Bobby Krivitsky: Isaiah Thomas was on the CNN Podcast All There Is with Anderson Cooper this week. After the tragic passing of his younger sister, Chyna, which happened right before the playoffs, he got a long text from Kobe Bryant. “At the end of the text, he said, ‘If you are going to play, there’s no excuses. And you’re going to be who you always been.’ “Kobe Bryant is my favorite player ever. So to see him reach out to me and say, if you are going to play, you go out there and be who you are, because that’s what your sister would want. There was no other way around it. That’s what I was doing.”
Isaiah Thomas was on the CNN Podcast All There Is with Anderson Cooper this week.
After the tragic passing of his younger sister, Chyna, which happened right before the playoffs, he got a long text from Kobe Bryant.
“At the end of the text, he said, ‘If you are going to play,… pic.twitter.com/z4Ghg4oYzv
— Bobby Krivitsky (@BobbyKrivitsky) May 15, 2026
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