During the celebration of life, Michael Jordan, who wasn’t exactly known for being warm and fuzzy or self-deprecating during much of his unparalleled NBA career, was both as he remembered Bryant onstage at the Staples Center. He
openly wept as he remembered Kobe, whom he called his “little brother,” the man
who made him want to be a better big brother, he said. And Jordan even joked
that the image of his tears would become another Crying Jordan meme.
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brother, he said. And Jordan even joked that the image of his tears would become
another Crying Jordan meme. For Kobe, though, it was OK. Jordan sniffled, and
brushed at his tears with his hand before getting a tissue. When Kobe’s death
was still so raw, LeBron James posted on Instagram, saying right from the outset
that this individual wasn’t really ready to talk; one wonders if he felt he had
to say something because of fans’ demands on social media. “WTF!!,” James wrote
in part. “I’m heartbroken and devastated my brother!! Man I love you big bro.”
For far too long, there was a belief that men shouldn’t show tenderness and
outward love, particularly to other men; boys who cried were known as “sissies,”
and hugs had to have a weird one-armed approach of semi-affection. That has been
doubly so for men in the athletic arena, where words like “battle” and
“trenches” were used unironically to discuss games. These stereotypes are slowly
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it’s OK to say you love someone as a human being, without romantic love being
assumed. In Jordan’s tears and phrases, in Brady’s letter we see more of this
too: that it’s Okay, even healthy, to cry, to bare one’s heart and be
vulnerable, to “break the norms with love and joy and inspiration.” May Jordan
and Brady, standard-bearers for their respective sports, become standard-bearers
for this new approach, the approval from titans that it’s OK to be mortals,
actually if the world is watching.