the ref throughout the game, finally picking up his second technical early in the third quarter. Per NBA rules, he was ejected from the game. Since the team was down by about twenty at that point, it seemed like all hope was lost — both for the current game and the state of the Lakers moving forward. The crowd was audibly upset.
Then, as you’re watching the telecast from home, you suddenly start to hear cheering. Nothing was happening on the court, but the place was a mad house. As the camera pans around the arena, you see Kobe hobbling out to the bench on crutches from the locker room. It was a simple gesture, but a profound one. It was almost as if he wanted to tell the crowd, “Don’t worry. I got this. I’m not going anywhere.” For that brief moment, everything was okay in LA. Of course we all know what happened afterwards, with Howard leaving and the team imploding on itself. That simple gesture of leadership, though, signified exactly what Kobe has meant to the city of Los Angeles and the franchise all of these years. He’s always had our back, especially in our worst moments. That’s the Kobe I’ll remember.
CReeves12 says
81.
AndresGarcia3 says
In 1997, I was a freshman at UCLA. I did not have a car and I rarely left campus. The Lakers were down 0-2 to the Jazz in the playoffs. I heard on the radio that tickets were available. I talked to my roommate and we walked to the old Tower Records in Westwood and bought our tickets using our Laker credit cards (that I had gotten a nice bag or something for signing up). We decided to bus It to Inglewood. We didn’t know how we were going to get home or even the bus route to take, a couple of country bumpkins from Oxnard. But we were Laker fanatics so screw it. The bus ride took hours. Who knows if we took the wrong bus route. We finally arrived in Inglewood and ran the last mile to the Forum. We arrived at our seats which were in the rafters just before tip off. Kobe was awesome that night. He scored 19. We were in awe at how much more athletic he looked in person. The space that he was able to create for himself and how high he got on his jumper, it was incredible. He was able to get any spot on the floor that he wanted. He had not really received a lot of run that year outside garbage time so it was not like all laker fans were totally sold on him or really knew what we had, myself included. But after that night, I knew he was going to be GREAT. It was just a matter of time.
JJTroyYoun says
For myself, Kobe’s two freethrow attempts after tearing his achilles remain vivid in memory. While watching the game against the Warriors, my roommates and I were cheering on the Lakers despite the long odds they faced against an admittedly stronger Warriors team as Curry was just torching the whoever the Lakers put on him.
Kobe hitting several contested three pointers over defenders like Harrison Barnes Klay Thompson gave me a sense pride and satisfaction. In a sense, it was the old guard (pun intended) against the new, veteran shooting guard against the up and coming wing players, and Kobe was tearing them up. It felt great seeing Kobe just go to work.
And then when he pivoted against Barnes, pushed off and then fell, the moment felt very surreal. He wasn’t getting up; he grabbed his heel instead. There was a sense of mounting horror in our living room as we could hear the growing apprehension in the announcers’ voices and the darkening expressions of the Lakers. When Kobe got up and started limping horribly, it was a terrible feeling. We didn’t know exactly what the injury was at that moment but we could see Kobe’s grimaces. And if you know Kobe Bryant at all, you know of his pain tolerance.
As the announcers concluded that the injury was to his achilles, we felt despondent. Kobe had guaranteed a playoff appearance for the Lakers and had pushed so hard. My roommates and I felt just crushed by the news. It was nothing that would change the course of the season but when Kobe walked to the free throw line for his free throw attempts, walking without assistance, that was one thing that Lakers fans could cheer for and silently appreciate.
The cameras panned to his face as he took them. You could see the pain slightly when he took deep breaths before each attempt. It felt like the finals with the game on the line. Even with a single achilles remaining intact, he drained them. And with each made shot, he restored something to rally around. We cheered for him and his inner strength even as he slowly limped off the court while his teammate intentionally fouled a Warrior. And despite the disappointment of the injury, we felt a small bit of satisfaction knowing that Kobe had beaten the Warriors.
ktothaeo says
My fondest memory of Kobe comes in two parts. In the early Kobe years, the Lakers played the Spurs at home and it was my cousin’s first basketball game with his dad. He wasn’t a Lakers fan, but that night he can’t back raving about how Kobe had spun baseline between the twin towers, laying it up in the process. Watching my cousin imitate the moves made me decide that night that I’d be a Lakers fan.
Last year during my honeymoon, I made my way back to my roots in LA (I live in Sydney now) with my wife for my first NBA game. Unfortunately after spending an arm and a leg on tickets behind the Lakers bench, Kobe did his knee a few weeks before so there would be no dazzling Kobe moments for my first live basketball game. But Kobe did make an appearance. If people remember an iconic photo of him in all black giving JC pointers on the bench, tynowell has a photo on Instagram of him that game with me going crazy in the background because of a Tarik dunk.
Seemed poetic to me that my first experience – so different to my cousin’s first, which started my fandom – would be of me going crazy about the Laker future, while Kob’ was offering his pearls of wisdom to the next gen.
VincentCh says
My story is a bit different then most- hear goes, (Warning: long read ahead)
Right around the time i first came to this country in Feb. of 97′, i was very fortunate to be able to witness Jordan’s greatness and the hard fought series between the Jazz and Bulls- and yes, Jordan did push off a bit on Russell, but it’s Jordan…
Little did i know this young skinny player who had the drive, the intensity, the ambition to become great- I saw his 4 air balls LIVE- dude was not scared and is willing to live in the moment.
having to taken a interest in Basketball myself, i began to model my game after Kobe, the up and unders, the pump fakes, the fade away, the pivots, and the intense faces he would make, i would try to do the same as him. (well not exactly the same, probably with 30% resemblance)
I even tried to train like him, pushing myself everytime i was tired and every pickup game i lose, i would stay after just to get those shots up…
Gone were countless times of losing my voice screaming after kobe hit seemingly impossible shots after shots, the tears of seeing him winning his first championship, then his first without Shaq, then against Boston.
When he went down with the torn achilles tendon, i cried my eyes out and to this day if i watch the clip or even to think about it, my eyes would water, I cried because the kobe i know and loved will never be the same-
Leading up to his last game, I felt really uneasy- and for the 1st time in a long time, there’s this tightness even from kobe, seeing him hitting his first shot, then the next, and the next, it reminded me of the old kobe w/ the pep in his step, similar to Jordan with his back pedaling with arms half bend to the side, chewing his gum with a grin on his face.
There will never be another Kobe, the one with some resemblance of the intensity and drive is Russell Westbrook.
I grew up with Kobe, although i did not get a chance to meet him in person, I felt like he’s been there every part of my life.
that’s my story
Kevlove says
My favorite Kobe memory was in ’96 when he got drafted and before any preseason games.. he came out to Venice beach as a teenager to play against the competition at the beach..Venice beach legendary for it’s intense basketball games.. Kobe came out there and destroyed most people out there and actually broke his wrist while he was out there… we questioned why was a rookie who just got drafted and signed to the lakers playing against random guys at the beach?…because he’s Kobe..
Kevlove says
My favorite Kobe memory was in ’96 when he got drafted and before any preseason games.. he came out to Venice beach as a teenager to play against the competition at the beach..Venice beach legendary for it’s intense basketball games.. Kobe came out there and destroyed most people out there and actually broke his wrist while he was out there… we questioned why was a rookie who just got drafted and signed to the lakers playing against random guys at the beach?…because he’s Kobe..
CadeAnwar says
This was a very dark period in his life. But for me, it was the 03-04 season. The sexual assault charge cast a dark cloud over the entire year basically. What amazed me however, were the games where Kobe would fly back in after all day court proceedings in Colorado, then return to LA in the nick of time to put up 30-40 points.
Kobe’s ability to compartmentalize his emotions, his laser-focus on the game, and his iron will are legendary. But never more so, but during this very troubling time of his life not only on the court (Shaq and him were still verbally sniping each other voraciously, w/ pretty much the entire team caught in the middle. Let’s not even mention his broken relationship w/ Phil at that time). But more importantly at home, w/ his marriage seemingly broken. Any other man going through that would probably have taken a leave from the game. But for Kobe, to set aside all the trouble in his personal life, and continue to play, and play exceedingly well, is very remarkable. For me it defined him. No matter what else was going on in his life, when he’s on the court he is the consummate warrior. This further proves that Kobe can harness all the negative energy around him; coming at him, focus it, and then release it back at everyone through spectacular play.
Lesser players allow other players, and/or external circumstances and emotions affect their play on the court. But not Kobe. He relished it, fed off it, it made him stronger. This is what defines Kobe to me, and what continues to inspire me. An indomitable, never say die, fighting spirit. And we may never see another player, that can thrive under chaos so effectively ever again. Thank you Kobe.
adamv37 says
When I think of Kobe, it’s not about a single moment for me, it’s that feeling of nervousness and excitement when the Lakers are down in the 4th, but I just knew Kobe was about to take over the game. He gets that super focused look and starts jutting out his jaw, locking down out on the perimeter, hitting shots from everywhere on the court, and putting all of Laker Nation on his back.
MAMBA MODE ACTIVATED.
The next few minutes are a blur but somehow Kobe brings home the W and we all rejoice. No better feeling than witnessing the Black Mamba do his thing in the clutch.
lijakjoys says
My favorite kobe moment…man, kobe shooting the freethrows with that achilles injury…nailed it both…toughest dude in the NBA…that’s my hero!
Wishwash says
It was January 31, 2007 LOS ANGELES LAKERS vs BOSTON CELTICS
Prior to this game, Kobe was on a complete rampage, the year
prior he had one of the greatest individual seasons in NBA history, and continued
to Will himself to greater feats on the court. His ability to assert his Will
on the game seemed effortless or at least unstoppable. It was clear he was one
of the most dominant forces on the Court, but on January 31, 2007 I feel he not
only dominated the court but was the single most dominant force upon the minds
of all spectators and fans of the sport.
Kobe always received mvp chants at home, and once in a while
he would receive those same chants at away games, but in 2006-2007 it felt that
at a majority of away games he was getting mvp chants. As a laker fan I felt
they were deserving but still a bit weird and unexpected. It is a competitive sport,
you would expect those chants would be drowned out by boos but his draw and
appreciation overcame those jeers for cheers.
And then it happened, the Lakers played Boston in Boston,
and Kobe had his usual dominant game with 43 points, but something happened
that I have never experienced or seen before by a Laker player in the Garden,
Loud roaring MVP,MVP MVP chants. It was stunning, it was awkward, it was weird,
and it was glorious. A Laker being given the highest praise where his biggest Nemesis
lives where they loathe and hate purple and gold. The Lakers won the game, but
hearing those chants in the Garden meant so much more than that.
It exemplified his
dominance of every aspect of the game, he took over the court and our minds.
new rr says
My money is on BigCitySid to win this contest. 😉
david__h says
Darius: my favorite story is going to be about how you need to give more books about Kobe.
A Horse With No Name says
rr wins it in a landslide
Kareemez says
new rr Bryant’s retirement story is definitely the dark horse.
Alexander_ says
From anything I could tell back in 1996, this high school kid was going to be an amazing player. I was hoping beyond hope that he could end up with the Lakers. The day we traded Divac for the 13th pick was a special day for me. I threw a basketball party to celebrate the Lakers getting the next MJ, and freeing up just enough salary to pry Shaq off Magic was nice too. I followed his career religiously, game after game, with the highs and the lows you all know. Flawed, heroic, he wasn’t just a sports figure, he was a member of my family. His final 60-pt scoring outburst against Utah brought back memories of the 62-point game versus Dallas, brought me to tears, for the joy that he brought, for the end of his era, for the beautiful reasons I’ve made basketball important in my life.
This post will not win me a book, but I don’t need a book. His life has already changed mine.
david__h says
CadeAnwar
totally agree.
mikefeinstein says
I wrote this column in the Santa Monica Daily Press about Kobe last November – http://smdp.com/ode-kobe-bryant/152726 – An ode to Kobe Bryant
However
extraordinary his physical talents, ferocity, perseverance and force of
will on the court, Kobe Bryant has always been about more than just
basketball to Southern California.
No matter what else has been
going on in our lives, for the last 20 seasons we could all tune into
the Lakers with the expectation of, “What special thing is Kobe going to
do tonight?” Not simply whether the Lakers were going to win — a given
during most of the Kobe Era — but, “What seemingly impossible limits was
Kobe going to surpass?”
The exhilaration of exceeding limits has
long been a defining feature of Southern California life. Whether
through the opportunity to create or recreate oneself without the burden
of social expectations from “back East,” or the giddiness of 70 degrees
at the beach in January — while much of the rest of the country is
buried in snow — life in Southern California is often an exultation of
the freedom to be anybody and anything you want.
Kobe Bryant’s
transcendent ability to impose mind over matter, and to achieve the
seemingly impossible on an ongoing basis, feeds directly into that.
Because he has been on Our Team, his extraordinary achievements have
also been a validation of our belief in our own endless possibilities.
Which is not to say that the Kobe Era has been without controversy.
Did Kobe shoot too much?
Kobe
is an indisputable alpha-male, and these dominant personalities are
among the most polarizing in society. For those that dislike them, all
of the alpha’s accomplishments don’t seem to matter. In the vernacular
of the NBA, these are the Kobe Haters.
Despite making it to seven
NBA finals and winning five NBA championships, the Kobe Haters didn’t
like the way Kobe did it. They complained about his shooting percentage,
or that he didn’t pass enough. If only Kobe played the “right way,”
they argued … somehow things would have been … better.
Kobe Haters
What
the Kobe Haters didn’t understand (being sometimes confused by their
arguably irrelevant analytics), or just didn’t want to accept, is that
Kobe is like the kid when you were growing up, who was the best athlete
in your neighborhood. When he or she was playing on your team, the whole
game shifted around them, and everyone played off of that rhythm and
energy. In the end, whatever sport it was, you loved it when your team
won, and only the losers worried about statistics and style of play. And
in the end, Kobe’s team has won as much as almost any in the history of
all four major North American professional sports.
Part of the
beauty of sports is the clash of styles, especially deep into the
playoffs when the best of the best are paired against each other. Part
of the thrill of watching Kobe has been that there would come a time in a
game (or a series) when he would just take over. You could feel the
moment coming — often Lakers announcers Chick Hearn and Stu Lantz would
call it out in the same instance you were thinking it — and once it did,
it was time to grab a seat and hold on for the ride.
For the
Kobe Haters, they didn’t like that someone could seemingly turn it on
and dominate a game by sheer force of will and individual talent.
Sports, they argued, is supposed to be about teamwork, and the way Kobe
was doing it was just wrong.
Yet as much as Kobe raged within
(and sometimes outside of) the limits of the Phil Jackson’s triangle
offense, he co-existed and thrived there with another über alpha-male,
Shaquille O’Neal. For those who saw Kobe as selfish and undisciplined,
he subjugated and blended his individual game enough to work with others
to win multiple championships.
Cutting out the heart of the opponent
Ever
since Kobe officially announced his retirement effective at the end of
the season, the media has rebroadcast many of his amazing moments. The
following against arch-rival San Antonio deserve mention as particularly
Kobe-esque.
The Lakers won their first Kobe Era title in 2000,
but didn’t face the previous year’s champion, the San Antonio Spurs —
Spurs star player Tim Duncan was injured, and San Antonio was eliminated
in the first round.
In 2001, however, the Spurs were back in
force, and the Western Conference Finals opened in San Antonio. In Game
1, Kobe almost single-handedly destroyed the Spurs with a 45-point,
10-rebound game that he dominated from start to finish, playing 47 out
of 48 minutes.
Game 2 was a different story, with the Lakers
trailing most of the game in a low-scoring, grind-it-out affair. In the
last minute, Kobe — again playing 47 of 48 minutes — hit a clutch dagger
three from the top of the key to put a close game out of reach, cutting
out San Antonio’s heart in the process. The demoralized Spurs were
swept by the Lakers by 39 points in Game 3 and 29 points in Game 4 in
Los Angeles, with Kobe averaging 33 points, 7 rebounds, 7 assists, two
steals and one block a game in the series.
The next year the
Lakers again met the Spurs in playoffs. Game 4 on the road in San
Antonio was another grind-it-out affair. San Antonio led most of the
game and was poised to tie the series 2-2. Down 84-74 with five minutes
to go, the Lakers began an 11-1 run, with Kobe hitting two deep threes
to tie the game. With five seconds left on the clock, Kobe came from
beyond the top of the key to follow a missed jumper by Derek Fisher,
skying above a sea of Spurs to grab the rebound with his left hand, and
lay it back in with his right to win the game.
The poem
Kobe
announced his retirement by posting a poem online, written not to any
particular person or team, but to basketball itself. Near the end, he
wrote: “I’m ready to let you go. I want you to know now. So we both can
savor every moment we have left together. The good and the bad. We have
given each other. All that we have.”
We’ve been incredibly
fortunate to have Kobe Bryant as a defining part of our culture. He’s
embraced both the joy and the agony, and used them both to fuel his
insatiable desire to live to the fullest.
Thank you, Kobe Bryant. It’s been a great ride. Let’s all savor these last moments together.
Slick_WitIt says
81 points… that still seems unreal to me. I am blessed to have watched that game live. What makes it even more spectacular is that this was no gimmie game like Wilts 100 where he was force fed and they had a comfortable lead the whole time. No, the Lakers (Smush Parker/Kwame Brown Lakers) needed everyone of his 81 points. If I remember correctly they were down by over 10 at halftime! However, by the end of the game you could see he thoroughly demoralized the Raptors. They had the look of helplessness on their face.
Kobe has been a role model to me…. Work ethic/intelligence, determination, relentlessness all things Kobe displayed and what I strive for.
david__h says
@mikefeinstein
wow man. you just wrote your own book. great read.
LT Mitchell says
Great read indeed.
LKK says
When I heard that Jerry West, then Lakers GM, had traded Vlade Divac for a high school prospect I was immediately intrigued. I thought there was no way the savvy and sophisticated architect of the Showtime Era would make such a move if the kid he acquired wasn’t extremely special. I couldn’t wait to see this young fellow play.
The first time I saw Kobe play was in a preaseason game that year. Memory fades a little. I think it was against the Rockets. Kobe received a pass out near the top of the key. He started to his right against his defender but quickly executed a brilliant crossover dribble to free himself. As he picked up his dribble and drove the lane, he began to rise toward the rim and kept rising. He finished the play with a powerful two handed slam.
At that moment I saw the future. I saw someone who had the potential and ability to be an all time great player who would bring championships to my favorite team. It was crystal clear. From that moment until he walked off the court last April after dropping SIXTY in his final game, I enjoyed the ups and downs of one of the greatest careers in NBA history. Kobe was a star amongst stars… making accomplished uber-achievers like Jack, Denzel and Snoop Lion get up out of their seats and dance in the aisles.
Thanks Kobe! I’ve never enjoyed watching anyone one play as much as I did you. I’m an old timer. I’ve seen most of the greatest players. Kobe ranks with all of them. I miss him.
mwheelonh says
What I remember most is a regular season game before he ever won a title. It was Phil Jackson’s first season, and he’d challenged Kobe to not just be an offensive star–which he was clearly already capable of being, whenever they weren’t feeding the 7-footer in the post–but to dominate in other ways. Running the offense, and becoming a stopper on defense. A doberman, like Jordan and Pippen at their peak.
In 2000, Allen Iverson was the undisputed gunner of the league; if not for Shaq’s best ever season, he’d have won the MVP that year (and did so in 2001). You could not stop him from getting his 30+ points, not if he was trying to score. Think today’s Steph Curry, but with insane drives for layups instead of 3’s. And on February 20th, 2000, the Lakers were playing an afternoon nationally-televised game against Iverson’s 76er’s.
And Kobe made Iverson his bitch.
Kobe’s offensive numbers were efficient if not spectacular: 7 for 15, 18 points, with 7 assists and 3 rebounds. But check out Iverson’s line for the game: 7 for 25, 15 points, and 5 turnovers. He was blocked 5 times, all 5 by Kobe.
The numbers don’t adequately describe what it was like to watch that game. Kobe had only one goal all game: defend the best offensive player in the game one on one and stop him cold. I don’t know that I’ve ever seen a defensive performance that dominating. By the end of it, you could see it on Iverson’s face, he looked utterly demoralized, like there was a serial killer chasing him through an abandoned house and there were no more closets left to hide in.
When Kobe wanted to, he was far and away the best player on both sides of the floor.
Asiyahsson says
– A 6’6” guard, out of Lower Merion High School –
Magic Johnson (and Chick Hearn) taught me about basketball. Magic did things that I didn’t think were possible on the court. He manufactured wins out of thin air, beat your team & smiled while he did it. I never imagined that anyone else could duplicate what Magic did for my team, my city. – I never imagined anything like Kobe. – He was relentless, and I never felt like your opinion of him was more important to him than winning. I’ve had several debates about Kobe, some of them were with fools who knew what they were talking about. Non Laker fans say the same thing – Kobe was a jerk…Yeah, he was. So was Magic, Larry Bird, Jordan. So is LeBron. The most successful people (especially in sports) are like that. Kobe wanted to beat you from minute 1 to minute 48; he wanted to be the best ever; and he was consumed with winning, more so than a normal human should be. 5 championships will never be enough for him. That’s my kind of jerk…Unfortunately I never saw Wilt, Jerry West, Elgin Baylor or The Big O play, but I’ve seen Kobe do his thing since he was 17. I saw the air balls in Utah, the 81 points, the 65 vs. Portland, the Game 4 takeover against Indiana after Shaq fouled out, the two ridiculous 3 pointers vs. Portland in the last regular season game of 2004, the gold medal (be quiet) winning game in the Olympics, the 2 free throws AFTER he tore his Achilles. I saw him stare off into the distance in the 2009 Finals while Chris Rock was speaking to him on the bench. Kobe never said a word to Chris, I don’t even think that Kobe knew he was there – he was visualizing what it would take to win that game. I want that dude on my squad. Kobe Bryant has been my favorite TV show for 20 years. You may not like him, if you’re not a Laker fan (?) you probably don’t love him, but if you’re alive you have to respect him. Kobe’s not just one of the best I’ve ever seen – he’s one of the best you’ve ever seen too…I’ll keep watching the show, but it won’t be the same without #24.
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Darius Soriano says
Rossel64 You are one of the winners of the book! Email me at darius@forumblueandgold.com and we can work out the details.
Darius Soriano says
CadeAnwar You are one of the winners of the book! Email me at darius@forumblueandgold.com and we can work out the details.