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July,26th ,Chengdu,the state capital of Sichuan where 12,000 people died

from the most davastaing earthquake in the past 50 years in china.

Bad weather, it was raining heavilly all day, Kobe just finished first 5th

stop in shanghai, supposed to arrive in Chengdu at 11:30am local time ,

his sechedule was to have a rest in htel,go to a nike ID store,meet his

fans at a local university stadiom and call it a day. The previous day ,

fans in shanghai were too crazy and some of them got themselves hurt,

nike had to change their original pln, went directly from airport to the

Nike store, what they didn’t expect the shopping plaza where the store

located were already packet by thousands of kobe fans in the heavy

rain. They didn’t have the ticket to go to the stadium to see kobe(only

1000 ticket were hand out by NIKE), All they want to do is to have a

chance to see kobe. Before kobe arrived, fans (not just local people. A

lot of them from other states of china by plane or by train for a one day

stay in Chengdu just want to see or feel kobe was so near to them) For

security reason, kobe was guided to that store through special tunnel,

only a handful of people saw kobe’s car, and kobe was not allowed to

come out to greet the fans in case fans got crazy in a bad weather day)

Kobe arrived at the hotel at 1pm local time, after one hour of media

session, ,kobe need to go to the university stadium to meet his fans.

What he didn’t know, maybe he will never know, thousand of fans who

can’t get the ticket gathered outside of the stadium in the rain to feel his presence.

They can only hear the loud cheers from the stadium to guess what were

happening inside, they constsntly chant ‘ kobe’,’MVP’ ,even couldn’t see

kobe in person, they were still so involved and happy. After the meet the

fan session, lots of them were running after the car they thought kobe

was in and crying and hope the time can freeze for eternity. Asked were

they disappoined going after kobe in the heavy rain all day without

actually seeing kobe in person. what they said really touched me, ‘ we

are happy and blessed kobe is so near to us, to see so many kobe fans

from the country to cheer for kobe made my day. This is trully a life time

experince money can never buy’

Now,just hope they didn’t catch cold when back home and have sweet

dream

soleartiz wrote:i was born in shanghai i have to say shanghai is like new york city we see all kinds of people and race so we are use to it. i am going back in 10 days and i am looking forward to wear my purple and gold! =) plus the 2009 champ shirt hahaha =) and i have to say THERES NO BOSTON FANS IN CHINA!!!!!!!!!

soleartiz wrote:i was born in shanghai i have to say shanghai is like new york city...

soleartiz wrote:i was born in shanghai i have to say shanghai is like new york city we see all kinds of people and race so we are use to it. i am going back in 10 days and i am looking forward to wear my purple and gold! =) plus the 2009 champ shirt hahaha =) and i have to say THERES NO BOSTON FANS IN CHINA!!!!!!!!!

semi-sentient wrote:All Westerners are rock stars in China. The first time I went walking in Beijing (near Forbidden City) I was stopped repeatedly so that locals could take a picture with me -- which included an entire class of students that were there on a field trip. It was crazy. Shanghai was a little different, but I still got a crazy amount of attention. Certainly nothing along the lines of the attention that Kobe gets though.

My point? I don't have one. Work is slow.

lakersdynasty wrote:i think most amreicans dont have an idea

Akiho wrote:the majority of realgm that were wondering why kobe is much much much more popular than lebron in beijing, is because even though we all know lebron can do so many more things kobe can with just his athleticism, kobe has managed to elevate himself to the top of the NBA through consistent hard work, dedication and unrivalled mental focus and preparation