Legacies can be complicated, TK. I'm sure that most of our collective heroes in this country did terrible things, but did so without any sort of repercussions or consequences. The bigger issue is our rush to deify people in this country and our need for those people to be perfect or to sweep their indiscretions under the rug.
Kobe did a lot of great things for basketball, especially women's basketball towards the end of his career and during his brief retirement, and for various communities around the United States. He also did really terrible things. We need to be able to grapple with nuance while recognizing that the dude means a lot of things to a lot of people.
The issue here, however, is that some of these responses are just in awful taste and almost immediately after the news broke. It's the internet - I get it - but like some of y'all need to do better.