He is now expensive beef.
Not cool, IMHO.
On another board, posted was that others on board were his daughters, saying it was reported by ESPN. If true, that is very sadnews
Alexis Wainwright
@AWainwrightTV
Sources have confirmed that neither #Bryant’s wife or children were on board of the helicopter that crashed.
It was his personal helicopter – was he the pilot?
TMZ reports that one of his daughters died. Nothing is confirmed at this point. Such a misused word early in tragedies.
No, apparently it was him, his 13-year-old daughter (who plays basketball), a friend/parent of another basketball player, that other teen, and the pilot.
This is a thread in which participants predict deaths and are awarded points for correct guesses.
You don’t say! 
I’ll drop it…but I thought the comment was slightly out of bounds, even for this venerable game (which I’ve always loved to follow, and ALMOST participated in this time…I will fir sure next year). I know the banter in the games’ threads is deliciously irreverent. Sorry if my internal meter was off this time.
I oversee this game and two others on different boards. Not a single person had Kobe.
It only drops to deliciously irreverent on alternate Thursdays.
I just realized I misinterpreted eschereal’s post entirely. I thought he/she was evoking a slab of human meat burning on a Los Angeles hillside. I see now he/she simply meant, e.g., when Madonna dies, we’ll be back to that word meaning just the Virgin Mary — that sort of thing.
Carry on — May the most irreverent Doper win! 
If anyone did, I’d ask if they were a helicopter mechanic in real life…
Backing up causes tire damage.
I just figured eschereal was making a word play off of Kobe beef.
In which case, totally normal for this crowd, really.
They were, and it is.
Yes, I got from the start that it was about Kobe beef. I just thought s/he was saying Bryant’s body was now mere beef — when in fact s/he was saying the word can now go back to merely meaning beef.
I think now even the first interpretation is deliciously irreverent — (hmmm…deliciously…)…so it’s all good!
I’ll sign off on this topic with a reminder that, just a few months ago, scientists (and entrepreneurs) declared they could synthesize edible meat from the DNA of specific individuals, including celebrities: The Guy Who Wants to Sell Lab-Grown Salami Made of Kanye West Is "100% Serious"