tendance
Kobe Bryant who starred for twenty years and won five NBA championships died Sunday in a helicopter crash he was 41the basketball Oscar winner died aboard his private helicopter when it crashed in Calabasas and started a fire nine people including one of Kobe’s four daughters Gianna h13 and the pilot died in the crash
the Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex via Nuevas said at a news conference:
there’s wide speculation who the identities are however it is entirely inappropriate right now to identify anyone by name
ESPN senior NBA insider Adrian was NeuroSky quoting sources wrote on Twitter that Bryant was on his way to a travel basketball game with his daughter Gianna when the helicopter crashed those aboard the helicopter also included another player and parent deputies responded to the scene around 10:00 a.m.
the Los Angeles Times citing publicly available flight records said
the helicopter departed John Wayne Airport in Orange County at 9:06 a.m. on Sunday
during his career, Bryant regularly took a helicopter to Lakers games from his Orange County home fans gathered outside of Staples Center the site of Sunday night’s Grammy Awards to pay tribute to the superstar born in Philadelphia on August 23rd, 1978
Kobe was the only son of former NBA player Joe jellybean Bryant a sensation at his high school outside Philadelphia he decided to bypass college and go directly to the NBA he was made the number 13 pick in the NBA Draft by the Charlotte Hornets who then traded him to the Lakers in July 1996 a five-time NBA champion an 18 time
Allstar
Kobe is the Lakers franchise leader in points games played three-pointers steals and free throws he became the first player to spend at least 20 seasons with one franchise and retired in 2016 with a 60 point performance at his farewell game against Utah one of the most tenacious and clutch players in NBA history the six-foot-six
Kobe who gave himself the nickname black mamba once scored 81 points in a game he was selected as the league’s most valuable player in 2008
and named MVP of the NBA Finals in 2009 and 2010 his uniform numbers 8 and 24 have been retired by the Lakers in 2018
Kobe won the best animated short Oscar for his five-minute autobiographical film dear basketball he wrote executive produced and lent his voice to the project in his acceptance speech he thanked his wife Vanessa and their daughters, Natalya Gianna and Bianca Hina’s wife had a fourth daughter Capri
last year Coby most recently served as an executive producer on the ESPN Plus Series detail a deep analytical dive into the sport he loved on Saturday current Lakers star LeBron James past Kobe to become the number three scorer in NBA history the games took place in
Kobe’s hometown of Philadelphia Kobe took to social media to congratulate LeBron writing on to number two King James keep growing the game and charting the path for the next our hearts go out to Kobe’s family friends and fans
