When the news came out last Sunday morning that former NBA legend Kobe Bryant had died in a helicopter crash, Wichita State Men’s Golf Head Coach Judd Easterling was in shock, just like the rest of the sporting world. He hoped desperately that TMZ’s report wasn’t true.
Easterling said he was in “complete shock.”
“I saw it on Twitter and was just hoping it was misreported,” Easterling said in a phone interview with The Sunflower. “I’m an average NBA fan, big college basketball guy, but I was just a Kobe fan. I loved his work ethic, passion, and his competitiveness.