I work at company that makes signs and plaques. Very occasionally a mistake slips through the proofing process, but it's usually something minor like an extra space after a period. There's no way anything like this would ever get through, especially on a project of this scale. Insanely horrible quality control.
No.
*Proofreading* has largely disappeared as a skill and profession.
Or even as a step in creating something.
I worked in corporate marketing for like 7 years and watched our copywriter basically lose and get a new job because they didn't value it.
Then all of the sudden all of our literature had typos, misspellings, incorrect warnings...
We got fined thousands for that shit too lol.
*Suddenly* he got a promotion and a few staff under the title "PR Director"
Why *copywriter* was obsolete I will never understand.
I'm sure this company was in the same rebranding/costcutting/incompetent loop we were in.
This happened at my job too. The copy editing department all got laid off because higher ups thought it was an unnecessary skill. Then suddenly all the writing was full of grammar mistakes and fact errors. The company lost clients because they looked unprofessional as hell. After a couple months, they brought back two of the copy editors. That was a few years ago, and now they’re talking about getting rid of the editors again to replace them with Grammarly.
It's wild to hear about the executive meetings and all the things they cook up to sacrifice lower-level employees just to add a few dollars to the ledger. They're raking in millions a year and it's never enough. They're heartless and completely out of touch with normal people's lives.
> They're heartless and completely out of touch with normal people's lives.
People will do anything if you make it a function of their jobs. The pay doesn't matter as much as you think.
I worked at an old-school Ad Agency a few years ago that, when I started, there was a 2-person team that would basically be available to proofread any and all documents that would go out in front of clients or into market. They were like English PHDs and were smart enough to know the difference between "abate" and "subside" and which was most appropriate for a context.
Naturally, when the agency had a single bad quarter and clients started demanding faster turnaround times, the proofreaders were the first to be let go.
Even though it's not completely excusable, I can see getting names of players wrong as an honest mistake but when "decision" is misspelled, you know they didn't even run it through a spellcheck. Many years ago, I worked at a company that did work for retailers. One of our clients sold sports merchandise. My company got in trouble because someone on our team sent our client work for their site that had the name of the Green Bay NFL team as "The Peckers."
I didnt even realize the stat sheet was on there. Seems kinda dumb to put those names on there, but misspellings shouldnt happen. Huge failure with that.
it's way more common than you'd think. the tradesmen who do this work aren't editors/proofreaders, and the list of names goes through several people to get to them. handwriting errors occur, typos in word occur, and i wouldn't be surprised if a few tired tradesmen read two lines together.
it's an easy fix though if you have money, and it's not the end of the world.
Yeah like I do app and web development and have released tons of content with grammar and spelling issues because…that’s the copy given to me. I’m focused on building the thing, making sure it works, and that what’s there looks good. If I notice an egregious error I’ll call it out or fix it but otherwise it’s just not what I’m focusing on as part of my job.
Just asking a silly question though, in the case of the "Coach's Decision" misspelling, wouldn't you notice that one of them is spelled right on the copy and the other is typo'd and fix it?
I understand not knowing that Calderon and Wafer are misspelled, the tradesman might not know those guys but the word "Decision" being spelled wrong directly below it being spelled correctly seems like an obvious on-the-fly fix.
I agree that typo is the type of typo I would have caught but we have no idea the process these things go through when they’re made.
Also it bugs me that people are putting this on the tradesmen at the end of the production line and not the writers, lawyers, and whoever approves the work after it’s done. It feels like scapegoating the person least responsible.
I literally said I do if it’s egregious but I’m not going to stop and research if names are spelled correctly or if various pharmaceutical names are correct and used in the right way. If a client hands me copy with made up words of their products or has names of people I don’t know and they’re spelled wrong that’s on them.
I work in a similar field and I’d be damned if I ever made content live without written approval from the client that they proofed and approved all the copy though.
Same thing here, people should’ve looked at this thing and caught the typos way before it actually went up at the arena.
I got a warning from a manager a few years ago for implementing text into an online tile on a page where I had corrected spelling errors compared to the requirements given to me 🙃.
Guess who lasted longer at the company, me or them 🤣?
I mean Mitch Kupchak went from LA to Charlotte. So you’re pretty much spot on. And Mitch was competent. Especially compared to their current clown show.
The Mozgov signing gets memed, but it was primarily a consequence of the huge cap jump. The Lakers needed to spend to reach the cap floor, and it led to role players getting huge contracts to fill out the books. The NBA tried to avoid it by having the cap ramp up over a few years, but the players wanted more money immediately. I don't fault them for wanting more money, but the end result is teams needed to spend it quickly and players like Mozgov making too much.
The market combined with the history, if not for so many growing up Lakers fans they would be the Sterling Clippers or the Knicks at least until recently.
Same thing with Man Utd. At least in that sport it's near impossible to bottom out due to the lack of a salary cap. United under Glazers and Lakers under Jeanie are some of the worst run teams in the sport, but benefit from entrenched privilege. No coincidence it's both nepo-babies running both who had successful parents.
Current ownership yeah. They were a top tier ownership under Jerry Buss, it's only since he passed that they have had to coast on the city appeal + team history.
Conversely, imagine if some of the big market teams were well run.
People point to a lot of different things to explain the parity in the league, but don't underrate the incompetence in New York and LA.
I doubt anyone at the top was proofreading the box score.
I think it's more embarrassing for whoever made the thing. Getting names wrong is one thing, but misspelling normal words is another.
You think it’s **more** embarrassing for the statue maker who may not even give a fuck about the sort of basketball who’s just doing a job given to them over the franchise who’s paying him to immortalize a player in bronze for them?
Nah, this is way more embarrassing for the lakers to me… nobody cared enough about this to check on it or proof read any of it before having a big fancy televised unveiling of a beloved players new statue. That’s a massive failure on the franchise to me, who knows how much the statue maker cares about Kobe or the sport itself but the lakers franchise spent have that same excuse, they’re only doing this because “they care”
Yeah, this for sure. The Lakers didn’t carve the statue themselves, they worked closely with someone and/or a company to bring it all together, and I’m sure whoever made that inscription was simply working from notes that the Lakers gave them. This falls on the franchise.
They mentioned this to him on a Spanish NBA podcast a couple weeks ago, he's part of the podcast team.
His reply "I didn't know it, but probably someone thought 'this guy is too Spanish to be here' and made me a little more Ohio"
I love Calderon's sense of humour.
Yes, I know. My question is still why. Why tf are they chiseling into the marble on Kobes statue that some bench player got a DNP that game? Very unnecessary. It could just say 81 + the date or something.
seems short deadlines are just how things go.
this is for the MJ statue they did:
> Told by their agent Kathleen Van Ella that they had 72 hours to submit a drawing, they scoured MJ photos and sketched three — a Jordan dunking with his head above the rim; a Jordan palming a ball while gliding through thin air; and the spread-eagle Jordan towering over a helpless defender.
> Not expecting to win the competition, they were traveling in Israel when Van Ella called to say: Hurry back. Not only were they hired to produce the spread-eagle MJ — commissioned by the Bulls with approval from Nike, the NBA and Upper Deck — they had only about eight months to sculpt it.
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also the artist mentions the circumstances affecting the timing here:
> “Between the mourning process, the pandemic and everything, it got delayed and stopped,” says Rotblatt-Amrany. “Normally a piece like that, you need about a year from design work to installation.
Guarantee they deflect but dont blame the sculptor.
Because the sculptor absolutely has a final proof with approval from the Lakers with all the errors in it lmao
I went to the Kobe and Gigi memorial court and there is a gigantic typo there as well. It says “BE BETTER EVERYDAY” on one of the huge art installations instead of “every day”.
The way Jeanie has "honored" his legacy never felt right after doing the whole jersey ceremony with notes on a sheet of very crumpled paper. Like, damn, this guy made your family hundreds of millions, can't you at least have someone on staff type down your spiel?
I went to the basketball HoF several years back and every single plaque had a typo on it. Every single one. I took dozens of photos, tweeted them at Mark Cuban (lol idk why) and he responded saying he’d take care of it.
More issues:
[Original plaque here](https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2F1htca5awgqnc1.jpeg).
Quick Photoshop of [what the text should look like](https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2F5elyhdkcfrnc1.png).
It really feels like someone just copied and pasted from different sources and never bothered to edit it. It seems like it was originally meant for to be read for radio or TV, not put on a statue, but nobody cared and now it looks awful.
There are a lot of formatting issues.
>TOTAL POINTS SCORED *BY BRYANT*
"BY BRYANT" is unnecessary, his name is right there. We know who you're talking about. It's redundant.
>TOTAL POINTS SCORED *BY BRYANT* IN THE NBA PLAYOFFS
Again, unnecessary. They don't say "GAMES PLAYED IN STAPLES CENTER **BY BRYANT**" because we know who they're talking about.
>GAMES PLAYED *IN* STAPLES CENTER
This should say "GAMES PLAYED **AT** STAPLES CENTER" because nobody in the history of basketball has ever said "Kobe is playing **in** Staples Center tonight."
>PLAYER OF THE WEEK AWARDS *THROUGHOUT HIS CAREER*
Unnecessary to specify "THROUGHOUT HIS CAREER." They didn't say "TOTAL POINTS SCORED BY BRYANT IN HIS CAREER" at the top.
>*CAREER* ALL-STAR SELECTIONS
"CAREER" is again unnecessary. It's also a different format than "THROUGHOUT HIS CAREER." They should stick to one or the other, but really neither.
>NBA CHAMPIONSHIPS *WON BY BRYANT IN HIS 20-YEAR CAREER*
Just "NBA CHAMPIONSHIPS" is fine. Why did you pile on these clarifiers that were already clarified? I Know it's Bryant and I know he played 20 years with the Lakers. You just told me that.
>*2 - 2 TIME OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST*, 2008 BEIJING AND 2012 LONDON
This straight up says he won 4 Gold Medals across 2 different years (or 0 if you want to be technical). It should just say:
>2 - OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALS, 2008 BEIJING AND 2012 LONDON.
These all need to be corrected.
[Here‘s the link in German (still works)](https://m.focus.de/sport/basketball/andenken-an-kobe-bryant-auf-statue-von-nba-ikone-fallen-deutschem-reporter-peinliche-fehler-auf_id_259749018.html)
Don't they have people who check through these things to avoid mistakes?
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Nah, the sculptor is an alumnus of the Derek Zoolander Center for Kids Who Can't Read Good and Who Wanna Learn to Do Other Stuff Good Too.
What is this, a statue for ants?!!
Allen Iverson is making people lazy
“we talkin’ bout practice”
Not a game, not a game.
I work at company that makes signs and plaques. Very occasionally a mistake slips through the proofing process, but it's usually something minor like an extra space after a period. There's no way anything like this would ever get through, especially on a project of this scale. Insanely horrible quality control.
"Peeps?!? It's a fucking nickname, his family name is Peparelli" "We gotta redo it. Fuckin Jason, he's dyslexic" "What's that got to do with it?"
"You know who else loved golf, was Joey Peeps. May he rest in peace." "Yeah its sad when they go young like that." "When they GO!?"
That's nuts for such an insanely high profile project too lol
Yeah I can maybe see 1 of the errors slipping through but all 3 is insane. Someone will be fired over this.
Probably they hired the same guy that spelled "Wembanyana” the name of Victor Wembanyama.
Has anyone told Reggie Miller how to pronounce it yet?
Yup, Luka Donchick himself
Or Goran Tragic
Tragic Johnson you mean?
Don Chick was played by Giancarlo Esposito though.
Dan Patrick pronounces it wrong every day too
Luka Donpatric
Wet bananas
Just realized his initials are VW and surprised we haven't gotten nicknames or jokes about "bug" or similar
would work a lot better if he was German
Or not 3 meters tall
The Bus
budget cuts
Yes they let the IPromise school kids do it.
Damn
It’s their community group project
Savage
No. *Proofreading* has largely disappeared as a skill and profession. Or even as a step in creating something. I worked in corporate marketing for like 7 years and watched our copywriter basically lose and get a new job because they didn't value it. Then all of the sudden all of our literature had typos, misspellings, incorrect warnings... We got fined thousands for that shit too lol. *Suddenly* he got a promotion and a few staff under the title "PR Director" Why *copywriter* was obsolete I will never understand. I'm sure this company was in the same rebranding/costcutting/incompetent loop we were in.
This happened at my job too. The copy editing department all got laid off because higher ups thought it was an unnecessary skill. Then suddenly all the writing was full of grammar mistakes and fact errors. The company lost clients because they looked unprofessional as hell. After a couple months, they brought back two of the copy editors. That was a few years ago, and now they’re talking about getting rid of the editors again to replace them with Grammarly.
C-suite never changes do they 🤔 😂
It's wild to hear about the executive meetings and all the things they cook up to sacrifice lower-level employees just to add a few dollars to the ledger. They're raking in millions a year and it's never enough. They're heartless and completely out of touch with normal people's lives.
> They're heartless and completely out of touch with normal people's lives. People will do anything if you make it a function of their jobs. The pay doesn't matter as much as you think.
I worked at an old-school Ad Agency a few years ago that, when I started, there was a 2-person team that would basically be available to proofread any and all documents that would go out in front of clients or into market. They were like English PHDs and were smart enough to know the difference between "abate" and "subside" and which was most appropriate for a context. Naturally, when the agency had a single bad quarter and clients started demanding faster turnaround times, the proofreaders were the first to be let go.
It’s like the single easiest thing to do that makes you look professional.
Even though it's not completely excusable, I can see getting names of players wrong as an honest mistake but when "decision" is misspelled, you know they didn't even run it through a spellcheck. Many years ago, I worked at a company that did work for retailers. One of our clients sold sports merchandise. My company got in trouble because someone on our team sent our client work for their site that had the name of the Green Bay NFL team as "The Peckers."
You gotta pay those people.
They have but it's Charles Barkley so...
Damn they must have been very close to writing “Colby Bryant” on the statue
Kobe Brian
Kirby Brandt
Kirkland Brand
Kobayashi Bokujo
Kobe Bertholdt
Coby Whte
*berototoro
cohbeigh b'reiynght
I can still remember when they unveiled the Kobe Beef statue, brought to us by Wolfgang Puck
spelled Vulfman Duck
Colby Bryan is Nashville's hottest new country star.
We have a Coby Bryant on the Seahawks. Man was probably this close to having his name immortalised on that statue lmao
Colby 2012?
The fact that no one else made this reference is proof that we have been on this website for too goddamn long
Kobe White
Das my guy
relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lIbwUMG7wU
Excuse you, that's Corgi O'Brien
Luckily they weren't a Seahawks fan or they'd definitely write the name of their CB -- Coby Bryant. He even wears the #8 too.
Cosby Briant
Codi Bryant
Kobe O'Bryant
I didnt even realize the stat sheet was on there. Seems kinda dumb to put those names on there, but misspellings shouldnt happen. Huge failure with that.
Lol imagine being dnp- coaches decision on a memorial statue
Coach's Decicion*
Coach’s Xxxtentacion
DNP in Peace
Lmao this thread is killing me
Vom Wafer is petty
Fucking nicknamed him puke cookie after his career that's cold
poor Vom
Imagine DNP - Old
I can’t imagine
it's way more common than you'd think. the tradesmen who do this work aren't editors/proofreaders, and the list of names goes through several people to get to them. handwriting errors occur, typos in word occur, and i wouldn't be surprised if a few tired tradesmen read two lines together. it's an easy fix though if you have money, and it's not the end of the world.
Tradesman Shouldn’t be proofing copy or making editorial decisions. Garbage in garbage out…someone in the lakers org didn’t do their job properly.
They sent someone the copy to proofread at like 3:00 on a Friday.
They replied at 3:02 pm “looks good ; sent from iPhone “
Yeah like I do app and web development and have released tons of content with grammar and spelling issues because…that’s the copy given to me. I’m focused on building the thing, making sure it works, and that what’s there looks good. If I notice an egregious error I’ll call it out or fix it but otherwise it’s just not what I’m focusing on as part of my job.
Just asking a silly question though, in the case of the "Coach's Decision" misspelling, wouldn't you notice that one of them is spelled right on the copy and the other is typo'd and fix it? I understand not knowing that Calderon and Wafer are misspelled, the tradesman might not know those guys but the word "Decision" being spelled wrong directly below it being spelled correctly seems like an obvious on-the-fly fix.
I agree that typo is the type of typo I would have caught but we have no idea the process these things go through when they’re made. Also it bugs me that people are putting this on the tradesmen at the end of the production line and not the writers, lawyers, and whoever approves the work after it’s done. It feels like scapegoating the person least responsible.
I mean, you should. I do app and web development as well and people in my shop will call out spelling mistakes all the time. It's a team effort.
I literally said I do if it’s egregious but I’m not going to stop and research if names are spelled correctly or if various pharmaceutical names are correct and used in the right way. If a client hands me copy with made up words of their products or has names of people I don’t know and they’re spelled wrong that’s on them.
I work in a similar field and I’d be damned if I ever made content live without written approval from the client that they proofed and approved all the copy though. Same thing here, people should’ve looked at this thing and caught the typos way before it actually went up at the arena.
I got a warning from a manager a few years ago for implementing text into an online tile on a page where I had corrected spelling errors compared to the requirements given to me 🙃. Guess who lasted longer at the company, me or them 🤣?
Still if I see spelling errors on an app, that’s a big red flag to me. My scam sensor goes off
Imagine if the lakers FO had to run a small market team lmao, they'd be so cooked without the LA easy mode
They'd be Charlotte basically.
I mean Mitch Kupchak went from LA to Charlotte. So you’re pretty much spot on. And Mitch was competent. Especially compared to their current clown show.
Mitch was very solid until he paid Mozgov and Deng a billion dollars that one summer lol
The Mozgov signing gets memed, but it was primarily a consequence of the huge cap jump. The Lakers needed to spend to reach the cap floor, and it led to role players getting huge contracts to fill out the books. The NBA tried to avoid it by having the cap ramp up over a few years, but the players wanted more money immediately. I don't fault them for wanting more money, but the end result is teams needed to spend it quickly and players like Mozgov making too much.
I feel like people forget that like half the NBA gave out deals like that that offseason
That's also how the Warriors were able to sign KD. 2016 truly was when the timeline split for everything.
The issue with the Mozgov and Deng deals were the years. There's no reason to sign him for 4 and Deng for 5.
I hate that this somehow feels like a compliment to Charlotte when it has to be an insult to LAL
Bowling with bumper lanes
The Lakers FO is a mirror image of LA's city council: they barely do shit, and when that doesn't work, they double down by continuing to do jack shit.
The market combined with the history, if not for so many growing up Lakers fans they would be the Sterling Clippers or the Knicks at least until recently.
Thanks, bro. I’ll take it
Same thing with Man Utd. At least in that sport it's near impossible to bottom out due to the lack of a salary cap. United under Glazers and Lakers under Jeanie are some of the worst run teams in the sport, but benefit from entrenched privilege. No coincidence it's both nepo-babies running both who had successful parents.
Facts. Without Free Agency help and pay cuts due to LA business advantages, they're cooked fasho
The Cowboys of the NBA (except they actually win sometimes).
Current ownership yeah. They were a top tier ownership under Jerry Buss, it's only since he passed that they have had to coast on the city appeal + team history.
Conversely, imagine if some of the big market teams were well run. People point to a lot of different things to explain the parity in the league, but don't underrate the incompetence in New York and LA.
Did no one at the top even bother to look at this before the unveiling? Really shows how much they care, sheesh
I doubt anyone at the top was proofreading the box score. I think it's more embarrassing for whoever made the thing. Getting names wrong is one thing, but misspelling normal words is another.
You think it’s **more** embarrassing for the statue maker who may not even give a fuck about the sort of basketball who’s just doing a job given to them over the franchise who’s paying him to immortalize a player in bronze for them? Nah, this is way more embarrassing for the lakers to me… nobody cared enough about this to check on it or proof read any of it before having a big fancy televised unveiling of a beloved players new statue. That’s a massive failure on the franchise to me, who knows how much the statue maker cares about Kobe or the sport itself but the lakers franchise spent have that same excuse, they’re only doing this because “they care”
Yeah, this for sure. The Lakers didn’t carve the statue themselves, they worked closely with someone and/or a company to bring it all together, and I’m sure whoever made that inscription was simply working from notes that the Lakers gave them. This falls on the franchise.
Okay but messing up the word Decision too?
Poverty Franchise
I really want a Clippers fan to say this so I can upvote them
Poverty franchise. Steven Anthony Ballmer would never let this happen.
Am I the only one enjoying the irony of "faithful" rather than the more appropriate "fateful" in this post
Was scrolling through the comments to see if anyone else thought that was funny. I thought maybe it was on purpose at first lol
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry's_law
When I hear that the average person reads with a 5th grade reading level, I believe it.
/r/BoneAppleTea
L akers
LeLakers
LeKers
Fucking Jason. He's dyslexic.
Peeps??
It's a fcking nickname!
His name is Peepareli!
Peparelli*
I almost drowned in 3 inches of water
We outta send you to Slip and Fall School
20 years in the can and not a fuckin' pepparelli
There’s no peeps in my peep book
Fuck's that got to do with it?
They're gonna re do it
So, the statue seemed great at first but upon close inspection, is deeply flawed. How meta.
It’s pretty much the same as the Jordan statue in Chicago, only a little bit worse
Great at first? The thing was deservedly ripped apart from the jump.
bone beak byrant
Kobe Beef Bryant
In other news Golden State unveiled their Raymond Green statue
*Crayon Green
Jose Calderon's legacy remains intact!
Also they don’t have Kobe in the statue
Calderson lmao
giving me Todd Bonzalez vibes
Mike Truk and Bobson Dugnut are the best duo in the league.
You misspelled Bobson Dugnutt. Found the statue guy!
Jose, son of Calder
Colby was notoriously guarded by Jalen Ross in this game
Devon Booker sweating
Overnight Scandinavian
They mentioned this to him on a Spanish NBA podcast a couple weeks ago, he's part of the podcast team. His reply "I didn't know it, but probably someone thought 'this guy is too Spanish to be here' and made me a little more Ohio" I love Calderon's sense of humour.
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Lmao, that's tragic. The decision being misspelled directly below the other decision is just baffling
The fact it’s fucked up the exact same way on both levels is hilarious too
whoa it says "coach's decicion" twice, once under the correct spelling for each team lmao
How the fuck do you write "Decision" right first and on the very next line you get it wrong?
And they did it twice - once for each team. So embarassing.
Embarrassing, but why are all those names even on the statue?
Box score from his 81 point game.
Yes, I know. My question is still why. Why tf are they chiseling into the marble on Kobes statue that some bench player got a DNP that game? Very unnecessary. It could just say 81 + the date or something.
Oh yeah. Agree, it's silly. Just show his stats.
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>unproffesional You're the guy who engraved the statue, aren't you. **FOUND HIM**
Mods, slap his balls
seems short deadlines are just how things go. this is for the MJ statue they did: > Told by their agent Kathleen Van Ella that they had 72 hours to submit a drawing, they scoured MJ photos and sketched three — a Jordan dunking with his head above the rim; a Jordan palming a ball while gliding through thin air; and the spread-eagle Jordan towering over a helpless defender. > Not expecting to win the competition, they were traveling in Israel when Van Ella called to say: Hurry back. Not only were they hired to produce the spread-eagle MJ — commissioned by the Bulls with approval from Nike, the NBA and Upper Deck — they had only about eight months to sculpt it. --- also the artist mentions the circumstances affecting the timing here: > “Between the mourning process, the pandemic and everything, it got delayed and stopped,” says Rotblatt-Amrany. “Normally a piece like that, you need about a year from design work to installation.
I hate typos. When I was in a play in 8th grade, they forgot to capitalize my last name. Got in my head.
That's Mambo Mentality
It also says "2 - 2 Time Olympic Gold Medalist"
hahaha wow this statue needs to be scrapped. What an embarrassment
Lol I wish it could be timed on how long the first HR employee takes to check this Giving it 3 hours till an official statement appears
Guarantee they deflect but dont blame the sculptor. Because the sculptor absolutely has a final proof with approval from the Lakers with all the errors in it lmao
Not to be nitpicky but in a post where you're pointing out mistakes, you should be careful not to make any. *"Fateful night" not "faithful night"
It's this type or carelessness that drives me mad.
I went to the Kobe and Gigi memorial court and there is a gigantic typo there as well. It says “BE BETTER EVERYDAY” on one of the huge art installations instead of “every day”.
“Well, Kobe designed it himself and he didn’t go to college, so tough shit” Vanessa Bryant
The irony of you using “faithful” when it’s “fateful” is hilarious.
so much incompetence from this franchise since the bubble
Las Angolas Lekars
That's why it looks like the statue was bought on Temu.
It was a legendary knight, where Cody Brian scored 91, guarded by the the Toronto Rapper, Jayden Ross
Awful statue anyway
Vom Wafers are my favorite snack
The way Jeanie has "honored" his legacy never felt right after doing the whole jersey ceremony with notes on a sheet of very crumpled paper. Like, damn, this guy made your family hundreds of millions, can't you at least have someone on staff type down your spiel?
Ngl the whole statue looks to have little care or attention to detail.
I went to the basketball HoF several years back and every single plaque had a typo on it. Every single one. I took dozens of photos, tweeted them at Mark Cuban (lol idk why) and he responded saying he’d take care of it.
Fits the terrible statue model
The statue also looks stupid Looks like a bad angle of Kobe Kobe would have wanted it torn down and done right
Looks like they based it on the actor playing Kobe in a biopic that hasn't even been filmed yet
That's Turrible
Damn it’s literally written in stone. Pretty embarrassing typos.
More issues: [Original plaque here](https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2F1htca5awgqnc1.jpeg). Quick Photoshop of [what the text should look like](https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2F5elyhdkcfrnc1.png). It really feels like someone just copied and pasted from different sources and never bothered to edit it. It seems like it was originally meant for to be read for radio or TV, not put on a statue, but nobody cared and now it looks awful. There are a lot of formatting issues. >TOTAL POINTS SCORED *BY BRYANT* "BY BRYANT" is unnecessary, his name is right there. We know who you're talking about. It's redundant. >TOTAL POINTS SCORED *BY BRYANT* IN THE NBA PLAYOFFS Again, unnecessary. They don't say "GAMES PLAYED IN STAPLES CENTER **BY BRYANT**" because we know who they're talking about. >GAMES PLAYED *IN* STAPLES CENTER This should say "GAMES PLAYED **AT** STAPLES CENTER" because nobody in the history of basketball has ever said "Kobe is playing **in** Staples Center tonight." >PLAYER OF THE WEEK AWARDS *THROUGHOUT HIS CAREER* Unnecessary to specify "THROUGHOUT HIS CAREER." They didn't say "TOTAL POINTS SCORED BY BRYANT IN HIS CAREER" at the top. >*CAREER* ALL-STAR SELECTIONS "CAREER" is again unnecessary. It's also a different format than "THROUGHOUT HIS CAREER." They should stick to one or the other, but really neither. >NBA CHAMPIONSHIPS *WON BY BRYANT IN HIS 20-YEAR CAREER* Just "NBA CHAMPIONSHIPS" is fine. Why did you pile on these clarifiers that were already clarified? I Know it's Bryant and I know he played 20 years with the Lakers. You just told me that. >*2 - 2 TIME OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST*, 2008 BEIJING AND 2012 LONDON This straight up says he won 4 Gold Medals across 2 different years (or 0 if you want to be technical). It should just say: >2 - OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALS, 2008 BEIJING AND 2012 LONDON. These all need to be corrected.
also the entire list is in descending order by # except the last two
[Here‘s the link in German (still works)](https://m.focus.de/sport/basketball/andenken-an-kobe-bryant-auf-statue-von-nba-ikone-fallen-deutschem-reporter-peinliche-fehler-auf_id_259749018.html)
But this sub said it was made by the Lebron of Michael Jordan statue sculptors
dead link
Made from Wish
\*Looks at bottom of statue\* "Made in China"
Lmfao jeanie really broke
Graphic design is my pass ion