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Calculated Shard: 25 (from laksa095)

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curl -X POST \
  'http://laksa025.int.ahrefs:8124/' \
  -H 'Content-Type: text/plain' \
  -H 'X-ClickHouse-Database: crawler3' \
  -H 'Authorization: Basic YXBpOg==' \
  -d 'SELECT getAhrefsURLFromUnparsed(src_unparsed) AS found_url, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(download_stamp), 0) AS crawl_time, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(props_url_first_seen), 0) AS first_indexed_time, download_http_code AS http_code, src_unparsed AS src_unparsed, src_root_hash AS src_root_hash, history_drop_reason AS history_drop_reason, meta_title AS meta_title, meta_descriptions AS meta_descriptions, attrs_boilerpipe_text AS attrs_boilerpipe_text, attrs_markdown AS attrs_markdown, attrs_readable_markdown AS attrs_readable_markdown, meta_canonical AS meta_canonical FROM crawler3.page_info_local FINAL PREWHERE (src_root_hash, src_unparsed) IN ((getAhrefsRootHashFromUnparsed(getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.latimes.com/sports/liveblog/kobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas\')), getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.latimes.com/sports/liveblog/kobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas\'))) FORMAT JSONEachRow'

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{"found_url":"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/liveblog\/kobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas","crawl_time":1775073032,"first_indexed_time":1580074793,"http_code":200,"src_unparsed":"com,latimes!www,\/sports\/liveblog\/kobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas s443","src_root_hash":"7344800029135033825","history_drop_reason":null,"meta_title":"Kobe Bryant's death updates: Clippers to honor Kobe Bryant in first game at Staples Center - Los Angeles Times","meta_descriptions":["Kobe Bryant, the NBA MVP who had a 20-year career with the Lakers, was killed Sunday when the helicopter he was traveling in crashed and burst into flames in the hills above Calabasas, sources told the Los Angeles Times."],"attrs_boilerpipe_text":"Kobe Bryant, the NBA MVP who had a 20-year career with the Lakers, was killed Sunday when the helicopter he was traveling in crashed and burst into flames in the hills above Calabasas. His daughter Gianna, 13, was also on board and died along with seven others.\nLakers’ Rob Pelinka releases statement on Kobe Bryant and Gianna\nRob Pelinka, the Lakers vice president, basketball operations and general manager, released a statement on Thursday saying that his lost his best friend and his goddaughter on Sunday. They are the first words from Pelinka since the\nhelicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant\n, his 13-year-old daughter Gianna,\nand seven others.\n“On Sunday, I lost my best friend and sweet goddaughter. With that, there has been an amputation of part of my soul.”\nPelinka goes on describing the player, husband, “girl-dad” and best friend Bryant was.\n“Kobe was a force of nature, deep, and obsessed with excellence. He was wise, determined, passionate. A visionary beyond measure. A dedicated and loving husband, and a ‘girl-dad’ like no other. When he walked into a room, the energy ignited. He was high voltage, with a motor that had no limits. His mind had an infinite capacity to learn. He was, simply put, the most inspirational athlete of our time. What the world may not know, is that he was also best friend anyone could ever imagine.”\nRead more >>>\nClippers, who usually cover Lakers logos at Staples Center, to display Kobe Bryant’s jerseys\nIntent on creating their own identity, the Clippers usually cover the Lakers’ banners and retired jersey numbers for their home games at Staples Center.\nBut for the Clippers’ game against Sacramento on Thursday — the first NBA contest to be played in the arena since the\ndeath of Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna and seven other people in a helicopter crash in Calabasas\non Sunday — the Clippers left Bryant’s retired jerseys uncovered and on display high above the floor.\nThe rest of the Lakers’ championship banners and retired jerseys were covered by the usual images of Clipper players and a city landscape but Bryant’s 8 and 24 stood out on a stark black background.\nKobe Bryant’s jerseys are uncovered ahead of a Clippers game against the Kings.\n(Helene Elliott \/ Los Angeles Times)\nA moment of silence is scheduled for just past 7:33 p.m.\nThe hockey Kings on Wednesday played the first sporting event at Staples Center after Bryant’s death. Players honored him by wearing his jersey to the arena and commemorative decals on their helmets, and the team remembered him in a pregame ceremony.\nRead More > > >\nHow Kobe Bryant changed the sneaker world\nMichael Jordan was professional basketball’s first\nsignature shoe king\n, but Kobe Bryant was arguably his heir apparent, as crucial and challenging to the brand he represented — Nike — as he famously was with his Lakers teammates on the court.\nJordan made sneakers cool, but Bryant changed the shoes themselves, creating the market in minimalist, low-silhouette footwear in a league in which everyone was still lacing up their high tops to protect their ankles.\nThat led to a succession of NBA superstars adopting the same lighter, quicker shoe style, which helped liberate their moves on the hardwood. It happened soon after Bryant left Adidas to sign a four-year, $40-million deal with Nike in 2003, then pushed the company to build a basketball shoe as sleek and safe as those worn in professional soccer.\nRead More >>>\nMetta World Peace shares life lessons he learned from Kobe Bryant\nMariachi band says farewell to Kobe Bryant with ‘Amor Eterno’ tearjerker\nAs the world continues to mourn the death of\nKobe Bryant\nand eight others, the tributes to the late basketball great keep getting more heart-wrenching.\nAmid a massive crowd outside Staples Center this week, a mariachi troupe gathered to\nhonor Bryant\n,\nhis 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, and the other seven lives lost with a poignant rendition of “Amor Eterno,” a goodbye ballad by the late Mexican singer Juan Gabriel.\nRead more >>>\nGigi and Kobe Bryant befriended a small-town basketball star and her trainer dad\nHailey Van Lith\nlives\nbasketball in her tiny town — Cashmere, Wash., population 3,152 — and as the nation’s No. 1 guard and No. 2 overall player on the women’s basketball ranking site Prospects Nation, the 18-year-old knows a bit about celebrity and fame.\nBut last summer, as she waited in a Thailand airport after a Team USA game, she wasn’t prepared for a message from\nbasketball legend Kobe Bryant\n.\n“The text was from one of Kobe’s main guys — I called him ‘T,’ and he just basically said that Kobe knew about me, loved my game and really wanted to get me to L.A. to work with him and talk about basketball,” Hailey said in a phone interview Monday as she drove to practice at Cashmere High School.\nRead more >>>\nVanessa Bryant shares the pain of her family’s loss: ‘Our beautiful blessings taken from us too soon’\nVanessa Bryant took to social media on Wednesday to thank the public for their support and express her grief over the helicopter crash that killed her husband, Kobe, daughter Gianna and seven others Sunday.\n“There aren’t enough words to describe our pain right now. I take comfort in knowing that Kobe and Gigi both knew that they were so deeply loved. We were so incredibly blessed to have them in our lives. I wish they were here with us forever. They were our beautiful blessings taken from us too soon,” she wrote on Instagram.\n“I’m not sure what our lives hold beyond today, and it’s impossible to imagine life without them. But we wake up each day, trying to keep pushing because Kobe, and our baby girl, Gigi, are shining on us to light the way. Our love for them is endless — and that’s to say, immeasurable. I just wish I could hug them, kiss them and bless them. Have them here with us, forever.”\nRead More >>>\nBasketball star, Oscar winner and ... rapper? Remembering Kobe Bryant’s music career\n(Clarence Williams \/ Los Angeles Times)\nBryant’s solo single, “K.O.B.E.,” which debuted at the 2000 All-Star game, featured supermodel Tyra Banks and referenced his baller reputation in the lyrics.\n“What I live for? Basketball, beats and broads,” he raps on the track, his flow not particularly smooth or lyrical. “From Italy to the U.S., yes, it’s raw.”\nWriting for The Times in 2015, Dexter Thomas\nwasn’t exactly impressed\nby the song.\n“It’s embarrassing. That cheap-sounding beat, the uninspired hook, the awkward chorus — this is more off-target than those three airballs he threw in 1997 against the Utah Jazz,” he wrote.\nWhile shooting an accompanying video for the splashy release, directed by BET Award winner Hype Williams, Bryant met his wife, Vanessa. And though their personal relationship would continue to develop for the next 20 years, footage from their professional collaboration never saw the light of day.\nDespite Bryant’s rising star power on the court, the song was not well-received, and “Visions,” the album it was slated to launch, was eventually shelved. Bryant officially got the ax from Sony soon enough, never to return to music again — except in a 2011 Taiwanese\nSprite commercial\nand, of course, in other musicians’ lyrics, which often saluted the self-proclaimed Black Mamba and his larger-than-life legacy.\nRead More > > >\nKawhi Leonard flew with Ara Zobayan often: ‘He was one of the best pilots’\nThe pilot involved in the  helicopter crash Sunday that killed former Lakers star Kobe Bryant and eight others also flew Kawhi Leonard often and was regarded highly by the Clippers superstar.\n“Great guy, super nice,” Leonard said Wednesday of Ara Zobayan, a pilot from Huntington Beach who flew for the charter service Island Express. “He was one of the best pilots. That is a guy who you ask for to fly you from city to city. It’s just surreal still.”\nLeonard was close with Bryant, saying their relationship began during his second or third season in the NBA. Last summer, Bryant hosted Leonard, Clippers teammate Paul George and a handful of other players at his Mamba Academy in Thousand Oaks. One piece of advice Leonard sought from Bryant last summer, after signing with the Clippers as a free agent, was how Bryant used a helicopter often to cut down his commute to and from his home in Newport Beach.\nLeonard, last season, purchased a house in Rancho Santa Fe, north of San Diego. (In December, Leonard also purchased a penthouse near Staples Center.)\n“I talked to him about it before our transition to playing in L.A, just seeing how [he] got back and forth from Newport and he said he was doing it for about 17 years or so,” Leonard said. “Yeah, same pilot, everything, the whole situation, this whole program, the setup, how he was traveling back and forth was the same way I was getting here from San Diego.” Asked whether the crash gave him pause to continue to using helicopters, Leonard was unsure.\n“The things that you hear, you don’t know what’s real yet,” he said. “I can’t really speak on it. I don’t know. I don’t know yet. It’s a lot of thoughts in my head.”\nZobayan, 50, had a commercial certificate and was a certified flight instructor with 8,200 hours of flight time as of July, said Jennifer Homendy, a National Transportation Safety Board member.\n“[Zobayan] will drop me off and say he is about go pick up Kobe. ‘Kobe said hello.’ Or he’ll just be like, ‘I just dropped Kobe off and he said hello.’ Vice versa. So, it’s a crazy interaction. He’s a good dude and I’m sorry for everybody.”\nClippers’ Lou Williams on Kobe Bryant, being a #GirlDad\nKobe Bryant’s influence will be ‘felt forever,’ Lakers coach Frank Vogel says\nLakers coach Frank Vogel talks about Kobe Bryant.\nAfter their practice in El Segundo on Wednesday morning, the Lakers gave their players the option of speaking to reporters about\nthe tragic death of Kobe Bryant\n. They decided to continue to mourn in private.\nLakers coach Frank Vogel stepped forward to make the first public comments from a member of the organization since a helicopter carrying\nBryant, his daughter Gianna and seven others\ncrashed into a Calabasas hillside Sunday morning, killing all aboard.\nVogel said he told the players they could talk when they’re ready and not a moment before.\nAs Vogel addressed the media, LeBron James was nearby on the practice court, hoisting up jumpers.\n“We want to represent what Kobe was about more than anything,” said Vogel, who acknowledged there were some questions he may not be ready to address at this time.\n“He was the most feared man in the league for an entire generation.… His influence will be felt forever.”\nThe Lakers display retired numbers on two walls above their practice gym. On Wednesday, Bryant’s No. 8 and No. 24 were lit up.\nThe team was flying home from Philadelphia on Sunday morning\nwhen they learned about the crash\n. Players became emotional as they heard the news and Vogel addressed them once he heard. The team canceled practice on Monday, though a few players trickled into the facility.\nThe franchise waited until Monday afternoon to release any statement regarding Bryant’s death out of respect for his widow, Vanessa, and his three surviving daughters.\nBut the Lakers have also needed time to process and grieve the loss of a legend.\n“We’ve become a family in a very short time,” Vogel said.\nThe organization has been reeling since Sunday morning. General manager Rob Pelinka was one of Bryant’s closest friends and Gianna’s godfather.\nLakers executives, including owner Jeanie Buss and Linda Rambis, spent time at the team facility on Sunday and Monday.\nBuss lost her mother\nand a close friend,\nformer NBA Commissioner David Stern\n, in the last six weeks. Monday would have been her father’s 87th birthday.\nThe Lakers were planning to honor Jerry Buss during Tuesday’s game against the Clippers, before Sunday’s crash changed everything, leading the NBA to postpone the game.\nOn Monday, the team brought in grief counselors, who were made available to employees, according to a person familiar with the situation. Bryant’s history with many of them was long. He joined the organization in 1996, as a 17-year-old ready to take over the basketball world.\nNo formal plans have been made on how to honor Bryant, but the Lakers created a space Sunday for fans to gather and hold a vigil outside their facility. They provided a large white canvas with a watermarked image of Bryant leaned against the wall for fans to sign, using Sharpies distributed by the Lakers. It was nearly full by Monday afternoon, and enough fans have visited since to fill up two more.\nOn Wednesday morning, a fourth canvas was unfurled outside the facility, where one fan stood with a fresh bouquet of flowers.\nClippers’ Paul George on Kobe Bryant: ‘He was my Michael Jordan’\nClippers’ Kawhi Leonard says he talked to Kobe immediately after winning NBA title\nShaq will donate Super Bowl party proceeds to Kobe’s foundation, crash victims’ families\nAfter days of deliberation following\nthe death of his “brother” Kobe Bryant\n, Shaquille O’Neal has decided to proceed with “\nShaq’s Fun House\n,” an carnival-style event scheduled for Friday night in Miami as one of the events leading up to Super Bowl LIV.\nIn a heartfelt social media post Wednesday, O’Neal said he will donate all his proceeds from the event to the Kobe and Vanessa Bryant Foundation and to the families of\nthe nine people killed\nin the helicopter crash Sunday in Calabasas.\n“Kobe would want us to push through and celebrate life,” O’Neal wrote. “So let’s do just that.”\nMusical performers at the event include Diddy, Diplo, Pitbull and Diesel (the name Shaq uses\nas an electronic music DJ\n).\nESPN anchor’s tribute to Kobe Bryant sparks #GirlDad trend\nThe final moments of Kobe Bryant’s fatal flight, turn by turn\nBy\nMatt Stiles\n, \nSwetha Kannan\n, \nCasey Miller\n and \nAndrea Roberson\nA reconstruction of the flight by The Times\ntracks the helicopter’s path starting at a crucial moment near the end when the pilot left the San Fernando Valley above the 101 Freeway. Fog and cloudy weather had descended on the region, limiting visibility.\nNTSB to FAA after helicopter crash: We warned you about terrain alert system\nBy\nRichard Winton, Hannah Fry, Andrew J. Campa, Jaclyn Cosgrove\nNTSB investigator Jennifer Homendy said at Tuesday’s news conference that her agency had recommended that the Federal Aviation Administration 16 years ago require that all choppers carrying six or more passengers be equipped with a terrain awareness and warning system, adding that the FAA has “failed to act” on the proposal. Because the FAA didn’t follow the recommendation, the chopper that crashed Sunday was not legally required to have the system.\nShortly after she spoke, an FAA spokesman disputed that assessment, noting that the FAA requires the terrain alarm system for helicopter air ambulance operations.\nRead more >>>\nJohn Altobelli and family are paid tribute at Orange Coast College baseball opener\nSunday’s helicopter crash killed John Altobelli, 56, his wife, Keri, 46, and their daughter, Alyssa, 13, along with former Lakers star Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, and four others.\nTwo days\nafter the tragedy,\nthe Pirates took the field for the first time in 28 years without Altobelli, who guided OCC to four state championships and 705 victories, sent hundreds of players to four-year colleges and helped countless teenagers mature into young men since 1993.\nThe crowd of about 2,000 that squeezed into Wendell Pickens Field on the school’s Costa Mesa campus included J.J. Altobelli, 29, a scout for the Boston Red Sox, and high school junior Alexis Altobelli, 16, the only surviving members of the Altobelli family.\nRead More >>>\nKobe Bryant’s helicopter was not equipped with terrain warning system that could have alerted pilot to hillside\nThe helicopter that crashed Sunday in Calabasas, killing nine people including Kobe Bryant, was not equipped with a terrain alarm system that could have warned the pilot he was approaching a hillside, National Transportation Safety Board officials said Tuesday.\nThe findings come as investigators are trying to determine why the helicopter crashed into a Calabasas hillside Sunday morning amid foggy conditions.\nNTSB investigator Jennifer Homendy said at Tuesday’s news conference that the helicopter was at 2,300 feet when it lost communication with air traffic controllers. The descent rate of the helicopter at the time of impact was more than 2,000 feet per minute.\nRead More >>>\nDramatic video of wreckage from Kobe Bryant helicopter crash is released\nFederal investigators on Tuesday released a dramatic video showing the scene where Kobe Bryant’s helicopter crashed into a Calabasas hillside, killing the NBA great, his daughter and seven other people.\nThe National Transportation Safety Board video shows the charred wreckage of the helicopter, which broke apart on impact Sunday morning. Much of what remained of the chopper was burned beyond recognition. But a wheel and parts of the fuselage appear not to have been burned.\nThe video was released as the NTSB is trying to determine the cause of the crash, a task expected to take months.\nRead More >>>\nKobe Bryant had a legendary workout for Clippers, who did him a favor by not drafting him\nIn the spring of 1996, fewer than a dozen Clippers officials watched as coach Bill Fitch ran a 17-year-old guard from Philadelphia through a solo predraft workout in Los Angeles.\nOn the day’s agenda was the same drill Fitch had used in hundreds of workouts during his previous 26 years evaluating NBA prospects. Fitch called it “baskets per minute,” and it was a souped-up version of the classic Mikan drill. Players alternated shooting on the left and right sides of the basket, using both hands, making as many baskets as possible in 60 seconds.\nLarry Bird was one of the best Fitch had ever tested. Nothing, however, topped what Fitch would witness that spring day inside the Sports Arena from Kobe Bryant.\nRead More >>>\nKobe Bryant’s devotion to family became paramount when his basketball career ended\nIt was December 2017, more than a year after Kobe Bryant\nhad retired from basketball\n, and the Lakers great was expounding upon a fundamental truth of parenthood. Having spent much of his NBA career on the road, traveling from city to city, he talked about a new job, shuttling his daughters around Newport Coast.\n“A lot of driving in a three-to-five mile radius,” he said. “Now, to have that, it’s absolutely wonderful. The time we spend in the car.”\nBryant’s life, which\nended in a helicopter crash\nSunday, might have seemed all big-time sports and celebrity from the outside, but there was something more basic at its core.\nRead More >>>\nA tearful Shaquille O’Neal on Kobe Bryant’s death: ‘I’ve lost a little brother’\nShaquille O’Neal sat in a chair at center court inside Staples Center wearing a gray suit with tears streaming down his face as he talked about dealing with the death of his friend and former Lakers teammate Kobe Bryant.\nO’Neal and the acclaimed TNT crew of Ernie Johnson, Charles Barkley and Kenny Smith along with quests Jerry West, Dwyane Wade and Reggie Miller had come to Los Angeles on Tuesday to pay tribute to Bryant in an hourlong show called “Remembering Kobe.”\nO’Neal struggled to come to grips with Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, and seven others perishing when their helicopter crashed into a Calabasas hillside Sunday.\nRead More >>>\nKobe Bryant became champion of women’s sports after career\nKobe Bryant\nsauntered through the locker room doors and eyes widened. After watching the Oregon women’s basketball team beat USC by 40 points at the Galen Center last January, the NBA legend, his daughter Gianna and other aspiring basketball players visited the Ducks.\nBryant greeted players with hugs. He signed their shoes — Kobes, naturally — while they were still on their feet. He complimented their playing style.\nBryant wasn’t in the courtside seat as a dad just chaperoning his daughter and her friends, Oregon coach Kelly Graves realized as he watched the interactions. This wasn’t a duty, this wasn’t an obligation and this wasn’t a publicity stunt.\nRead More >>>\nKobe Bryant’s winning skills captivated fans in the NBA’s huge China market\nBy\nTommy Yang\nAs a middle school student, Shen Yuqi started to follow the NBA largely because of Chinese superstar Yao Ming, a 7-foot, 6-inch phenom who caught her attention during the 2006-07 season.\nShen, like many basketball fans growing up China, soon found out the league was filled with dynamic players. She picked a new favorite star — No. 24 of the Los Angeles Lakers.\nIn the first NBA game she watched on television, the Rockets were playing the Lakers.\nRead More >>>\nFans pay tribute to late NBA star Kobe Bryant\nMore and more fans flood the Lakers training facility in El Segundo on Monday to pay respects to retired NBA star Kobe Bryant, who died Sunday in a helicopter crash in Calabasas.\nThe time Kobe Bryant took part in a child’s goldfish funeral\nIn the 2½ days after\nKobe Bryant died in a helicopter crash\n, billionaire investor Chris Sacca sifted through old emails and text messages with the\nLakers\nstar.\n“Somehow yesterday was bad and today feels even worse,” Sacca said in an email to The Times on Tuesday.\nTheir relationship started several years ago when Bryant asked Sacca to serve as a mentor to help him grow as an investor and entrepreneur. They quickly became friends, bonding over business and fatherhood. Though Bryant built a reputation as a fearsome competitor on the basketball court and a businessman with wide-ranging pursuits off it, children brought out a different side.\nOne occasion lingers in Sacca’s mind.\nRead More >>>\nAC Milan, Kobe Bryant’s favorite Italian soccer team, pays tribute during match\nAC Milan and its fans paid tribute to Kobe Bryant with lights and applause before and during Tuesday’s Italian Cup game against Torino at the San Siro stadium.\nBryant, who grew up in Italy between the ages of 6 and 13, was a devout Milan fan. The 18-time NBA All-Star with the Lakers\ndied Sunday with his 13-year-old daughter\n, Gianna, in a helicopter crash near Calabasas.\nAs Milan and Torino warmed up before the game, the words “Legends Never Die” and “SempreKobe” — a play on the “SempreMilan,” or “AlwaysMilan,” hashtag often used by the club — were displayed on the advertising boards around the San Siro while images of Bryant were shown on the giant screen.\nRead More >>>\nWWE star Roman Reigns did what many dads had done after Kobe Bryant and Gianna died\nWWE\nsuperstar Roman Reigns\n, who grew up a huge Lakers fan, was preparing for Sunday’s Royal Rumble pay-per-view event when he learned of\nthe death of Kobe Bryant\nand his daughter Gianna.\nTimes reporter Arash Markazi caught up with Reigns and talked to him about Bryant.\n“I watched religiously throughout his career,” Reigns said. “I never thought losing someone like that, essentially a stranger, though obviously a public figure ... I didn’t realize it would affect me so much. It broke my heart. My heart goes out to his wife and his three girls that were left behind. All the families that were involved.\nRead More >>>\nHBO’s ‘Real Sports’ grapples with Kobe Bryant’s complex legacy\nKobe Bryant’s greatness as a basketball player is unquestioned. But he was also known for his prickly personality and his villainous on-court demeanor as the self-named\nBlack Mamba\n.\nThose aspects of Bryant’s complicated nature are recalled in Tuesday’s installment of HBO’s sports magazine “Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel.”\nThe “Real Sports” segment focuses on two profiles the series conducted with Bryant,\nwho died Sunday\n, along with his daughter Gianna and seven others, in a helicopter crash in Calabasas. The first piece, from 2000, finds the player discussing his early motivations to become great, including being inspired by the success of his father, pro basketball player Joseph Bryant.\nRead More>>>\nWashington Post clears writer who tweeted about Kobe Bryant rape allegation\nA Washington Post reporter who had been placed on administrative leave after she\ntweeted a link to a story about a 2003 rape allegation against Kobe Bryant\nhas been cleared to return to work, the paper said Tuesday.\nIn a statement, the Post said that an internal review had determined that political reporter Felicia Sonmez was “not in clear and direct violation of our social media policy,” but that the tweets were “ill-timed.”\nSonmez’s tweet came in the hours after Bryant, 41,\ndied in a helicopter crash Sunday\n.\nRead More>>>\nVideo Column: Kobe Bryant was much more than just an iconic basketball star\nKobe Bryant was much more than just an iconic basketball star. L.A. Times sports and culture columnist LZ Granderson has covered the NBA and Kobe Bryant for decades.\nInvestigators from the FAA and NTSB searched for clues in Kobe’s helicopter crash\nBy\nLos Angeles Times Staff\nTurning now to the investigation as federal authorities work to unravel the mystery of why Kobe’s helicopter crashed. Today, local officials had the grim task of removing the remains of the victims, while investigators from the FAA and NTSB searched for clues.  L.A. Times reporter Richard Winton saw the immediate aftermath at the time of the crash and has been covering the investigation from Calabasas.\n(Required)\nNTSB Calabasas, CA Helicopter Crash B-Roll\nNTSB Board Member Jennifer Homendy briefs media on the Jan. 26 helicopter crash in Calabasas, Calif.\nFilm academy to acknowledge Kobe Bryant’s death at the Oscars\nTOPSHOT - Kobe Bryant poses in the press room with the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film for “Dear Basketball,” during the 90th Annual Academy Awards on March 4, 2018, in Hollywood, California. (Photo by FREDERIC J. BROWN \/ AFP) (Photo credit should read FREDERIC J. BROWN\/AFP via Getty Images)\n(FREDERIC J. BROWN\/AFP via Getty Images)\nJoining other tributes that have poured in around the world, the motion picture academy plans to acknowledge the\ndeath of basketball legend Kobe Bryant\nat next month’s Oscars ceremony.\nThe specific details are being kept under wraps at this time. The Oscars telecast has long included an In Memoriam segment to acknowledge notable members of the Hollywood community who passed away that year, but it is unclear whether Bryant will receive a separate tribute. Bryant won an Academy Award in 2018 for producing and writing the five-minute animated short “Dear Basketball.”\nRead More>>>\nCalifornia lawmakers have a moment of silence on House floor for Kobe Bryant, other crash victims\nReps. Harley Rouda (D-Laguna Beach) and Maxine Waters (D-Los Angeles) led members of the California delegation in a moment of silence on the House floor Tuesday afternoon in honor of the nine victims who died in Sunday’s helicopter crash.\nRouda named each of the victims in alphabetical order: John, Keri and Alyssa Altobelli, Kobe and Gianna Bryant, Payton and Sarah Chester, Christina Mauser and pilot Ara Zobayan.The congressman acknowledged the group’s love of basketball and singled out the parents’ and coaches’ on board who were steadfastly dedicated to nurturing the passion and talents of the three 13-year-old girls who died on their way to play a game.“\nOrange County is grieving, but we will find solace and purpose in the legacy they left behind,” he said. Waters addressed the loss of Kobe and Gianna Byrant specifically, before the House fell silent.“\nI stand today on behalf of all Californians, and certainly the entire city of Los Angeles and millions of fans worldwide who are mourning the sudden loss of Kobe Bryant,” she said. “Our hearts go out to his wife, Vanessa, surviving daughters, Natalia, Bianka and Capri, relatives, teammates and friends.”\nFans pay tribute to late NBA star Kobe Bryant\nMore and more fans flood the Lakers training facility in El Segundo on Monday to pay respects to retired NBA star Kobe Bryant, who died Sunday in a helicopter crash in Calabasas.\nWhy you can’t buy Kobe Bryant’s signature sneakers on Nike.com\nWhen Kobe Bryant sneakers on Nike’s e-commerce site disappeared from the merchandise mix at some point in the 24 hours after Bryant’s death, some published reports claimed that it was part of Nike’s effort to limit secondary resellers’ ability to lay in a supply of sneakers that could later be sold at grief-inflated prices.\nThat’s not accurate, according to a Nike representative, who told The Times on Tuesday that the sneakers weren’t purposefully pulled from the company’s e-commerce site but that the existing stock had sold out. The Beaverton, Ore., athletic goods maker has been making Bryant’s signature shoe since 2003, and searches for the Black Mamba’s name on Nike.com redirect to\na message of condolences\ndated Jan. 26.\nRead More>>>\nLakers fan pays tribute to Kobe Bryant with his ‘KNG KOBE’ truck\n(Kathy Klein \/ For The Times)\nDrivers on Lake Avenue in Pasadena honked their horns late Sunday afternoon as Ron Bonilla drove his black-matte 2007 Toyota Tundra — with personal license plate KNG KOBE and a Lakers flag at half-mast — through traffic.\nBonilla, 48, has been a Lakers fan since 1979, when Magic Johnson joined the team.\n“I’ve never felt so connected to any athlete or artist or entertainer as I felt with Kobe,” said Bonilla, proudly wearing Bryant’s No. 24 jersey and a Lakers cap.\nRead More>>>\nH.B.’s Ara Zobayan, who flew doomed Bryant helicopter, was an experienced pilot and instructor\nBy\nThe Daily Pilot Staff\nAra Zobayan of Huntington Beach — the pilot of the helicopter that crashed in Calabasas on Sunday, killing nine people, including Zobayan and retired Lakers star Kobe Bryant — was an experienced flier and a certified flight instructor with more than 8,000 hours of flight time, sources said this week.\nBryant regularly used the helicopter, a Sikorsky S-76B owned by the charter service Island Express. Records show the aircraft had flown between John Wayne Airport, where it took off Sunday morning, and Camarillo Airport, where it was heading, about two dozen times in the past two years.\nRead More>>>\nAll bodies recovered from Kobe Bryant crash site as investigation continues\nBy\nLos Angeles Times Staff\nThe bodies of Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter and seven others who died in a helicopter crash have been recovered from a Calabasas hillside, coroner officials said Tuesday.\nAuthorities on Sunday recovered the bodies of at least three victims from the helicopter wreckage. The next day, the search continued for the six remaining victims. Their bodies were eventually located and taken to the Los Angeles County Coroner’s forensic science center, where officials will work to identify them.\nAuthorities investigating the devastating incident said the impact of the crash was intense, shattering the chopper and sending debris over a wide area.\nRead More>>>\nKobe Bryant’s studio removes Oscar-winning ‘Dear Basketball’ film from website\nDon’t be surprised if you can’t find Kobe Bryant’s Oscar-winning animated short “Dear Basketball” streaming online anymore in the wake of\nthe basketball star’s death\n. The film, which Granity Studios briefly made available for free Monday, has been taken down.\nThe decision Tuesday to take down the video means it’ll be hard to find online — again.\nRead More>>>\nPetition to use Kobe Bryant image in NBA logo approaches 2 million signatures\nIn the days since\nthe helicopter crash that took the lives\nof Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, and seven others, NBA players and teams have been paying tribute to the Lakers legend, with gestures including\nhandwritten messages\non their sneakers and\nintentional clock violations\nof 8 and 24 seconds in honor Bryant’s jersey numbers and\ncustom pregame jerseys\n.\nOne fan has suggested a way the league can permanently honor one of its all-time greats — and close to 2 million people agree with the idea.\nChange the logo.\nRead More>>>\nThe questions at the heart of the Kobe Bryant helicopter crash investigation\nBy\nLos Angeles Times Staff\n(Matt Stiles & Priya Krishnakumar)\nThere is no black box recording.\nThe audio transmission released so far does not cover the actual moment of the crash.\nAnd the impact of the crash sent debris scattered over a huge area.\nThese are some of the impediments the National Transportation Safety Board is facing as it investigates why a helicopter carrying Kobe Bryant and eight others crashed into a hillside in Calabasas, killing all on board.\nThe probe is still in its early stages\n, and a final determination is months away.\nAt its heart are some basic questions: Why was the pilot flying so low in the moments before the crash, and why could the chopper not clear the hillside?\nRead More>>>\nWashington Post places reporter on leave after tweet about Kobe Bryant rape allegations\nBy\nAssociated Press\nWASHINGTON —The Washington Post has placed a political reporter on administrative leave after she tweeted a link to a story about rape allegations against NBA superstar Kobe Bryant, who was killed Sunday. Dozens of journalists at the newspaper criticized the decision.\nReporter Felicia Sonmez’s tweet Sunday, amid widespread public mourning over\nBryant’s death in a helicopter crash\n, drew considerable backlash on social media. The Post reported that Somnez received threats of death and rape and had to move to a hotel after her home address was published online.\nThe Post said Somnez deleted the original tweet at the request of a managing editor. She also received an email from executive editor Marty Baron saying: “A real lack of judgment to tweet this. Please stop. You’re hurting this institution by doing this.” Somnez shared the email with an Associated Press reporter.\nThe Post said Somnez had been placed on paid leave while newsroom managers looked into the episode. A spokeswoman for the newspaper did not respond to questions about Baron’s role.\nRead More>>>\nWatch TV’s comics honor Kobe Bryant: ‘He always showed up to save the day’\nTears replaced laughs on the comedy scene Monday as TV hosts delivered touching tributes to Kobe Bryant, who\ndied Sunday\nin a helicopter crash along with his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, and seven others.\nJimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel and Ellen DeGeneres struggled to keep it together while lamenting life’s fragility and recounting some of their fondest memories with the Laker legend. James Corden and Conan O’Brien were also among those who honored Bryant with reflective words and, in some cases, highlight reels of his past guest appearances.\n“Tonight’s show is going to be different from our usual show,” Kimmel began his “Jimmy Kimmel Live” monologue. “We don’t have a studio audience here tonight because going forward with a comedy show didn’t feel right, considering what happened yesterday.... That was a punch in the gut for many of us. Kobe was — and I know this might not make sense, but — he was just the last person you could ever imagine something like this happening to.”\nRead More>>>\nDeputies on horseback patrol Kobe Bryant crash site as trespassers ignore warnings\nBy\nLos Angeles Times Staff\nCALABASAS, CA-JANUARY 26, 2020: People gather on Las Virgenes Road in Calabasas near the scene of a helicopter that crashed and burst into flames Sunday morning amid foggy conditions in the hills above. All people aboard were killed including Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant. (Mel Melcon\/Los Angeles Times)\n(Mel Melcon \/ Los Angeles Times)\nInvestigators and recovery teams were back at a Calabasas hillside Tuesday, continuing to remove remains from the site of a helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter and seven others as they tried to determine what caused the tragedy.\nAuthorities have recovered the bodies of at least three victims and say the process of removing others may take several days to complete. They said the impact of the crash was intense, shattering the chopper and sending debris over a wide area.\n“This was a pretty devastating accident,” National Transportation Safety Board investigator Jennifer Homendy said. “There is an impact area on one of the hills, and a piece of the tail is down the hill on the left side of the hill. The fuselage is on the other side of that hill. Then the main rotor is about hundred yards beyond that. The debris field is about 500 to 600 feet.”\nRead More>>>\nBad Bunny releases ‘6 Rings,’ a tribute song to Kobe Bryant\nBad Bunny luciendo un nuevo “look” durante su presentación en el Calibash 2020 en Los Ángeles.\n(Genaro Molina \/ Los Angeles Times)\nBad Bunny is paying his respects to the late basketball legend Kobe Bryant the way he knows best: through music.\nThe singer released the song “6 Rings” on Monday in honor of the late Lakers star,\nwho died in a helicopter crash\nover the weekend along with his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven others.\nThe\ntwo-minute track\n, sung in Spanish, includes commentary from Bryant’s 2006 game against the Toronto Raptors where the Lakers player scored a staggering 81 points.\nRead More>>>\nKobe Bryant HATED losing so much that it set him apart from his Lakers teammates\n(Los Angeles Times)\nIt took almost 200 pages in “Mamba Mentality,” Kobe Bryant’s 2018 book, for him to write explicitly about losing basketball games, and when he did, it was to the point.\n“THE AGONY OF DEFEAT IS AS LOW AS THE JOY OF WINNING IS HIGH,” he wrote in capital letters — white text on a black page below a photo of a himself sitting dejected on the Lakers bench.\nBryant’s countenance let you know.\nRead More>>>\nTNT to air live Kobe Bryant tribute ahead of Celtics-Heat game tonight\nTNT will air a one-hour special tribute to Kobe Bryant tonight at 7 p.m.\nThe live special will be streamed from the Staples Center and will air ahead of the Celtics vs. Heat game in Miami. The tribute will be hosted by Shaquille O’Neal, Ernie Johnson, Charles Barkley and Kenny Smith. Dwyane Wade, Candace Parker and Steve Nash will be guests on the program.\nTNT’s pregame, halftime and postgame coverage will all focus on Bryant from the Staples Center, which was slated to host the postponed Lakers\/Clippers game.\nTourists and fans invade Calabasas hillside where Kobe Bryant’s helicopter crashed\n(Christina House\/Los Angeles Times)\nAs out-of-town visitors arrived in Calabasas looking to glimpse the hillside where Lakers legend Kobe Bryant, his daughter and seven other people died in a helicopter crash, some ran into sheriff’s checkpoints, some became lost and others had no idea where to go.\nEnter 70-year-old Linda Adams.\nThe 30-year Calabasas resident pointed to a shortcut between Las Virgenes Creek, where fans gathered to scan the hillside, and Las Virgenes Road, which saved several travelers at least a mile of walking.\nA few onlookers even joined Adams to catch a better and closer view of the crash site.\nRead More>>>\nKobe Bryant’s death hits close to home for USC basketball players\n(Britny Mejia\/ Los Angeles Times)\nThe mural towered over Melrose Avenue, and for three years, since it was painted outside of the sneaker shop across from Fairfax High, Ethan Anderson would stare at it from a classroom window. Every day he walked or drove past, looking at it so often that the towering likeness, soaring across a purple wall of Shoe Palace, merely had become a part of the landscape.\nTo Anderson and so many others who’d grown up in the long shadow he cast, it seemed\nKobe Bryant always would be there\n, his presence looming forever over Los Angeles. But on Sunday morning, Bryant died in a helicopter crash that killed eight others, including his daughter Gianna, and as Los Angeles mourned, turning the sidewalk outside Shoe Palace into a shrine, Anderson found himself thinking about that mural and the legacy of the man in it.\nRead More>>>\nKobe Bryant: Here are some of the Mamba’s most memorable quotes\nLOS ANGELES, CA - APRIL 13: Kobe Bryant #24 of the Los Angeles Lakers address the media during the post game news conference after scoring 60 point in his final NBA game at Staples Center on April 13, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Harry How\/Getty Images)\n(Getty Images)\nLakers legend Kobe Bryant\ndied Sunday when the helicopter\nhe was traveling in crashed and burst into flames in the hills above Calabasas. His daughter Gianna, 13, was also on board and\ndied along with seven others\n.\nBryant was known to give some memorable quotes over the years — some inspirational, some funny and all pure Kobe. Here are some that might provide a little comfort during this tragic time.\nRead More >>>\nVanguard University, practice home of Kobe Bryant’s club team, mourns the basketball great and his daughter\nBy\nFaith E. Pinho\nWhen Gianna “Gigi” Bryant first told her basketball star father that she wanted to play the sport, Kobe Bryant took her seriously.\n“He kind of sat down with Gigi and said, ‘If you want to play, we’re going to do this,’” said Jeff Melton, assistant athletic director at Vanguard University. “’We’ll do this if this is a passion for you.’”\nWhen she said yes, her father — who became legendary for his 20-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers — began tapping into his world of opportunities. He arranged for her to meet her basketball idol, Katie Lou Samuelson, a guard for the WNBA’s Chicago Sky. He took her to Atlanta Hawks NBA games to watch Trae Young, another of her favorite players.\nRead More >>>\nOrange Coast College baseball team to play two days after coach John Altobelli died\nIt’s OK to cry, to be overcome by grief. It’s OK to be mad, to scream out in frustration. Most of all, it’s OK to ask for help.\nThat was the message to the Orange Coast College baseball team as it prepared for Tuesday’s season opener against Chula Vista Southwestern, a game that will be played just two days after longtime Pirates coach John Altobelli, his wife, Keri, and their 13-year-old daughter, Alyssa,\ndied in the fiery helicopter crash\nthat also killed former Lakers star Kobe Bryant\non Sunday.\n“We athletes, we’re macho, and we want to be tough, and because of that, sometimes we pretend like we’re not hurting,” former Cal State Fullerton and Oregon coach George Horton, a close friend of the Altobelli family, told players before practice Monday.\nRead More >>>\nColumn: Kobe Bryant’s reaction when I cursed him on TV showed the real Kobe, as he always did\nIt was in the first round of the\n2012 playoffs\n, the\nLakers\nwere in Denver, and I couldn’t take it anymore.\nI couldn’t bear one more moment of listening to that smug\nKobe Bryant\n.\nAsked about the defense being played on him by the Nuggets’ Danilo Gallinari during a postgame news conference, Bryant filled the small media room with dripping sarcasm.\nHe smiled, shook his head, and said something like, oh yeah, he was real worried, truly bothered, so stressed ...\nAnd I lost it.\n“Kobe, you’re such an asshole!” I yelled at him.\nRead More >>>\nMothers, fathers, daughters, coaches: Here are the 9 killed in the Kobe Bryant helicopter crash\nBy\nLos Angeles Times Staff\n(K.C. Alfred\/U-T San Diego)\nSunday should have been a day filled with adrenaline-pumping competition set to a soundtrack of cheers and the scuffle of sneakers on a basketball court.\nIt wasn’t supposed to be a day marred by a tragedy that took the lives of nine people and left a city heartbroken.\nMany of the victims of the Calabasas helicopter crash were united in their love of basketball, headed to a tournament at the Mamba Sports Academy in Thousand Oaks. They included Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna, a budding basketball player who was ready to follow in her father’s footsteps; baseball coach John Altobelli, his wife Keri and their basketball-playing daughter Alyssa; mother and daughter Sarah and Payton Chester; Mamba Academy basketball coach Christina Mauser and pilot Ara Zobayan.\nAs Los Angeles collectively mourned their Lakers hero, multiple families and friends reeled while reality hit.\nRead More>>>\nThe last flight of Kobe Bryant\nBy\nLos Angeles Times Staff\nA light fog had settled on the runway of John Wayne Airport Sunday morning when Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna and six other passengers boarded a chartered helicopter to fly to a basketball tournament in Thousand Oaks.\nA half-hour later, they were flying over thickening clouds in the San Fernando Valley. The pilot was worried enough to ask flight controllers to keep track of them. As he approached the hills of Calabasas at 150 miles per hour, they radioed him, telling him he was too low for them to see on radar.\nThe pilot commenced a climb, rising 765 feet in 36 seconds, enough to clear adjacent hills.\nRead More\n>>>\nWhat causes the deep marine layer that played a role in the Kobe Bryant helicopter crash?\n(Paul Duginski \/ Los Angeles Times)\nOn Sunday morning, when Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna and seven others were killed in a helicopter crash near Calabasas, there was a thick marine layer and patchy dense fog that obscured some of the terrain.\nThe conditions were the result of a deteriorating cold front passing through the area with moist northwest flow, which caused low clouds to pile up against the northern slopes of Ventura and L.A. County mountains. There were showers to the north, and clouds pushing into coastal valleys were thick enough to cause drizzle along the coast and in nearby foothills, according to the National Weather Service. A webcam at Oat Mountain, northwest of Porter Ranch, suggested that the marine layer was 3,000 feet thick.\nRead More>>>\nHuge Kobe Bryant fans Justin Turner and Clayton Kershaw mourn his death\nLakers legend Kobe Bryant poses for a photo with Dodgers great Tommy Lasorda during a game at Dodger Stadium in July 2013.of the Los Angeles Lakers and Tommy Lasorda attend a game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the New York Yankees on July 31, 2013 at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, Caifornia.\n(Jill Weisledero \/ Dodgers via Getty Images)\nJustin Turner received the news of\nKobe Bryant’s death\nSunday from his wife, Kourtney, as he packed a van for his charity golf event Monday. The\nDodgers\nthird baseman’s initial reaction was like that of many others — he assumed it wasn’t true. He didn’t believe it until he heard radio reports confirming the unfathomable as he drove to Sherwood Country Club in Thousand Oaks near the site of the\nhelicopter crash\nthat killed the 41-year-old Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter\nGianna\nand seven others.\n“I was just shaking,” Turner said.\nRead More >>>\nIn Orange County, Kobe Bryant grew from basketball’s enfant terrible into a ‘typical dad’\nBy\nLos Angeles Times Staff\nThe last Saturday of Kobe Bryant’s life came and went like any typical weekend at home for the retired Lakers superstar.\nHe took one daughter to the mall. Accompanied another to a basketball game. Planned a Sunday morning trip with friends.\nAnd slept with his family at their house in Orange County.\nFor nearly 20 years, one of the most famous names in sports lived a surprisingly public life in this unlikeliest of places.\nRead More >>>\nKobe’s helicopter didn’t have a black box because one wasn’t required, NTSB says\nBy\nLos Angeles Times Staff\nJust before crashing into a Calabasas hillside, the pilot of Kobe Bryant’s helicopter rapidly ascended to avoid a cloud layer, the National Transportation Safety Board said Monday.\nJennifer Homendy, an NTSB member, said the pilot flying from Orange County to Ventura County requested special visual flight rules, which allow pilots to fly under 1,000 feet. A marine layer had settled over the region Sunday morning and some areas were shrouded in fog.\nHomendy said it remained unclear why the helicopter slammed into the hillside. Debris from the crash was scattered across 600 feet, she said.\n“It was a pretty devastating accident scene,” she added. “There is an impact area on one of the hills and a piece of the tail is down the hill on the left side of the hill. The fuselage is on the other side of that hill. Then the main rotor is about hundred yards beyond that. The debris field is about 500 to 600 feet.”\nShe said there was no black box and it isn’t required.\nRead More >>>\nThe day after his death, the talk at barbershops in L.A. was about Kobe and his legacy\nLawrance Tolliver, owner of Tolliver’s Barber Shop in South LA, works on Jospeh Kenery Monday, January 27, 2020, where the talk was all about the helicopter crash that tooth life of Kobe Bryant, his daughter, Gianna, and seven others.\n(Jason Armond \/Los Angeles Times)\nAlexander Toney had just walked into the grocery store with his family on Sunday when he first heard rumors that Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant may have died.\nAt first, the South L.A. barber didn’t believe it, saying he thought TMZ’s reports weren’t credible. But after more outlets confirmed that not only Bryant, but his 13-year old daughter, Gianna, and seven others died in the fiery helicopter crash, the grim reality sunk in.\nAs they walked down the aisles getting their food, he said he wrapped his arms around his four kids more tightly than usual.\nRead More >>>\nJimmy Fallon pays tribute to Kobe Bryant\nJimmy Fallon pays tribute to Lakers legend Kobe Bryant\nLeBron James breaks silence on Kobe Bryant’s death\nLeBron James broke his silence on Monday evening, posting a wrenching message on Instagram in the form of a note\nto the late Kobe Bryant\n.\n“I’m not ready but here I go,” the post began. “Man I sitting here trying to write something for this post but every time I try I begin crying again just thinking about you, niece Gigi and the friendship\/bond\/brotherhood we had! I literally just heard your voice Sunday morning before I left Philly to head back to LA. Didn’t think for one bit in a million years that would be the last conversation we’d have.”\nBryant called James after the Lakers played in Philadelphia on Saturday night to congratulate James for moving up to\nthird on the league’s all-time scoring list\n. In doing so, James had passed Bryant who scored 33,643 points in his NBA career.\nRead More >>>\nKobe Bryant’s final flight, minute by minute\nKobe Bryant called LeBron James on Saturday night after he was passed on scoring list\n‘You made us dream’: Kobe Bryant is mourned in Italy, where he first learned to play\nBy\nTom Kingston\nROME — As the world\nmourns\nthe death of\nKobe Bryant\n, his first coach recalled how the basketball legend cried when taken out during a game at the age of 7 because he was too good.\nGioacchino Fusacchia, 60, coached Bryant in Rieti, a small town in central Italy, when the late athlete’s father, Joe, played professional basketball following a career in the NBA.\n“Kobe followed Joe everywhere, to matches, to training, and was already passionate about basketball,” said Fusacchia, who was in his mid-20s during the period the Bryants were in Rieti, from 1984 to 1986.\nRieti was Joe’s first stop in a seven-year spell in Italy during which he played seasons with other Italian teams in the southern region of Calabria and the northern regions of Tuscany and Emilio-Romagna before returning to the United States.\nRead More>>>\nKobe Bryant’s studio removes Oscar-winning ‘Dear Basketball’ film from website\nAfter\nKobe Bryant’s death Sunday\n, finding his animated short “Dear Basketball” to watch online was a difficult task — until now.\nGranity Studios, the NBA star’s multimedia production company, made the Academy Award-winning film available for free Monday afternoon on the\ndearbasketball.com\nwebsite and on Vimeo.\n“Dear Basketball” is based on a poem he wrote in November 2015 to announce his retirement. The poem was published by\nthe Players’ Tribune\n, a website that features first-person accounts written by pro athletes.\nRead More >>>\nFatal crash hit Newport Beach hard: 5 other residents, not just Bryants, were victims\nBy\nLuke Money\n and \nHillary Davis\nKobe Bryant was a Los Angeles superstar.\nBut he called Newport Beach his home. It was here he raised his daughters, was involved in its schools and youth sports and made friends at the neighborhood grocery store and Starbucks.\nAnd it was this community that saw so much loss Sunday, as the helicopter carrying\nBryant\n, his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, and seven others slammed into a hillside above Calabasas, killing all on board.\nAlso on the copter were Newport Beach residents John Altobelli; his wife, Keri; and their daughter, Alyssa, who played on the same club team as Gianna Bryant. Newport Beach mother and daughter Sarah and Payton Chester were identified by friends and family as also being on board.\nRead more >>>\nNBA postpones Lakers-Clippers game that was set for Tuesday\nThe NBA has postponed the Lakers-Clippers game that was scheduled for Tuesday.\n“The decision was made out of respect for the Lakers organization, which is deeply grieving the tragic loss of Lakers legend Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna and seven other people in a helicopter crash on Sunday.”\nNo makeup date has been released.\nRead More >>>\nThe legacy of ‘Kobe!’ jump shots lives on through fans\n(Lawrence K. Ho \/ Los Angeles Times)\nIt usually happens during a pickup basketball game. A player plants his feet, jumps and shoots with a yell of “Kobe!” -- partly a joke, but also a plea to guide the ball into the hoop with the skill of the late Lakers great Kobe Bryant.\nIt’s just a moment, but it’s a legacy that Bryant has left countless amateur basketball players -- and those folks just trying to throw a wad of paper into a faraway trash can -- around the world.\nAs the news of\nBryant’s death in a helicopter crash on Sunday\nspread, Twitter users and Times readers from all over shared memories of their “Kobe!” shots: jump shots, trick shots and three-point attempts. Here’s what they had to say (some responses have been lightly edited for clarity).\nRead More >>>\nCoverage of the Kobe Bryant helicopter crash included missteps, insights and tears\nJim Hill rushed into the KCBS-Channel 2 studio in suit and tie and had Magic Johnson on the phone while other local TV crews were scrambling to do fan-on-the-street reactions. That was impressive but not unexpected.\nLiz Habib’s voice cracked before she had to stop and wipe away tears, abandoning a KTTV-Channel 11 live standup. That felt appropriate.\nESPN and ABC continued to televise the NFL’s Pro Bowl in a simulcast, a meaningless exercise, while pushing its live coverage of events to ESPN2. That was beyond awkward, bordering on disrespectful.\nMedia outlets trying to disseminate what TMZ first reported Sunday morning as a helicopter crash in Calabasas that took five lives,\nincluding that of retired Lakers star Kobe Bryant\n, ignited the comprehension, disbelief and misinformation anxiety that often permeate the first 24 hours of a news cycle.\nRead More >>>\nKobe Bryant short film ‘Dear Basketball’ plays like a eulogy from the man who made it\nBy\nTim Greiving\nThe mood of Kobe Bryant’s\nOscar-winning\nanimated short film, “Dear Basketball,” always seemed a little curious. Part love letter to his sport, it was also part eulogy.\n“My heart can take the pounding,” Bryant said in his narration, over a quiet moment in John Williams’ poignant score. “My mind can handle the grind. But my body knows it’s time to say goodbye. And that’s OK. I’m ready to let you go.”\nThe 2017 film serves as a bit of tragic poetry following\nthe death of Bryant\n, daughter Gianna and seven other people in a Calabasas\nhelicopter crash\nSunday.\nThe project began as a letter he penned in 2015 for the Players’ Tribune announcing his retirement from the NBA. Bryant created the production company Granity Studios — originally Kobe Studios — with ambitions to create books, TV series and even feature films. “Dear Basketball” was its first effort.\nRead More>>>\nKobe Bryant fans honor him through poetry\nIn a request for Kobe Bryant memories, some fans expressed themselves through poetry. It’s a fitting tribute to the legendary Lakers great\nwho wrote a poem called “Dear Basketball”\nto announce his retirement from the NBA. That poem was made into a film that earned him an Academy Award, a Sports Emmy and an Annie Award.\nBryant, 41,\ndied in a helicopter crash in Calabasas\non Sunday morning, along with his 13-year-old daughter and seven others. His\ncareer with the Lakers\nspanned 20 years before his retirement in 2016, and included five NBA championship titles, two Finals MVPs and one regular season MVP.\nThe Times asked readers to write in\nwith their favorite memories of Bryant\n. If you have a poem to add, please submit it through the form below.\nRead More>>>\nColumn: Kobe Bryant’s death is a setback for women’s basketball, Sierra Canyon coach laments\nSierra Canyon High girls’ basketball coach Alicia Komaki said she spent 12 hours Sunday sitting in her Chatsworth office watching nonstop news coverage about\nKobe Bryant’s death\n. It made her reflect on what his absence might mean to women’s basketball, one of the most important recipients of his support since his retirement from the NBA.\nFrom taking his daughters to WNBA games to coaching his daughter in youth basketball, Bryant was setting the stage to become an invaluable contributor in an arena that needed support. He was headed to Thousand Oaks to coach daughter Gianna, 13, in a youth tournament Sunday when the\nhelicopter he was traveling in crashed\n, killing him, Gianna and seven others.\nKomaki said the word around the club circuit was Bryant might become the girls’ basketball coach at Newport Coast Sage Hill, where Gianna was possibly going to enroll. A Sage Hill representative denied that Bryant was a coaching candidate. Bryant’s eldest daughter, Natalia, attends Sage Hill and is on the volleyball team.\nRead More>>>\nColumn: For my 13-year-old basketball player, Gianna Bryant’s death was a bigger blow than Kobe’s\n(Getty Images)\nMy youngest daughter and I were at a friend’s baby shower when we learned of\nKobe Bryant’s death\n. I was glancing at my phone when a breaking news alert flashed across my screen, and I gasped.\n“What?” Darby said, reaching for her own phone. So she learned as I did that Kobe’s 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, had been with him when the helicopter crashed. I squeezed my own 13-year-old daughter’s hand under the table and said, “We’ll talk about it after,” and we returned, as best we could, to the shower’s excitement and joy.\nWe did talk about it later, on the drive home, but I was just as shocked and numb as she. “I feel so sad,” she said as we walked into the house. “That is how everyone is going to feel,” I said unhelpfully, mechanically. “It is just a terrible, terrible thing.”\nRead More >>>\n‘We all know him as just Kobe, a person.’ Newport Coast neighbors salute Kobe Bryant at vigil\nBy\nHillary Davis\nPeople who knew Kobe Bryant as the father of four who lived up the street, ordered a certain pink drink at the corner Starbucks and trick-or-treated with their children gathered Sunday night in a park not far from his home to share their memories.\nNewport Ridge Community Park is near Bryant’s Newport Coast home and near their homes too. These were neighbors of the retired Lakers basketball legend and youth basketball coach whom some of the younger people knew around their school gym as Mr. Bryant.\nRead More>>>\nKobe Bryant didn’t mentor many young players; Anthony Davis was an exception\n(Wally Skalij \/ Los Angeles Times)\nDuring his playing career, there weren’t many young players whom Kobe Bryant mentored. He made an exception for Anthony Davis.\n“Anthony was different just because of his curiosity about the game itself,” Bryant said\nin an interview last fall\n. “His obvious potential. His ability. But he had a curious nature about him and how he wanted to learn more and more about that game. So I’d gravitate toward that.”\nBryant was\none of nine people killed in a helicopter crash\nSunday morning along with his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna; Alyssa Altobelli, Gianna’s teammate on the Mamba basketball team; and her parents\nJohn and Keri Altobelli\n; Christina Mauser, who helped coach the Mamba girls basketball team; and the pilot, Ara Zobayan. Two other passengers haven’t been publicly identified yet.\nREAD MORE>>>\nLongtime Lakers fan Jack Nicholson mourns Kobe Bryant: ‘It kills you’\nHollywood veteran Jack Nicholson is a three-time Oscar winner and 12-time nominee, with more than 70 credits to his name. But on Sunday, he was simply a heartbroken Lakers fan.\nFollowing the sudden death of local hero Kobe Bryant, Nicholson reflected on his relationship with the basketball icon and his home team yesterday in a rare phone interview with CBS Los Angeles. Bryant\ndied early Sunday\nin a Calabasas helicopter crash along with his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, and seven others.\n“My reaction is the same as almost all of L.A.,” the actor said. “Suddenly, where everything was solid, there’s a big hole in the wall. I was so used to seeing and talking to Kobe that — it kills you. It’s just a terrible event.”\nREAD MORE >>>\nNBA greats talk about the impact Kobe Bryant had on them\nThis story originally published on latimes.com on April 11th, 2016.\nAs Kobe Bryant plays out his 20th and final season with the Lakers, The Times has reached out to players, coaches and broadcasters for recollections about his career.\nREAD MORE >>>>\nChaplain of Senate impeachment trial mourns Kobe’s passing\nSenate Chaplain Barry Black in an opening prayer ahead of the impeachment trial mourned the loss of Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna and “those who died with them.”\n“We all have a limited time on Earth to leave the world better than we found it,” Black said. “As this impeachment process unfolds, give our senators the desire to make the most of their time on Earth. Teach them how to live, o God, and lead them along the path of honesty.”\nJustin Turner talks about the impact of Kobe Bryant’s death\n(Required)\nA look back at Kobe Bryant, gold medalist, as he looked forward to L.A. Olympics\n(Mark Ralston \/ AFP via Getty Images)\nIt was the summer of 2008 and\nKobe Bryant\nwas playing on the\nU.S team at the Summer Olympics\nin Beijing. He mentioned to\nTimes columnist Bill Plaschke\nthat winning gold might be his greatest accomplishment, better than an NBA championship, a sentiment he knew might irritate some Laker fans.\n“So what?” he said. “If they don’t understand this, they don’t know what they’re talking about. It’s simple. You’re playing for your country.”\nOn Monday, the International Olympic Committee issued its reaction to the sudden death of a basketball icon who won that gold in China and another one, four years later, in London.\n“Kobe was an outstanding and true Olympic champion,” IOC President Thomas Bach said. “He embraced the power of sport to change people’s lives.”\nREAD MORE >>>\nSouthern California radio stations will go silent at noon in honor of Kobe Bryant\nThe Southern California Broadcasters Association is asking its members to observe a synchronized moment of silence in honor of late local hero Kobe Bryant.\nThe radio silence, set to occur at noon Pacific on Monday, will last for one minute and eight seconds — a nod to the Laker star’s original jersey number, 8. The organization also provided additional instructions on how stations should approach coverage of Bryant’s death throughout the day.\nREAD MORE >>>\n24 grieving fans talk about losing their hero: ‘This is a Kobe town’\nFans gather at the corner of Las Virgenes Road and Willow Glen Street in Calabasas near the site of the crash where Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna were among 9 dead in a helicopter crash on Sunday.\n(Christina House \/ Los Angeles Times)\nLos Angeles is a city in mourning.\nMakeshift memorials continue to pop up, from Thousand Oaks to Newport Beach.\nFans converged on Staples Center, the Lakers training center in El Segundo, on Melrose Avenue and in Calabasas, where Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter Gianna, and seven others will\nkilled in a helicopter crash Sunday\n.\nBryant’s jersey number — 24 — already had special meaning, commemorating his 20 seasons with the Lakers. Many teams now say no one else will ever wear that number.\nHere is what 24 Angelenos had to say about No. 24:\nREAD MORE >>>\nKobe Bryant and Nipsey Hussle weren’t perfect angels. That’s why L.A. loved them.\nThere’s this thing that happens when a person dies, especially when that person is famous and the death is unexpected.\nThose who are left behind to mourn tend to gloss over the bad decisions and focus on the good deeds, the heroic traits and the uncommonly charitable gestures.\nThis was very much the case Sunday. Hours after a helicopter carrying Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, and seven others\nslammed into the hills above Calabasas\n, killing all on board, celebrities clamored to pay tribute to him during the\nGrammy Awards\nat Staples Center.\nREAD MORE >>>\nThe grim, delicate task of removing remains from the Kobe Byrant helicopter crash site\nOn the remote Calabasas hillside where\nKobe Bryant’s helicopter crashed\n, Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies and other emergency personnel spent Monday morning with the delicate task of removing the remains of victims.\nThe rough terrain around the crash site off Las Virgenes Canyon Road has been a challenge for first responders from the beginning. On Monday, deputies could be seen on the hillside in off-road vehicles. Some remains were removed Sunday night, and officials said that the process could continue for several days.\nLos Angeles County Coroner Jonathan Lucas said the remains will be removed as quickly as possible, noting the location of the crash had made access an issue.\nREAD MORE >>>\nKobe Bryant had a special kinship with Latino fans and culture\nThe mood at El Camino Real in Fullerton was somber during the Sunday lunch rush, despite the steaming bowls of menudo in front of nearly everyone in the packed Mexican restaurant.\nIts most famous regular, Kobe Bryant, had died earlier that morning in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, along with his daughter Gianna and seven others.\nFamilies shook their heads in disbelief as they scrolled through their smartphones for the latest updates between sips of the tripe soup. Freddy Castañeda, son of El Camino Real’s owners, showed customers a photo that Bryant had taken in the kitchen alongside his sister Marissa nearly 20 years ago.\nRead more>>\nKobe Bryant flew in thick fog that had grounded law enforcement helicopters\nBy\nRichard Winton, Ben Poston, Matthew Ormseth, Kim Christensen\nDid foggy weather Sunday morning play a role in the\nhelicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter and seven others\n?\nThat is a key question as federal investigators on Monday\nbegin an intense investigation\ninto the cause of the crash.\nThe helicopter, a Sikorsky S-76 built in 1991, departed John Wayne Airport at 9:06 a.m. Sunday, according to publicly available flight records. The chopper passed over Boyle Heights, near Dodger Stadium, and circled over Glendale during the flight. The crash occurred shortly before 10 a.m. near Las Virgenes Road and Willow Glen Street in Calabasas.\nREAD MORE >>\nKobe Bryant helicopter crash at center of intense federal investigation\nBy\nHannah Fry, Richard Winton, Ruben Vives, Matthew Ormseth\nFederal investigators on Monday began to try to unravel the mystery of why a helicopter carrying Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter and seven other people slammed into the side of a hill in Calabasas.\nFirefighters responding to a 911 call at 9:47 a.m. found a debris field in steep terrain with a quarter-acre brush fire. Paramedics arriving by helicopter\nsearched the area but found no survivors\n.\nBryant, who lived in Newport Beach and Los Angeles, was known to keep a chartered helicopter at Orange County’s John Wayne Airport.\nREAD MORE >>\nDavid Beckham: ‘... my words won’t ever be enough ...’\nRep. Maxine Waters’ statement on Bryant’s death\n“I am absolutely devastated and heartbroken by the sudden and tragic loss of Kobe Bryant and his beloved daughter Gianna. Kobe Bryant was a king in Los Angeles and one of the greatest athletes the world has ever known. He thrilled Los Angelenos for 20 seasons at the Staples Center, was an 18-time NBA All Star, earned five NBA championships, was twice named the MVP of the NBA Finals, and earned the NBA’s MVP award. Fans around the world marveled at his skills on the court season after season. He was truly spectacular to watch. He was our champion, a living legend, and an inspiration to countless fans and aspiring athletes around the world. His loss is felt by millions of grieving fans who are in shock and disbelief by the tragic passing of such a prolific athlete, devoted husband, and loving father. My heart goes out to his wife, Vanessa, surviving children, relatives, teammates, and friends who are in mourning. I also extend my sincere condolences to the families and loved ones of all the victims who were onboard the helicopter.\n“Los Angeles is mourning the loss of one of our most beloved legends and icons. Though Kobe Bryant is no longer with us, our city will never forget what he meant to us, and we will keep his legacy alive forever.”\nProbe of Kobe Bryant crash will probably focus on fog, possible mechanical problems\nBy\nThe Times\nThe investigation into the helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna and seven others aboard a Sikorsky S-76B will probably focus on foggy weather conditions and potential mechanical problems, aviation experts and pilots said.\nVisibility in the region was so poor at the time of the crash, which occurred shortly before 10 a.m. in Calabasas, that the Los Angeles police and county sheriff’s departments had grounded their helicopters.\nRead more >>\nKobe Bryant fans and Grammy attendees mourn together\nThey arrived in glitzy gold gowns and tailored tuxedos, silk suits and cheetah-patterned stilettos that would pop on the red carpet.\nBut they were outnumbered by fans dressed in purple and yellow and white jerseys with the numbers 8 and 24 across their chests and his name — BRYANT — emblazoned across their backs.\nAs the sun set Sunday, a surreal scene unfolded outside Staples Center, where celebrities who had gathered for the 62nd Grammy Awards mourned alongside devastated fans who flocked to the arena where Lakers legend Kobe Bryant — who died in a helicopter crash Sunday morning — has two jerseys hanging from the rafters.\nRead more >>\nLakers part owner was a mentor to Kobe Bryant and a friend\nDr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, who owns the Los Angeles Times and is a part owner of the Lakers, was also Bryant’s friend, mentor and basketball “assistant” when the two played hoops at Soon-Shiong’s home court during Bryant’s recovery.\nHe choked up as he spoke about the loss of a legend, about how he will miss the long conversations the two shared about all aspects of life and about Bryant’s aspirations as he underwent recovery.\nRead more >>\nL.A. 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They are the first words from Pelinka since the [helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/liveblog\/kobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas), his 13-year-old daughter Gianna, [and seven others.](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/story\/2020-01-26\/complete-coverage-kobe-bryant-daughter-gianna-among-9-dead-in-helicopter-crash)\n\n“On Sunday, I lost my best friend and sweet goddaughter. With that, there has been an amputation of part of my soul.”\n\nPelinka goes on describing the player, husband, “girl-dad” and best friend Bryant was.\n\n“Kobe was a force of nature, deep, and obsessed with excellence. He was wise, determined, passionate. A visionary beyond measure. A dedicated and loving husband, and a ‘girl-dad’ like no other. When he walked into a room, the energy ignited. He was high voltage, with a motor that had no limits. His mind had an infinite capacity to learn. He was, simply put, the most inspirational athlete of our time. 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I take comfort in knowing that Kobe and Gigi both knew that they were so deeply loved. We were so incredibly blessed to have them in our lives. I wish they were here with us forever. They were our beautiful blessings taken from us too soon,” she wrote on Instagram.\n\n“I’m not sure what our lives hold beyond today, and it’s impossible to imagine life without them. But we wake up each day, trying to keep pushing because Kobe, and our baby girl, Gigi, are shining on us to light the way. Our love for them is endless — and that’s to say, immeasurable. I just wish I could hug them, kiss them and bless them. Have them here with us, forever.”\n\n[Read More \\>\\>\\>](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-01-29\/vanessa-bryant-shares-the-pain-of-her-familys-loss-our-beautiful-blessings-taken-from-us-too-soon)\n\nShow more\n\nAdvertisement\n\nJan. 29, 2020 4:57 PM PT\n\n- Share via\n  \n  Close extra sharing options\n  \n  - [Email](mailto:?body=Basketball%20star%2C%20Oscar%20winner%20and%20...%20rapper%3F%20Remembering%20Kobe%20Bryant%27s%20music%20career%0A%0Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dbasketball-star-oscar-winner-and-rapper-remembering-kobe-bryants-music-career%0A%0ABryant%E2%80%99s%20solo%20single%2C%20%E2%80%9CK.O.B.E.%2C%E2%80%9D%20which%20debuted%20at%20the%202000%20All-Star%20game%2C%20featured%20supermodel%20Tyra%20Banks%20and%20referenced%20his%20baller%20reputation%20in%20the%20lyrics.%20)\n  - [Facebook](https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dbasketball-star-oscar-winner-and-rapper-remembering-kobe-bryants-music-career)\n  - [X](https:\/\/x.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dbasketball-star-oscar-winner-and-rapper-remembering-kobe-bryants-music-career&text=Basketball%20star%2C%20Oscar%20winner%20and%20...%20rapper%3F%20Remembering%20Kobe%20Bryant%27s%20music%20career)\n  - [LinkedIn](https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dbasketball-star-oscar-winner-and-rapper-remembering-kobe-bryants-music-career&title=Basketball%20star%2C%20Oscar%20winner%20and%20...%20rapper%3F%20Remembering%20Kobe%20Bryant%27s%20music%20career&summary=Kobe%20Bryant%2C%20the%20NBA%20MVP%20who%20had%20a%2020-year%20career%20with%20the%20Lakers%2C%20was%20killed%20Sunday%20when%20the%20helicopter%20he%20was%20traveling%20in%20crashed%20and%20burst%20into%20flames%20in%20the%20hills%20above%20Calabasas.%20&source=Los%20Angeles%20Times)\n  - [Threads](https:\/\/threads.net\/intent\/post?text=Basketball%20star%2C%20Oscar%20winner%20and%20...%20rapper%3F%20Remembering%20Kobe%20Bryant%27s%20music%20career%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dbasketball-star-oscar-winner-and-rapper-remembering-kobe-bryants-music-career)\n  - [Reddit](https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dbasketball-star-oscar-winner-and-rapper-remembering-kobe-bryants-music-career&title=Basketball%20star%2C%20Oscar%20winner%20and%20...%20rapper%3F%20Remembering%20Kobe%20Bryant%27s%20music%20career)\n  - [WhatsApp](https:\/\/api.whatsapp.com\/send?text=Basketball%20star%2C%20Oscar%20winner%20and%20...%20rapper%3F%20Remembering%20Kobe%20Bryant%27s%20music%20career%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dbasketball-star-oscar-winner-and-rapper-remembering-kobe-bryants-music-career)\n  - Copy Link URL Copied\\!\n  - Print\n\nBasketball star, Oscar winner and ... rapper? Remembering Kobe Bryant’s music career\n\nBy [Christi Carras](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/people\/christi-carras)\n\n![Lakers superstar Kobe Bryant takes the stage at the House of Blues in 2000.](https:\/\/ca-times.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/66e9c2f\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/1506x847+0+0\/resize\/1200x675!\/quality\/75\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F6f%2F71%2Fba72f852ad13a3a9d991fcfbc313%2Fla-kobe-bryant-career-pictures-pg-010)\n\nLakers superstar Kobe Bryant takes the stage at the House of Blues in 2000.\n\n(Clarence Williams \/ Los Angeles Times)\n\nBryant’s solo single, “K.O.B.E.,” which debuted at the 2000 All-Star game, featured supermodel Tyra Banks and referenced his baller reputation in the lyrics.\n\n“What I live for? Basketball, beats and broads,” he raps on the track, his flow not particularly smooth or lyrical. “From Italy to the U.S., yes, it’s raw.”\n\nWriting for The Times in 2015, Dexter Thomas [wasn’t exactly impressed](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/music\/posts\/la-et-ms-forget-coaching-kobe-the-rap-game-needs-you-20151130-htmlstory.html) by the song.\n\n“It’s embarrassing. That cheap-sounding beat, the uninspired hook, the awkward chorus — this is more off-target than those three airballs he threw in 1997 against the Utah Jazz,” he wrote.\n\nWhile shooting an accompanying video for the splashy release, directed by BET Award winner Hype Williams, Bryant met his wife, Vanessa. 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That is a guy who you ask for to fly you from city to city. It’s just surreal still.”\n\nLeonard was close with Bryant, saying their relationship began during his second or third season in the NBA. Last summer, Bryant hosted Leonard, Clippers teammate Paul George and a handful of other players at his Mamba Academy in Thousand Oaks. One piece of advice Leonard sought from Bryant last summer, after signing with the Clippers as a free agent, was how Bryant used a helicopter often to cut down his commute to and from his home in Newport Beach.\n\nLeonard, last season, purchased a house in Rancho Santa Fe, north of San Diego. (In December, Leonard also purchased a penthouse near Staples Center.)\n\n> Kawhi called Kobe’s pilot, Ara Zobayan, a “good dude” and used him to fly to and from games. He also discussed if this gives him any pause to keep using helicopters. [pic.twitter.com\/ao82V555h8](https:\/\/t.co\/ao82V555h8)\n> \n> — Andrew Greif (@AndrewGreif) [January 29, 2020](https:\/\/twitter.com\/AndrewGreif\/status\/1222629314941685760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)\n\n“I talked to him about it before our transition to playing in L.A, just seeing how \\[he\\] got back and forth from Newport and he said he was doing it for about 17 years or so,” Leonard said. “Yeah, same pilot, everything, the whole situation, this whole program, the setup, how he was traveling back and forth was the same way I was getting here from San Diego.” Asked whether the crash gave him pause to continue to using helicopters, Leonard was unsure.\n\n“The things that you hear, you don’t know what’s real yet,” he said. “I can’t really speak on it. I don’t know. I don’t know yet. 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Brady McCollough](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/people\/j-brady-mccollough)\n\n, [Dan Woike](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/people\/dan-woike) and [Tania Ganguli](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/people\/tania-ganguli)\n\n![](https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/GxBqh4x_M1E\/hqdefault.jpg)\n\n[×](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/liveblog\/kobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas)\n\nLakers coach Frank Vogel talks about Kobe Bryant.\n\nAfter their practice in El Segundo on Wednesday morning, the Lakers gave their players the option of speaking to reporters about [the tragic death of Kobe Bryant](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/liveblog\/kobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas). They decided to continue to mourn in private.\n\nLakers coach Frank Vogel stepped forward to make the first public comments from a member of the organization since a helicopter carrying [Bryant, his daughter Gianna and seven others](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-01-27\/kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash-victims) crashed into a Calabasas hillside Sunday morning, killing all aboard.\n\nVogel said he told the players they could talk when they’re ready and not a moment before.\n\nAs Vogel addressed the media, LeBron James was nearby on the practice court, hoisting up jumpers.\n\n“We want to represent what Kobe was about more than anything,” said Vogel, who acknowledged there were some questions he may not be ready to address at this time.\n\n“He was the most feared man in the league for an entire generation.… His influence will be felt forever.”\n\nThe Lakers display retired numbers on two walls above their practice gym. On Wednesday, Bryant’s No. 8 and No. 24 were lit up.\n\n> Lights on Kobe jersey at Lakers facility [pic.twitter.com\/nK5wWvDJgU](https:\/\/t.co\/nK5wWvDJgU)\n> \n> — Brad Turner (@BA\\_Turner) [January 29, 2020](https:\/\/twitter.com\/BA_Turner\/status\/1222623539846471680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)\n\nThe team was flying home from Philadelphia on Sunday morning [when they learned about the crash](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/lakers\/story\/2020-01-26\/lakers-players-shocked-speechless-after-kobe-bryant-death). Players became emotional as they heard the news and Vogel addressed them once he heard. The team canceled practice on Monday, though a few players trickled into the facility.\n\nThe franchise waited until Monday afternoon to release any statement regarding Bryant’s death out of respect for his widow, Vanessa, and his three surviving daughters.\n\nBut the Lakers have also needed time to process and grieve the loss of a legend.\n\n“We’ve become a family in a very short time,” Vogel said.\n\nThe organization has been reeling since Sunday morning. General manager Rob Pelinka was one of Bryant’s closest friends and Gianna’s godfather.\n\nLakers executives, including owner Jeanie Buss and Linda Rambis, spent time at the team facility on Sunday and Monday. [Buss lost her mother](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/lakers\/story\/2019-12-16\/joann-buss-former-wife-of-legendary-lakers-owner-jerry-buss-dies) and a close friend, [former NBA Commissioner David Stern](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/obituaries\/story\/2020-01-01\/david-stern-nba-commissioner-dead), in the last six weeks. Monday would have been her father’s 87th birthday.\n\nThe Lakers were planning to honor Jerry Buss during Tuesday’s game against the Clippers, before Sunday’s crash changed everything, leading the NBA to postpone the game.\n\nOn Monday, the team brought in grief counselors, who were made available to employees, according to a person familiar with the situation. Bryant’s history with many of them was long. He joined the organization in 1996, as a 17-year-old ready to take over the basketball world.\n\nNo formal plans have been made on how to honor Bryant, but the Lakers created a space Sunday for fans to gather and hold a vigil outside their facility. They provided a large white canvas with a watermarked image of Bryant leaned against the wall for fans to sign, using Sharpies distributed by the Lakers. 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Brady McCollough](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/people\/j-brady-mccollough)\n\n, [Dan Woike](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/people\/dan-woike) and [Tania Ganguli](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/people\/tania-ganguli)\n\n![Makeshift memorial for Kobe Bryant outside Staples Center.](https:\/\/ca-times.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/af520e7\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/6720x4480+0+0\/resize\/1200x800!\/quality\/75\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F02%2F5d%2F625c541c47ae9065d75ffb5021f3%2Fafp-getty-topshot-basket-nba-bryant-death.JPG)\n\nPeople gather around a makeshift memorial for Kobe Bryant on Jan. 26 outside Staples Center.\n\n(Apu Gomes \/ AFP via Getty Images)\n\nLate Wednesday morning, as a large media contingent waited outside the Lakers’ El Segundo practice facility for the team’s first meeting with the press since Saturday night’s game in Philadelphia, the franchise unfurled a fourth banner featuring Kobe Bryant for fans to leave their expressions of grief.\n\nThree days after Bryant and his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, died in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, fans were still coming by the facility to pay their respects. Three 10-foot-by-20-foot banners had no more room for new messages.\n\nInside, while the Lakers prepared to discuss Bryant’s death with reporters, one fan stood outside with a fresh bouquet of flowers.\n\nThe Lakers waited until Monday afternoon to release any statement out of respect for Bryant’s widow, Vanessa, and his three surviving daughters. But the franchise, feeling very much like a family this week, also needed time to process and mourn the loss of a legend.\n\nThe organization has been reeling since the tragic event. Their general manager, Rob Pelinka, was one of Bryant’s closest friends and Gianna’s godfather.\n\nLakers executives, including Jeanie Buss and Linda Rambis, spent time at the team facility on Sunday and Monday. Buss lost her mother and a close friend, former NBA commissioner David Stern, in the last six weeks. Monday would have been her father Jerry Buss’ 87th birthday. The Lakers were planning to honor Jerry Buss during Tuesday’s game against the Clippers, before Sunday’s crash changed everything, leading the NBA to postpone the game.\n\nOn Monday, the team brought in grief counselors to help comfort employees, according to a person familiar with the situation. Bryant’s history with many of them was long. He joined the organization in 1996, as a 17-year-old ready to take over the basketball world.\n\nFormal plans have not been completed on how to honor Bryant. The first large white canvas banner with an image of Bryant leaned was erected at the facility on Sunday. Fans wrote messages on the banner using Sharpies distributed by the Lakers. 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Campa, Jaclyn Cosgrove\n\nNTSB investigator Jennifer Homendy said at Tuesday’s news conference that her agency had recommended that the Federal Aviation Administration 16 years ago require that all choppers carrying six or more passengers be equipped with a terrain awareness and warning system, adding that the FAA has “failed to act” on the proposal. 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Campa](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/people\/andrew-j-campa) and [Jaclyn Cosgrove](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/people\/jaclyn-cosgrove)\n\nThe helicopter that crashed Sunday in Calabasas, killing nine people including Kobe Bryant, was not equipped with a terrain alarm system that could have warned the pilot he was approaching a hillside, National Transportation Safety Board officials said Tuesday.\n\nThe findings come as investigators are trying to determine why the helicopter crashed into a Calabasas hillside Sunday morning amid foggy conditions.\n\nNTSB investigator Jennifer Homendy said at Tuesday’s news conference that the helicopter was at 2,300 feet when it lost communication with air traffic controllers. 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But he was also known for his prickly personality and his villainous on-court demeanor as the self-named [Black Mamba](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/lakers\/story\/2020-01-28\/kobe-bryant-lakers-mamba-mentality-hate-losing-death-crash).\n\nThose aspects of Bryant’s complicated nature are recalled in Tuesday’s installment of HBO’s sports magazine “Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel.”\n\nThe “Real Sports” segment focuses on two profiles the series conducted with Bryant, [who died Sunday](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/liveblog\/kobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas), along with his daughter Gianna and seven others, in a helicopter crash in Calabasas. 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Harley Rouda (D-Laguna Beach) and Maxine Waters (D-Los Angeles) led members of the California delegation in a moment of silence on the House floor Tuesday afternoon in honor of the nine victims who died in Sunday’s helicopter crash.\n\nRouda named each of the victims in alphabetical order: John, Keri and Alyssa Altobelli, Kobe and Gianna Bryant, Payton and Sarah Chester, Christina Mauser and pilot Ara Zobayan.The congressman acknowledged the group’s love of basketball and singled out the parents’ and coaches’ on board who were steadfastly dedicated to nurturing the passion and talents of the three 13-year-old girls who died on their way to play a game.“\n\nOrange County is grieving, but we will find solace and purpose in the legacy they left behind,” he said. 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Dozens of journalists at the newspaper criticized the decision.\n\nReporter Felicia Sonmez’s tweet Sunday, amid widespread public mourning over [Bryant’s death in a helicopter crash](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/story\/2020-01-26\/complete-coverage-kobe-bryant-daughter-gianna-among-9-dead-in-helicopter-crash), drew considerable backlash on social media. The Post reported that Somnez received threats of death and rape and had to move to a hotel after her home address was published online.\n\nThe Post said Somnez deleted the original tweet at the request of a managing editor. She also received an email from executive editor Marty Baron saying: “A real lack of judgment to tweet this. Please stop. You’re hurting this institution by doing this.” Somnez shared the email with an Associated Press reporter.\n\nThe Post said Somnez had been placed on paid leave while newsroom managers looked into the episode. 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All people aboard were killed including Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant. (Mel Melcon\/Los Angeles Times)](https:\/\/ca-times.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/1c9b508\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/2800x1831+0+0\/resize\/1200x785!\/quality\/75\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F47%2Fb5%2F4c1b5eab4156a85f68d3854cc3d7%2Fla-photos-1staff-484313-la-me-kobe-crash4-mam.jpg)\n\nCALABASAS, CA-JANUARY 26, 2020: People gather on Las Virgenes Road in Calabasas near the scene of a helicopter that crashed and burst into flames Sunday morning amid foggy conditions in the hills above. All people aboard were killed including Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant. (Mel Melcon\/Los Angeles Times)\n\n(Mel Melcon \/ Los Angeles Times)\n\nInvestigators and recovery teams were back at a Calabasas hillside Tuesday, continuing to remove remains from the site of a helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter and seven others as they tried to determine what caused the tragedy.\n\nAuthorities have recovered the bodies of at least three victims and say the process of removing others may take several days to complete. They said the impact of the crash was intense, shattering the chopper and sending debris over a wide area.\n\n“This was a pretty devastating accident,” National Transportation Safety Board investigator Jennifer Homendy said. “There is an impact area on one of the hills, and a piece of the tail is down the hill on the left side of the hill. The fuselage is on the other side of that hill. Then the main rotor is about hundred yards beyond that. 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Every day he walked or drove past, looking at it so often that the towering likeness, soaring across a purple wall of Shoe Palace, merely had become a part of the landscape.\n\nTo Anderson and so many others who’d grown up in the long shadow he cast, it seemed [Kobe Bryant always would be there](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/lakers\/story\/2020-01-27\/kobe-bryant-death-lakers-bill-plaschke-cursed-tv-tribute), his presence looming forever over Los Angeles. 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(Photo by Harry How\/Getty Images)\n\n(Getty Images)\n\nLakers legend Kobe Bryant [died Sunday when the helicopter](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-01-27\/kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash-becomes-focus-of-intense-federal-investigation) he was traveling in crashed and burst into flames in the hills above Calabasas. His daughter Gianna, 13, was also on board and [died along with seven others](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-01-27\/kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash-victims).\n\nBryant was known to give some memorable quotes over the years — some inspirational, some funny and all pure Kobe. 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Pinho\n\nWhen Gianna “Gigi” Bryant first told her basketball star father that she wanted to play the sport, Kobe Bryant took her seriously.\n\n“He kind of sat down with Gigi and said, ‘If you want to play, we’re going to do this,’” said Jeff Melton, assistant athletic director at Vanguard University. “’We’ll do this if this is a passion for you.’”\n\nWhen she said yes, her father — who became legendary for his 20-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers — began tapping into his world of opportunities. He arranged for her to meet her basketball idol, Katie Lou Samuelson, a guard for the WNBA’s Chicago Sky. 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Most of all, it’s OK to ask for help.\n\nThat was the message to the Orange Coast College baseball team as it prepared for Tuesday’s season opener against Chula Vista Southwestern, a game that will be played just two days after longtime Pirates coach John Altobelli, his wife, Keri, and their 13-year-old daughter, Alyssa,[died in the fiery helicopter crash](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-01-27\/kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash-victims) that also killed former Lakers star Kobe Bryant [on Sunday.](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-01-27\/kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash-becomes-focus-of-intense-federal-investigation)\n\n“We athletes, we’re macho, and we want to be tough, and because of that, sometimes we pretend like we’re not hurting,” former Cal State Fullerton and Oregon coach George Horton, a close friend of the Altobelli family, told players before practice Monday.\n\n[Read More \\>\\>\\>](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/story\/2020-01-27\/orange-coast-college-baseball-team-play-two-days-after-coach-john-altobelli-died)\n\nShow more\n\nJan. 28, 2020 6:12 AM PT\n\n- Share via\n  \n  Close extra sharing options\n  \n  - 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They included Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna, a budding basketball player who was ready to follow in her father’s footsteps; baseball coach John Altobelli, his wife Keri and their basketball-playing daughter Alyssa; mother and daughter Sarah and Payton Chester; Mamba Academy basketball coach Christina Mauser and pilot Ara Zobayan.\n\nAs Los Angeles collectively mourned their Lakers hero, multiple families and friends reeled while reality hit.\n\n[Read More\\>\\>\\>](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-01-27\/kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash-victims)\n\nShow more\n\nAdvertisement\n\nJan. 28, 2020 4:51 AM PT\n\n- Share via\n  \n  Close extra sharing options\n  \n  - [Email](mailto:?body=The%20last%20flight%20of%20Kobe%20Bryant%0A%0A%0Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dthe-last-flight-of-kobe-bryant%0A%0AA%20light%20fog%20had%20settled%20on%20the%20runway%20of%20John%20Wayne%20Airport%20Sunday%20morning%20when%20Kobe%20Bryant%2C%20his%20daughter%20Gianna%20and%20six%20other%20passengers%20boarded%20a%20chartered%20helicopter%20to%20fly%20to%20a%20basketball%20tournament%20in%20Thousand%20Oaks.%20)\n  - [Facebook](https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dthe-last-flight-of-kobe-bryant)\n  - [X](https:\/\/x.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dthe-last-flight-of-kobe-bryant&text=The%20last%20flight%20of%20Kobe%20Bryant%0A)\n  - [LinkedIn](https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dthe-last-flight-of-kobe-bryant&title=The%20last%20flight%20of%20Kobe%20Bryant%0A&summary=Kobe%20Bryant%2C%20the%20NBA%20MVP%20who%20had%20a%2020-year%20career%20with%20the%20Lakers%2C%20was%20killed%20Sunday%20when%20the%20helicopter%20he%20was%20traveling%20in%20crashed%20and%20burst%20into%20flames%20in%20the%20hills%20above%20Calabasas.%20&source=Los%20Angeles%20Times)\n  - [Threads](https:\/\/threads.net\/intent\/post?text=The%20last%20flight%20of%20Kobe%20Bryant%0A%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dthe-last-flight-of-kobe-bryant)\n  - [Reddit](https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dthe-last-flight-of-kobe-bryant&title=The%20last%20flight%20of%20Kobe%20Bryant%0A)\n  - [WhatsApp](https:\/\/api.whatsapp.com\/send?text=The%20last%20flight%20of%20Kobe%20Bryant%0A%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dthe-last-flight-of-kobe-bryant)\n  - Copy Link URL Copied\\!\n  - Print\n\nThe last flight of Kobe Bryant\n\nBy Los Angeles Times Staff\n\nA light fog had settled on the runway of John Wayne Airport Sunday morning when Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna and six other passengers boarded a chartered helicopter to fly to a basketball tournament in Thousand Oaks.\n\nA half-hour later, they were flying over thickening clouds in the San Fernando Valley. The pilot was worried enough to ask flight controllers to keep track of them. As he approached the hills of Calabasas at 150 miles per hour, they radioed him, telling him he was too low for them to see on radar.\n\nThe pilot commenced a climb, rising 765 feet in 36 seconds, enough to clear adjacent hills.\n\n[Read More](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-01-28\/the-last-flight-of-kobe-bryant)\\>\\>\\>\n\nShow more\n\nJan. 28, 2020 4:50 AM PT\n\n- Share via\n  \n  Close extra sharing options\n  \n  - [Email](mailto:?body=What%20causes%20the%20deep%20marine%20layer%20that%20played%20a%20role%20in%20the%20Kobe%20Bryant%20helicopter%20crash%3F%0A%0A%0Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dwhat-causes-the-deep-marine-layer-that-played-a-role-in-the-kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash%0A%0AOn%20Sunday%20morning%2C%20when%20Kobe%20Bryant%2C%20his%20daughter%20Gianna%20and%20seven%20others%20were%20killed%20in%20a%20helicopter%20crash%20near%20Calabasas%2C%20there%20was%20a%20thick%20marine%20layer%20and%20patchy%20dense%20fog%20that%20obscured%20some%20of%20the%20terrain.%20)\n  - [Facebook](https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dwhat-causes-the-deep-marine-layer-that-played-a-role-in-the-kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash)\n  - [X](https:\/\/x.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dwhat-causes-the-deep-marine-layer-that-played-a-role-in-the-kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash&text=What%20causes%20the%20deep%20marine%20layer%20that%20played%20a%20role%20in%20the%20Kobe%20Bryant%20helicopter%20crash%3F%0A)\n  - [LinkedIn](https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dwhat-causes-the-deep-marine-layer-that-played-a-role-in-the-kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash&title=What%20causes%20the%20deep%20marine%20layer%20that%20played%20a%20role%20in%20the%20Kobe%20Bryant%20helicopter%20crash%3F%0A&summary=Kobe%20Bryant%2C%20the%20NBA%20MVP%20who%20had%20a%2020-year%20career%20with%20the%20Lakers%2C%20was%20killed%20Sunday%20when%20the%20helicopter%20he%20was%20traveling%20in%20crashed%20and%20burst%20into%20flames%20in%20the%20hills%20above%20Calabasas.%20&source=Los%20Angeles%20Times)\n  - [Threads](https:\/\/threads.net\/intent\/post?text=What%20causes%20the%20deep%20marine%20layer%20that%20played%20a%20role%20in%20the%20Kobe%20Bryant%20helicopter%20crash%3F%0A%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dwhat-causes-the-deep-marine-layer-that-played-a-role-in-the-kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash)\n  - [Reddit](https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dwhat-causes-the-deep-marine-layer-that-played-a-role-in-the-kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash&title=What%20causes%20the%20deep%20marine%20layer%20that%20played%20a%20role%20in%20the%20Kobe%20Bryant%20helicopter%20crash%3F%0A)\n  - [WhatsApp](https:\/\/api.whatsapp.com\/send?text=What%20causes%20the%20deep%20marine%20layer%20that%20played%20a%20role%20in%20the%20Kobe%20Bryant%20helicopter%20crash%3F%0A%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dwhat-causes-the-deep-marine-layer-that-played-a-role-in-the-kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash)\n  - Copy Link URL Copied\\!\n  - Print\n\nWhat causes the deep marine layer that played a role in the Kobe Bryant helicopter crash?\n\nBy [Paul Duginski](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/people\/paul-duginski)\n\n![](https:\/\/ca-times.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/9f44ad7\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/1564x1051+0+0\/resize\/1200x806!\/quality\/75\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F72%2Fed%2Facce65b64b81b39157d6fed5356c%2Fla-me-marine-layer-graphics-02.jpg)\n\n(Paul Duginski \/ Los Angeles Times)\n\nOn Sunday morning, when Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna and seven others were killed in a helicopter crash near Calabasas, there was a thick marine layer and patchy dense fog that obscured some of the terrain.\n\nThe conditions were the result of a deteriorating cold front passing through the area with moist northwest flow, which caused low clouds to pile up against the northern slopes of Ventura and L.A. County mountains. There were showers to the north, and clouds pushing into coastal valleys were thick enough to cause drizzle along the coast and in nearby foothills, according to the National Weather Service. A webcam at Oat Mountain, northwest of Porter Ranch, suggested that the marine layer was 3,000 feet thick.\n\n[Read More\\>\\>\\>](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-01-27\/deep-marine-layer-kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash)\n\nShow more\n\nJan. 28, 2020 4:48 AM PT\n\n- Share via\n  \n  Close extra sharing options\n  \n  - [Email](mailto:?body=Huge%20Kobe%20Bryant%20fans%20Justin%20Turner%20and%20Clayton%20Kershaw%20mourn%20his%20death%0A%0A%0Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dhuge-kobe-bryant-fans-justin-turner-and-clayton-kershaw-mourn-his-death%0A%0AJustin%20Turner%20received%20the%20news%20of%20Kobe%20Bryant%E2%80%99s%20death%20Sunday%20from%20his%20wife%2C%20Kourtney%2C%20as%20he%20packed%20a%20van%20for%20his%20charity%20golf%20event%20Monday.%20)\n  - [Facebook](https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dhuge-kobe-bryant-fans-justin-turner-and-clayton-kershaw-mourn-his-death)\n  - [X](https:\/\/x.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dhuge-kobe-bryant-fans-justin-turner-and-clayton-kershaw-mourn-his-death&text=Huge%20Kobe%20Bryant%20fans%20Justin%20Turner%20and%20Clayton%20Kershaw%20mourn%20his%20death%0A)\n  - [LinkedIn](https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dhuge-kobe-bryant-fans-justin-turner-and-clayton-kershaw-mourn-his-death&title=Huge%20Kobe%20Bryant%20fans%20Justin%20Turner%20and%20Clayton%20Kershaw%20mourn%20his%20death%0A&summary=Kobe%20Bryant%2C%20the%20NBA%20MVP%20who%20had%20a%2020-year%20career%20with%20the%20Lakers%2C%20was%20killed%20Sunday%20when%20the%20helicopter%20he%20was%20traveling%20in%20crashed%20and%20burst%20into%20flames%20in%20the%20hills%20above%20Calabasas.%20&source=Los%20Angeles%20Times)\n  - [Threads](https:\/\/threads.net\/intent\/post?text=Huge%20Kobe%20Bryant%20fans%20Justin%20Turner%20and%20Clayton%20Kershaw%20mourn%20his%20death%0A%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dhuge-kobe-bryant-fans-justin-turner-and-clayton-kershaw-mourn-his-death)\n  - [Reddit](https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dhuge-kobe-bryant-fans-justin-turner-and-clayton-kershaw-mourn-his-death&title=Huge%20Kobe%20Bryant%20fans%20Justin%20Turner%20and%20Clayton%20Kershaw%20mourn%20his%20death%0A)\n  - [WhatsApp](https:\/\/api.whatsapp.com\/send?text=Huge%20Kobe%20Bryant%20fans%20Justin%20Turner%20and%20Clayton%20Kershaw%20mourn%20his%20death%0A%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dhuge-kobe-bryant-fans-justin-turner-and-clayton-kershaw-mourn-his-death)\n  - Copy Link URL Copied\\!\n  - Print\n\nHuge Kobe Bryant fans Justin Turner and Clayton Kershaw mourn his death\n\nBy [Jorge Castillo](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/people\/jorge-castillo)\n\n![Lakers legend Kobe Bryant poses for a photo with Dodgers great Tommy Lasorda during a game at Dodger Stadium in July 2013.of the Los Angeles Lakers and Tommy Lasorda attend a game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the New York Yankees on July 31, 2013 at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, Caifornia.](https:\/\/ca-times.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/79abc20\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/3000x1993+0+0\/resize\/1200x797!\/quality\/75\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F8a%2F05%2Ff397d4fc48d398689390cfa55326%2F175289495.jpg)\n\nLakers legend Kobe Bryant poses for a photo with Dodgers great Tommy Lasorda during a game at Dodger Stadium in July 2013.of the Los Angeles Lakers and Tommy Lasorda attend a game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the New York Yankees on July 31, 2013 at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, Caifornia.\n\n(Jill Weisledero \/ Dodgers via Getty Images)\n\nJustin Turner received the news of [Kobe Bryant’s death](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/story\/2020-01-26\/complete-coverage-kobe-bryant-daughter-gianna-among-9-dead-in-helicopter-crash) Sunday from his wife, Kourtney, as he packed a van for his charity golf event Monday. The [Dodgers](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/dodgers) third baseman’s initial reaction was like that of many others — he assumed it wasn’t true. He didn’t believe it until he heard radio reports confirming the unfathomable as he drove to Sherwood Country Club in Thousand Oaks near the site of the [helicopter crash](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-01-27\/kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash-becomes-focus-of-intense-federal-investigation) that killed the 41-year-old Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter [Gianna](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/story\/2020-01-27\/gianna-bryant-death-tough-on-teen-basketball-player) and seven others.\n\n“I was just shaking,” Turner said.\n\n[Read More \\>\\>\\>](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/dodgers\/story\/2020-01-27\/huge-kobe-bryant-fans-justin-turner-clayton-kershaw-mourn-death)\n\nShow more\n\nAdvertisement\n\nJan. 28, 2020 4:45 AM PT\n\n- Share via\n  \n  Close extra sharing options\n  \n  - [Email](mailto:?body=In%20Orange%20County%2C%20Kobe%20Bryant%20grew%20from%20basketball%E2%80%99s%20enfant%20terrible%20into%20a%20%E2%80%98typical%20dad%E2%80%99%0A%0A%0Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Din-orange-county-kobe-bryant-grew-from-basketballs-enfant-terrible-into-a-typical-dad%0A%0AThe%20last%20Saturday%20of%20Kobe%20Bryant%E2%80%99s%20life%20came%20and%20went%20like%20any%20typical%20weekend%20at%20home%20for%20the%20retired%20Lakers%20superstar.%20)\n  - [Facebook](https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Din-orange-county-kobe-bryant-grew-from-basketballs-enfant-terrible-into-a-typical-dad)\n  - [X](https:\/\/x.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Din-orange-county-kobe-bryant-grew-from-basketballs-enfant-terrible-into-a-typical-dad&text=In%20Orange%20County%2C%20Kobe%20Bryant%20grew%20from%20basketball%E2%80%99s%20enfant%20terrible%20into%20a%20%E2%80%98typical%20dad%E2%80%99%0A)\n  - [LinkedIn](https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Din-orange-county-kobe-bryant-grew-from-basketballs-enfant-terrible-into-a-typical-dad&title=In%20Orange%20County%2C%20Kobe%20Bryant%20grew%20from%20basketball%E2%80%99s%20enfant%20terrible%20into%20a%20%E2%80%98typical%20dad%E2%80%99%0A&summary=Kobe%20Bryant%2C%20the%20NBA%20MVP%20who%20had%20a%2020-year%20career%20with%20the%20Lakers%2C%20was%20killed%20Sunday%20when%20the%20helicopter%20he%20was%20traveling%20in%20crashed%20and%20burst%20into%20flames%20in%20the%20hills%20above%20Calabasas.%20&source=Los%20Angeles%20Times)\n  - [Threads](https:\/\/threads.net\/intent\/post?text=In%20Orange%20County%2C%20Kobe%20Bryant%20grew%20from%20basketball%E2%80%99s%20enfant%20terrible%20into%20a%20%E2%80%98typical%20dad%E2%80%99%0A%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Din-orange-county-kobe-bryant-grew-from-basketballs-enfant-terrible-into-a-typical-dad)\n  - [Reddit](https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Din-orange-county-kobe-bryant-grew-from-basketballs-enfant-terrible-into-a-typical-dad&title=In%20Orange%20County%2C%20Kobe%20Bryant%20grew%20from%20basketball%E2%80%99s%20enfant%20terrible%20into%20a%20%E2%80%98typical%20dad%E2%80%99%0A)\n  - [WhatsApp](https:\/\/api.whatsapp.com\/send?text=In%20Orange%20County%2C%20Kobe%20Bryant%20grew%20from%20basketball%E2%80%99s%20enfant%20terrible%20into%20a%20%E2%80%98typical%20dad%E2%80%99%0A%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Din-orange-county-kobe-bryant-grew-from-basketballs-enfant-terrible-into-a-typical-dad)\n  - Copy Link URL Copied\\!\n  - Print\n\nIn Orange County, Kobe Bryant grew from basketball’s enfant terrible into a ‘typical dad’\n\nBy Los Angeles Times Staff\n\nThe last Saturday of Kobe Bryant’s life came and went like any typical weekend at home for the retired Lakers superstar.\n\nHe took one daughter to the mall. Accompanied another to a basketball game. 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Ho \/ Los Angeles Times)\n\nIt usually happens during a pickup basketball game. A player plants his feet, jumps and shoots with a yell of “Kobe!” -- partly a joke, but also a plea to guide the ball into the hoop with the skill of the late Lakers great Kobe Bryant.\n\nIt’s just a moment, but it’s a legacy that Bryant has left countless amateur basketball players -- and those folks just trying to throw a wad of paper into a faraway trash can -- around the world.\n\nAs the news of [Bryant’s death in a helicopter crash on Sunday](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-01-26\/aircraft-slams-into-hillside-explodes-in-flames-near-calabasas) spread, Twitter users and Times readers from all over shared memories of their “Kobe!” shots: jump shots, trick shots and three-point attempts. 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That was impressive but not unexpected.\n\nLiz Habib’s voice cracked before she had to stop and wipe away tears, abandoning a KTTV-Channel 11 live standup. That felt appropriate.\n\nESPN and ABC continued to televise the NFL’s Pro Bowl in a simulcast, a meaningless exercise, while pushing its live coverage of events to ESPN2. That was beyond awkward, bordering on disrespectful.\n\nMedia outlets trying to disseminate what TMZ first reported Sunday morning as a helicopter crash in Calabasas that took five lives, [including that of retired Lakers star Kobe Bryant](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/story\/2020-01-26\/complete-coverage-kobe-bryant-daughter-gianna-among-9-dead-in-helicopter-crash), ignited the comprehension, disbelief and misinformation anxiety that often permeate the first 24 hours of a news cycle.\n\n[Read More \\>\\>\\>](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/lakers\/story\/2020-01-27\/kobe-bryant-death-helicopter-crash-media-coverage)\n\nShow more\n\nJan. 27, 2020 1:13 PM PT\n\n- Share via\n  \n  Close extra sharing options\n  \n  - [Email](mailto:?body=Kobe%20Bryant%20short%20film%20%E2%80%98Dear%20Basketball%E2%80%99%20plays%20like%20a%20eulogy%20from%20the%20man%20who%20made%20it%0A%0Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dkobe-bryant-short-film-dear-basketball-plays-like-a-eulogy-from-the-man-who-made-it%0A%0AThe%20mood%20of%20Kobe%20Bryant%E2%80%99s%20Oscar-winning%20animated%20short%20film%2C%20%E2%80%9CDear%20Basketball%2C%E2%80%9D%20always%20seemed%20a%20little%20curious.%20)\n  - [Facebook](https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dkobe-bryant-short-film-dear-basketball-plays-like-a-eulogy-from-the-man-who-made-it)\n  - [X](https:\/\/x.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dkobe-bryant-short-film-dear-basketball-plays-like-a-eulogy-from-the-man-who-made-it&text=Kobe%20Bryant%20short%20film%20%E2%80%98Dear%20Basketball%E2%80%99%20plays%20like%20a%20eulogy%20from%20the%20man%20who%20made%20it)\n  - [LinkedIn](https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dkobe-bryant-short-film-dear-basketball-plays-like-a-eulogy-from-the-man-who-made-it&title=Kobe%20Bryant%20short%20film%20%E2%80%98Dear%20Basketball%E2%80%99%20plays%20like%20a%20eulogy%20from%20the%20man%20who%20made%20it&summary=Kobe%20Bryant%2C%20the%20NBA%20MVP%20who%20had%20a%2020-year%20career%20with%20the%20Lakers%2C%20was%20killed%20Sunday%20when%20the%20helicopter%20he%20was%20traveling%20in%20crashed%20and%20burst%20into%20flames%20in%20the%20hills%20above%20Calabasas.%20&source=Los%20Angeles%20Times)\n  - [Threads](https:\/\/threads.net\/intent\/post?text=Kobe%20Bryant%20short%20film%20%E2%80%98Dear%20Basketball%E2%80%99%20plays%20like%20a%20eulogy%20from%20the%20man%20who%20made%20it%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dkobe-bryant-short-film-dear-basketball-plays-like-a-eulogy-from-the-man-who-made-it)\n  - [Reddit](https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dkobe-bryant-short-film-dear-basketball-plays-like-a-eulogy-from-the-man-who-made-it&title=Kobe%20Bryant%20short%20film%20%E2%80%98Dear%20Basketball%E2%80%99%20plays%20like%20a%20eulogy%20from%20the%20man%20who%20made%20it)\n  - [WhatsApp](https:\/\/api.whatsapp.com\/send?text=Kobe%20Bryant%20short%20film%20%E2%80%98Dear%20Basketball%E2%80%99%20plays%20like%20a%20eulogy%20from%20the%20man%20who%20made%20it%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dkobe-bryant-short-film-dear-basketball-plays-like-a-eulogy-from-the-man-who-made-it)\n  - Copy Link URL Copied\\!\n  - Print\n\nKobe Bryant short film ‘Dear Basketball’ plays like a eulogy from the man who made it\n\nBy Tim Greiving\n\nThe mood of Kobe Bryant’s [Oscar-winning](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/story\/2020-01-26\/kobe-bryant-entertainment-dear-basketball-oscar) animated short film, “Dear Basketball,” always seemed a little curious. Part love letter to his sport, it was also part eulogy.\n\n“My heart can take the pounding,” Bryant said in his narration, over a quiet moment in John Williams’ poignant score. “My mind can handle the grind. But my body knows it’s time to say goodbye. And that’s OK. I’m ready to let you go.”\n\nThe 2017 film serves as a bit of tragic poetry following [the death of Bryant](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/story\/2020-01-26\/complete-coverage-kobe-bryant-daughter-gianna-among-9-dead-in-helicopter-crash), daughter Gianna and seven other people in a Calabasas [helicopter crash](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-01-27\/kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash-becomes-focus-of-intense-federal-investigation) Sunday.\n\nThe project began as a letter he penned in 2015 for the Players’ Tribune announcing his retirement from the NBA. 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It’s a fitting tribute to the legendary Lakers great [who wrote a poem called “Dear Basketball”](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/story\/2020-01-26\/kobe-bryant-entertainment-dear-basketball-oscar) to announce his retirement from the NBA. That poem was made into a film that earned him an Academy Award, a Sports Emmy and an Annie Award.\n\nBryant, 41, [died in a helicopter crash in Calabasas](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-01-26\/aircraft-slams-into-hillside-explodes-in-flames-near-calabasas) on Sunday morning, along with his 13-year-old daughter and seven others. His [career with the Lakers](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/lakers\/story\/2020-01-26\/bill-plaschke-column-on-kobe-bryant) spanned 20 years before his retirement in 2016, and included five NBA championship titles, two Finals MVPs and one regular season MVP.\n\nThe Times asked readers to write in [with their favorite memories of Bryant](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/lakers\/story\/2020-01-26\/kobe-bryant-memories-from-times-readers). If you have a poem to add, please submit it through the form below.\n\n[Read More\\>\\>\\>](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/lakers\/story\/2020-01-27\/kobe-bryant-fans-honor-him-through-poetry)\n\nShow more\n\nAdvertisement\n\nJan. 27, 2020 1:06 PM PT\n\n- Share via\n  \n  Close extra sharing options\n  \n  - [Email](mailto:?body=Clippers%20respond%20to%20Kobe%20Bryant%E2%80%99s%20death%20on%20social%20media%0A%0A%0Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dclippers-respond-to-kobe-bryants-death-on-social-media%0A%0AThe%20Clippers%20felt%20as%20though%20they%E2%80%99d%20been%20put%20through%20an%20emotional%20wringer%20when%20playing%20Sunday%20in%20Orlando%2C%20where%20they%20tipped%20off%20against%20the%20Magic%20less%20than%20four%20hours%20after%20receiving%20news%20of%20Kobe%20Bryant%E2%80%99s%20death%20in%20a%20helicopter%20crash.%20)\n  - [Facebook](https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dclippers-respond-to-kobe-bryants-death-on-social-media)\n  - [X](https:\/\/x.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dclippers-respond-to-kobe-bryants-death-on-social-media&text=Clippers%20respond%20to%20Kobe%20Bryant%E2%80%99s%20death%20on%20social%20media%0A)\n  - [LinkedIn](https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dclippers-respond-to-kobe-bryants-death-on-social-media&title=Clippers%20respond%20to%20Kobe%20Bryant%E2%80%99s%20death%20on%20social%20media%0A&summary=Kobe%20Bryant%2C%20the%20NBA%20MVP%20who%20had%20a%2020-year%20career%20with%20the%20Lakers%2C%20was%20killed%20Sunday%20when%20the%20helicopter%20he%20was%20traveling%20in%20crashed%20and%20burst%20into%20flames%20in%20the%20hills%20above%20Calabasas.%20&source=Los%20Angeles%20Times)\n  - [Threads](https:\/\/threads.net\/intent\/post?text=Clippers%20respond%20to%20Kobe%20Bryant%E2%80%99s%20death%20on%20social%20media%0A%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dclippers-respond-to-kobe-bryants-death-on-social-media)\n  - [Reddit](https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dclippers-respond-to-kobe-bryants-death-on-social-media&title=Clippers%20respond%20to%20Kobe%20Bryant%E2%80%99s%20death%20on%20social%20media%0A)\n  - [WhatsApp](https:\/\/api.whatsapp.com\/send?text=Clippers%20respond%20to%20Kobe%20Bryant%E2%80%99s%20death%20on%20social%20media%0A%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dclippers-respond-to-kobe-bryants-death-on-social-media)\n  - Copy Link URL Copied\\!\n  - Print\n\nClippers respond to Kobe Bryant’s death on social media\n\nBy [Andrew Greif](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/people\/andrew-greif)\n\n![Fans honor the memory of Kobe Bryant with a moment of silence before an NBA basketball game between the Orlando Magic and the Los Angeles Clippers in Orlando, Fla.](https:\/\/ca-times.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/4bbfc9a\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/3212x2141+0+0\/resize\/1200x800!\/quality\/75\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F3f%2Fab%2F0e0cf77149e1896dfd074190f71e%2Fclippers-magic-basketball-bryant-66730.jpg)\n\nFans honor the memory of Kobe Bryant with a moment of silence before an NBA basketball game between the Orlando Magic and the Los Angeles Clippers in Orlando, Fla.\n\n(Reinhold Matay\/Associated Press)\n\nThe Clippers felt as though they’d been [put through an emotional wringer](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/clippers\/story\/2020-01-26\/clippers-players-devastated-after-learning-kobe-bryant-death) when playing Sunday in Orlando, where they tipped off against the Magic less than four hours after receiving news of [Kobe Bryant’s death in a helicopter crash](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/story\/2020-01-26\/complete-coverage-kobe-bryant-daughter-gianna-among-9-dead-in-helicopter-crash).\n\nOnce their 112-97 victory was over, however, an understanding began to take hold that an [even more emotional scene](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/gallery\/fans-staples-center-mourn-death-kobe-bryant-pictures-photos) awaits them Tuesday at Staples Center, when the Lakers host the Clippers.\n\nThe teams’ previous meetings this season, [both Clippers victories](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/lakers\/story\/2019-12-25\/kawhi-leonard-clippers-erase-15-point-deficit-to-beat-lakers), were already played amid a charged atmosphere, given each organization’s expectation to contend for this season’s NBA championship. 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It made her reflect on what his absence might mean to women’s basketball, one of the most important recipients of his support since his retirement from the NBA.\n\nFrom taking his daughters to WNBA games to coaching his daughter in youth basketball, Bryant was setting the stage to become an invaluable contributor in an arena that needed support. He was headed to Thousand Oaks to coach daughter Gianna, 13, in a youth tournament Sunday when the [helicopter he was traveling in crashed](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-01-26\/kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash-dense-fog-investigation), killing him, Gianna and seven others.\n\nKomaki said the word around the club circuit was Bryant might become the girls’ basketball coach at Newport Coast Sage Hill, where Gianna was possibly going to enroll. A Sage Hill representative denied that Bryant was a coaching candidate. 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I was glancing at my phone when a breaking news alert flashed across my screen, and I gasped.\n\n“What?” Darby said, reaching for her own phone. So she learned as I did that Kobe’s 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, had been with him when the helicopter crashed. 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These were neighbors of the retired Lakers basketball legend and youth basketball coach whom some of the younger people knew around their school gym as Mr. Bryant.\n\n![](https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/bz24v1yXaKs\/hqdefault.jpg)\n\n[×](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/liveblog\/kobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas)\n\n[Read More\\>\\>\\>](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/socal\/daily-pilot\/news\/story\/2020-01-27\/in-a-newport-coast-neighborhood-they-salute-kobe-a-regular-guy-who-would-help-you-carry-your-groceries)\n\nShow more\n\nJan. 27, 2020 11:44 AM PT\n\n- Share via\n  \n  Close extra sharing options\n  \n  - [Email](mailto:?body=Kobe%20Bryant%20didn%E2%80%99t%20mentor%20many%20young%20players%3B%20Anthony%20Davis%20was%20an%20exception%0A%0A%0Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dkobe-bryant-didnt-mentor-many-young-players-anthony-davis-was-an-exception%0A%0ADuring%20his%20playing%20career%2C%20there%20weren%E2%80%99t%20many%20young%20players%20whom%20Kobe%20Bryant%20mentored.%20)\n  - [Facebook](https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dkobe-bryant-didnt-mentor-many-young-players-anthony-davis-was-an-exception)\n  - [X](https:\/\/x.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dkobe-bryant-didnt-mentor-many-young-players-anthony-davis-was-an-exception&text=Kobe%20Bryant%20didn%E2%80%99t%20mentor%20many%20young%20players%3B%20Anthony%20Davis%20was%20an%20exception%0A)\n  - [LinkedIn](https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dkobe-bryant-didnt-mentor-many-young-players-anthony-davis-was-an-exception&title=Kobe%20Bryant%20didn%E2%80%99t%20mentor%20many%20young%20players%3B%20Anthony%20Davis%20was%20an%20exception%0A&summary=Kobe%20Bryant%2C%20the%20NBA%20MVP%20who%20had%20a%2020-year%20career%20with%20the%20Lakers%2C%20was%20killed%20Sunday%20when%20the%20helicopter%20he%20was%20traveling%20in%20crashed%20and%20burst%20into%20flames%20in%20the%20hills%20above%20Calabasas.%20&source=Los%20Angeles%20Times)\n  - [Threads](https:\/\/threads.net\/intent\/post?text=Kobe%20Bryant%20didn%E2%80%99t%20mentor%20many%20young%20players%3B%20Anthony%20Davis%20was%20an%20exception%0A%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dkobe-bryant-didnt-mentor-many-young-players-anthony-davis-was-an-exception)\n  - [Reddit](https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dkobe-bryant-didnt-mentor-many-young-players-anthony-davis-was-an-exception&title=Kobe%20Bryant%20didn%E2%80%99t%20mentor%20many%20young%20players%3B%20Anthony%20Davis%20was%20an%20exception%0A)\n  - [WhatsApp](https:\/\/api.whatsapp.com\/send?text=Kobe%20Bryant%20didn%E2%80%99t%20mentor%20many%20young%20players%3B%20Anthony%20Davis%20was%20an%20exception%0A%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dkobe-bryant-didnt-mentor-many-young-players-anthony-davis-was-an-exception)\n  - Copy Link URL Copied\\!\n  - Print\n\nKobe Bryant didn’t mentor many young players; Anthony Davis was an exception\n\nBy [Tania Ganguli](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/people\/tania-ganguli)\n\n![Lakers star Kobe Bryant, left, and New Orleans Pelicans forward Anthony Davis talk while sitting on the bench during a game at the 2012 London Olympics.](https:\/\/ca-times.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/d68b1e7\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/2048x1152+0+0\/resize\/1200x675!\/quality\/75\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F2c%2Fb8%2F8e851e3e631055a0bdf48071c878%2Flat-sp-kobe-bryant-anthony-davis-20150121)\n\nLakers star Kobe Bryant, left, and New Orleans Pelicans forward Anthony Davis talk while sitting on the bench during a game at the 2012 London Olympics.\n\n(Wally Skalij \/ Los Angeles Times)\n\nDuring his playing career, there weren’t many young players whom Kobe Bryant mentored. He made an exception for Anthony Davis.\n\n“Anthony was different just because of his curiosity about the game itself,” Bryant said [in an interview last fall](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/lakers\/story\/2019-10-21\/lakers-anthony-davis-humble-beginnings-in-chicago). “His obvious potential. His ability. But he had a curious nature about him and how he wanted to learn more and more about that game. So I’d gravitate toward that.”\n\nBryant was [one of nine people killed in a helicopter crash](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/story\/2020-01-26\/complete-coverage-kobe-bryant-daughter-gianna-among-9-dead-in-helicopter-crash) Sunday morning along with his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna; Alyssa Altobelli, Gianna’s teammate on the Mamba basketball team; and her parents [John and Keri Altobelli](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/story\/2020-01-26\/orange-coast-college-baseball-coach-john-altobelli-died-kobe-helicopter-crash); Christina Mauser, who helped coach the Mamba girls basketball team; and the pilot, Ara Zobayan. 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But on Sunday, he was simply a heartbroken Lakers fan.\n\nFollowing the sudden death of local hero Kobe Bryant, Nicholson reflected on his relationship with the basketball icon and his home team yesterday in a rare phone interview with CBS Los Angeles. Bryant [died early Sunday](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/liveblog\/kobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas) in a Calabasas helicopter crash along with his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, and seven others.\n\n“My reaction is the same as almost all of L.A.,” the actor said. “Suddenly, where everything was solid, there’s a big hole in the wall. I was so used to seeing and talking to Kobe that — it kills you. 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Senate Chaplain Barry Black powerfully invoked the Bryants in his opening prayer ahead of today’s impeachment trial: “Lord... as millions mourn the deaths of Kobe and Gianna Bryant, and those who died with them, we think about life's brevity, uncertainty, and legacy.” [pic.twitter.com\/Jm2SrPlJtI](https:\/\/t.co\/Jm2SrPlJtI)\n> \n> — j.d. durkin (@jiveDurkey) [January 27, 2020](https:\/\/twitter.com\/jiveDurkey\/status\/1221859420809895937?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)\n\nShow more\n\nJan. 27, 2020 10:59 AM PT\n\n- Share via\n  \n  Close extra sharing options\n  \n  - [Email](mailto:?body=Justin%20Turner%20talks%20about%20the%20impact%20of%20Kobe%20Bryant%27s%20death%0A%0Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Djustin-turner-talks-about-the-impact-of-kobe-bryants-death%0A%0A%28Required%29)\n  - [Facebook](https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Djustin-turner-talks-about-the-impact-of-kobe-bryants-death)\n  - [X](https:\/\/x.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Djustin-turner-talks-about-the-impact-of-kobe-bryants-death&text=Justin%20Turner%20talks%20about%20the%20impact%20of%20Kobe%20Bryant%27s%20death)\n  - [LinkedIn](https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Djustin-turner-talks-about-the-impact-of-kobe-bryants-death&title=Justin%20Turner%20talks%20about%20the%20impact%20of%20Kobe%20Bryant%27s%20death&summary=Kobe%20Bryant%2C%20the%20NBA%20MVP%20who%20had%20a%2020-year%20career%20with%20the%20Lakers%2C%20was%20killed%20Sunday%20when%20the%20helicopter%20he%20was%20traveling%20in%20crashed%20and%20burst%20into%20flames%20in%20the%20hills%20above%20Calabasas.%20&source=Los%20Angeles%20Times)\n  - [Threads](https:\/\/threads.net\/intent\/post?text=Justin%20Turner%20talks%20about%20the%20impact%20of%20Kobe%20Bryant%27s%20death%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Djustin-turner-talks-about-the-impact-of-kobe-bryants-death)\n  - [Reddit](https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Djustin-turner-talks-about-the-impact-of-kobe-bryants-death&title=Justin%20Turner%20talks%20about%20the%20impact%20of%20Kobe%20Bryant%27s%20death)\n  - [WhatsApp](https:\/\/api.whatsapp.com\/send?text=Justin%20Turner%20talks%20about%20the%20impact%20of%20Kobe%20Bryant%27s%20death%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Djustin-turner-talks-about-the-impact-of-kobe-bryants-death)\n  - Copy Link URL Copied\\!\n  - Print\n\nJustin Turner talks about the impact of Kobe Bryant’s death\n\n> Justin Turner grew up a huge Lakers and [\\#Kobe](https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Kobe?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) fan. He said he was shaking yesterday when he heard the news. His foundation’s annual golf event just kicked off with a moment of silence for Kobe. 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Olympics\n\nBy [David Wharton](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/people\/david-wharton)\n\n![U.S. guard Kobe Bryant is challenged by French guard Tony Parker during a preliminary round game at the 2012 London Olympics.](https:\/\/ca-times.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/48e30e3\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/2540x1720+0+0\/resize\/1200x813!\/quality\/75\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F39%2F91%2F0a4c80ef4128ae797aa746fc9d1d%2Fafp-getty-files-us-accident-basket-nba-bryant17.JPG)\n\nU.S. guard Kobe Bryant is challenged by French guard Tony Parker during a preliminary round game at the 2012 London Olympics.\n\n(Mark Ralston \/ AFP via Getty Images)\n\nIt was the summer of 2008 and [Kobe Bryant](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/lakers\/story\/2020-01-26\/lakers-kobe-bryant-obit) was playing on the [U.S team at the Summer Olympics](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/archives\/la-xpm-2008-aug-23-sp-olyplaschke23-story.html) in Beijing. He mentioned to [Times columnist Bill Plaschke](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/lakers\/story\/2020-01-26\/bill-plaschke-column-on-kobe-bryant) that winning gold might be his greatest accomplishment, better than an NBA championship, a sentiment he knew might irritate some Laker fans.\n\n“So what?” he said. “If they don’t understand this, they don’t know what they’re talking about. It’s simple. You’re playing for your country.”\n\nOn Monday, the International Olympic Committee issued its reaction to the sudden death of a basketball icon who won that gold in China and another one, four years later, in London.\n\n“Kobe was an outstanding and true Olympic champion,” IOC President Thomas Bach said. “He embraced the power of sport to change people’s lives.”\n\n[READ MORE \\>\\>\\>](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/olympics\/story\/2020-01-27\/gold-medalist-lakers-kobe-bryant-remembered-olympic-champion)\n\nShow more\n\nJan. 27, 2020 10:20 AM PT\n\n- Share via\n  \n  Close extra sharing options\n  \n  - [Email](mailto:?body=Southern%20California%20radio%20stations%20will%20go%20silent%20at%20noon%20in%20honor%20of%20Kobe%20Bryant%0A%0Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dsouthern-california-radio-stations-will-go-silent-at-noon-in-honor-of-kobe-bryant%0A%0AThe%20Southern%20California%20Broadcasters%20Association%20is%20asking%20its%20members%20to%20observe%20a%20synchronized%20moment%20of%20silence%20in%20honor%20of%20late%20local%20hero%20Kobe%20Bryant.%20)\n  - [Facebook](https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dsouthern-california-radio-stations-will-go-silent-at-noon-in-honor-of-kobe-bryant)\n  - [X](https:\/\/x.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dsouthern-california-radio-stations-will-go-silent-at-noon-in-honor-of-kobe-bryant&text=Southern%20California%20radio%20stations%20will%20go%20silent%20at%20noon%20in%20honor%20of%20Kobe%20Bryant)\n  - [LinkedIn](https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dsouthern-california-radio-stations-will-go-silent-at-noon-in-honor-of-kobe-bryant&title=Southern%20California%20radio%20stations%20will%20go%20silent%20at%20noon%20in%20honor%20of%20Kobe%20Bryant&summary=Kobe%20Bryant%2C%20the%20NBA%20MVP%20who%20had%20a%2020-year%20career%20with%20the%20Lakers%2C%20was%20killed%20Sunday%20when%20the%20helicopter%20he%20was%20traveling%20in%20crashed%20and%20burst%20into%20flames%20in%20the%20hills%20above%20Calabasas.%20&source=Los%20Angeles%20Times)\n  - [Threads](https:\/\/threads.net\/intent\/post?text=Southern%20California%20radio%20stations%20will%20go%20silent%20at%20noon%20in%20honor%20of%20Kobe%20Bryant%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dsouthern-california-radio-stations-will-go-silent-at-noon-in-honor-of-kobe-bryant)\n  - [Reddit](https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dsouthern-california-radio-stations-will-go-silent-at-noon-in-honor-of-kobe-bryant&title=Southern%20California%20radio%20stations%20will%20go%20silent%20at%20noon%20in%20honor%20of%20Kobe%20Bryant)\n  - [WhatsApp](https:\/\/api.whatsapp.com\/send?text=Southern%20California%20radio%20stations%20will%20go%20silent%20at%20noon%20in%20honor%20of%20Kobe%20Bryant%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dsouthern-california-radio-stations-will-go-silent-at-noon-in-honor-of-kobe-bryant)\n  - Copy Link URL Copied\\!\n  - Print\n\nSouthern California radio stations will go silent at noon in honor of Kobe Bryant\n\nBy [Christi Carras](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/people\/christi-carras)\n\nThe Southern California Broadcasters Association is asking its members to observe a synchronized moment of silence in honor of late local hero Kobe Bryant.\n\nThe radio silence, set to occur at noon Pacific on Monday, will last for one minute and eight seconds — a nod to the Laker star’s original jersey number, 8. 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Many teams now say no one else will ever wear that number.\n\nHere is what 24 Angelenos had to say about No. 24:\n\n[READ MORE \\>\\>\\>](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-01-27\/kobe-bryant-fans-grief)\n\nShow more\n\nAdvertisement\n\nJan. 27, 2020 9:36 AM PT\n\n- Share via\n  \n  Close extra sharing options\n  \n  - [Email](mailto:?body=Kobe%20Bryant%20and%20Nipsey%20Hussle%20weren%E2%80%99t%20perfect%20angels.%20That%E2%80%99s%20why%20L.A.%20loved%20them.%0A%0Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dkobe-bryant-and-nipsey-hussle-werent-perfect-angels-thats-why-l-a-loved-them%0A%0AThere%E2%80%99s%20this%20thing%20that%20happens%20when%20a%20person%20dies%2C%20especially%20when%20that%20person%20is%20famous%20and%20the%20death%20is%20unexpected.%20)\n  - [Facebook](https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dkobe-bryant-and-nipsey-hussle-werent-perfect-angels-thats-why-l-a-loved-them)\n  - [X](https:\/\/x.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dkobe-bryant-and-nipsey-hussle-werent-perfect-angels-thats-why-l-a-loved-them&text=Kobe%20Bryant%20and%20Nipsey%20Hussle%20weren%E2%80%99t%20perfect%20angels.%20That%E2%80%99s%20why%20L.A.%20loved%20them.)\n  - [LinkedIn](https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dkobe-bryant-and-nipsey-hussle-werent-perfect-angels-thats-why-l-a-loved-them&title=Kobe%20Bryant%20and%20Nipsey%20Hussle%20weren%E2%80%99t%20perfect%20angels.%20That%E2%80%99s%20why%20L.A.%20loved%20them.&summary=Kobe%20Bryant%2C%20the%20NBA%20MVP%20who%20had%20a%2020-year%20career%20with%20the%20Lakers%2C%20was%20killed%20Sunday%20when%20the%20helicopter%20he%20was%20traveling%20in%20crashed%20and%20burst%20into%20flames%20in%20the%20hills%20above%20Calabasas.%20&source=Los%20Angeles%20Times)\n  - [Threads](https:\/\/threads.net\/intent\/post?text=Kobe%20Bryant%20and%20Nipsey%20Hussle%20weren%E2%80%99t%20perfect%20angels.%20That%E2%80%99s%20why%20L.A.%20loved%20them.%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dkobe-bryant-and-nipsey-hussle-werent-perfect-angels-thats-why-l-a-loved-them)\n  - [Reddit](https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dkobe-bryant-and-nipsey-hussle-werent-perfect-angels-thats-why-l-a-loved-them&title=Kobe%20Bryant%20and%20Nipsey%20Hussle%20weren%E2%80%99t%20perfect%20angels.%20That%E2%80%99s%20why%20L.A.%20loved%20them.)\n  - [WhatsApp](https:\/\/api.whatsapp.com\/send?text=Kobe%20Bryant%20and%20Nipsey%20Hussle%20weren%E2%80%99t%20perfect%20angels.%20That%E2%80%99s%20why%20L.A.%20loved%20them.%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dkobe-bryant-and-nipsey-hussle-werent-perfect-angels-thats-why-l-a-loved-them)\n  - Copy Link URL Copied\\!\n  - Print\n\nKobe Bryant and Nipsey Hussle weren’t perfect angels. That’s why L.A. loved them.\n\nBy [Erika D. Smith](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/people\/erika-d-smith)\n\nThere’s this thing that happens when a person dies, especially when that person is famous and the death is unexpected.\n\nThose who are left behind to mourn tend to gloss over the bad decisions and focus on the good deeds, the heroic traits and the uncommonly charitable gestures.\n\nThis was very much the case Sunday. Hours after a helicopter carrying Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, and seven others [slammed into the hills above Calabasas](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-01-27\/kobe-bryant-killed-helicopter-crash), killing all on board, celebrities clamored to pay tribute to him during the [Grammy Awards](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/liveblog\/grammy-awards-live-updates) at Staples Center.\n\n[READ MORE \\>\\>\\>](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-01-27\/kobe-bryant-nipsey-hussle-death-grammy-tribute)\n\nShow more\n\nJan. 27, 2020 9:01 AM PT\n\n- Share via\n  \n  Close extra sharing options\n  \n  - [Email](mailto:?body=The%20grim%2C%20delicate%20task%20of%20removing%20remains%20from%20the%20Kobe%20Byrant%20helicopter%20crash%20site%0A%0Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dthe-grim-delicate-task-of-removing-remains-from-the-kobe-byrant-helicopter-crash-site%0A%0AOn%20the%20remote%20Calabasas%20hillside%20where%20Kobe%20Bryant%E2%80%99s%20helicopter%20crashed%2C%20Los%20Angeles%20County%20sheriff%E2%80%99s%20deputies%20and%20other%20emergency%20personnel%20spent%20Monday%20morning%20with%20the%20delicate%20task%20of%20removing%20the%20remains%20of%20victims.%20)\n  - [Facebook](https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dthe-grim-delicate-task-of-removing-remains-from-the-kobe-byrant-helicopter-crash-site)\n  - [X](https:\/\/x.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dthe-grim-delicate-task-of-removing-remains-from-the-kobe-byrant-helicopter-crash-site&text=The%20grim%2C%20delicate%20task%20of%20removing%20remains%20from%20the%20Kobe%20Byrant%20helicopter%20crash%20site)\n  - [LinkedIn](https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dthe-grim-delicate-task-of-removing-remains-from-the-kobe-byrant-helicopter-crash-site&title=The%20grim%2C%20delicate%20task%20of%20removing%20remains%20from%20the%20Kobe%20Byrant%20helicopter%20crash%20site&summary=Kobe%20Bryant%2C%20the%20NBA%20MVP%20who%20had%20a%2020-year%20career%20with%20the%20Lakers%2C%20was%20killed%20Sunday%20when%20the%20helicopter%20he%20was%20traveling%20in%20crashed%20and%20burst%20into%20flames%20in%20the%20hills%20above%20Calabasas.%20&source=Los%20Angeles%20Times)\n  - [Threads](https:\/\/threads.net\/intent\/post?text=The%20grim%2C%20delicate%20task%20of%20removing%20remains%20from%20the%20Kobe%20Byrant%20helicopter%20crash%20site%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dthe-grim-delicate-task-of-removing-remains-from-the-kobe-byrant-helicopter-crash-site)\n  - [Reddit](https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dthe-grim-delicate-task-of-removing-remains-from-the-kobe-byrant-helicopter-crash-site&title=The%20grim%2C%20delicate%20task%20of%20removing%20remains%20from%20the%20Kobe%20Byrant%20helicopter%20crash%20site)\n  - [WhatsApp](https:\/\/api.whatsapp.com\/send?text=The%20grim%2C%20delicate%20task%20of%20removing%20remains%20from%20the%20Kobe%20Byrant%20helicopter%20crash%20site%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dthe-grim-delicate-task-of-removing-remains-from-the-kobe-byrant-helicopter-crash-site)\n  - Copy Link URL Copied\\!\n  - Print\n\nThe grim, delicate task of removing remains from the Kobe Byrant helicopter crash site\n\nBy [Richard Winton](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/people\/richard-winton)\n\nOn the remote Calabasas hillside where [Kobe Bryant’s helicopter crashed](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-01-27\/kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash-becomes-focus-of-intense-federal-investigation), Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies and other emergency personnel spent Monday morning with the delicate task of removing the remains of victims.\n\nThe rough terrain around the crash site off Las Virgenes Canyon Road has been a challenge for first responders from the beginning. On Monday, deputies could be seen on the hillside in off-road vehicles. 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The chopper passed over Boyle Heights, near Dodger Stadium, and circled over Glendale during the flight. 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This was one special athlete, husband, father and friend. Having to write these words is hard enough but also knowing we have lost an amazing human being and his beautiful and talented daughter Gianna is heartbreaking. The commitment Kobe showed to his sport was inspiring, to go through the pain and to finish a game off like only he could inspired me to try to be better. Sometimes I would only go to games just to watch that clock go down to the last 2:00 minutes knowing that we were about to witness something special. Kobe always talked about Vanessa and his beautiful girls and how proud he was of them. Kobe’s passion was his family and basketball. He was determined to inspire the next generation of boys and girls to embrace the sport that he loved. His legacy will live on. 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Maxine Waters’ statement on Bryant’s death\n\n“I am absolutely devastated and heartbroken by the sudden and tragic loss of Kobe Bryant and his beloved daughter Gianna. Kobe Bryant was a king in Los Angeles and one of the greatest athletes the world has ever known. He thrilled Los Angelenos for 20 seasons at the Staples Center, was an 18-time NBA All Star, earned five NBA championships, was twice named the MVP of the NBA Finals, and earned the NBA’s MVP award. Fans around the world marveled at his skills on the court season after season. He was truly spectacular to watch. He was our champion, a living legend, and an inspiration to countless fans and aspiring athletes around the world. His loss is felt by millions of grieving fans who are in shock and disbelief by the tragic passing of such a prolific athlete, devoted husband, and loving father. My heart goes out to his wife, Vanessa, surviving children, relatives, teammates, and friends who are in mourning. 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His daughter Gianna, 13, was also on board and died along with seven others.\n\nLakers’ Rob Pelinka releases statement on Kobe Bryant and Gianna\n\nRob Pelinka, the Lakers vice president, basketball operations and general manager, released a statement on Thursday saying that his lost his best friend and his goddaughter on Sunday. They are the first words from Pelinka since the [helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/liveblog\/kobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas), his 13-year-old daughter Gianna, [and seven others.](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/story\/2020-01-26\/complete-coverage-kobe-bryant-daughter-gianna-among-9-dead-in-helicopter-crash)\n\n“On Sunday, I lost my best friend and sweet goddaughter. With that, there has been an amputation of part of my soul.”\n\nPelinka goes on describing the player, husband, “girl-dad” and best friend Bryant was.\n\n“Kobe was a force of nature, deep, and obsessed with excellence. He was wise, determined, passionate. A visionary beyond measure. A dedicated and loving husband, and a ‘girl-dad’ like no other. When he walked into a room, the energy ignited. He was high voltage, with a motor that had no limits. His mind had an infinite capacity to learn. He was, simply put, the most inspirational athlete of our time. What the world may not know, is that he was also best friend anyone could ever imagine.”\n\n[Read more \\>\\>\\>](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/lakers\/story\/2020-01-30\/lakers-rob-pelinka-releases-statement-on-kobe-bryant-and-gianna)\n\nClippers, who usually cover Lakers logos at Staples Center, to display Kobe Bryant’s jerseys\n\nIntent on creating their own identity, the Clippers usually cover the Lakers’ banners and retired jersey numbers for their home games at Staples Center.\n\nBut for the Clippers’ game against Sacramento on Thursday — the first NBA contest to be played in the arena since the [death of Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna and seven other people in a helicopter crash in Calabasas](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-01-29\/experts-cite-weather-the-largest-killer-in-aviation-as-likely-key-factor-in-kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash) on Sunday — the Clippers left Bryant’s retired jerseys uncovered and on display high above the floor.\n\nThe rest of the Lakers’ championship banners and retired jerseys were covered by the usual images of Clipper players and a city landscape but Bryant’s 8 and 24 stood out on a stark black background.\n\n![Kobe Bryant's jerseys remain uncovered ahead of a Clippers game against the Kings.](https:\/\/ca-times.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/2bfc4bb\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/4032x3024+0+0\/resize\/1200x900!\/quality\/75\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F97%2F9e%2Fd7728049454bb3864563d8c0254a%2Fkobe-clippers.jpg)\n\nKobe Bryant’s jerseys are uncovered ahead of a Clippers game against the Kings.\n\n(Helene Elliott \/ Los Angeles Times)\n\nA moment of silence is scheduled for just past 7:33 p.m.\n\nThe hockey Kings on Wednesday played the first sporting event at Staples Center after Bryant’s death. Players honored him by wearing his jersey to the arena and commemorative decals on their helmets, and the team remembered him in a pregame ceremony.\n\n**[Read More \\> \\> \\>](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/clippers\/story\/2020-01-30\/clippers-honor-kobe-bryant-first-game-at-staples-center)**\n\nHow Kobe Bryant changed the sneaker world\n\nMichael Jordan was professional basketball’s first [signature shoe king](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-ig-michael-jordan-jordan-brand-sneakers-sneaker-20190214-story.html), but Kobe Bryant was arguably his heir apparent, as crucial and challenging to the brand he represented — Nike — as he famously was with his Lakers teammates on the court.\n\nJordan made sneakers cool, but Bryant changed the shoes themselves, creating the market in minimalist, low-silhouette footwear in a league in which everyone was still lacing up their high tops to protect their ankles.\n\nThat led to a succession of NBA superstars adopting the same lighter, quicker shoe style, which helped liberate their moves on the hardwood. It happened soon after Bryant left Adidas to sign a four-year, \\$40-million deal with Nike in 2003, then pushed the company to build a basketball shoe as sleek and safe as those worn in professional soccer.\n\n[Read More \\>\\>\\>](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/story\/2020-01-29\/kobe-bryant-nike-sneakers)\n\nMetta World Peace shares life lessons he learned from Kobe Bryant\n\n![](https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/I4eeISaxSKE\/hqdefault.jpg)\n\nMariachi band says farewell to Kobe Bryant with ‘Amor Eterno’ tearjerker\n\nAs the world continues to mourn the death of [Kobe Bryant](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/story\/2020-01-30\/kobe-bryant-chartered-helicopter-industry) and eight others, the tributes to the late basketball great keep getting more heart-wrenching.\n\nAmid a massive crowd outside Staples Center this week, a mariachi troupe gathered to [honor Bryant](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/lakers\/story\/2020-01-26\/lakers-kobe-bryant-obit), his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, and the other seven lives lost with a poignant rendition of “Amor Eterno,” a goodbye ballad by the late Mexican singer Juan Gabriel.\n\n[Read more \\>\\>\\>](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/music\/story\/2020-01-30\/kobe-bryant-mariachi-amor-eterno-tribute)\n\nGigi and Kobe Bryant befriended a small-town basketball star and her trainer dad\n\nHailey Van Lith *lives* basketball in her tiny town — Cashmere, Wash., population 3,152 — and as the nation’s No. 1 guard and No. 2 overall player on the women’s basketball ranking site Prospects Nation, the 18-year-old knows a bit about celebrity and fame.\n\nBut last summer, as she waited in a Thailand airport after a Team USA game, she wasn’t prepared for a message from [basketball legend Kobe Bryant](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/story\/2020-01-26\/complete-coverage-kobe-bryant-daughter-gianna-among-9-dead-in-helicopter-crash).\n\n“The text was from one of Kobe’s main guys — I called him ‘T,’ and he just basically said that Kobe knew about me, loved my game and really wanted to get me to L.A. to work with him and talk about basketball,” Hailey said in a phone interview Monday as she drove to practice at Cashmere High School.\n\n[Read more \\>\\>\\>](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-01-30\/gigi-kobe-bryant-teen-basketball-star-hailey-van-lith)\n\nVanessa Bryant shares the pain of her family’s loss: ‘Our beautiful blessings taken from us too soon’\n\nVanessa Bryant took to social media on Wednesday to thank the public for their support and express her grief over the helicopter crash that killed her husband, Kobe, daughter Gianna and seven others Sunday.\n\n“There aren’t enough words to describe our pain right now. I take comfort in knowing that Kobe and Gigi both knew that they were so deeply loved. We were so incredibly blessed to have them in our lives. I wish they were here with us forever. They were our beautiful blessings taken from us too soon,” she wrote on Instagram.\n\n“I’m not sure what our lives hold beyond today, and it’s impossible to imagine life without them. But we wake up each day, trying to keep pushing because Kobe, and our baby girl, Gigi, are shining on us to light the way. Our love for them is endless — and that’s to say, immeasurable. I just wish I could hug them, kiss them and bless them. Have them here with us, forever.”\n\n[Read More \\>\\>\\>](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-01-29\/vanessa-bryant-shares-the-pain-of-her-familys-loss-our-beautiful-blessings-taken-from-us-too-soon)\n\nBasketball star, Oscar winner and ... rapper? Remembering Kobe Bryant’s music career\n\n![Lakers superstar Kobe Bryant takes the stage at the House of Blues in 2000.](https:\/\/ca-times.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/66e9c2f\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/1506x847+0+0\/resize\/1200x675!\/quality\/75\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F6f%2F71%2Fba72f852ad13a3a9d991fcfbc313%2Fla-kobe-bryant-career-pictures-pg-010)\n\n(Clarence Williams \/ Los Angeles Times)\n\nBryant’s solo single, “K.O.B.E.,” which debuted at the 2000 All-Star game, featured supermodel Tyra Banks and referenced his baller reputation in the lyrics.\n\n“What I live for? Basketball, beats and broads,” he raps on the track, his flow not particularly smooth or lyrical. “From Italy to the U.S., yes, it’s raw.”\n\nWriting for The Times in 2015, Dexter Thomas [wasn’t exactly impressed](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/music\/posts\/la-et-ms-forget-coaching-kobe-the-rap-game-needs-you-20151130-htmlstory.html) by the song.\n\n“It’s embarrassing. That cheap-sounding beat, the uninspired hook, the awkward chorus — this is more off-target than those three airballs he threw in 1997 against the Utah Jazz,” he wrote.\n\nWhile shooting an accompanying video for the splashy release, directed by BET Award winner Hype Williams, Bryant met his wife, Vanessa. And though their personal relationship would continue to develop for the next 20 years, footage from their professional collaboration never saw the light of day.\n\nDespite Bryant’s rising star power on the court, the song was not well-received, and “Visions,” the album it was slated to launch, was eventually shelved. Bryant officially got the ax from Sony soon enough, never to return to music again — except in a 2011 Taiwanese [Sprite commercial](https:\/\/youtu.be\/eaW0jUGaHe0) and, of course, in other musicians’ lyrics, which often saluted the self-proclaimed Black Mamba and his larger-than-life legacy.\n\n**[Read More \\> \\> \\>](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/music\/story\/2020-01-29\/kobe-bryant-rapper-songs-music)**\n\nKawhi Leonard flew with Ara Zobayan often: ‘He was one of the best pilots’\n\nThe pilot involved in the helicopter crash Sunday that killed former Lakers star Kobe Bryant and eight others also flew Kawhi Leonard often and was regarded highly by the Clippers superstar.\n\n“Great guy, super nice,” Leonard said Wednesday of Ara Zobayan, a pilot from Huntington Beach who flew for the charter service Island Express. “He was one of the best pilots. That is a guy who you ask for to fly you from city to city. It’s just surreal still.”\n\nLeonard was close with Bryant, saying their relationship began during his second or third season in the NBA. Last summer, Bryant hosted Leonard, Clippers teammate Paul George and a handful of other players at his Mamba Academy in Thousand Oaks. One piece of advice Leonard sought from Bryant last summer, after signing with the Clippers as a free agent, was how Bryant used a helicopter often to cut down his commute to and from his home in Newport Beach.\n\nLeonard, last season, purchased a house in Rancho Santa Fe, north of San Diego. (In December, Leonard also purchased a penthouse near Staples Center.)\n\n“I talked to him about it before our transition to playing in L.A, just seeing how \\[he\\] got back and forth from Newport and he said he was doing it for about 17 years or so,” Leonard said. “Yeah, same pilot, everything, the whole situation, this whole program, the setup, how he was traveling back and forth was the same way I was getting here from San Diego.” Asked whether the crash gave him pause to continue to using helicopters, Leonard was unsure.\n\n“The things that you hear, you don’t know what’s real yet,” he said. “I can’t really speak on it. I don’t know. I don’t know yet. It’s a lot of thoughts in my head.”\n\nZobayan, 50, had a commercial certificate and was a certified flight instructor with 8,200 hours of flight time as of July, said Jennifer Homendy, a National Transportation Safety Board member.\n\n“\\[Zobayan\\] will drop me off and say he is about go pick up Kobe. ‘Kobe said hello.’ Or he’ll just be like, ‘I just dropped Kobe off and he said hello.’ Vice versa. So, it’s a crazy interaction. He’s a good dude and I’m sorry for everybody.”\n\nClippers’ Lou Williams on Kobe Bryant, being a \\#GirlDad\n\nKobe Bryant’s influence will be ‘felt forever,’ Lakers coach Frank Vogel says\n\n![](https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/GxBqh4x_M1E\/hqdefault.jpg)\n\nLakers coach Frank Vogel talks about Kobe Bryant.\n\nAfter their practice in El Segundo on Wednesday morning, the Lakers gave their players the option of speaking to reporters about [the tragic death of Kobe Bryant](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/liveblog\/kobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas). They decided to continue to mourn in private.\n\nLakers coach Frank Vogel stepped forward to make the first public comments from a member of the organization since a helicopter carrying [Bryant, his daughter Gianna and seven others](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-01-27\/kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash-victims) crashed into a Calabasas hillside Sunday morning, killing all aboard.\n\nVogel said he told the players they could talk when they’re ready and not a moment before.\n\nAs Vogel addressed the media, LeBron James was nearby on the practice court, hoisting up jumpers.\n\n“We want to represent what Kobe was about more than anything,” said Vogel, who acknowledged there were some questions he may not be ready to address at this time.\n\n“He was the most feared man in the league for an entire generation.… His influence will be felt forever.”\n\nThe Lakers display retired numbers on two walls above their practice gym. On Wednesday, Bryant’s No. 8 and No. 24 were lit up.\n\nThe team was flying home from Philadelphia on Sunday morning [when they learned about the crash](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/lakers\/story\/2020-01-26\/lakers-players-shocked-speechless-after-kobe-bryant-death). Players became emotional as they heard the news and Vogel addressed them once he heard. The team canceled practice on Monday, though a few players trickled into the facility.\n\nThe franchise waited until Monday afternoon to release any statement regarding Bryant’s death out of respect for his widow, Vanessa, and his three surviving daughters.\n\nBut the Lakers have also needed time to process and grieve the loss of a legend.\n\n“We’ve become a family in a very short time,” Vogel said.\n\nThe organization has been reeling since Sunday morning. General manager Rob Pelinka was one of Bryant’s closest friends and Gianna’s godfather.\n\nLakers executives, including owner Jeanie Buss and Linda Rambis, spent time at the team facility on Sunday and Monday. [Buss lost her mother](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/lakers\/story\/2019-12-16\/joann-buss-former-wife-of-legendary-lakers-owner-jerry-buss-dies) and a close friend, [former NBA Commissioner David Stern](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/obituaries\/story\/2020-01-01\/david-stern-nba-commissioner-dead), in the last six weeks. Monday would have been her father’s 87th birthday.\n\nThe Lakers were planning to honor Jerry Buss during Tuesday’s game against the Clippers, before Sunday’s crash changed everything, leading the NBA to postpone the game.\n\nOn Monday, the team brought in grief counselors, who were made available to employees, according to a person familiar with the situation. Bryant’s history with many of them was long. He joined the organization in 1996, as a 17-year-old ready to take over the basketball world.\n\nNo formal plans have been made on how to honor Bryant, but the Lakers created a space Sunday for fans to gather and hold a vigil outside their facility. They provided a large white canvas with a watermarked image of Bryant leaned against the wall for fans to sign, using Sharpies distributed by the Lakers. It was nearly full by Monday afternoon, and enough fans have visited since to fill up two more.\n\nOn Wednesday morning, a fourth canvas was unfurled outside the facility, where one fan stood with a fresh bouquet of flowers.\n\nClippers’ Paul George on Kobe Bryant: ‘He was my Michael Jordan’\n\nClippers’ Kawhi Leonard says he talked to Kobe immediately after winning NBA title\n\nShaq will donate Super Bowl party proceeds to Kobe’s foundation, crash victims’ families\n\nAfter days of deliberation following [the death of his “brother” Kobe Bryant](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/lakers\/story\/2020-01-28\/shaquille-oneal-tearfully-says-he-never-could-have-imagined-kobe-bryant-dying), Shaquille O’Neal has decided to proceed with “[Shaq’s Fun House](https:\/\/shaqsfunhouse.com\/),” an carnival-style event scheduled for Friday night in Miami as one of the events leading up to Super Bowl LIV.\n\nIn a heartfelt social media post Wednesday, O’Neal said he will donate all his proceeds from the event to the Kobe and Vanessa Bryant Foundation and to the families of [the nine people killed](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-01-27\/kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash-victims) in the helicopter crash Sunday in Calabasas.\n\n“Kobe would want us to push through and celebrate life,” O’Neal wrote. “So let’s do just that.”\n\nMusical performers at the event include Diddy, Diplo, Pitbull and Diesel (the name Shaq uses [as an electronic music DJ](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/music\/story\/2019-08-07\/shaquille-oneal-dj-diesel-shaq-hard)).\n\nESPN anchor’s tribute to Kobe Bryant sparks \\#GirlDad trend\n\nThe final moments of Kobe Bryant’s fatal flight, turn by turn\n\nBy Matt Stiles\n\n, Swetha Kannan, Casey Miller and Andrea Roberson\n\n![](https:\/\/ca-times.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/759eabc\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/400x300+0+0\/resize\/1200x900!\/quality\/75\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fb1%2F8e%2Fe1f545944e2d883745aa87486ce7%2Fhp.gif)\n\n[A reconstruction of the flight by The Times](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/projects\/kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash-3d-map\/#nt=1col-7030col1-main) tracks the helicopter’s path starting at a crucial moment near the end when the pilot left the San Fernando Valley above the 101 Freeway. Fog and cloudy weather had descended on the region, limiting visibility.\n\nNTSB to FAA after helicopter crash: We warned you about terrain alert system\n\nBy Richard Winton, Hannah Fry, Andrew J. Campa, Jaclyn Cosgrove\n\nNTSB investigator Jennifer Homendy said at Tuesday’s news conference that her agency had recommended that the Federal Aviation Administration 16 years ago require that all choppers carrying six or more passengers be equipped with a terrain awareness and warning system, adding that the FAA has “failed to act” on the proposal. Because the FAA didn’t follow the recommendation, the chopper that crashed Sunday was not legally required to have the system.\n\nShortly after she spoke, an FAA spokesman disputed that assessment, noting that the FAA requires the terrain alarm system for helicopter air ambulance operations.\n\n[Read more \\>\\>\\>](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-01-28\/deputies-patrol-kobe-bryant-crash-site-trespassers-face-arrest)\n\nJohn Altobelli and family are paid tribute at Orange Coast College baseball opener\n\nSunday’s helicopter crash killed John Altobelli, 56, his wife, Keri, 46, and their daughter, Alyssa, 13, along with former Lakers star Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, and four others.\n\nTwo days [after the tragedy,](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-01-28\/deputies-patrol-kobe-bryant-crash-site-trespassers-face-arrest) the Pirates took the field for the first time in 28 years without Altobelli, who guided OCC to four state championships and 705 victories, sent hundreds of players to four-year colleges and helped countless teenagers mature into young men since 1993.\n\nThe crowd of about 2,000 that squeezed into Wendell Pickens Field on the school’s Costa Mesa campus included J.J. Altobelli, 29, a scout for the Boston Red Sox, and high school junior Alexis Altobelli, 16, the only surviving members of the Altobelli family.\n\n[Read More \\>\\>\\>](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/story\/2020-01-28\/orange-coast-season-opener)\n\nKobe Bryant’s helicopter was not equipped with terrain warning system that could have alerted pilot to hillside\n\nThe helicopter that crashed Sunday in Calabasas, killing nine people including Kobe Bryant, was not equipped with a terrain alarm system that could have warned the pilot he was approaching a hillside, National Transportation Safety Board officials said Tuesday.\n\nThe findings come as investigators are trying to determine why the helicopter crashed into a Calabasas hillside Sunday morning amid foggy conditions.\n\nNTSB investigator Jennifer Homendy said at Tuesday’s news conference that the helicopter was at 2,300 feet when it lost communication with air traffic controllers. The descent rate of the helicopter at the time of impact was more than 2,000 feet per minute.\n\n[Read More \\>\\>\\>](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-01-28\/deputies-patrol-kobe-bryant-crash-site-trespassers-face-arrest)\n\nDramatic video of wreckage from Kobe Bryant helicopter crash is released\n\nFederal investigators on Tuesday released a dramatic video showing the scene where Kobe Bryant’s helicopter crashed into a Calabasas hillside, killing the NBA great, his daughter and seven other people.\n\nThe National Transportation Safety Board video shows the charred wreckage of the helicopter, which broke apart on impact Sunday morning. Much of what remained of the chopper was burned beyond recognition. But a wheel and parts of the fuselage appear not to have been burned.\n\nThe video was released as the NTSB is trying to determine the cause of the crash, a task expected to take months.\n\n[Read More \\>\\>\\>](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-01-28\/dramatic-video-of-wreckage-from-kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash-is-released)\n\nKobe Bryant had a legendary workout for Clippers, who did him a favor by not drafting him\n\nIn the spring of 1996, fewer than a dozen Clippers officials watched as coach Bill Fitch ran a 17-year-old guard from Philadelphia through a solo predraft workout in Los Angeles.\n\nOn the day’s agenda was the same drill Fitch had used in hundreds of workouts during his previous 26 years evaluating NBA prospects. Fitch called it “baskets per minute,” and it was a souped-up version of the classic Mikan drill. Players alternated shooting on the left and right sides of the basket, using both hands, making as many baskets as possible in 60 seconds.\n\nLarry Bird was one of the best Fitch had ever tested. Nothing, however, topped what Fitch would witness that spring day inside the Sports Arena from Kobe Bryant.\n\n[Read More \\>\\>\\>](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/clippers\/story\/2020-01-28\/kobe-bryant-legendary-workout-clippers-favor-passing-on-him)\n\nKobe Bryant’s devotion to family became paramount when his basketball career ended\n\nIt was December 2017, more than a year after Kobe Bryant [had retired from basketball](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/lakers\/story\/2020-01-26\/kobe-bryant-memories-from-times-readers), and the Lakers great was expounding upon a fundamental truth of parenthood. Having spent much of his NBA career on the road, traveling from city to city, he talked about a new job, shuttling his daughters around Newport Coast.\n\n“A lot of driving in a three-to-five mile radius,” he said. “Now, to have that, it’s absolutely wonderful. The time we spend in the car.”\n\nBryant’s life, which [ended in a helicopter crash](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-01-28\/the-questions-at-the-heart-of-the-kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash-investigation) Sunday, might have seemed all big-time sports and celebrity from the outside, but there was something more basic at its core.\n\n[Read More \\>\\>\\>](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/lakers\/story\/2020-01-28\/kobe-bryant-devotion-family-became-paramount-basketball-career-ended)\n\nA tearful Shaquille O’Neal on Kobe Bryant’s death: ‘I’ve lost a little brother’\n\nShaquille O’Neal sat in a chair at center court inside Staples Center wearing a gray suit with tears streaming down his face as he talked about dealing with the death of his friend and former Lakers teammate Kobe Bryant.\n\nO’Neal and the acclaimed TNT crew of Ernie Johnson, Charles Barkley and Kenny Smith along with quests Jerry West, Dwyane Wade and Reggie Miller had come to Los Angeles on Tuesday to pay tribute to Bryant in an hourlong show called “Remembering Kobe.”\n\nO’Neal struggled to come to grips with Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, and seven others perishing when their helicopter crashed into a Calabasas hillside Sunday.\n\n[Read More \\>\\>\\>](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/lakers\/story\/2020-01-28\/shaquille-oneal-tearfully-says-he-never-could-have-imagined-kobe-bryant-dying)\n\nKobe Bryant became champion of women’s sports after career\n\n[Kobe Bryant](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-01-28\/the-questions-at-the-heart-of-the-kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash-investigation) sauntered through the locker room doors and eyes widened. After watching the Oregon women’s basketball team beat USC by 40 points at the Galen Center last January, the NBA legend, his daughter Gianna and other aspiring basketball players visited the Ducks.\n\nBryant greeted players with hugs. He signed their shoes — Kobes, naturally — while they were still on their feet. He complimented their playing style.\n\nBryant wasn’t in the courtside seat as a dad just chaperoning his daughter and her friends, Oregon coach Kelly Graves realized as he watched the interactions. This wasn’t a duty, this wasn’t an obligation and this wasn’t a publicity stunt.\n\n[Read More \\>\\>\\>](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/lakers\/story\/2020-01-28\/kobe-bryant-became-champion-of-womens-sports-after-career)\n\nKobe Bryant’s winning skills captivated fans in the NBA’s huge China market\n\nBy Tommy Yang\n\nAs a middle school student, Shen Yuqi started to follow the NBA largely because of Chinese superstar Yao Ming, a 7-foot, 6-inch phenom who caught her attention during the 2006-07 season.\n\nShen, like many basketball fans growing up China, soon found out the league was filled with dynamic players. She picked a new favorite star — No. 24 of the Los Angeles Lakers.\n\nIn the first NBA game she watched on television, the Rockets were playing the Lakers.\n\n[Read More \\>\\>\\>](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/world-nation\/story\/2020-01-28\/nba-and-kobe-bryant-fans-in-china)\n\nFans pay tribute to late NBA star Kobe Bryant\n\n![](https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/KwFm42TbSCM\/hqdefault.jpg)\n\nMore and more fans flood the Lakers training facility in El Segundo on Monday to pay respects to retired NBA star Kobe Bryant, who died Sunday in a helicopter crash in Calabasas.\n\nThe time Kobe Bryant took part in a child’s goldfish funeral\n\nIn the 2½ days after [Kobe Bryant died in a helicopter crash](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-01-28\/the-questions-at-the-heart-of-the-kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash-investigation), billionaire investor Chris Sacca sifted through old emails and text messages with the [Lakers](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/lakers) star.\n\n“Somehow yesterday was bad and today feels even worse,” Sacca said in an email to The Times on Tuesday.\n\nTheir relationship started several years ago when Bryant asked Sacca to serve as a mentor to help him grow as an investor and entrepreneur. They quickly became friends, bonding over business and fatherhood. Though Bryant built a reputation as a fearsome competitor on the basketball court and a businessman with wide-ranging pursuits off it, children brought out a different side.\n\nOne occasion lingers in Sacca’s mind.\n\n[Read More \\>\\>\\>](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/lakers\/story\/2020-01-28\/kobe-bryant-took-part-in-a-child-goldfish-funeral)\n\nAC Milan, Kobe Bryant’s favorite Italian soccer team, pays tribute during match\n\nAC Milan and its fans paid tribute to Kobe Bryant with lights and applause before and during Tuesday’s Italian Cup game against Torino at the San Siro stadium.\n\nBryant, who grew up in Italy between the ages of 6 and 13, was a devout Milan fan. The 18-time NBA All-Star with the Lakers [died Sunday with his 13-year-old daughter](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/liveblog\/kobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas), Gianna, in a helicopter crash near Calabasas.\n\nAs Milan and Torino warmed up before the game, the words “Legends Never Die” and “SempreKobe” — a play on the “SempreMilan,” or “AlwaysMilan,” hashtag often used by the club — were displayed on the advertising boards around the San Siro while images of Bryant were shown on the giant screen.\n\n[Read More \\>\\>\\>](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/story\/2020-01-28\/ac-milan-pays-tribute-to-kobe-bryant-at-san-siro-match)\n\nWWE star Roman Reigns did what many dads had done after Kobe Bryant and Gianna died\n\nWWE [superstar Roman Reigns](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/sportsnow\/la-sp-sports-newsletter-20190311-story.html), who grew up a huge Lakers fan, was preparing for Sunday’s Royal Rumble pay-per-view event when he learned of [the death of Kobe Bryant](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/story\/2020-01-26\/complete-coverage-kobe-bryant-daughter-gianna-among-9-dead-in-helicopter-crash) and his daughter Gianna.\n\nTimes reporter Arash Markazi caught up with Reigns and talked to him about Bryant.\n\n“I watched religiously throughout his career,” Reigns said. “I never thought losing someone like that, essentially a stranger, though obviously a public figure ... I didn’t realize it would affect me so much. It broke my heart. My heart goes out to his wife and his three girls that were left behind. All the families that were involved.\n\n[Read More \\>\\>\\>](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/story\/2020-01-28\/wwe-roman-reigns-kobe-bryant-death-royal-rumble)\n\nHBO’s ‘Real Sports’ grapples with Kobe Bryant’s complex legacy\n\nKobe Bryant’s greatness as a basketball player is unquestioned. But he was also known for his prickly personality and his villainous on-court demeanor as the self-named [Black Mamba](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/lakers\/story\/2020-01-28\/kobe-bryant-lakers-mamba-mentality-hate-losing-death-crash).\n\nThose aspects of Bryant’s complicated nature are recalled in Tuesday’s installment of HBO’s sports magazine “Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel.”\n\nThe “Real Sports” segment focuses on two profiles the series conducted with Bryant, [who died Sunday](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/liveblog\/kobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas), along with his daughter Gianna and seven others, in a helicopter crash in Calabasas. The first piece, from 2000, finds the player discussing his early motivations to become great, including being inspired by the success of his father, pro basketball player Joseph Bryant.\n\n[Read More\\>\\>\\>](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/tv\/story\/2020-01-28\/kobe-bryant-hbo-real-sports-bryant-gumbel-retrospective)\n\nWashington Post clears writer who tweeted about Kobe Bryant rape allegation\n\nA Washington Post reporter who had been placed on administrative leave after she [tweeted a link to a story about a 2003 rape allegation against Kobe Bryant](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/story\/2020-01-26\/what-happened-kobe-bryant-sexual-assault-case) has been cleared to return to work, the paper said Tuesday.\n\nIn a statement, the Post said that an internal review had determined that political reporter Felicia Sonmez was “not in clear and direct violation of our social media policy,” but that the tweets were “ill-timed.”\n\nSonmez’s tweet came in the hours after Bryant, 41, [died in a helicopter crash Sunday](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-01-28\/deputies-patrol-kobe-bryant-crash-site-trespassers-face-arrest).\n\n[Read More\\>\\>\\>](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/world-nation\/story\/2020-01-28\/wapo-clears-writer-who-tweeted-about-bryant-rape-allegation)\n\nVideo Column: Kobe Bryant was much more than just an iconic basketball star\n\n![](https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/nWSbRUu7ZeE\/hqdefault.jpg)\n\nKobe Bryant was much more than just an iconic basketball star. L.A. Times sports and culture columnist LZ Granderson has covered the NBA and Kobe Bryant for decades.\n\nInvestigators from the FAA and NTSB searched for clues in Kobe’s helicopter crash\n\nBy Los Angeles Times Staff\n\n![](https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/vtd_ZXHIzjQ\/hqdefault.jpg)\n\nTurning now to the investigation as federal authorities work to unravel the mystery of why Kobe’s helicopter crashed. Today, local officials had the grim task of removing the remains of the victims, while investigators from the FAA and NTSB searched for clues. L.A. Times reporter Richard Winton saw the immediate aftermath at the time of the crash and has been covering the investigation from Calabasas.\n\n(Required)\n\nNTSB Calabasas, CA Helicopter Crash B-Roll\n\n![](https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/GvjzFWbJJxo\/hqdefault.jpg)\n\nNTSB Board Member Jennifer Homendy briefs media on the Jan. 26 helicopter crash in Calabasas, Calif.\n\nFilm academy to acknowledge Kobe Bryant’s death at the Oscars\n\n![TOPSHOT - Kobe Bryant poses in the press room with the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film for \"Dear Basketball,\" during the 90th Annual Academy Awards on March 4, 2018, in Hollywood, California. (Photo by FREDERIC J. BROWN \/ AFP) (Photo credit should read FREDERIC J. BROWN\/AFP via Getty Images)](https:\/\/ca-times.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/b0a362c\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/3308x2488+0+0\/resize\/1200x903!\/quality\/75\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F9c%2F2a%2F26f8694744748b3c19001c15ac57%2Fgettyimages-927297360.jpg)\n\nTOPSHOT - Kobe Bryant poses in the press room with the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film for “Dear Basketball,” during the 90th Annual Academy Awards on March 4, 2018, in Hollywood, California. (Photo by FREDERIC J. BROWN \/ AFP) (Photo credit should read FREDERIC J. BROWN\/AFP via Getty Images)\n\n(FREDERIC J. BROWN\/AFP via Getty Images)\n\nJoining other tributes that have poured in around the world, the motion picture academy plans to acknowledge the [death of basketball legend Kobe Bryant](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/story\/2020-01-26\/complete-coverage-kobe-bryant-daughter-gianna-among-9-dead-in-helicopter-crash) at next month’s Oscars ceremony.\n\nThe specific details are being kept under wraps at this time. The Oscars telecast has long included an In Memoriam segment to acknowledge notable members of the Hollywood community who passed away that year, but it is unclear whether Bryant will receive a separate tribute. Bryant won an Academy Award in 2018 for producing and writing the five-minute animated short “Dear Basketball.”\n\n[Read More\\>\\>\\>](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/movies\/story\/2020-01-28\/film-academy-kobe-bryant-oscars)\n\nCalifornia lawmakers have a moment of silence on House floor for Kobe Bryant, other crash victims\n\nReps. Harley Rouda (D-Laguna Beach) and Maxine Waters (D-Los Angeles) led members of the California delegation in a moment of silence on the House floor Tuesday afternoon in honor of the nine victims who died in Sunday’s helicopter crash.\n\nRouda named each of the victims in alphabetical order: John, Keri and Alyssa Altobelli, Kobe and Gianna Bryant, Payton and Sarah Chester, Christina Mauser and pilot Ara Zobayan.The congressman acknowledged the group’s love of basketball and singled out the parents’ and coaches’ on board who were steadfastly dedicated to nurturing the passion and talents of the three 13-year-old girls who died on their way to play a game.“\n\nOrange County is grieving, but we will find solace and purpose in the legacy they left behind,” he said. Waters addressed the loss of Kobe and Gianna Byrant specifically, before the House fell silent.“\n\nI stand today on behalf of all Californians, and certainly the entire city of Los Angeles and millions of fans worldwide who are mourning the sudden loss of Kobe Bryant,” she said. “Our hearts go out to his wife, Vanessa, surviving daughters, Natalia, Bianka and Capri, relatives, teammates and friends.”\n\nFans pay tribute to late NBA star Kobe Bryant\n\n![](https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/KwFm42TbSCM\/hqdefault.jpg)\n\nMore and more fans flood the Lakers training facility in El Segundo on Monday to pay respects to retired NBA star Kobe Bryant, who died Sunday in a helicopter crash in Calabasas.\n\nWhy you can’t buy Kobe Bryant’s signature sneakers on Nike.com\n\nWhen Kobe Bryant sneakers on Nike’s e-commerce site disappeared from the merchandise mix at some point in the 24 hours after Bryant’s death, some published reports claimed that it was part of Nike’s effort to limit secondary resellers’ ability to lay in a supply of sneakers that could later be sold at grief-inflated prices.\n\nThat’s not accurate, according to a Nike representative, who told The Times on Tuesday that the sneakers weren’t purposefully pulled from the company’s e-commerce site but that the existing stock had sold out. The Beaverton, Ore., athletic goods maker has been making Bryant’s signature shoe since 2003, and searches for the Black Mamba’s name on Nike.com redirect to [a message of condolences](https:\/\/swoo.sh\/3aJg6rt) dated Jan. 26.\n\n[Read More\\>\\>\\>](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/lifestyle\/story\/2020-01-28\/kobe-bryant-sneakers-sold-out-nike)\n\nLakers fan pays tribute to Kobe Bryant with his ‘KNG KOBE’ truck\n\n![Ron Bonilla stands behind his truck that features a KNG KOBE license plate and a Lakers flag at half-staff.](https:\/\/ca-times.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/01ee7b9\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/4032x3024+0+0\/resize\/1200x900!\/quality\/75\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F28%2F1b%2Fa9d8013c42299d505e5b64d20040%2Fimg-9871.jpeg)\n\n(Kathy Klein \/ For The Times)\n\nDrivers on Lake Avenue in Pasadena honked their horns late Sunday afternoon as Ron Bonilla drove his black-matte 2007 Toyota Tundra — with personal license plate KNG KOBE and a Lakers flag at half-mast — through traffic.\n\nBonilla, 48, has been a Lakers fan since 1979, when Magic Johnson joined the team.\n\n“I’ve never felt so connected to any athlete or artist or entertainer as I felt with Kobe,” said Bonilla, proudly wearing Bryant’s No. 24 jersey and a Lakers cap.\n\n[Read More\\>\\>\\>](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/story\/2020-01-28\/lakers-fan-pays-tribute-to-kobe-bryant-with-his-kng-kobe-truck)\n\nH.B.’s Ara Zobayan, who flew doomed Bryant helicopter, was an experienced pilot and instructor\n\nBy The Daily Pilot Staff\n\nAra Zobayan of Huntington Beach — the pilot of the helicopter that crashed in Calabasas on Sunday, killing nine people, including Zobayan and retired Lakers star Kobe Bryant — was an experienced flier and a certified flight instructor with more than 8,000 hours of flight time, sources said this week.\n\nBryant regularly used the helicopter, a Sikorsky S-76B owned by the charter service Island Express. Records show the aircraft had flown between John Wayne Airport, where it took off Sunday morning, and Camarillo Airport, where it was heading, about two dozen times in the past two years.\n\n[Read More\\>\\>\\>](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/socal\/daily-pilot\/news\/story\/2020-01-28\/ara-zobayan-kobe-pilot)\n\nAll bodies recovered from Kobe Bryant crash site as investigation continues\n\nBy Los Angeles Times Staff\n\nThe bodies of Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter and seven others who died in a helicopter crash have been recovered from a Calabasas hillside, coroner officials said Tuesday.\n\nAuthorities on Sunday recovered the bodies of at least three victims from the helicopter wreckage. The next day, the search continued for the six remaining victims. Their bodies were eventually located and taken to the Los Angeles County Coroner’s forensic science center, where officials will work to identify them.\n\nAuthorities investigating the devastating incident said the impact of the crash was intense, shattering the chopper and sending debris over a wide area.\n\n[Read More\\>\\>\\>](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-01-28\/deputies-patrol-kobe-bryant-crash-site-trespassers-face-arrest)\n\nKobe Bryant’s studio removes Oscar-winning ‘Dear Basketball’ film from website\n\nDon’t be surprised if you can’t find Kobe Bryant’s Oscar-winning animated short “Dear Basketball” streaming online anymore in the wake of [the basketball star’s death](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/story\/2020-01-26\/complete-coverage-kobe-bryant-daughter-gianna-among-9-dead-in-helicopter-crash). The film, which Granity Studios briefly made available for free Monday, has been taken down.\n\nThe decision Tuesday to take down the video means it’ll be hard to find online — again.\n\n[Read More\\>\\>\\>](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/movies\/story\/2020-01-27\/kobe-bryant-dear-basketball-documentary-muse)\n\nPetition to use Kobe Bryant image in NBA logo approaches 2 million signatures\n\nIn the days since [the helicopter crash that took the lives](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/story\/2020-01-26\/complete-coverage-kobe-bryant-daughter-gianna-among-9-dead-in-helicopter-crash) of Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, and seven others, NBA players and teams have been paying tribute to the Lakers legend, with gestures including [handwritten messages](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/lifestyle\/story\/2020-01-27\/athletes-stars-pay-wearable-tribute-kobe-bryant) on their sneakers and [intentional clock violations](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/clippers\/story\/2020-01-26\/clippers-players-devastated-after-learning-kobe-bryant-death) of 8 and 24 seconds in honor Bryant’s jersey numbers and [custom pregame jerseys](https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nba\/news\/kobe-bryant-tributes-pistons-wear-custom-no-8-no-24-jerseys-timberwolves-leave-basketball-at-foul-line\/).\n\nOne fan has suggested a way the league can permanently honor one of its all-time greats — and close to 2 million people agree with the idea.\n\nChange the logo.\n\n[Read More\\>\\>\\>](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/story\/2020-01-28\/kobe-bryant-petition-nba-logo-2-million-signatures)\n\nThe questions at the heart of the Kobe Bryant helicopter crash investigation\n\nBy Los Angeles Times Staff\n\n![Flight graphic for the homepage.](https:\/\/ca-times.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/2d11e0b\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/1840x613+0+0\/resize\/1200x400!\/quality\/75\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F5a%2F13%2Feee36a444752bf35f84a7a356cee%2Fkobe-final-flight-homepage-padding.png)\n\n(Matt Stiles & Priya Krishnakumar)\n\nThere is no black box recording.\n\nThe audio transmission released so far does not cover the actual moment of the crash.\n\nAnd the impact of the crash sent debris scattered over a huge area.\n\nThese are some of the impediments the National Transportation Safety Board is facing as it investigates why a helicopter carrying Kobe Bryant and eight others crashed into a hillside in Calabasas, killing all on board.\n\n[The probe is still in its early stages](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-01-27\/kobe-bryant-crash-and-helicopter-safety), and a final determination is months away.\n\nAt its heart are some basic questions: Why was the pilot flying so low in the moments before the crash, and why could the chopper not clear the hillside?\n\n[Read More\\>\\>\\>](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-01-28\/the-questions-at-the-heart-of-the-kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash-investigation)\n\nWashington Post places reporter on leave after tweet about Kobe Bryant rape allegations\n\nBy Associated Press\n\nWASHINGTON —The Washington Post has placed a political reporter on administrative leave after she tweeted a link to a story about rape allegations against NBA superstar Kobe Bryant, who was killed Sunday. Dozens of journalists at the newspaper criticized the decision.\n\nReporter Felicia Sonmez’s tweet Sunday, amid widespread public mourning over [Bryant’s death in a helicopter crash](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/story\/2020-01-26\/complete-coverage-kobe-bryant-daughter-gianna-among-9-dead-in-helicopter-crash), drew considerable backlash on social media. The Post reported that Somnez received threats of death and rape and had to move to a hotel after her home address was published online.\n\nThe Post said Somnez deleted the original tweet at the request of a managing editor. She also received an email from executive editor Marty Baron saying: “A real lack of judgment to tweet this. Please stop. You’re hurting this institution by doing this.” Somnez shared the email with an Associated Press reporter.\n\nThe Post said Somnez had been placed on paid leave while newsroom managers looked into the episode. A spokeswoman for the newspaper did not respond to questions about Baron’s role.\n\n[Read More\\>\\>\\>](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/world-nation\/story\/2020-01-28\/washington-post-places-reporter-on-leave-after-bryant-tweet)\n\nWatch TV’s comics honor Kobe Bryant: ‘He always showed up to save the day’\n\nTears replaced laughs on the comedy scene Monday as TV hosts delivered touching tributes to Kobe Bryant, who [died Sunday](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/liveblog\/kobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas) in a helicopter crash along with his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, and seven others.\n\nJimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel and Ellen DeGeneres struggled to keep it together while lamenting life’s fragility and recounting some of their fondest memories with the Laker legend. James Corden and Conan O’Brien were also among those who honored Bryant with reflective words and, in some cases, highlight reels of his past guest appearances.\n\n“Tonight’s show is going to be different from our usual show,” Kimmel began his “Jimmy Kimmel Live” monologue. “We don’t have a studio audience here tonight because going forward with a comedy show didn’t feel right, considering what happened yesterday.... That was a punch in the gut for many of us. Kobe was — and I know this might not make sense, but — he was just the last person you could ever imagine something like this happening to.”\n\n[Read More\\>\\>\\>](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/tv\/story\/2020-01-28\/kobe-bryant-jimmy-fallon-jimmy-kimmel-ellen-degeneres-video)\n\nDeputies on horseback patrol Kobe Bryant crash site as trespassers ignore warnings\n\nBy Los Angeles Times Staff\n\n![CALABASAS, CA-JANUARY 26, 2020: People gather on Las Virgenes Road in Calabasas near the scene of a helicopter that crashed and burst into flames Sunday morning amid foggy conditions in the hills above. All people aboard were killed including Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant. (Mel Melcon\/Los Angeles Times)](https:\/\/ca-times.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/1c9b508\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/2800x1831+0+0\/resize\/1200x785!\/quality\/75\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F47%2Fb5%2F4c1b5eab4156a85f68d3854cc3d7%2Fla-photos-1staff-484313-la-me-kobe-crash4-mam.jpg)\n\nCALABASAS, CA-JANUARY 26, 2020: People gather on Las Virgenes Road in Calabasas near the scene of a helicopter that crashed and burst into flames Sunday morning amid foggy conditions in the hills above. All people aboard were killed including Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant. (Mel Melcon\/Los Angeles Times)\n\n(Mel Melcon \/ Los Angeles Times)\n\nInvestigators and recovery teams were back at a Calabasas hillside Tuesday, continuing to remove remains from the site of a helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter and seven others as they tried to determine what caused the tragedy.\n\nAuthorities have recovered the bodies of at least three victims and say the process of removing others may take several days to complete. They said the impact of the crash was intense, shattering the chopper and sending debris over a wide area.\n\n“This was a pretty devastating accident,” National Transportation Safety Board investigator Jennifer Homendy said. “There is an impact area on one of the hills, and a piece of the tail is down the hill on the left side of the hill. The fuselage is on the other side of that hill. Then the main rotor is about hundred yards beyond that. The debris field is about 500 to 600 feet.”\n\n[Read More\\>\\>\\>](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-01-28\/deputies-patrol-kobe-bryant-crash-site-trespassers-face-arrest)\n\nBad Bunny releases ‘6 Rings,’ a tribute song to Kobe Bryant\n\n![Bad Bunny luciendo un nuevo \"look\" durante su presentación en el Calibash 2020 en Los Ángeles.](https:\/\/ca-times.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/b5883ed\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/840x560+0+0\/resize\/1200x800!\/quality\/75\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fab%2Fd9%2Fe34628d24b55bd38aae38e128a51%2Fdownload-4.jpg)\n\nBad Bunny luciendo un nuevo “look” durante su presentación en el Calibash 2020 en Los Ángeles.\n\n(Genaro Molina \/ Los Angeles Times)\n\nBad Bunny is paying his respects to the late basketball legend Kobe Bryant the way he knows best: through music.\n\nThe singer released the song “6 Rings” on Monday in honor of the late Lakers star, [who died in a helicopter crash](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-01-27\/kobe-bryant-killed-helicopter-crash)over the weekend along with his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven others.\n\nThe [two-minute track](https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/yhlqmdlg\/6-rings), sung in Spanish, includes commentary from Bryant’s 2006 game against the Toronto Raptors where the Lakers player scored a staggering 81 points.\n\n[Read More\\>\\>\\>](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/music\/story\/2020-01-28\/bad-bunny-kobe-bryant-6-rings-tribute-song)\n\nKobe Bryant HATED losing so much that it set him apart from his Lakers teammates\n\n![Kobe Bryant sits on the bench during a Lakers overtime loss to the Phoenix Suns.](https:\/\/ca-times.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/fb279a4\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/351x425+0+0\/resize\/1200x1453!\/quality\/75\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F98%2F71%2F5cfcb3c93c7cca4aae581838b248%2Fla-lakers-iys2u6nc)\n\n(Los Angeles Times)\n\nIt took almost 200 pages in “Mamba Mentality,” Kobe Bryant’s 2018 book, for him to write explicitly about losing basketball games, and when he did, it was to the point.\n\n“THE AGONY OF DEFEAT IS AS LOW AS THE JOY OF WINNING IS HIGH,” he wrote in capital letters — white text on a black page below a photo of a himself sitting dejected on the Lakers bench.\n\nBryant’s countenance let you know.\n\n[Read More\\>\\>\\>](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/lakers\/story\/2020-01-28\/kobe-bryant-lakers-mamba-mentality-hate-losing-death-crash)\n\nTNT to air live Kobe Bryant tribute ahead of Celtics-Heat game tonight\n\nTNT will air a one-hour special tribute to Kobe Bryant tonight at 7 p.m.\n\nThe live special will be streamed from the Staples Center and will air ahead of the Celtics vs. Heat game in Miami. The tribute will be hosted by Shaquille O’Neal, Ernie Johnson, Charles Barkley and Kenny Smith. Dwyane Wade, Candace Parker and Steve Nash will be guests on the program.\n\nTNT’s pregame, halftime and postgame coverage will all focus on Bryant from the Staples Center, which was slated to host the postponed Lakers\/Clippers game.\n\nTourists and fans invade Calabasas hillside where Kobe Bryant’s helicopter crashed\n\n![CALABASAS-CA-JANUARY 27, 2020: A small makeshift memorial near the site of the helicopter crash in Calabasas that killed Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna, and seven others Sunday morning, on Monday, January 27, 2020. (Christina House \/ Los Angeles Times)](https:\/\/ca-times.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/7fbb379\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/2400x1600+0+0\/resize\/1200x800!\/quality\/75\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F59%2F18%2Fb02a9b7a4efb97556d4b80e9d162%2Fla-photos-1staff-484458-me-0127-kobe-follow-02-cmh.jpg)\n\n(Christina House\/Los Angeles Times)\n\nAs out-of-town visitors arrived in Calabasas looking to glimpse the hillside where Lakers legend Kobe Bryant, his daughter and seven other people died in a helicopter crash, some ran into sheriff’s checkpoints, some became lost and others had no idea where to go.\n\nEnter 70-year-old Linda Adams.\n\nThe 30-year Calabasas resident pointed to a shortcut between Las Virgenes Creek, where fans gathered to scan the hillside, and Las Virgenes Road, which saved several travelers at least a mile of walking.\n\nA few onlookers even joined Adams to catch a better and closer view of the crash site.\n\n[Read More\\>\\>\\>](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-01-27\/tourists-and-fans-invade-calabasas-hillside-where-kobe-bryants-helicopter-crashed)\n\nKobe Bryant’s death hits close to home for USC basketball players\n\n![Melrose Avenue memorial for Kobe Bryant](https:\/\/ca-times.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/565fbaa\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/755x542+0+0\/resize\/1200x861!\/quality\/75\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F7d%2F41%2F71e44b7c4df2a7a0045b08a2c7ec%2Fkobe.JPG)\n\n(Britny Mejia\/ Los Angeles Times)\n\nThe mural towered over Melrose Avenue, and for three years, since it was painted outside of the sneaker shop across from Fairfax High, Ethan Anderson would stare at it from a classroom window. Every day he walked or drove past, looking at it so often that the towering likeness, soaring across a purple wall of Shoe Palace, merely had become a part of the landscape.\n\nTo Anderson and so many others who’d grown up in the long shadow he cast, it seemed [Kobe Bryant always would be there](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/lakers\/story\/2020-01-27\/kobe-bryant-death-lakers-bill-plaschke-cursed-tv-tribute), his presence looming forever over Los Angeles. But on Sunday morning, Bryant died in a helicopter crash that killed eight others, including his daughter Gianna, and as Los Angeles mourned, turning the sidewalk outside Shoe Palace into a shrine, Anderson found himself thinking about that mural and the legacy of the man in it.\n\n[Read More\\>\\>\\>](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/usc\/story\/2020-01-28\/usc-trojans-basketball-kobe-bryant-death-crash)\n\nKobe Bryant: Here are some of the Mamba’s most memorable quotes\n\n![LOS ANGELES, CA - APRIL 13: Kobe Bryant \\#24 of the Los Angeles Lakers address the media during the post game news conference after scoring 60 point in his final NBA game at Staples Center on April 13, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Harry How\/Getty Images)](https:\/\/ca-times.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/84d4d96\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/4641x3089+0+0\/resize\/1200x799!\/quality\/75\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fbf%2Fd8%2F0793767a4e919d3c4cf9bbb13aa3%2Fhttps-delivery.gettyimages.com%2Fdownloads%2F521069974.jpg)\n\nLOS ANGELES, CA - APRIL 13: Kobe Bryant \\#24 of the Los Angeles Lakers address the media during the post game news conference after scoring 60 point in his final NBA game at Staples Center on April 13, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Harry How\/Getty Images)\n\n(Getty Images)\n\nLakers legend Kobe Bryant [died Sunday when the helicopter](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-01-27\/kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash-becomes-focus-of-intense-federal-investigation) he was traveling in crashed and burst into flames in the hills above Calabasas. His daughter Gianna, 13, was also on board and [died along with seven others](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-01-27\/kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash-victims).\n\nBryant was known to give some memorable quotes over the years — some inspirational, some funny and all pure Kobe. Here are some that might provide a little comfort during this tragic time.\n\n[Read More \\>\\>\\>](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/lakers\/story\/2020-01-27\/kobe-bryant-most-memorable-quotes)\n\nVanguard University, practice home of Kobe Bryant’s club team, mourns the basketball great and his daughter\n\nBy Faith E. Pinho\n\nWhen Gianna “Gigi” Bryant first told her basketball star father that she wanted to play the sport, Kobe Bryant took her seriously.\n\n“He kind of sat down with Gigi and said, ‘If you want to play, we’re going to do this,’” said Jeff Melton, assistant athletic director at Vanguard University. “’We’ll do this if this is a passion for you.’”\n\nWhen she said yes, her father — who became legendary for his 20-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers — began tapping into his world of opportunities. He arranged for her to meet her basketball idol, Katie Lou Samuelson, a guard for the WNBA’s Chicago Sky. He took her to Atlanta Hawks NBA games to watch Trae Young, another of her favorite players.\n\n[Read More \\>\\>\\>](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/socal\/daily-pilot\/news\/story\/2020-01-27\/vanguard-university-home-to-kobe-bryants-mamba-team-mourns-the-loss-of-a-basketball-legend)\n\nOrange Coast College baseball team to play two days after coach John Altobelli died\n\nIt’s OK to cry, to be overcome by grief. It’s OK to be mad, to scream out in frustration. Most of all, it’s OK to ask for help.\n\nThat was the message to the Orange Coast College baseball team as it prepared for Tuesday’s season opener against Chula Vista Southwestern, a game that will be played just two days after longtime Pirates coach John Altobelli, his wife, Keri, and their 13-year-old daughter, Alyssa,[died in the fiery helicopter crash](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-01-27\/kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash-victims) that also killed former Lakers star Kobe Bryant [on Sunday.](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-01-27\/kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash-becomes-focus-of-intense-federal-investigation)\n\n“We athletes, we’re macho, and we want to be tough, and because of that, sometimes we pretend like we’re not hurting,” former Cal State Fullerton and Oregon coach George Horton, a close friend of the Altobelli family, told players before practice Monday.\n\n[Read More \\>\\>\\>](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/story\/2020-01-27\/orange-coast-college-baseball-team-play-two-days-after-coach-john-altobelli-died)\n\nColumn: Kobe Bryant’s reaction when I cursed him on TV showed the real Kobe, as he always did\n\nIt was in the first round of the [2012 playoffs](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/lakers\/la-xpm-2012-may-04-la-sp-ln-lakers-nuggets-game-3-live-coverage-20120504-story.html), the [Lakers](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/lakers) were in Denver, and I couldn’t take it anymore.\n\nI couldn’t bear one more moment of listening to that smug [Kobe Bryant](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/story\/2020-01-26\/complete-coverage-kobe-bryant-daughter-gianna-among-9-dead-in-helicopter-crash).\n\nAsked about the defense being played on him by the Nuggets’ Danilo Gallinari during a postgame news conference, Bryant filled the small media room with dripping sarcasm.\n\nHe smiled, shook his head, and said something like, oh yeah, he was real worried, truly bothered, so stressed ...\n\nAnd I lost it.\n\n“Kobe, you’re such an asshole!” I yelled at him.\n\n[Read More \\>\\>\\>](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/lakers\/story\/2020-01-27\/kobe-bryant-death-lakers-bill-plaschke-cursed-tv-tribute)\n\nMothers, fathers, daughters, coaches: Here are the 9 killed in the Kobe Bryant helicopter crash\n\nBy Los Angeles Times Staff\n\n![Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna Bryant took in the U.S. Women's National soccer team game vs. China at Qualcomm Stadium on April 10, 2014](https:\/\/ca-times.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/7f259cb\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/4320x2880+0+0\/resize\/1200x800!\/quality\/75\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F2c%2F25%2F105175f445f1bcaf9982d8cd60ad%2Fkc-kobe-001.JPG)\n\n(K.C. Alfred\/U-T San Diego)\n\nSunday should have been a day filled with adrenaline-pumping competition set to a soundtrack of cheers and the scuffle of sneakers on a basketball court.\n\nIt wasn’t supposed to be a day marred by a tragedy that took the lives of nine people and left a city heartbroken.\n\nMany of the victims of the Calabasas helicopter crash were united in their love of basketball, headed to a tournament at the Mamba Sports Academy in Thousand Oaks. They included Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna, a budding basketball player who was ready to follow in her father’s footsteps; baseball coach John Altobelli, his wife Keri and their basketball-playing daughter Alyssa; mother and daughter Sarah and Payton Chester; Mamba Academy basketball coach Christina Mauser and pilot Ara Zobayan.\n\nAs Los Angeles collectively mourned their Lakers hero, multiple families and friends reeled while reality hit.\n\n[Read More\\>\\>\\>](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-01-27\/kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash-victims)\n\nThe last flight of Kobe Bryant\n\nBy Los Angeles Times Staff\n\nA light fog had settled on the runway of John Wayne Airport Sunday morning when Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna and six other passengers boarded a chartered helicopter to fly to a basketball tournament in Thousand Oaks.\n\nA half-hour later, they were flying over thickening clouds in the San Fernando Valley. The pilot was worried enough to ask flight controllers to keep track of them. As he approached the hills of Calabasas at 150 miles per hour, they radioed him, telling him he was too low for them to see on radar.\n\nThe pilot commenced a climb, rising 765 feet in 36 seconds, enough to clear adjacent hills.\n\n[Read More](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-01-28\/the-last-flight-of-kobe-bryant)\\>\\>\\>\n\nWhat causes the deep marine layer that played a role in the Kobe Bryant helicopter crash?\n\n![](https:\/\/ca-times.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/9f44ad7\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/1564x1051+0+0\/resize\/1200x806!\/quality\/75\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F72%2Fed%2Facce65b64b81b39157d6fed5356c%2Fla-me-marine-layer-graphics-02.jpg)\n\n(Paul Duginski \/ Los Angeles Times)\n\nOn Sunday morning, when Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna and seven others were killed in a helicopter crash near Calabasas, there was a thick marine layer and patchy dense fog that obscured some of the terrain.\n\nThe conditions were the result of a deteriorating cold front passing through the area with moist northwest flow, which caused low clouds to pile up against the northern slopes of Ventura and L.A. County mountains. There were showers to the north, and clouds pushing into coastal valleys were thick enough to cause drizzle along the coast and in nearby foothills, according to the National Weather Service. A webcam at Oat Mountain, northwest of Porter Ranch, suggested that the marine layer was 3,000 feet thick.\n\n[Read More\\>\\>\\>](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-01-27\/deep-marine-layer-kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash)\n\nHuge Kobe Bryant fans Justin Turner and Clayton Kershaw mourn his death\n\n![Lakers legend Kobe Bryant poses for a photo with Dodgers great Tommy Lasorda during a game at Dodger Stadium in July 2013.of the Los Angeles Lakers and Tommy Lasorda attend a game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the New York Yankees on July 31, 2013 at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, Caifornia.](https:\/\/ca-times.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/79abc20\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/3000x1993+0+0\/resize\/1200x797!\/quality\/75\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F8a%2F05%2Ff397d4fc48d398689390cfa55326%2F175289495.jpg)\n\nLakers legend Kobe Bryant poses for a photo with Dodgers great Tommy Lasorda during a game at Dodger Stadium in July 2013.of the Los Angeles Lakers and Tommy Lasorda attend a game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the New York Yankees on July 31, 2013 at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, Caifornia.\n\n(Jill Weisledero \/ Dodgers via Getty Images)\n\nJustin Turner received the news of [Kobe Bryant’s death](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/story\/2020-01-26\/complete-coverage-kobe-bryant-daughter-gianna-among-9-dead-in-helicopter-crash) Sunday from his wife, Kourtney, as he packed a van for his charity golf event Monday. The [Dodgers](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/dodgers) third baseman’s initial reaction was like that of many others — he assumed it wasn’t true. He didn’t believe it until he heard radio reports confirming the unfathomable as he drove to Sherwood Country Club in Thousand Oaks near the site of the [helicopter crash](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-01-27\/kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash-becomes-focus-of-intense-federal-investigation) that killed the 41-year-old Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter [Gianna](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/story\/2020-01-27\/gianna-bryant-death-tough-on-teen-basketball-player) and seven others.\n\n“I was just shaking,” Turner said.\n\n[Read More \\>\\>\\>](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/dodgers\/story\/2020-01-27\/huge-kobe-bryant-fans-justin-turner-clayton-kershaw-mourn-death)\n\nIn Orange County, Kobe Bryant grew from basketball’s enfant terrible into a ‘typical dad’\n\nBy Los Angeles Times Staff\n\nThe last Saturday of Kobe Bryant’s life came and went like any typical weekend at home for the retired Lakers superstar.\n\nHe took one daughter to the mall. Accompanied another to a basketball game. Planned a Sunday morning trip with friends.\n\nAnd slept with his family at their house in Orange County.\n\nFor nearly 20 years, one of the most famous names in sports lived a surprisingly public life in this unlikeliest of places.\n\n[Read More \\>\\>\\>](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-01-28\/kobe-bryant-orange-county)\n\nKobe’s helicopter didn’t have a black box because one wasn’t required, NTSB says\n\nBy Los Angeles Times Staff\n\nJust before crashing into a Calabasas hillside, the pilot of Kobe Bryant’s helicopter rapidly ascended to avoid a cloud layer, the National Transportation Safety Board said Monday.\n\nJennifer Homendy, an NTSB member, said the pilot flying from Orange County to Ventura County requested special visual flight rules, which allow pilots to fly under 1,000 feet. A marine layer had settled over the region Sunday morning and some areas were shrouded in fog.\n\nHomendy said it remained unclear why the helicopter slammed into the hillside. Debris from the crash was scattered across 600 feet, she said.\n\n“It was a pretty devastating accident scene,” she added. “There is an impact area on one of the hills and a piece of the tail is down the hill on the left side of the hill. The fuselage is on the other side of that hill. Then the main rotor is about hundred yards beyond that. The debris field is about 500 to 600 feet.”\n\nShe said there was no black box and it isn’t required.\n\n[Read More \\>\\>\\>](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-01-27\/kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash-becomes-focus-of-intense-federal-investigation)\n\nThe day after his death, the talk at barbershops in L.A. was about Kobe and his legacy\n\n![Lawrance Tolliver, owner of Tolliver's Barber Shop in South LA, works on Jospeh Kenery Monday, January 27, 2020, where the talk was all about the helicopter crash that tooth life of Kobe Bryant, his daughter, Gianna, and seven others.](https:\/\/ca-times.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/3a97982\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/5760x3840+0+0\/resize\/1200x800!\/quality\/75\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F6f%2Fdb%2F2c32bb284e5e86aa6d9aecac036e%2Fla-photos-1staff-484624-me-kobe-follow04-ja.JPG)\n\nLawrance Tolliver, owner of Tolliver’s Barber Shop in South LA, works on Jospeh Kenery Monday, January 27, 2020, where the talk was all about the helicopter crash that tooth life of Kobe Bryant, his daughter, Gianna, and seven others.\n\n(Jason Armond \/Los Angeles Times)\n\nAlexander Toney had just walked into the grocery store with his family on Sunday when he first heard rumors that Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant may have died.\n\nAt first, the South L.A. barber didn’t believe it, saying he thought TMZ’s reports weren’t credible. But after more outlets confirmed that not only Bryant, but his 13-year old daughter, Gianna, and seven others died in the fiery helicopter crash, the grim reality sunk in.\n\nAs they walked down the aisles getting their food, he said he wrapped his arms around his four kids more tightly than usual.\n\n[Read More \\>\\>\\>](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-01-28\/the-talk-at-barbershops-in-l-a-was-about-kobe-and-his-legacy)\n\nJimmy Fallon pays tribute to Kobe Bryant\n\n![](https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/aAByKcPJ5NQ\/hqdefault.jpg)\n\nJimmy Fallon pays tribute to Lakers legend Kobe Bryant\n\nLeBron James breaks silence on Kobe Bryant’s death\n\nLeBron James broke his silence on Monday evening, posting a wrenching message on Instagram in the form of a note [to the late Kobe Bryant](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-01-27\/kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash-becomes-focus-of-intense-federal-investigation).\n\n“I’m not ready but here I go,” the post began. “Man I sitting here trying to write something for this post but every time I try I begin crying again just thinking about you, niece Gigi and the friendship\/bond\/brotherhood we had! I literally just heard your voice Sunday morning before I left Philly to head back to LA. Didn’t think for one bit in a million years that would be the last conversation we’d have.”\n\nBryant called James after the Lakers played in Philadelphia on Saturday night to congratulate James for moving up to [third on the league’s all-time scoring list](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/lakers\/story\/2020-01-25\/lebron-james-passes-kobe-bryant-on-nba-career-scoring-list). In doing so, James had passed Bryant who scored 33,643 points in his NBA career.\n\n[Read More \\>\\>\\>](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/lakers\/story\/2020-01-27\/lebron-james-breaks-silence-on-kobe-bryants-death)\n\nKobe Bryant’s final flight, minute by minute\n\n![(Matt Stiles & Priya Krishnakumar \/ Los Angeles Times)](https:\/\/ca-times.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/1181908\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/1375x2794+0+0\/resize\/1200x2438!\/quality\/75\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F54%2F14%2F691c32164b0e9c1ed817a4b21df0%2Fkobe-final-flight-web.png)\n\nKobe Bryant called LeBron James on Saturday night after he was passed on scoring list\n\n‘You made us dream’: Kobe Bryant is mourned in Italy, where he first learned to play\n\nBy Tom Kingston\n\nROME — As the world [mourns](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-01-27\/kobe-bryant-killed-helicopter-crash) the death of [Kobe Bryant](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/lakers\/story\/2020-01-26\/lakers-kobe-bryant-obit), his first coach recalled how the basketball legend cried when taken out during a game at the age of 7 because he was too good.\n\nGioacchino Fusacchia, 60, coached Bryant in Rieti, a small town in central Italy, when the late athlete’s father, Joe, played professional basketball following a career in the NBA.\n\n“Kobe followed Joe everywhere, to matches, to training, and was already passionate about basketball,” said Fusacchia, who was in his mid-20s during the period the Bryants were in Rieti, from 1984 to 1986.\n\nRieti was Joe’s first stop in a seven-year spell in Italy during which he played seasons with other Italian teams in the southern region of Calabria and the northern regions of Tuscany and Emilio-Romagna before returning to the United States.\n\n[Read More\\>\\>\\>](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/story\/2020-01-27\/kobe-bryant-italy-coach)\n\nKobe Bryant’s studio removes Oscar-winning ‘Dear Basketball’ film from website\n\nAfter [Kobe Bryant’s death Sunday](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/story\/2020-01-26\/complete-coverage-kobe-bryant-daughter-gianna-among-9-dead-in-helicopter-crash), finding his animated short “Dear Basketball” to watch online was a difficult task — until now.\n\nGranity Studios, the NBA star’s multimedia production company, made the Academy Award-winning film available for free Monday afternoon on the [dearbasketball.com](https:\/\/dearbasketball.com\/) website and on Vimeo.\n\n“Dear Basketball” is based on a poem he wrote in November 2015 to announce his retirement. The poem was published by [the Players’ Tribune](https:\/\/www.theplayerstribune.com\/en-us\/articles\/dear-basketball), a website that features first-person accounts written by pro athletes.\n\n[Read More \\>\\>\\>](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/movies\/story\/2020-01-27\/kobe-bryant-dear-basketball-documentary-muse)\n\nFatal crash hit Newport Beach hard: 5 other residents, not just Bryants, were victims\n\nBy Luke Money\n\nand Hillary Davis\n\nKobe Bryant was a Los Angeles superstar.\n\nBut he called Newport Beach his home. It was here he raised his daughters, was involved in its schools and youth sports and made friends at the neighborhood grocery store and Starbucks.\n\nAnd it was this community that saw so much loss Sunday, as the helicopter carrying [Bryant](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/story\/2020-01-26\/complete-coverage-kobe-bryant-daughter-gianna-among-9-dead-in-helicopter-crash), his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, and seven others slammed into a hillside above Calabasas, killing all on board.\n\nAlso on the copter were Newport Beach residents John Altobelli; his wife, Keri; and their daughter, Alyssa, who played on the same club team as Gianna Bryant. Newport Beach mother and daughter Sarah and Payton Chester were identified by friends and family as also being on board.\n\n[Read more \\>\\>\\>](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-01-27\/kobe-bryant-crash-a-wrenching-loss-for-newport-beach)\n\nNBA postpones Lakers-Clippers game that was set for Tuesday\n\nThe NBA has postponed the Lakers-Clippers game that was scheduled for Tuesday.\n\n“The decision was made out of respect for the Lakers organization, which is deeply grieving the tragic loss of Lakers legend Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna and seven other people in a helicopter crash on Sunday.”\n\nNo makeup date has been released.\n\n[Read More \\>\\>\\>](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/lakers\/story\/2020-01-27\/lakers-clippers-game-tuesday-change)\n\nThe legacy of ‘Kobe!’ jump shots lives on through fans\n\n![Lakers star Kobe Bryant shoots a jump shot over the outstretched hand of a Pistons defender in the Lakers' 97-85 victory.](https:\/\/ca-times.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/7025734\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/2048x1195+0+0\/resize\/1200x700!\/quality\/75\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F50%2F64%2F15bbd1943eeb3a60926320fbc3bc%2Fla-sp-lakers-pistons-la0032352939-20151115)\n\n(Lawrence K. Ho \/ Los Angeles Times)\n\nIt usually happens during a pickup basketball game. A player plants his feet, jumps and shoots with a yell of “Kobe!” -- partly a joke, but also a plea to guide the ball into the hoop with the skill of the late Lakers great Kobe Bryant.\n\nIt’s just a moment, but it’s a legacy that Bryant has left countless amateur basketball players -- and those folks just trying to throw a wad of paper into a faraway trash can -- around the world.\n\nAs the news of [Bryant’s death in a helicopter crash on Sunday](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-01-26\/aircraft-slams-into-hillside-explodes-in-flames-near-calabasas) spread, Twitter users and Times readers from all over shared memories of their “Kobe!” shots: jump shots, trick shots and three-point attempts. Here’s what they had to say (some responses have been lightly edited for clarity).\n\n[Read More \\>\\>\\>](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/lakers\/story\/2020-01-27\/kobe-bryant-jump-shots-legacy)\n\nCoverage of the Kobe Bryant helicopter crash included missteps, insights and tears\n\nJim Hill rushed into the KCBS-Channel 2 studio in suit and tie and had Magic Johnson on the phone while other local TV crews were scrambling to do fan-on-the-street reactions. That was impressive but not unexpected.\n\nLiz Habib’s voice cracked before she had to stop and wipe away tears, abandoning a KTTV-Channel 11 live standup. That felt appropriate.\n\nESPN and ABC continued to televise the NFL’s Pro Bowl in a simulcast, a meaningless exercise, while pushing its live coverage of events to ESPN2. That was beyond awkward, bordering on disrespectful.\n\nMedia outlets trying to disseminate what TMZ first reported Sunday morning as a helicopter crash in Calabasas that took five lives, [including that of retired Lakers star Kobe Bryant](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/story\/2020-01-26\/complete-coverage-kobe-bryant-daughter-gianna-among-9-dead-in-helicopter-crash), ignited the comprehension, disbelief and misinformation anxiety that often permeate the first 24 hours of a news cycle.\n\n[Read More \\>\\>\\>](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/lakers\/story\/2020-01-27\/kobe-bryant-death-helicopter-crash-media-coverage)\n\nKobe Bryant short film ‘Dear Basketball’ plays like a eulogy from the man who made it\n\nBy Tim Greiving\n\nThe mood of Kobe Bryant’s [Oscar-winning](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/story\/2020-01-26\/kobe-bryant-entertainment-dear-basketball-oscar) animated short film, “Dear Basketball,” always seemed a little curious. Part love letter to his sport, it was also part eulogy.\n\n“My heart can take the pounding,” Bryant said in his narration, over a quiet moment in John Williams’ poignant score. “My mind can handle the grind. But my body knows it’s time to say goodbye. And that’s OK. I’m ready to let you go.”\n\nThe 2017 film serves as a bit of tragic poetry following [the death of Bryant](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/story\/2020-01-26\/complete-coverage-kobe-bryant-daughter-gianna-among-9-dead-in-helicopter-crash), daughter Gianna and seven other people in a Calabasas [helicopter crash](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-01-27\/kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash-becomes-focus-of-intense-federal-investigation) Sunday.\n\nThe project began as a letter he penned in 2015 for the Players’ Tribune announcing his retirement from the NBA. Bryant created the production company Granity Studios — originally Kobe Studios — with ambitions to create books, TV series and even feature films. “Dear Basketball” was its first effort.\n\n[Read More\\>\\>\\>](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/story\/2020-01-27\/kobe-bryant-dear-basketball-short-film)\n\nKobe Bryant fans honor him through poetry\n\nIn a request for Kobe Bryant memories, some fans expressed themselves through poetry. It’s a fitting tribute to the legendary Lakers great [who wrote a poem called “Dear Basketball”](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/story\/2020-01-26\/kobe-bryant-entertainment-dear-basketball-oscar) to announce his retirement from the NBA. That poem was made into a film that earned him an Academy Award, a Sports Emmy and an Annie Award.\n\nBryant, 41, [died in a helicopter crash in Calabasas](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-01-26\/aircraft-slams-into-hillside-explodes-in-flames-near-calabasas) on Sunday morning, along with his 13-year-old daughter and seven others. His [career with the Lakers](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/lakers\/story\/2020-01-26\/bill-plaschke-column-on-kobe-bryant) spanned 20 years before his retirement in 2016, and included five NBA championship titles, two Finals MVPs and one regular season MVP.\n\nThe Times asked readers to write in [with their favorite memories of Bryant](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/lakers\/story\/2020-01-26\/kobe-bryant-memories-from-times-readers). If you have a poem to add, please submit it through the form below.\n\n[Read More\\>\\>\\>](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/lakers\/story\/2020-01-27\/kobe-bryant-fans-honor-him-through-poetry)\n\nColumn: Kobe Bryant’s death is a setback for women’s basketball, Sierra Canyon coach laments\n\nSierra Canyon High girls’ basketball coach Alicia Komaki said she spent 12 hours Sunday sitting in her Chatsworth office watching nonstop news coverage about [Kobe Bryant’s death](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-01-27\/kobe-bryant-crash-and-helicopter-safety). It made her reflect on what his absence might mean to women’s basketball, one of the most important recipients of his support since his retirement from the NBA.\n\nFrom taking his daughters to WNBA games to coaching his daughter in youth basketball, Bryant was setting the stage to become an invaluable contributor in an arena that needed support. He was headed to Thousand Oaks to coach daughter Gianna, 13, in a youth tournament Sunday when the [helicopter he was traveling in crashed](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-01-26\/kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash-dense-fog-investigation), killing him, Gianna and seven others.\n\nKomaki said the word around the club circuit was Bryant might become the girls’ basketball coach at Newport Coast Sage Hill, where Gianna was possibly going to enroll. A Sage Hill representative denied that Bryant was a coaching candidate. Bryant’s eldest daughter, Natalia, attends Sage Hill and is on the volleyball team.\n\n[Read More\\>\\>\\>](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/highschool\/story\/2020-01-27\/kobe-bryants-death-is-setback-for-womens-basketball)\n\nColumn: For my 13-year-old basketball player, Gianna Bryant’s death was a bigger blow than Kobe’s\n\n![Gianna Bryant and her father, basketball great Kobe Bryant, attend the 2019 WNBA All-Star Game at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas.](https:\/\/ca-times.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/ea750c8\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/3064x2067+0+0\/resize\/1200x810!\/quality\/75\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fdd%2F65%2F4adf26344da980fd5a89fd001476%2Fhttps-delivery.gettyimages.com%2Fdownloads%2F1164646804.jpg)\n\n(Getty Images)\n\nMy youngest daughter and I were at a friend’s baby shower when we learned of [Kobe Bryant’s death](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/story\/2020-01-26\/complete-coverage-kobe-bryant-daughter-gianna-among-9-dead-in-helicopter-crash). I was glancing at my phone when a breaking news alert flashed across my screen, and I gasped.\n\n“What?” Darby said, reaching for her own phone. So she learned as I did that Kobe’s 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, had been with him when the helicopter crashed. I squeezed my own 13-year-old daughter’s hand under the table and said, “We’ll talk about it after,” and we returned, as best we could, to the shower’s excitement and joy.\n\nWe did talk about it later, on the drive home, but I was just as shocked and numb as she. “I feel so sad,” she said as we walked into the house. “That is how everyone is going to feel,” I said unhelpfully, mechanically. “It is just a terrible, terrible thing.”\n\n[Read More \\>\\>\\>](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/story\/2020-01-27\/gianna-bryant-death-tough-on-teen-basketball-player)\n\n‘We all know him as just Kobe, a person.’ Newport Coast neighbors salute Kobe Bryant at vigil\n\nBy Hillary Davis\n\nPeople who knew Kobe Bryant as the father of four who lived up the street, ordered a certain pink drink at the corner Starbucks and trick-or-treated with their children gathered Sunday night in a park not far from his home to share their memories.\n\nNewport Ridge Community Park is near Bryant’s Newport Coast home and near their homes too. These were neighbors of the retired Lakers basketball legend and youth basketball coach whom some of the younger people knew around their school gym as Mr. Bryant.\n\n![](https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/bz24v1yXaKs\/hqdefault.jpg)\n\n[Read More\\>\\>\\>](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/socal\/daily-pilot\/news\/story\/2020-01-27\/in-a-newport-coast-neighborhood-they-salute-kobe-a-regular-guy-who-would-help-you-carry-your-groceries)\n\nKobe Bryant didn’t mentor many young players; Anthony Davis was an exception\n\n![Lakers star Kobe Bryant, left, and New Orleans Pelicans forward Anthony Davis talk while sitting on the bench during a game at the 2012 London Olympics.](https:\/\/ca-times.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/d68b1e7\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/2048x1152+0+0\/resize\/1200x675!\/quality\/75\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F2c%2Fb8%2F8e851e3e631055a0bdf48071c878%2Flat-sp-kobe-bryant-anthony-davis-20150121)\n\n(Wally Skalij \/ Los Angeles Times)\n\nDuring his playing career, there weren’t many young players whom Kobe Bryant mentored. He made an exception for Anthony Davis.\n\n“Anthony was different just because of his curiosity about the game itself,” Bryant said [in an interview last fall](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/lakers\/story\/2019-10-21\/lakers-anthony-davis-humble-beginnings-in-chicago). “His obvious potential. His ability. But he had a curious nature about him and how he wanted to learn more and more about that game. So I’d gravitate toward that.”\n\nBryant was [one of nine people killed in a helicopter crash](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/story\/2020-01-26\/complete-coverage-kobe-bryant-daughter-gianna-among-9-dead-in-helicopter-crash) Sunday morning along with his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna; Alyssa Altobelli, Gianna’s teammate on the Mamba basketball team; and her parents [John and Keri Altobelli](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/story\/2020-01-26\/orange-coast-college-baseball-coach-john-altobelli-died-kobe-helicopter-crash); Christina Mauser, who helped coach the Mamba girls basketball team; and the pilot, Ara Zobayan. Two other passengers haven’t been publicly identified yet.\n\n[READ MORE\\>\\>\\>](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/lakers\/story\/2020-01-27\/kobe-bryant-death-anthony-davis-reaction)\n\nLongtime Lakers fan Jack Nicholson mourns Kobe Bryant: ‘It kills you’\n\nHollywood veteran Jack Nicholson is a three-time Oscar winner and 12-time nominee, with more than 70 credits to his name. But on Sunday, he was simply a heartbroken Lakers fan.\n\nFollowing the sudden death of local hero Kobe Bryant, Nicholson reflected on his relationship with the basketball icon and his home team yesterday in a rare phone interview with CBS Los Angeles. Bryant [died early Sunday](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/liveblog\/kobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas) in a Calabasas helicopter crash along with his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, and seven others.\n\n“My reaction is the same as almost all of L.A.,” the actor said. “Suddenly, where everything was solid, there’s a big hole in the wall. I was so used to seeing and talking to Kobe that — it kills you. It’s just a terrible event.”\n\n[READ MORE \\>\\>\\>](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/story\/2020-01-27\/kobe-bryant-jack-nicholson-interview-tribute)\n\nNBA greats talk about the impact Kobe Bryant had on them\n\n*This story originally published on latimes.com on April 11th, 2016.*\n\nAs Kobe Bryant plays out his 20th and final season with the Lakers, The Times has reached out to players, coaches and broadcasters for recollections about his career.\n\n**[READ MORE \\>\\>\\>\\>](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/lakers\/la-sp-kobe-chronicles-20160406-snap-htmlstory.html)**\n\nChaplain of Senate impeachment trial mourns Kobe’s passing\n\nSenate Chaplain Barry Black in an opening prayer ahead of the impeachment trial mourned the loss of Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna and “those who died with them.”\n\n“We all have a limited time on Earth to leave the world better than we found it,” Black said. “As this impeachment process unfolds, give our senators the desire to make the most of their time on Earth. Teach them how to live, o God, and lead them along the path of honesty.”\n\nJustin Turner talks about the impact of Kobe Bryant’s death\n\n(Required)\n\nA look back at Kobe Bryant, gold medalist, as he looked forward to L.A. Olympics\n\n![U.S. guard Kobe Bryant is challenged by French guard Tony Parker during a preliminary round game at the 2012 London Olympics.](https:\/\/ca-times.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/48e30e3\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/2540x1720+0+0\/resize\/1200x813!\/quality\/75\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F39%2F91%2F0a4c80ef4128ae797aa746fc9d1d%2Fafp-getty-files-us-accident-basket-nba-bryant17.JPG)\n\n(Mark Ralston \/ AFP via Getty Images)\n\nIt was the summer of 2008 and [Kobe Bryant](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/lakers\/story\/2020-01-26\/lakers-kobe-bryant-obit) was playing on the [U.S team at the Summer Olympics](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/archives\/la-xpm-2008-aug-23-sp-olyplaschke23-story.html) in Beijing. He mentioned to [Times columnist Bill Plaschke](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/lakers\/story\/2020-01-26\/bill-plaschke-column-on-kobe-bryant) that winning gold might be his greatest accomplishment, better than an NBA championship, a sentiment he knew might irritate some Laker fans.\n\n“So what?” he said. “If they don’t understand this, they don’t know what they’re talking about. It’s simple. You’re playing for your country.”\n\nOn Monday, the International Olympic Committee issued its reaction to the sudden death of a basketball icon who won that gold in China and another one, four years later, in London.\n\n“Kobe was an outstanding and true Olympic champion,” IOC President Thomas Bach said. “He embraced the power of sport to change people’s lives.”\n\n[READ MORE \\>\\>\\>](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/olympics\/story\/2020-01-27\/gold-medalist-lakers-kobe-bryant-remembered-olympic-champion)\n\nSouthern California radio stations will go silent at noon in honor of Kobe Bryant\n\nThe Southern California Broadcasters Association is asking its members to observe a synchronized moment of silence in honor of late local hero Kobe Bryant.\n\nThe radio silence, set to occur at noon Pacific on Monday, will last for one minute and eight seconds — a nod to the Laker star’s original jersey number, 8. The organization also provided additional instructions on how stations should approach coverage of Bryant’s death throughout the day.\n\n[READ MORE \\>\\>\\>](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/music\/story\/2020-01-27\/kobe-bryant-california-radio-stations-moment-of-silence)\n\n24 grieving fans talk about losing their hero: ‘This is a Kobe town’\n\n![Fans gather at the corner of Las Virgenes Road and Willow Glen Street in Calabasas near the site of the crash where Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna were among 9 dead in a helicopter crash on Sunday.](https:\/\/ca-times.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/b338c59\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/6507x4095+0+0\/resize\/1200x755!\/quality\/75\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F8e%2F10%2F89baf81f4cc3a91f3ffd787bf8e3%2Fla-photos-1staff-484250-me-0126-kobe-calabasas-crash-05-cmh.jpg)\n\nFans gather at the corner of Las Virgenes Road and Willow Glen Street in Calabasas near the site of the crash where Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna were among 9 dead in a helicopter crash on Sunday.\n\n(Christina House \/ Los Angeles Times)\n\nLos Angeles is a city in mourning.\n\nMakeshift memorials continue to pop up, from Thousand Oaks to Newport Beach.\n\nFans converged on Staples Center, the Lakers training center in El Segundo, on Melrose Avenue and in Calabasas, where Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter Gianna, and seven others will [killed in a helicopter crash Sunday](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-01-27\/kobe-bryant-killed-helicopter-crash).\n\nBryant’s jersey number — 24 — already had special meaning, commemorating his 20 seasons with the Lakers. Many teams now say no one else will ever wear that number.\n\nHere is what 24 Angelenos had to say about No. 24:\n\n[READ MORE \\>\\>\\>](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-01-27\/kobe-bryant-fans-grief)\n\nKobe Bryant and Nipsey Hussle weren’t perfect angels. That’s why L.A. loved them.\n\nThere’s this thing that happens when a person dies, especially when that person is famous and the death is unexpected.\n\nThose who are left behind to mourn tend to gloss over the bad decisions and focus on the good deeds, the heroic traits and the uncommonly charitable gestures.\n\nThis was very much the case Sunday. Hours after a helicopter carrying Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, and seven others [slammed into the hills above Calabasas](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-01-27\/kobe-bryant-killed-helicopter-crash), killing all on board, celebrities clamored to pay tribute to him during the [Grammy Awards](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/liveblog\/grammy-awards-live-updates) at Staples Center.\n\n[READ MORE \\>\\>\\>](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-01-27\/kobe-bryant-nipsey-hussle-death-grammy-tribute)\n\nThe grim, delicate task of removing remains from the Kobe Byrant helicopter crash site\n\nOn the remote Calabasas hillside where [Kobe Bryant’s helicopter crashed](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-01-27\/kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash-becomes-focus-of-intense-federal-investigation), Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies and other emergency personnel spent Monday morning with the delicate task of removing the remains of victims.\n\nThe rough terrain around the crash site off Las Virgenes Canyon Road has been a challenge for first responders from the beginning. On Monday, deputies could be seen on the hillside in off-road vehicles. Some remains were removed Sunday night, and officials said that the process could continue for several days.\n\nLos Angeles County Coroner Jonathan Lucas said the remains will be removed as quickly as possible, noting the location of the crash had made access an issue.\n\n[READ MORE \\>\\>\\>](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-01-27\/removing-remains-kobe-byrant-helicopter-crash-site)\n\nKobe Bryant had a special kinship with Latino fans and culture\n\nThe mood at El Camino Real in Fullerton was somber during the Sunday lunch rush, despite the steaming bowls of menudo in front of nearly everyone in the packed Mexican restaurant.\n\nIts most famous regular, Kobe Bryant, had died earlier that morning in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, along with his daughter Gianna and seven others.\n\nFamilies shook their heads in disbelief as they scrolled through their smartphones for the latest updates between sips of the tripe soup. Freddy Castañeda, son of El Camino Real’s owners, showed customers a photo that Bryant had taken in the kitchen alongside his sister Marissa nearly 20 years ago.\n\n**[Read more\\>\\>](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-01-27\/kobe-bryant-latino-fans)**\n\nKobe Bryant flew in thick fog that had grounded law enforcement helicopters\n\nBy Richard Winton, Ben Poston, Matthew Ormseth, Kim Christensen\n\nDid foggy weather Sunday morning play a role in the [helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter and seven others](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-01-27\/kobe-bryant-killed-helicopter-crash)?\n\nThat is a key question as federal investigators on Monday [begin an intense investigation](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-01-27\/kobe-bryant-crash-and-helicopter-safety) into the cause of the crash.\n\nThe helicopter, a Sikorsky S-76 built in 1991, departed John Wayne Airport at 9:06 a.m. Sunday, according to publicly available flight records. The chopper passed over Boyle Heights, near Dodger Stadium, and circled over Glendale during the flight. The crash occurred shortly before 10 a.m. near Las Virgenes Road and Willow Glen Street in Calabasas.\n\n**[READ MORE \\>\\>](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-01-27\/kobe-bryants-helicopter-fog-grounded-law-enforcement-helicopters)**\n\nKobe Bryant helicopter crash at center of intense federal investigation\n\nBy Hannah Fry, Richard Winton, Ruben Vives, Matthew Ormseth\n\nFederal investigators on Monday began to try to unravel the mystery of why a helicopter carrying Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter and seven other people slammed into the side of a hill in Calabasas.\n\nFirefighters responding to a 911 call at 9:47 a.m. found a debris field in steep terrain with a quarter-acre brush fire. Paramedics arriving by helicopter [searched the area but found no survivors](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/story\/2020-01-26\/complete-coverage-kobe-bryant-daughter-gianna-among-9-dead-in-helicopter-crash)[.](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/story\/2020-01-26\/complete-coverage-kobe-bryant-daughter-gianna-among-9-dead-in-helicopter-crash)\n\nBryant, who lived in Newport Beach and Los Angeles, was known to keep a chartered helicopter at Orange County’s John Wayne Airport.\n\n**[READ MORE \\>\\>](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-01-27\/kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash-becomes-focus-of-intense-federal-investigation)**\n\nDavid Beckham: ‘... my words won’t ever be enough ...’\n\nRep. Maxine Waters’ statement on Bryant’s death\n\n“I am absolutely devastated and heartbroken by the sudden and tragic loss of Kobe Bryant and his beloved daughter Gianna. Kobe Bryant was a king in Los Angeles and one of the greatest athletes the world has ever known. He thrilled Los Angelenos for 20 seasons at the Staples Center, was an 18-time NBA All Star, earned five NBA championships, was twice named the MVP of the NBA Finals, and earned the NBA’s MVP award. Fans around the world marveled at his skills on the court season after season. He was truly spectacular to watch. He was our champion, a living legend, and an inspiration to countless fans and aspiring athletes around the world. His loss is felt by millions of grieving fans who are in shock and disbelief by the tragic passing of such a prolific athlete, devoted husband, and loving father. My heart goes out to his wife, Vanessa, surviving children, relatives, teammates, and friends who are in mourning. I also extend my sincere condolences to the families and loved ones of all the victims who were onboard the helicopter.\n\n“Los Angeles is mourning the loss of one of our most beloved legends and icons. Though Kobe Bryant is no longer with us, our city will never forget what he meant to us, and we will keep his legacy alive forever.”\n\nProbe of Kobe Bryant crash will probably focus on fog, possible mechanical problems\n\nBy The Times\n\nThe investigation into the helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna and seven others aboard a Sikorsky S-76B will probably focus on foggy weather conditions and potential mechanical problems, aviation experts and pilots said.\n\nVisibility in the region was so poor at the time of the crash, which occurred shortly before 10 a.m. in Calabasas, that the Los Angeles police and county sheriff’s departments had grounded their helicopters.\n\n[Read more \\>\\>](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-01-27\/kobe-bryant-crash-and-helicopter-safety)\n\nKobe Bryant fans and Grammy attendees mourn together\n\nThey arrived in glitzy gold gowns and tailored tuxedos, silk suits and cheetah-patterned stilettos that would pop on the red carpet.\n\nBut they were outnumbered by fans dressed in purple and yellow and white jerseys with the numbers 8 and 24 across their chests and his name — BRYANT — emblazoned across their backs.\n\nAs the sun set Sunday, a surreal scene unfolded outside Staples Center, where celebrities who had gathered for the 62nd Grammy Awards mourned alongside devastated fans who flocked to the arena where Lakers legend Kobe Bryant — who died in a helicopter crash Sunday morning — has two jerseys hanging from the rafters.\n\n[Read more \\>\\>](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-01-27\/kobe-bryant-fans-gather-outside-staples-center-on-grammy-night)\n\nLakers part owner was a mentor to Kobe Bryant and a friend\n\nDr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, who owns the Los Angeles Times and is a part owner of the Lakers, was also Bryant’s friend, mentor and basketball “assistant” when the two played hoops at Soon-Shiong’s home court during Bryant’s recovery.\n\nHe choked up as he spoke about the loss of a legend, about how he will miss the long conversations the two shared about all aspects of life and about Bryant’s aspirations as he underwent recovery.\n\n[Read more \\>\\>](https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-01-26\/lakers-part-owner-patrick-soon-shiong-was-mentor-to-kobe-bryant-and-friend)\n\nL.A. 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Boilerpipe Text	Kobe Bryant, the NBA MVP who had a 20-year career with the Lakers, was killed Sunday when the helicopter he was traveling in crashed and burst into flames in the hills above Calabasas. His daughter Gianna, 13, was also on board and died along with seven others. Lakers’ Rob Pelinka releases statement on Kobe Bryant and Gianna Rob Pelinka, the Lakers vice president, basketball operations and general manager, released a statement on Thursday saying that his lost his best friend and his goddaughter on Sunday. They are the first words from Pelinka since the helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant , his 13-year-old daughter Gianna, and seven others. “On Sunday, I lost my best friend and sweet goddaughter. With that, there has been an amputation of part of my soul.” Pelinka goes on describing the player, husband, “girl-dad” and best friend Bryant was. “Kobe was a force of nature, deep, and obsessed with excellence. He was wise, determined, passionate. A visionary beyond measure. A dedicated and loving husband, and a ‘girl-dad’ like no other. When he walked into a room, the energy ignited. He was high voltage, with a motor that had no limits. His mind had an infinite capacity to learn. He was, simply put, the most inspirational athlete of our time. What the world may not know, is that he was also best friend anyone could ever imagine.” Read more >>> Clippers, who usually cover Lakers logos at Staples Center, to display Kobe Bryant’s jerseys Intent on creating their own identity, the Clippers usually cover the Lakers’ banners and retired jersey numbers for their home games at Staples Center. But for the Clippers’ game against Sacramento on Thursday — the first NBA contest to be played in the arena since the death of Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna and seven other people in a helicopter crash in Calabasas on Sunday — the Clippers left Bryant’s retired jerseys uncovered and on display high above the floor. The rest of the Lakers’ championship banners and retired jerseys were covered by the usual images of Clipper players and a city landscape but Bryant’s 8 and 24 stood out on a stark black background. Kobe Bryant’s jerseys are uncovered ahead of a Clippers game against the Kings. (Helene Elliott / Los Angeles Times) A moment of silence is scheduled for just past 7:33 p.m. The hockey Kings on Wednesday played the first sporting event at Staples Center after Bryant’s death. Players honored him by wearing his jersey to the arena and commemorative decals on their helmets, and the team remembered him in a pregame ceremony. Read More > > > How Kobe Bryant changed the sneaker world Michael Jordan was professional basketball’s first signature shoe king , but Kobe Bryant was arguably his heir apparent, as crucial and challenging to the brand he represented — Nike — as he famously was with his Lakers teammates on the court. Jordan made sneakers cool, but Bryant changed the shoes themselves, creating the market in minimalist, low-silhouette footwear in a league in which everyone was still lacing up their high tops to protect their ankles. That led to a succession of NBA superstars adopting the same lighter, quicker shoe style, which helped liberate their moves on the hardwood. It happened soon after Bryant left Adidas to sign a four-year, $40-million deal with Nike in 2003, then pushed the company to build a basketball shoe as sleek and safe as those worn in professional soccer. Read More >>> Metta World Peace shares life lessons he learned from Kobe Bryant Mariachi band says farewell to Kobe Bryant with ‘Amor Eterno’ tearjerker As the world continues to mourn the death of Kobe Bryant and eight others, the tributes to the late basketball great keep getting more heart-wrenching. Amid a massive crowd outside Staples Center this week, a mariachi troupe gathered to honor Bryant , his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, and the other seven lives lost with a poignant rendition of “Amor Eterno,” a goodbye ballad by the late Mexican singer Juan Gabriel. Read more >>> Gigi and Kobe Bryant befriended a small-town basketball star and her trainer dad Hailey Van Lith lives basketball in her tiny town — Cashmere, Wash., population 3,152 — and as the nation’s No. 1 guard and No. 2 overall player on the women’s basketball ranking site Prospects Nation, the 18-year-old knows a bit about celebrity and fame. But last summer, as she waited in a Thailand airport after a Team USA game, she wasn’t prepared for a message from basketball legend Kobe Bryant . “The text was from one of Kobe’s main guys — I called him ‘T,’ and he just basically said that Kobe knew about me, loved my game and really wanted to get me to L.A. to work with him and talk about basketball,” Hailey said in a phone interview Monday as she drove to practice at Cashmere High School. Read more >>> Vanessa Bryant shares the pain of her family’s loss: ‘Our beautiful blessings taken from us too soon’ Vanessa Bryant took to social media on Wednesday to thank the public for their support and express her grief over the helicopter crash that killed her husband, Kobe, daughter Gianna and seven others Sunday. “There aren’t enough words to describe our pain right now. I take comfort in knowing that Kobe and Gigi both knew that they were so deeply loved. We were so incredibly blessed to have them in our lives. I wish they were here with us forever. They were our beautiful blessings taken from us too soon,” she wrote on Instagram. “I’m not sure what our lives hold beyond today, and it’s impossible to imagine life without them. But we wake up each day, trying to keep pushing because Kobe, and our baby girl, Gigi, are shining on us to light the way. Our love for them is endless — and that’s to say, immeasurable. I just wish I could hug them, kiss them and bless them. Have them here with us, forever.” Read More >>> Basketball star, Oscar winner and ... rapper? Remembering Kobe Bryant’s music career (Clarence Williams / Los Angeles Times) Bryant’s solo single, “K.O.B.E.,” which debuted at the 2000 All-Star game, featured supermodel Tyra Banks and referenced his baller reputation in the lyrics. “What I live for? Basketball, beats and broads,” he raps on the track, his flow not particularly smooth or lyrical. “From Italy to the U.S., yes, it’s raw.” Writing for The Times in 2015, Dexter Thomas wasn’t exactly impressed by the song. “It’s embarrassing. That cheap-sounding beat, the uninspired hook, the awkward chorus — this is more off-target than those three airballs he threw in 1997 against the Utah Jazz,” he wrote. While shooting an accompanying video for the splashy release, directed by BET Award winner Hype Williams, Bryant met his wife, Vanessa. And though their personal relationship would continue to develop for the next 20 years, footage from their professional collaboration never saw the light of day. Despite Bryant’s rising star power on the court, the song was not well-received, and “Visions,” the album it was slated to launch, was eventually shelved. Bryant officially got the ax from Sony soon enough, never to return to music again — except in a 2011 Taiwanese Sprite commercial and, of course, in other musicians’ lyrics, which often saluted the self-proclaimed Black Mamba and his larger-than-life legacy. Read More > > > Kawhi Leonard flew with Ara Zobayan often: ‘He was one of the best pilots’ The pilot involved in the helicopter crash Sunday that killed former Lakers star Kobe Bryant and eight others also flew Kawhi Leonard often and was regarded highly by the Clippers superstar. “Great guy, super nice,” Leonard said Wednesday of Ara Zobayan, a pilot from Huntington Beach who flew for the charter service Island Express. “He was one of the best pilots. That is a guy who you ask for to fly you from city to city. It’s just surreal still.” Leonard was close with Bryant, saying their relationship began during his second or third season in the NBA. Last summer, Bryant hosted Leonard, Clippers teammate Paul George and a handful of other players at his Mamba Academy in Thousand Oaks. One piece of advice Leonard sought from Bryant last summer, after signing with the Clippers as a free agent, was how Bryant used a helicopter often to cut down his commute to and from his home in Newport Beach. Leonard, last season, purchased a house in Rancho Santa Fe, north of San Diego. (In December, Leonard also purchased a penthouse near Staples Center.) “I talked to him about it before our transition to playing in L.A, just seeing how [he] got back and forth from Newport and he said he was doing it for about 17 years or so,” Leonard said. “Yeah, same pilot, everything, the whole situation, this whole program, the setup, how he was traveling back and forth was the same way I was getting here from San Diego.” Asked whether the crash gave him pause to continue to using helicopters, Leonard was unsure. “The things that you hear, you don’t know what’s real yet,” he said. “I can’t really speak on it. I don’t know. I don’t know yet. It’s a lot of thoughts in my head.” Zobayan, 50, had a commercial certificate and was a certified flight instructor with 8,200 hours of flight time as of July, said Jennifer Homendy, a National Transportation Safety Board member. “[Zobayan] will drop me off and say he is about go pick up Kobe. ‘Kobe said hello.’ Or he’ll just be like, ‘I just dropped Kobe off and he said hello.’ Vice versa. So, it’s a crazy interaction. He’s a good dude and I’m sorry for everybody.” Clippers’ Lou Williams on Kobe Bryant, being a #GirlDad Kobe Bryant’s influence will be ‘felt forever,’ Lakers coach Frank Vogel says Lakers coach Frank Vogel talks about Kobe Bryant. After their practice in El Segundo on Wednesday morning, the Lakers gave their players the option of speaking to reporters about the tragic death of Kobe Bryant . They decided to continue to mourn in private. Lakers coach Frank Vogel stepped forward to make the first public comments from a member of the organization since a helicopter carrying Bryant, his daughter Gianna and seven others crashed into a Calabasas hillside Sunday morning, killing all aboard. Vogel said he told the players they could talk when they’re ready and not a moment before. As Vogel addressed the media, LeBron James was nearby on the practice court, hoisting up jumpers. “We want to represent what Kobe was about more than anything,” said Vogel, who acknowledged there were some questions he may not be ready to address at this time. “He was the most feared man in the league for an entire generation.… His influence will be felt forever.” The Lakers display retired numbers on two walls above their practice gym. On Wednesday, Bryant’s No. 8 and No. 24 were lit up. The team was flying home from Philadelphia on Sunday morning when they learned about the crash . Players became emotional as they heard the news and Vogel addressed them once he heard. The team canceled practice on Monday, though a few players trickled into the facility. The franchise waited until Monday afternoon to release any statement regarding Bryant’s death out of respect for his widow, Vanessa, and his three surviving daughters. But the Lakers have also needed time to process and grieve the loss of a legend. “We’ve become a family in a very short time,” Vogel said. The organization has been reeling since Sunday morning. General manager Rob Pelinka was one of Bryant’s closest friends and Gianna’s godfather. Lakers executives, including owner Jeanie Buss and Linda Rambis, spent time at the team facility on Sunday and Monday. Buss lost her mother and a close friend, former NBA Commissioner David Stern , in the last six weeks. Monday would have been her father’s 87th birthday. The Lakers were planning to honor Jerry Buss during Tuesday’s game against the Clippers, before Sunday’s crash changed everything, leading the NBA to postpone the game. On Monday, the team brought in grief counselors, who were made available to employees, according to a person familiar with the situation. Bryant’s history with many of them was long. He joined the organization in 1996, as a 17-year-old ready to take over the basketball world. No formal plans have been made on how to honor Bryant, but the Lakers created a space Sunday for fans to gather and hold a vigil outside their facility. They provided a large white canvas with a watermarked image of Bryant leaned against the wall for fans to sign, using Sharpies distributed by the Lakers. It was nearly full by Monday afternoon, and enough fans have visited since to fill up two more. On Wednesday morning, a fourth canvas was unfurled outside the facility, where one fan stood with a fresh bouquet of flowers. Clippers’ Paul George on Kobe Bryant: ‘He was my Michael Jordan’ Clippers’ Kawhi Leonard says he talked to Kobe immediately after winning NBA title Shaq will donate Super Bowl party proceeds to Kobe’s foundation, crash victims’ families After days of deliberation following the death of his “brother” Kobe Bryant , Shaquille O’Neal has decided to proceed with “ Shaq’s Fun House ,” an carnival-style event scheduled for Friday night in Miami as one of the events leading up to Super Bowl LIV. In a heartfelt social media post Wednesday, O’Neal said he will donate all his proceeds from the event to the Kobe and Vanessa Bryant Foundation and to the families of the nine people killed in the helicopter crash Sunday in Calabasas. “Kobe would want us to push through and celebrate life,” O’Neal wrote. “So let’s do just that.” Musical performers at the event include Diddy, Diplo, Pitbull and Diesel (the name Shaq uses as an electronic music DJ ). ESPN anchor’s tribute to Kobe Bryant sparks #GirlDad trend The final moments of Kobe Bryant’s fatal flight, turn by turn By Matt Stiles , Swetha Kannan , Casey Miller and Andrea Roberson A reconstruction of the flight by The Times tracks the helicopter’s path starting at a crucial moment near the end when the pilot left the San Fernando Valley above the 101 Freeway. Fog and cloudy weather had descended on the region, limiting visibility. NTSB to FAA after helicopter crash: We warned you about terrain alert system By Richard Winton, Hannah Fry, Andrew J. Campa, Jaclyn Cosgrove NTSB investigator Jennifer Homendy said at Tuesday’s news conference that her agency had recommended that the Federal Aviation Administration 16 years ago require that all choppers carrying six or more passengers be equipped with a terrain awareness and warning system, adding that the FAA has “failed to act” on the proposal. Because the FAA didn’t follow the recommendation, the chopper that crashed Sunday was not legally required to have the system. Shortly after she spoke, an FAA spokesman disputed that assessment, noting that the FAA requires the terrain alarm system for helicopter air ambulance operations. Read more >>> John Altobelli and family are paid tribute at Orange Coast College baseball opener Sunday’s helicopter crash killed John Altobelli, 56, his wife, Keri, 46, and their daughter, Alyssa, 13, along with former Lakers star Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, and four others. Two days after the tragedy, the Pirates took the field for the first time in 28 years without Altobelli, who guided OCC to four state championships and 705 victories, sent hundreds of players to four-year colleges and helped countless teenagers mature into young men since 1993. The crowd of about 2,000 that squeezed into Wendell Pickens Field on the school’s Costa Mesa campus included J.J. Altobelli, 29, a scout for the Boston Red Sox, and high school junior Alexis Altobelli, 16, the only surviving members of the Altobelli family. Read More >>> Kobe Bryant’s helicopter was not equipped with terrain warning system that could have alerted pilot to hillside The helicopter that crashed Sunday in Calabasas, killing nine people including Kobe Bryant, was not equipped with a terrain alarm system that could have warned the pilot he was approaching a hillside, National Transportation Safety Board officials said Tuesday. The findings come as investigators are trying to determine why the helicopter crashed into a Calabasas hillside Sunday morning amid foggy conditions. NTSB investigator Jennifer Homendy said at Tuesday’s news conference that the helicopter was at 2,300 feet when it lost communication with air traffic controllers. The descent rate of the helicopter at the time of impact was more than 2,000 feet per minute. Read More >>> Dramatic video of wreckage from Kobe Bryant helicopter crash is released Federal investigators on Tuesday released a dramatic video showing the scene where Kobe Bryant’s helicopter crashed into a Calabasas hillside, killing the NBA great, his daughter and seven other people. The National Transportation Safety Board video shows the charred wreckage of the helicopter, which broke apart on impact Sunday morning. Much of what remained of the chopper was burned beyond recognition. But a wheel and parts of the fuselage appear not to have been burned. The video was released as the NTSB is trying to determine the cause of the crash, a task expected to take months. Read More >>> Kobe Bryant had a legendary workout for Clippers, who did him a favor by not drafting him In the spring of 1996, fewer than a dozen Clippers officials watched as coach Bill Fitch ran a 17-year-old guard from Philadelphia through a solo predraft workout in Los Angeles. On the day’s agenda was the same drill Fitch had used in hundreds of workouts during his previous 26 years evaluating NBA prospects. Fitch called it “baskets per minute,” and it was a souped-up version of the classic Mikan drill. Players alternated shooting on the left and right sides of the basket, using both hands, making as many baskets as possible in 60 seconds. Larry Bird was one of the best Fitch had ever tested. Nothing, however, topped what Fitch would witness that spring day inside the Sports Arena from Kobe Bryant. Read More >>> Kobe Bryant’s devotion to family became paramount when his basketball career ended It was December 2017, more than a year after Kobe Bryant had retired from basketball , and the Lakers great was expounding upon a fundamental truth of parenthood. Having spent much of his NBA career on the road, traveling from city to city, he talked about a new job, shuttling his daughters around Newport Coast. “A lot of driving in a three-to-five mile radius,” he said. “Now, to have that, it’s absolutely wonderful. The time we spend in the car.” Bryant’s life, which ended in a helicopter crash Sunday, might have seemed all big-time sports and celebrity from the outside, but there was something more basic at its core. Read More >>> A tearful Shaquille O’Neal on Kobe Bryant’s death: ‘I’ve lost a little brother’ Shaquille O’Neal sat in a chair at center court inside Staples Center wearing a gray suit with tears streaming down his face as he talked about dealing with the death of his friend and former Lakers teammate Kobe Bryant. O’Neal and the acclaimed TNT crew of Ernie Johnson, Charles Barkley and Kenny Smith along with quests Jerry West, Dwyane Wade and Reggie Miller had come to Los Angeles on Tuesday to pay tribute to Bryant in an hourlong show called “Remembering Kobe.” O’Neal struggled to come to grips with Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, and seven others perishing when their helicopter crashed into a Calabasas hillside Sunday. Read More >>> Kobe Bryant became champion of women’s sports after career Kobe Bryant sauntered through the locker room doors and eyes widened. After watching the Oregon women’s basketball team beat USC by 40 points at the Galen Center last January, the NBA legend, his daughter Gianna and other aspiring basketball players visited the Ducks. Bryant greeted players with hugs. He signed their shoes — Kobes, naturally — while they were still on their feet. He complimented their playing style. Bryant wasn’t in the courtside seat as a dad just chaperoning his daughter and her friends, Oregon coach Kelly Graves realized as he watched the interactions. This wasn’t a duty, this wasn’t an obligation and this wasn’t a publicity stunt. Read More >>> Kobe Bryant’s winning skills captivated fans in the NBA’s huge China market By Tommy Yang As a middle school student, Shen Yuqi started to follow the NBA largely because of Chinese superstar Yao Ming, a 7-foot, 6-inch phenom who caught her attention during the 2006-07 season. Shen, like many basketball fans growing up China, soon found out the league was filled with dynamic players. She picked a new favorite star — No. 24 of the Los Angeles Lakers. In the first NBA game she watched on television, the Rockets were playing the Lakers. Read More >>> Fans pay tribute to late NBA star Kobe Bryant More and more fans flood the Lakers training facility in El Segundo on Monday to pay respects to retired NBA star Kobe Bryant, who died Sunday in a helicopter crash in Calabasas. The time Kobe Bryant took part in a child’s goldfish funeral In the 2½ days after Kobe Bryant died in a helicopter crash , billionaire investor Chris Sacca sifted through old emails and text messages with the Lakers star. “Somehow yesterday was bad and today feels even worse,” Sacca said in an email to The Times on Tuesday. Their relationship started several years ago when Bryant asked Sacca to serve as a mentor to help him grow as an investor and entrepreneur. They quickly became friends, bonding over business and fatherhood. Though Bryant built a reputation as a fearsome competitor on the basketball court and a businessman with wide-ranging pursuits off it, children brought out a different side. One occasion lingers in Sacca’s mind. Read More >>> AC Milan, Kobe Bryant’s favorite Italian soccer team, pays tribute during match AC Milan and its fans paid tribute to Kobe Bryant with lights and applause before and during Tuesday’s Italian Cup game against Torino at the San Siro stadium. Bryant, who grew up in Italy between the ages of 6 and 13, was a devout Milan fan. The 18-time NBA All-Star with the Lakers died Sunday with his 13-year-old daughter , Gianna, in a helicopter crash near Calabasas. As Milan and Torino warmed up before the game, the words “Legends Never Die” and “SempreKobe” — a play on the “SempreMilan,” or “AlwaysMilan,” hashtag often used by the club — were displayed on the advertising boards around the San Siro while images of Bryant were shown on the giant screen. Read More >>> WWE star Roman Reigns did what many dads had done after Kobe Bryant and Gianna died WWE superstar Roman Reigns , who grew up a huge Lakers fan, was preparing for Sunday’s Royal Rumble pay-per-view event when he learned of the death of Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna. Times reporter Arash Markazi caught up with Reigns and talked to him about Bryant. “I watched religiously throughout his career,” Reigns said. “I never thought losing someone like that, essentially a stranger, though obviously a public figure ... I didn’t realize it would affect me so much. It broke my heart. My heart goes out to his wife and his three girls that were left behind. All the families that were involved. Read More >>> HBO’s ‘Real Sports’ grapples with Kobe Bryant’s complex legacy Kobe Bryant’s greatness as a basketball player is unquestioned. But he was also known for his prickly personality and his villainous on-court demeanor as the self-named Black Mamba . Those aspects of Bryant’s complicated nature are recalled in Tuesday’s installment of HBO’s sports magazine “Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel.” The “Real Sports” segment focuses on two profiles the series conducted with Bryant, who died Sunday , along with his daughter Gianna and seven others, in a helicopter crash in Calabasas. The first piece, from 2000, finds the player discussing his early motivations to become great, including being inspired by the success of his father, pro basketball player Joseph Bryant. Read More>>> Washington Post clears writer who tweeted about Kobe Bryant rape allegation A Washington Post reporter who had been placed on administrative leave after she tweeted a link to a story about a 2003 rape allegation against Kobe Bryant has been cleared to return to work, the paper said Tuesday. In a statement, the Post said that an internal review had determined that political reporter Felicia Sonmez was “not in clear and direct violation of our social media policy,” but that the tweets were “ill-timed.” Sonmez’s tweet came in the hours after Bryant, 41, died in a helicopter crash Sunday . Read More>>> Video Column: Kobe Bryant was much more than just an iconic basketball star Kobe Bryant was much more than just an iconic basketball star. L.A. Times sports and culture columnist LZ Granderson has covered the NBA and Kobe Bryant for decades. Investigators from the FAA and NTSB searched for clues in Kobe’s helicopter crash By Los Angeles Times Staff Turning now to the investigation as federal authorities work to unravel the mystery of why Kobe’s helicopter crashed. Today, local officials had the grim task of removing the remains of the victims, while investigators from the FAA and NTSB searched for clues. L.A. Times reporter Richard Winton saw the immediate aftermath at the time of the crash and has been covering the investigation from Calabasas. (Required) NTSB Calabasas, CA Helicopter Crash B-Roll NTSB Board Member Jennifer Homendy briefs media on the Jan. 26 helicopter crash in Calabasas, Calif. Film academy to acknowledge Kobe Bryant’s death at the Oscars TOPSHOT - Kobe Bryant poses in the press room with the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film for “Dear Basketball,” during the 90th Annual Academy Awards on March 4, 2018, in Hollywood, California. (Photo by FREDERIC J. BROWN / AFP) (Photo credit should read FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images) (FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images) Joining other tributes that have poured in around the world, the motion picture academy plans to acknowledge the death of basketball legend Kobe Bryant at next month’s Oscars ceremony. The specific details are being kept under wraps at this time. The Oscars telecast has long included an In Memoriam segment to acknowledge notable members of the Hollywood community who passed away that year, but it is unclear whether Bryant will receive a separate tribute. Bryant won an Academy Award in 2018 for producing and writing the five-minute animated short “Dear Basketball.” Read More>>> California lawmakers have a moment of silence on House floor for Kobe Bryant, other crash victims Reps. Harley Rouda (D-Laguna Beach) and Maxine Waters (D-Los Angeles) led members of the California delegation in a moment of silence on the House floor Tuesday afternoon in honor of the nine victims who died in Sunday’s helicopter crash. Rouda named each of the victims in alphabetical order: John, Keri and Alyssa Altobelli, Kobe and Gianna Bryant, Payton and Sarah Chester, Christina Mauser and pilot Ara Zobayan.The congressman acknowledged the group’s love of basketball and singled out the parents’ and coaches’ on board who were steadfastly dedicated to nurturing the passion and talents of the three 13-year-old girls who died on their way to play a game.“ Orange County is grieving, but we will find solace and purpose in the legacy they left behind,” he said. Waters addressed the loss of Kobe and Gianna Byrant specifically, before the House fell silent.“ I stand today on behalf of all Californians, and certainly the entire city of Los Angeles and millions of fans worldwide who are mourning the sudden loss of Kobe Bryant,” she said. “Our hearts go out to his wife, Vanessa, surviving daughters, Natalia, Bianka and Capri, relatives, teammates and friends.” Fans pay tribute to late NBA star Kobe Bryant More and more fans flood the Lakers training facility in El Segundo on Monday to pay respects to retired NBA star Kobe Bryant, who died Sunday in a helicopter crash in Calabasas. Why you can’t buy Kobe Bryant’s signature sneakers on Nike.com When Kobe Bryant sneakers on Nike’s e-commerce site disappeared from the merchandise mix at some point in the 24 hours after Bryant’s death, some published reports claimed that it was part of Nike’s effort to limit secondary resellers’ ability to lay in a supply of sneakers that could later be sold at grief-inflated prices. That’s not accurate, according to a Nike representative, who told The Times on Tuesday that the sneakers weren’t purposefully pulled from the company’s e-commerce site but that the existing stock had sold out. The Beaverton, Ore., athletic goods maker has been making Bryant’s signature shoe since 2003, and searches for the Black Mamba’s name on Nike.com redirect to a message of condolences dated Jan. 26. Read More>>> Lakers fan pays tribute to Kobe Bryant with his ‘KNG KOBE’ truck (Kathy Klein / For The Times) Drivers on Lake Avenue in Pasadena honked their horns late Sunday afternoon as Ron Bonilla drove his black-matte 2007 Toyota Tundra — with personal license plate KNG KOBE and a Lakers flag at half-mast — through traffic. Bonilla, 48, has been a Lakers fan since 1979, when Magic Johnson joined the team. “I’ve never felt so connected to any athlete or artist or entertainer as I felt with Kobe,” said Bonilla, proudly wearing Bryant’s No. 24 jersey and a Lakers cap. Read More>>> H.B.’s Ara Zobayan, who flew doomed Bryant helicopter, was an experienced pilot and instructor By The Daily Pilot Staff Ara Zobayan of Huntington Beach — the pilot of the helicopter that crashed in Calabasas on Sunday, killing nine people, including Zobayan and retired Lakers star Kobe Bryant — was an experienced flier and a certified flight instructor with more than 8,000 hours of flight time, sources said this week. Bryant regularly used the helicopter, a Sikorsky S-76B owned by the charter service Island Express. Records show the aircraft had flown between John Wayne Airport, where it took off Sunday morning, and Camarillo Airport, where it was heading, about two dozen times in the past two years. Read More>>> All bodies recovered from Kobe Bryant crash site as investigation continues By Los Angeles Times Staff The bodies of Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter and seven others who died in a helicopter crash have been recovered from a Calabasas hillside, coroner officials said Tuesday. Authorities on Sunday recovered the bodies of at least three victims from the helicopter wreckage. The next day, the search continued for the six remaining victims. Their bodies were eventually located and taken to the Los Angeles County Coroner’s forensic science center, where officials will work to identify them. Authorities investigating the devastating incident said the impact of the crash was intense, shattering the chopper and sending debris over a wide area. Read More>>> Kobe Bryant’s studio removes Oscar-winning ‘Dear Basketball’ film from website Don’t be surprised if you can’t find Kobe Bryant’s Oscar-winning animated short “Dear Basketball” streaming online anymore in the wake of the basketball star’s death . The film, which Granity Studios briefly made available for free Monday, has been taken down. The decision Tuesday to take down the video means it’ll be hard to find online — again. Read More>>> Petition to use Kobe Bryant image in NBA logo approaches 2 million signatures In the days since the helicopter crash that took the lives of Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, and seven others, NBA players and teams have been paying tribute to the Lakers legend, with gestures including handwritten messages on their sneakers and intentional clock violations of 8 and 24 seconds in honor Bryant’s jersey numbers and custom pregame jerseys . One fan has suggested a way the league can permanently honor one of its all-time greats — and close to 2 million people agree with the idea. Change the logo. Read More>>> The questions at the heart of the Kobe Bryant helicopter crash investigation By Los Angeles Times Staff (Matt Stiles & Priya Krishnakumar) There is no black box recording. The audio transmission released so far does not cover the actual moment of the crash. And the impact of the crash sent debris scattered over a huge area. These are some of the impediments the National Transportation Safety Board is facing as it investigates why a helicopter carrying Kobe Bryant and eight others crashed into a hillside in Calabasas, killing all on board. The probe is still in its early stages , and a final determination is months away. At its heart are some basic questions: Why was the pilot flying so low in the moments before the crash, and why could the chopper not clear the hillside? Read More>>> Washington Post places reporter on leave after tweet about Kobe Bryant rape allegations By Associated Press WASHINGTON —The Washington Post has placed a political reporter on administrative leave after she tweeted a link to a story about rape allegations against NBA superstar Kobe Bryant, who was killed Sunday. Dozens of journalists at the newspaper criticized the decision. Reporter Felicia Sonmez’s tweet Sunday, amid widespread public mourning over Bryant’s death in a helicopter crash , drew considerable backlash on social media. The Post reported that Somnez received threats of death and rape and had to move to a hotel after her home address was published online. The Post said Somnez deleted the original tweet at the request of a managing editor. She also received an email from executive editor Marty Baron saying: “A real lack of judgment to tweet this. Please stop. You’re hurting this institution by doing this.” Somnez shared the email with an Associated Press reporter. The Post said Somnez had been placed on paid leave while newsroom managers looked into the episode. A spokeswoman for the newspaper did not respond to questions about Baron’s role. Read More>>> Watch TV’s comics honor Kobe Bryant: ‘He always showed up to save the day’ Tears replaced laughs on the comedy scene Monday as TV hosts delivered touching tributes to Kobe Bryant, who died Sunday in a helicopter crash along with his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, and seven others. Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel and Ellen DeGeneres struggled to keep it together while lamenting life’s fragility and recounting some of their fondest memories with the Laker legend. James Corden and Conan O’Brien were also among those who honored Bryant with reflective words and, in some cases, highlight reels of his past guest appearances. “Tonight’s show is going to be different from our usual show,” Kimmel began his “Jimmy Kimmel Live” monologue. “We don’t have a studio audience here tonight because going forward with a comedy show didn’t feel right, considering what happened yesterday.... That was a punch in the gut for many of us. Kobe was — and I know this might not make sense, but — he was just the last person you could ever imagine something like this happening to.” Read More>>> Deputies on horseback patrol Kobe Bryant crash site as trespassers ignore warnings By Los Angeles Times Staff CALABASAS, CA-JANUARY 26, 2020: People gather on Las Virgenes Road in Calabasas near the scene of a helicopter that crashed and burst into flames Sunday morning amid foggy conditions in the hills above. All people aboard were killed including Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant. (Mel Melcon/Los Angeles Times) (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times) Investigators and recovery teams were back at a Calabasas hillside Tuesday, continuing to remove remains from the site of a helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter and seven others as they tried to determine what caused the tragedy. Authorities have recovered the bodies of at least three victims and say the process of removing others may take several days to complete. They said the impact of the crash was intense, shattering the chopper and sending debris over a wide area. “This was a pretty devastating accident,” National Transportation Safety Board investigator Jennifer Homendy said. “There is an impact area on one of the hills, and a piece of the tail is down the hill on the left side of the hill. The fuselage is on the other side of that hill. Then the main rotor is about hundred yards beyond that. The debris field is about 500 to 600 feet.” Read More>>> Bad Bunny releases ‘6 Rings,’ a tribute song to Kobe Bryant Bad Bunny luciendo un nuevo “look” durante su presentación en el Calibash 2020 en Los Ángeles. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times) Bad Bunny is paying his respects to the late basketball legend Kobe Bryant the way he knows best: through music. The singer released the song “6 Rings” on Monday in honor of the late Lakers star, who died in a helicopter crash over the weekend along with his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven others. The two-minute track , sung in Spanish, includes commentary from Bryant’s 2006 game against the Toronto Raptors where the Lakers player scored a staggering 81 points. Read More>>> Kobe Bryant HATED losing so much that it set him apart from his Lakers teammates (Los Angeles Times) It took almost 200 pages in “Mamba Mentality,” Kobe Bryant’s 2018 book, for him to write explicitly about losing basketball games, and when he did, it was to the point. “THE AGONY OF DEFEAT IS AS LOW AS THE JOY OF WINNING IS HIGH,” he wrote in capital letters — white text on a black page below a photo of a himself sitting dejected on the Lakers bench. Bryant’s countenance let you know. Read More>>> TNT to air live Kobe Bryant tribute ahead of Celtics-Heat game tonight TNT will air a one-hour special tribute to Kobe Bryant tonight at 7 p.m. The live special will be streamed from the Staples Center and will air ahead of the Celtics vs. Heat game in Miami. The tribute will be hosted by Shaquille O’Neal, Ernie Johnson, Charles Barkley and Kenny Smith. Dwyane Wade, Candace Parker and Steve Nash will be guests on the program. TNT’s pregame, halftime and postgame coverage will all focus on Bryant from the Staples Center, which was slated to host the postponed Lakers/Clippers game. Tourists and fans invade Calabasas hillside where Kobe Bryant’s helicopter crashed (Christina House/Los Angeles Times) As out-of-town visitors arrived in Calabasas looking to glimpse the hillside where Lakers legend Kobe Bryant, his daughter and seven other people died in a helicopter crash, some ran into sheriff’s checkpoints, some became lost and others had no idea where to go. Enter 70-year-old Linda Adams. The 30-year Calabasas resident pointed to a shortcut between Las Virgenes Creek, where fans gathered to scan the hillside, and Las Virgenes Road, which saved several travelers at least a mile of walking. A few onlookers even joined Adams to catch a better and closer view of the crash site. Read More>>> Kobe Bryant’s death hits close to home for USC basketball players (Britny Mejia/ Los Angeles Times) The mural towered over Melrose Avenue, and for three years, since it was painted outside of the sneaker shop across from Fairfax High, Ethan Anderson would stare at it from a classroom window. Every day he walked or drove past, looking at it so often that the towering likeness, soaring across a purple wall of Shoe Palace, merely had become a part of the landscape. To Anderson and so many others who’d grown up in the long shadow he cast, it seemed Kobe Bryant always would be there , his presence looming forever over Los Angeles. But on Sunday morning, Bryant died in a helicopter crash that killed eight others, including his daughter Gianna, and as Los Angeles mourned, turning the sidewalk outside Shoe Palace into a shrine, Anderson found himself thinking about that mural and the legacy of the man in it. Read More>>> Kobe Bryant: Here are some of the Mamba’s most memorable quotes LOS ANGELES, CA - APRIL 13: Kobe Bryant #24 of the Los Angeles Lakers address the media during the post game news conference after scoring 60 point in his final NBA game at Staples Center on April 13, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Harry How/Getty Images) (Getty Images) Lakers legend Kobe Bryant died Sunday when the helicopter he was traveling in crashed and burst into flames in the hills above Calabasas. His daughter Gianna, 13, was also on board and died along with seven others . Bryant was known to give some memorable quotes over the years — some inspirational, some funny and all pure Kobe. Here are some that might provide a little comfort during this tragic time. Read More >>> Vanguard University, practice home of Kobe Bryant’s club team, mourns the basketball great and his daughter By Faith E. Pinho When Gianna “Gigi” Bryant first told her basketball star father that she wanted to play the sport, Kobe Bryant took her seriously. “He kind of sat down with Gigi and said, ‘If you want to play, we’re going to do this,’” said Jeff Melton, assistant athletic director at Vanguard University. “’We’ll do this if this is a passion for you.’” When she said yes, her father — who became legendary for his 20-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers — began tapping into his world of opportunities. He arranged for her to meet her basketball idol, Katie Lou Samuelson, a guard for the WNBA’s Chicago Sky. He took her to Atlanta Hawks NBA games to watch Trae Young, another of her favorite players. Read More >>> Orange Coast College baseball team to play two days after coach John Altobelli died It’s OK to cry, to be overcome by grief. It’s OK to be mad, to scream out in frustration. Most of all, it’s OK to ask for help. That was the message to the Orange Coast College baseball team as it prepared for Tuesday’s season opener against Chula Vista Southwestern, a game that will be played just two days after longtime Pirates coach John Altobelli, his wife, Keri, and their 13-year-old daughter, Alyssa, died in the fiery helicopter crash that also killed former Lakers star Kobe Bryant on Sunday. “We athletes, we’re macho, and we want to be tough, and because of that, sometimes we pretend like we’re not hurting,” former Cal State Fullerton and Oregon coach George Horton, a close friend of the Altobelli family, told players before practice Monday. Read More >>> Column: Kobe Bryant’s reaction when I cursed him on TV showed the real Kobe, as he always did It was in the first round of the 2012 playoffs , the Lakers were in Denver, and I couldn’t take it anymore. I couldn’t bear one more moment of listening to that smug Kobe Bryant . Asked about the defense being played on him by the Nuggets’ Danilo Gallinari during a postgame news conference, Bryant filled the small media room with dripping sarcasm. He smiled, shook his head, and said something like, oh yeah, he was real worried, truly bothered, so stressed ... And I lost it. “Kobe, you’re such an asshole!” I yelled at him. Read More >>> Mothers, fathers, daughters, coaches: Here are the 9 killed in the Kobe Bryant helicopter crash By Los Angeles Times Staff (K.C. Alfred/U-T San Diego) Sunday should have been a day filled with adrenaline-pumping competition set to a soundtrack of cheers and the scuffle of sneakers on a basketball court. It wasn’t supposed to be a day marred by a tragedy that took the lives of nine people and left a city heartbroken. Many of the victims of the Calabasas helicopter crash were united in their love of basketball, headed to a tournament at the Mamba Sports Academy in Thousand Oaks. They included Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna, a budding basketball player who was ready to follow in her father’s footsteps; baseball coach John Altobelli, his wife Keri and their basketball-playing daughter Alyssa; mother and daughter Sarah and Payton Chester; Mamba Academy basketball coach Christina Mauser and pilot Ara Zobayan. As Los Angeles collectively mourned their Lakers hero, multiple families and friends reeled while reality hit. Read More>>> The last flight of Kobe Bryant By Los Angeles Times Staff A light fog had settled on the runway of John Wayne Airport Sunday morning when Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna and six other passengers boarded a chartered helicopter to fly to a basketball tournament in Thousand Oaks. A half-hour later, they were flying over thickening clouds in the San Fernando Valley. The pilot was worried enough to ask flight controllers to keep track of them. As he approached the hills of Calabasas at 150 miles per hour, they radioed him, telling him he was too low for them to see on radar. The pilot commenced a climb, rising 765 feet in 36 seconds, enough to clear adjacent hills. Read More >>> What causes the deep marine layer that played a role in the Kobe Bryant helicopter crash? (Paul Duginski / Los Angeles Times) On Sunday morning, when Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna and seven others were killed in a helicopter crash near Calabasas, there was a thick marine layer and patchy dense fog that obscured some of the terrain. The conditions were the result of a deteriorating cold front passing through the area with moist northwest flow, which caused low clouds to pile up against the northern slopes of Ventura and L.A. County mountains. There were showers to the north, and clouds pushing into coastal valleys were thick enough to cause drizzle along the coast and in nearby foothills, according to the National Weather Service. A webcam at Oat Mountain, northwest of Porter Ranch, suggested that the marine layer was 3,000 feet thick. Read More>>> Huge Kobe Bryant fans Justin Turner and Clayton Kershaw mourn his death Lakers legend Kobe Bryant poses for a photo with Dodgers great Tommy Lasorda during a game at Dodger Stadium in July 2013.of the Los Angeles Lakers and Tommy Lasorda attend a game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the New York Yankees on July 31, 2013 at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, Caifornia. (Jill Weisledero / Dodgers via Getty Images) Justin Turner received the news of Kobe Bryant’s death Sunday from his wife, Kourtney, as he packed a van for his charity golf event Monday. The Dodgers third baseman’s initial reaction was like that of many others — he assumed it wasn’t true. He didn’t believe it until he heard radio reports confirming the unfathomable as he drove to Sherwood Country Club in Thousand Oaks near the site of the helicopter crash that killed the 41-year-old Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven others. “I was just shaking,” Turner said. Read More >>> In Orange County, Kobe Bryant grew from basketball’s enfant terrible into a ‘typical dad’ By Los Angeles Times Staff The last Saturday of Kobe Bryant’s life came and went like any typical weekend at home for the retired Lakers superstar. He took one daughter to the mall. Accompanied another to a basketball game. Planned a Sunday morning trip with friends. And slept with his family at their house in Orange County. For nearly 20 years, one of the most famous names in sports lived a surprisingly public life in this unlikeliest of places. Read More >>> Kobe’s helicopter didn’t have a black box because one wasn’t required, NTSB says By Los Angeles Times Staff Just before crashing into a Calabasas hillside, the pilot of Kobe Bryant’s helicopter rapidly ascended to avoid a cloud layer, the National Transportation Safety Board said Monday. Jennifer Homendy, an NTSB member, said the pilot flying from Orange County to Ventura County requested special visual flight rules, which allow pilots to fly under 1,000 feet. A marine layer had settled over the region Sunday morning and some areas were shrouded in fog. Homendy said it remained unclear why the helicopter slammed into the hillside. Debris from the crash was scattered across 600 feet, she said. “It was a pretty devastating accident scene,” she added. “There is an impact area on one of the hills and a piece of the tail is down the hill on the left side of the hill. The fuselage is on the other side of that hill. Then the main rotor is about hundred yards beyond that. The debris field is about 500 to 600 feet.” She said there was no black box and it isn’t required. Read More >>> The day after his death, the talk at barbershops in L.A. was about Kobe and his legacy Lawrance Tolliver, owner of Tolliver’s Barber Shop in South LA, works on Jospeh Kenery Monday, January 27, 2020, where the talk was all about the helicopter crash that tooth life of Kobe Bryant, his daughter, Gianna, and seven others. (Jason Armond /Los Angeles Times) Alexander Toney had just walked into the grocery store with his family on Sunday when he first heard rumors that Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant may have died. At first, the South L.A. barber didn’t believe it, saying he thought TMZ’s reports weren’t credible. But after more outlets confirmed that not only Bryant, but his 13-year old daughter, Gianna, and seven others died in the fiery helicopter crash, the grim reality sunk in. As they walked down the aisles getting their food, he said he wrapped his arms around his four kids more tightly than usual. Read More >>> Jimmy Fallon pays tribute to Kobe Bryant Jimmy Fallon pays tribute to Lakers legend Kobe Bryant LeBron James breaks silence on Kobe Bryant’s death LeBron James broke his silence on Monday evening, posting a wrenching message on Instagram in the form of a note to the late Kobe Bryant . “I’m not ready but here I go,” the post began. “Man I sitting here trying to write something for this post but every time I try I begin crying again just thinking about you, niece Gigi and the friendship/bond/brotherhood we had! I literally just heard your voice Sunday morning before I left Philly to head back to LA. Didn’t think for one bit in a million years that would be the last conversation we’d have.” Bryant called James after the Lakers played in Philadelphia on Saturday night to congratulate James for moving up to third on the league’s all-time scoring list . In doing so, James had passed Bryant who scored 33,643 points in his NBA career. Read More >>> Kobe Bryant’s final flight, minute by minute Kobe Bryant called LeBron James on Saturday night after he was passed on scoring list ‘You made us dream’: Kobe Bryant is mourned in Italy, where he first learned to play By Tom Kingston ROME — As the world mourns the death of Kobe Bryant , his first coach recalled how the basketball legend cried when taken out during a game at the age of 7 because he was too good. Gioacchino Fusacchia, 60, coached Bryant in Rieti, a small town in central Italy, when the late athlete’s father, Joe, played professional basketball following a career in the NBA. “Kobe followed Joe everywhere, to matches, to training, and was already passionate about basketball,” said Fusacchia, who was in his mid-20s during the period the Bryants were in Rieti, from 1984 to 1986. Rieti was Joe’s first stop in a seven-year spell in Italy during which he played seasons with other Italian teams in the southern region of Calabria and the northern regions of Tuscany and Emilio-Romagna before returning to the United States. Read More>>> Kobe Bryant’s studio removes Oscar-winning ‘Dear Basketball’ film from website After Kobe Bryant’s death Sunday , finding his animated short “Dear Basketball” to watch online was a difficult task — until now. Granity Studios, the NBA star’s multimedia production company, made the Academy Award-winning film available for free Monday afternoon on the dearbasketball.com website and on Vimeo. “Dear Basketball” is based on a poem he wrote in November 2015 to announce his retirement. The poem was published by the Players’ Tribune , a website that features first-person accounts written by pro athletes. Read More >>> Fatal crash hit Newport Beach hard: 5 other residents, not just Bryants, were victims By Luke Money and Hillary Davis Kobe Bryant was a Los Angeles superstar. But he called Newport Beach his home. It was here he raised his daughters, was involved in its schools and youth sports and made friends at the neighborhood grocery store and Starbucks. And it was this community that saw so much loss Sunday, as the helicopter carrying Bryant , his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, and seven others slammed into a hillside above Calabasas, killing all on board. Also on the copter were Newport Beach residents John Altobelli; his wife, Keri; and their daughter, Alyssa, who played on the same club team as Gianna Bryant. Newport Beach mother and daughter Sarah and Payton Chester were identified by friends and family as also being on board. Read more >>> NBA postpones Lakers-Clippers game that was set for Tuesday The NBA has postponed the Lakers-Clippers game that was scheduled for Tuesday. “The decision was made out of respect for the Lakers organization, which is deeply grieving the tragic loss of Lakers legend Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna and seven other people in a helicopter crash on Sunday.” No makeup date has been released. Read More >>> The legacy of ‘Kobe!’ jump shots lives on through fans (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times) It usually happens during a pickup basketball game. A player plants his feet, jumps and shoots with a yell of “Kobe!” -- partly a joke, but also a plea to guide the ball into the hoop with the skill of the late Lakers great Kobe Bryant. It’s just a moment, but it’s a legacy that Bryant has left countless amateur basketball players -- and those folks just trying to throw a wad of paper into a faraway trash can -- around the world. As the news of Bryant’s death in a helicopter crash on Sunday spread, Twitter users and Times readers from all over shared memories of their “Kobe!” shots: jump shots, trick shots and three-point attempts. Here’s what they had to say (some responses have been lightly edited for clarity). Read More >>> Coverage of the Kobe Bryant helicopter crash included missteps, insights and tears Jim Hill rushed into the KCBS-Channel 2 studio in suit and tie and had Magic Johnson on the phone while other local TV crews were scrambling to do fan-on-the-street reactions. That was impressive but not unexpected. Liz Habib’s voice cracked before she had to stop and wipe away tears, abandoning a KTTV-Channel 11 live standup. That felt appropriate. ESPN and ABC continued to televise the NFL’s Pro Bowl in a simulcast, a meaningless exercise, while pushing its live coverage of events to ESPN2. That was beyond awkward, bordering on disrespectful. Media outlets trying to disseminate what TMZ first reported Sunday morning as a helicopter crash in Calabasas that took five lives, including that of retired Lakers star Kobe Bryant , ignited the comprehension, disbelief and misinformation anxiety that often permeate the first 24 hours of a news cycle. Read More >>> Kobe Bryant short film ‘Dear Basketball’ plays like a eulogy from the man who made it By Tim Greiving The mood of Kobe Bryant’s Oscar-winning animated short film, “Dear Basketball,” always seemed a little curious. Part love letter to his sport, it was also part eulogy. “My heart can take the pounding,” Bryant said in his narration, over a quiet moment in John Williams’ poignant score. “My mind can handle the grind. But my body knows it’s time to say goodbye. And that’s OK. I’m ready to let you go.” The 2017 film serves as a bit of tragic poetry following the death of Bryant , daughter Gianna and seven other people in a Calabasas helicopter crash Sunday. The project began as a letter he penned in 2015 for the Players’ Tribune announcing his retirement from the NBA. Bryant created the production company Granity Studios — originally Kobe Studios — with ambitions to create books, TV series and even feature films. “Dear Basketball” was its first effort. Read More>>> Kobe Bryant fans honor him through poetry In a request for Kobe Bryant memories, some fans expressed themselves through poetry. It’s a fitting tribute to the legendary Lakers great who wrote a poem called “Dear Basketball” to announce his retirement from the NBA. That poem was made into a film that earned him an Academy Award, a Sports Emmy and an Annie Award. Bryant, 41, died in a helicopter crash in Calabasas on Sunday morning, along with his 13-year-old daughter and seven others. His career with the Lakers spanned 20 years before his retirement in 2016, and included five NBA championship titles, two Finals MVPs and one regular season MVP. The Times asked readers to write in with their favorite memories of Bryant . If you have a poem to add, please submit it through the form below. Read More>>> Column: Kobe Bryant’s death is a setback for women’s basketball, Sierra Canyon coach laments Sierra Canyon High girls’ basketball coach Alicia Komaki said she spent 12 hours Sunday sitting in her Chatsworth office watching nonstop news coverage about Kobe Bryant’s death . It made her reflect on what his absence might mean to women’s basketball, one of the most important recipients of his support since his retirement from the NBA. From taking his daughters to WNBA games to coaching his daughter in youth basketball, Bryant was setting the stage to become an invaluable contributor in an arena that needed support. He was headed to Thousand Oaks to coach daughter Gianna, 13, in a youth tournament Sunday when the helicopter he was traveling in crashed , killing him, Gianna and seven others. Komaki said the word around the club circuit was Bryant might become the girls’ basketball coach at Newport Coast Sage Hill, where Gianna was possibly going to enroll. A Sage Hill representative denied that Bryant was a coaching candidate. Bryant’s eldest daughter, Natalia, attends Sage Hill and is on the volleyball team. Read More>>> Column: For my 13-year-old basketball player, Gianna Bryant’s death was a bigger blow than Kobe’s (Getty Images) My youngest daughter and I were at a friend’s baby shower when we learned of Kobe Bryant’s death . I was glancing at my phone when a breaking news alert flashed across my screen, and I gasped. “What?” Darby said, reaching for her own phone. So she learned as I did that Kobe’s 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, had been with him when the helicopter crashed. I squeezed my own 13-year-old daughter’s hand under the table and said, “We’ll talk about it after,” and we returned, as best we could, to the shower’s excitement and joy. We did talk about it later, on the drive home, but I was just as shocked and numb as she. “I feel so sad,” she said as we walked into the house. “That is how everyone is going to feel,” I said unhelpfully, mechanically. “It is just a terrible, terrible thing.” Read More >>> ‘We all know him as just Kobe, a person.’ Newport Coast neighbors salute Kobe Bryant at vigil By Hillary Davis People who knew Kobe Bryant as the father of four who lived up the street, ordered a certain pink drink at the corner Starbucks and trick-or-treated with their children gathered Sunday night in a park not far from his home to share their memories. Newport Ridge Community Park is near Bryant’s Newport Coast home and near their homes too. These were neighbors of the retired Lakers basketball legend and youth basketball coach whom some of the younger people knew around their school gym as Mr. Bryant. Read More>>> Kobe Bryant didn’t mentor many young players; Anthony Davis was an exception (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) During his playing career, there weren’t many young players whom Kobe Bryant mentored. He made an exception for Anthony Davis. “Anthony was different just because of his curiosity about the game itself,” Bryant said in an interview last fall . “His obvious potential. His ability. But he had a curious nature about him and how he wanted to learn more and more about that game. So I’d gravitate toward that.” Bryant was one of nine people killed in a helicopter crash Sunday morning along with his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna; Alyssa Altobelli, Gianna’s teammate on the Mamba basketball team; and her parents John and Keri Altobelli ; Christina Mauser, who helped coach the Mamba girls basketball team; and the pilot, Ara Zobayan. Two other passengers haven’t been publicly identified yet. READ MORE>>> Longtime Lakers fan Jack Nicholson mourns Kobe Bryant: ‘It kills you’ Hollywood veteran Jack Nicholson is a three-time Oscar winner and 12-time nominee, with more than 70 credits to his name. But on Sunday, he was simply a heartbroken Lakers fan. Following the sudden death of local hero Kobe Bryant, Nicholson reflected on his relationship with the basketball icon and his home team yesterday in a rare phone interview with CBS Los Angeles. Bryant died early Sunday in a Calabasas helicopter crash along with his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, and seven others. “My reaction is the same as almost all of L.A.,” the actor said. “Suddenly, where everything was solid, there’s a big hole in the wall. I was so used to seeing and talking to Kobe that — it kills you. It’s just a terrible event.” READ MORE >>> NBA greats talk about the impact Kobe Bryant had on them This story originally published on latimes.com on April 11th, 2016. As Kobe Bryant plays out his 20th and final season with the Lakers, The Times has reached out to players, coaches and broadcasters for recollections about his career. READ MORE >>>> Chaplain of Senate impeachment trial mourns Kobe’s passing Senate Chaplain Barry Black in an opening prayer ahead of the impeachment trial mourned the loss of Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna and “those who died with them.” “We all have a limited time on Earth to leave the world better than we found it,” Black said. “As this impeachment process unfolds, give our senators the desire to make the most of their time on Earth. Teach them how to live, o God, and lead them along the path of honesty.” Justin Turner talks about the impact of Kobe Bryant’s death (Required) A look back at Kobe Bryant, gold medalist, as he looked forward to L.A. Olympics (Mark Ralston / AFP via Getty Images) It was the summer of 2008 and Kobe Bryant was playing on the U.S team at the Summer Olympics in Beijing. He mentioned to Times columnist Bill Plaschke that winning gold might be his greatest accomplishment, better than an NBA championship, a sentiment he knew might irritate some Laker fans. “So what?” he said. “If they don’t understand this, they don’t know what they’re talking about. It’s simple. You’re playing for your country.” On Monday, the International Olympic Committee issued its reaction to the sudden death of a basketball icon who won that gold in China and another one, four years later, in London. “Kobe was an outstanding and true Olympic champion,” IOC President Thomas Bach said. “He embraced the power of sport to change people’s lives.” READ MORE >>> Southern California radio stations will go silent at noon in honor of Kobe Bryant The Southern California Broadcasters Association is asking its members to observe a synchronized moment of silence in honor of late local hero Kobe Bryant. The radio silence, set to occur at noon Pacific on Monday, will last for one minute and eight seconds — a nod to the Laker star’s original jersey number, 8. The organization also provided additional instructions on how stations should approach coverage of Bryant’s death throughout the day. READ MORE >>> 24 grieving fans talk about losing their hero: ‘This is a Kobe town’ Fans gather at the corner of Las Virgenes Road and Willow Glen Street in Calabasas near the site of the crash where Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna were among 9 dead in a helicopter crash on Sunday. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times) Los Angeles is a city in mourning. Makeshift memorials continue to pop up, from Thousand Oaks to Newport Beach. Fans converged on Staples Center, the Lakers training center in El Segundo, on Melrose Avenue and in Calabasas, where Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter Gianna, and seven others will killed in a helicopter crash Sunday . Bryant’s jersey number — 24 — already had special meaning, commemorating his 20 seasons with the Lakers. Many teams now say no one else will ever wear that number. Here is what 24 Angelenos had to say about No. 24: READ MORE >>> Kobe Bryant and Nipsey Hussle weren’t perfect angels. That’s why L.A. loved them. There’s this thing that happens when a person dies, especially when that person is famous and the death is unexpected. Those who are left behind to mourn tend to gloss over the bad decisions and focus on the good deeds, the heroic traits and the uncommonly charitable gestures. This was very much the case Sunday. Hours after a helicopter carrying Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, and seven others slammed into the hills above Calabasas , killing all on board, celebrities clamored to pay tribute to him during the Grammy Awards at Staples Center. READ MORE >>> The grim, delicate task of removing remains from the Kobe Byrant helicopter crash site On the remote Calabasas hillside where Kobe Bryant’s helicopter crashed , Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies and other emergency personnel spent Monday morning with the delicate task of removing the remains of victims. The rough terrain around the crash site off Las Virgenes Canyon Road has been a challenge for first responders from the beginning. On Monday, deputies could be seen on the hillside in off-road vehicles. Some remains were removed Sunday night, and officials said that the process could continue for several days. Los Angeles County Coroner Jonathan Lucas said the remains will be removed as quickly as possible, noting the location of the crash had made access an issue. READ MORE >>> Kobe Bryant had a special kinship with Latino fans and culture The mood at El Camino Real in Fullerton was somber during the Sunday lunch rush, despite the steaming bowls of menudo in front of nearly everyone in the packed Mexican restaurant. Its most famous regular, Kobe Bryant, had died earlier that morning in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, along with his daughter Gianna and seven others. Families shook their heads in disbelief as they scrolled through their smartphones for the latest updates between sips of the tripe soup. Freddy Castañeda, son of El Camino Real’s owners, showed customers a photo that Bryant had taken in the kitchen alongside his sister Marissa nearly 20 years ago. Read more>> Kobe Bryant flew in thick fog that had grounded law enforcement helicopters By Richard Winton, Ben Poston, Matthew Ormseth, Kim Christensen Did foggy weather Sunday morning play a role in the helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter and seven others ? That is a key question as federal investigators on Monday begin an intense investigation into the cause of the crash. The helicopter, a Sikorsky S-76 built in 1991, departed John Wayne Airport at 9:06 a.m. Sunday, according to publicly available flight records. The chopper passed over Boyle Heights, near Dodger Stadium, and circled over Glendale during the flight. The crash occurred shortly before 10 a.m. near Las Virgenes Road and Willow Glen Street in Calabasas. READ MORE >> Kobe Bryant helicopter crash at center of intense federal investigation By Hannah Fry, Richard Winton, Ruben Vives, Matthew Ormseth Federal investigators on Monday began to try to unravel the mystery of why a helicopter carrying Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter and seven other people slammed into the side of a hill in Calabasas. Firefighters responding to a 911 call at 9:47 a.m. found a debris field in steep terrain with a quarter-acre brush fire. Paramedics arriving by helicopter searched the area but found no survivors . Bryant, who lived in Newport Beach and Los Angeles, was known to keep a chartered helicopter at Orange County’s John Wayne Airport. READ MORE >> David Beckham: ‘... my words won’t ever be enough ...’ Rep. Maxine Waters’ statement on Bryant’s death “I am absolutely devastated and heartbroken by the sudden and tragic loss of Kobe Bryant and his beloved daughter Gianna. Kobe Bryant was a king in Los Angeles and one of the greatest athletes the world has ever known. He thrilled Los Angelenos for 20 seasons at the Staples Center, was an 18-time NBA All Star, earned five NBA championships, was twice named the MVP of the NBA Finals, and earned the NBA’s MVP award. Fans around the world marveled at his skills on the court season after season. He was truly spectacular to watch. He was our champion, a living legend, and an inspiration to countless fans and aspiring athletes around the world. His loss is felt by millions of grieving fans who are in shock and disbelief by the tragic passing of such a prolific athlete, devoted husband, and loving father. My heart goes out to his wife, Vanessa, surviving children, relatives, teammates, and friends who are in mourning. I also extend my sincere condolences to the families and loved ones of all the victims who were onboard the helicopter. “Los Angeles is mourning the loss of one of our most beloved legends and icons. Though Kobe Bryant is no longer with us, our city will never forget what he meant to us, and we will keep his legacy alive forever.” Probe of Kobe Bryant crash will probably focus on fog, possible mechanical problems By The Times The investigation into the helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna and seven others aboard a Sikorsky S-76B will probably focus on foggy weather conditions and potential mechanical problems, aviation experts and pilots said. Visibility in the region was so poor at the time of the crash, which occurred shortly before 10 a.m. in Calabasas, that the Los Angeles police and county sheriff’s departments had grounded their helicopters. Read more >> Kobe Bryant fans and Grammy attendees mourn together They arrived in glitzy gold gowns and tailored tuxedos, silk suits and cheetah-patterned stilettos that would pop on the red carpet. But they were outnumbered by fans dressed in purple and yellow and white jerseys with the numbers 8 and 24 across their chests and his name — BRYANT — emblazoned across their backs. As the sun set Sunday, a surreal scene unfolded outside Staples Center, where celebrities who had gathered for the 62nd Grammy Awards mourned alongside devastated fans who flocked to the arena where Lakers legend Kobe Bryant — who died in a helicopter crash Sunday morning — has two jerseys hanging from the rafters. Read more >> Lakers part owner was a mentor to Kobe Bryant and a friend Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, who owns the Los Angeles Times and is a part owner of the Lakers, was also Bryant’s friend, mentor and basketball “assistant” when the two played hoops at Soon-Shiong’s home court during Bryant’s recovery. He choked up as he spoke about the loss of a legend, about how he will miss the long conversations the two shared about all aspects of life and about Bryant’s aspirations as he underwent recovery. Read more >> L.A. Times front page after the death of Kobe Bryant The front page of the L.A. Times special section on Kobe Bryant’s passing
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(Getty Images) Kobe Bryant, the NBA MVP who had a 20-year career with the Lakers, was killed Sunday when the helicopter he was traveling in crashed and burst into flames in the hills above Calabasas. His daughter Gianna, 13, was also on board and died along with seven others. 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They are the first words from Pelinka since the [helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant](https://www.latimes.com/sports/liveblog/kobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas), his 13-year-old daughter Gianna, [and seven others.](https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2020-01-26/complete-coverage-kobe-bryant-daughter-gianna-among-9-dead-in-helicopter-crash) “On Sunday, I lost my best friend and sweet goddaughter. With that, there has been an amputation of part of my soul.” Pelinka goes on describing the player, husband, “girl-dad” and best friend Bryant was. “Kobe was a force of nature, deep, and obsessed with excellence. He was wise, determined, passionate. A visionary beyond measure. A dedicated and loving husband, and a ‘girl-dad’ like no other. When he walked into a room, the energy ignited. He was high voltage, with a motor that had no limits. His mind had an infinite capacity to learn. He was, simply put, the most inspirational athlete of our time. 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But for the Clippers’ game against Sacramento on Thursday — the first NBA contest to be played in the arena since the [death of Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna and seven other people in a helicopter crash in Calabasas](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-29/experts-cite-weather-the-largest-killer-in-aviation-as-likely-key-factor-in-kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash) on Sunday — the Clippers left Bryant’s retired jerseys uncovered and on display high above the floor. The rest of the Lakers’ championship banners and retired jerseys were covered by the usual images of Clipper players and a city landscape but Bryant’s 8 and 24 stood out on a stark black background. ![Kobe Bryant's jerseys remain uncovered ahead of a Clippers game against the Kings.](https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/2bfc4bb/2147483647/strip/true/crop/4032x3024+0+0/resize/1200x900!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F97%2F9e%2Fd7728049454bb3864563d8c0254a%2Fkobe-clippers.jpg) Kobe Bryant’s jerseys are uncovered ahead of a Clippers game against the Kings. (Helene Elliott / Los Angeles Times) A moment of silence is scheduled for just past 7:33 p.m. The hockey Kings on Wednesday played the first sporting event at Staples Center after Bryant’s death. Players honored him by wearing his jersey to the arena and commemorative decals on their helmets, and the team remembered him in a pregame ceremony. 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White](https://www.latimes.com/people/ronald-d-white) Michael Jordan was professional basketball’s first [signature shoe king](https://www.latimes.com/business/la-ig-michael-jordan-jordan-brand-sneakers-sneaker-20190214-story.html), but Kobe Bryant was arguably his heir apparent, as crucial and challenging to the brand he represented — Nike — as he famously was with his Lakers teammates on the court. Jordan made sneakers cool, but Bryant changed the shoes themselves, creating the market in minimalist, low-silhouette footwear in a league in which everyone was still lacing up their high tops to protect their ankles. That led to a succession of NBA superstars adopting the same lighter, quicker shoe style, which helped liberate their moves on the hardwood. It happened soon after Bryant left Adidas to sign a four-year, \$40-million deal with Nike in 2003, then pushed the company to build a basketball shoe as sleek and safe as those worn in professional soccer. 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Amid a massive crowd outside Staples Center this week, a mariachi troupe gathered to [honor Bryant](https://www.latimes.com/sports/lakers/story/2020-01-26/lakers-kobe-bryant-obit), his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, and the other seven lives lost with a poignant rendition of “Amor Eterno,” a goodbye ballad by the late Mexican singer Juan Gabriel. 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But last summer, as she waited in a Thailand airport after a Team USA game, she wasn’t prepared for a message from [basketball legend Kobe Bryant](https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2020-01-26/complete-coverage-kobe-bryant-daughter-gianna-among-9-dead-in-helicopter-crash). “The text was from one of Kobe’s main guys — I called him ‘T,’ and he just basically said that Kobe knew about me, loved my game and really wanted to get me to L.A. to work with him and talk about basketball,” Hailey said in a phone interview Monday as she drove to practice at Cashmere High School. 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I take comfort in knowing that Kobe and Gigi both knew that they were so deeply loved. We were so incredibly blessed to have them in our lives. I wish they were here with us forever. They were our beautiful blessings taken from us too soon,” she wrote on Instagram. “I’m not sure what our lives hold beyond today, and it’s impossible to imagine life without them. But we wake up each day, trying to keep pushing because Kobe, and our baby girl, Gigi, are shining on us to light the way. Our love for them is endless — and that’s to say, immeasurable. I just wish I could hug them, kiss them and bless them. 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Remembering Kobe Bryant’s music career By [Christi Carras](https://www.latimes.com/people/christi-carras) ![Lakers superstar Kobe Bryant takes the stage at the House of Blues in 2000.](https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/66e9c2f/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1506x847+0+0/resize/1200x675!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F6f%2F71%2Fba72f852ad13a3a9d991fcfbc313%2Fla-kobe-bryant-career-pictures-pg-010) Lakers superstar Kobe Bryant takes the stage at the House of Blues in 2000. (Clarence Williams / Los Angeles Times) Bryant’s solo single, “K.O.B.E.,” which debuted at the 2000 All-Star game, featured supermodel Tyra Banks and referenced his baller reputation in the lyrics. “What I live for? Basketball, beats and broads,” he raps on the track, his flow not particularly smooth or lyrical. “From Italy to the U.S., yes, it’s raw.” Writing for The Times in 2015, Dexter Thomas [wasn’t exactly impressed](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/posts/la-et-ms-forget-coaching-kobe-the-rap-game-needs-you-20151130-htmlstory.html) by the song. “It’s embarrassing. That cheap-sounding beat, the uninspired hook, the awkward chorus — this is more off-target than those three airballs he threw in 1997 against the Utah Jazz,” he wrote. While shooting an accompanying video for the splashy release, directed by BET Award winner Hype Williams, Bryant met his wife, Vanessa. And though their personal relationship would continue to develop for the next 20 years, footage from their professional collaboration never saw the light of day. Despite Bryant’s rising star power on the court, the song was not well-received, and “Visions,” the album it was slated to launch, was eventually shelved. Bryant officially got the ax from Sony soon enough, never to return to music again — except in a 2011 Taiwanese [Sprite commercial](https://youtu.be/eaW0jUGaHe0) and, of course, in other musicians’ lyrics, which often saluted the self-proclaimed Black Mamba and his larger-than-life legacy. 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That is a guy who you ask for to fly you from city to city. It’s just surreal still.” Leonard was close with Bryant, saying their relationship began during his second or third season in the NBA. Last summer, Bryant hosted Leonard, Clippers teammate Paul George and a handful of other players at his Mamba Academy in Thousand Oaks. One piece of advice Leonard sought from Bryant last summer, after signing with the Clippers as a free agent, was how Bryant used a helicopter often to cut down his commute to and from his home in Newport Beach. Leonard, last season, purchased a house in Rancho Santa Fe, north of San Diego. (In December, Leonard also purchased a penthouse near Staples Center.) > Kawhi called Kobe’s pilot, Ara Zobayan, a “good dude” and used him to fly to and from games. He also discussed if this gives him any pause to keep using helicopters. [pic.twitter.com/ao82V555h8](https://t.co/ao82V555h8) > > — Andrew Greif (@AndrewGreif) [January 29, 2020](https://twitter.com/AndrewGreif/status/1222629314941685760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) “I talked to him about it before our transition to playing in L.A, just seeing how \[he\] got back and forth from Newport and he said he was doing it for about 17 years or so,” Leonard said. “Yeah, same pilot, everything, the whole situation, this whole program, the setup, how he was traveling back and forth was the same way I was getting here from San Diego.” Asked whether the crash gave him pause to continue to using helicopters, Leonard was unsure. “The things that you hear, you don’t know what’s real yet,” he said. “I can’t really speak on it. I don’t know. I don’t know yet. It’s a lot of thoughts in my head.” Zobayan, 50, had a commercial certificate and was a certified flight instructor with 8,200 hours of flight time as of July, said Jennifer Homendy, a National Transportation Safety Board member. “\[Zobayan\] will drop me off and say he is about go pick up Kobe. ‘Kobe said hello.’ Or he’ll just be like, ‘I just dropped Kobe off and he said hello.’ Vice versa. So, it’s a crazy interaction. 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Brady McCollough](https://www.latimes.com/people/j-brady-mccollough) , [Dan Woike](https://www.latimes.com/people/dan-woike) and [Tania Ganguli](https://www.latimes.com/people/tania-ganguli) ![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/GxBqh4x_M1E/hqdefault.jpg) [×](https://www.latimes.com/sports/liveblog/kobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas) Lakers coach Frank Vogel talks about Kobe Bryant. After their practice in El Segundo on Wednesday morning, the Lakers gave their players the option of speaking to reporters about [the tragic death of Kobe Bryant](https://www.latimes.com/sports/liveblog/kobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas). They decided to continue to mourn in private. Lakers coach Frank Vogel stepped forward to make the first public comments from a member of the organization since a helicopter carrying [Bryant, his daughter Gianna and seven others](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-27/kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash-victims) crashed into a Calabasas hillside Sunday morning, killing all aboard. Vogel said he told the players they could talk when they’re ready and not a moment before. As Vogel addressed the media, LeBron James was nearby on the practice court, hoisting up jumpers. “We want to represent what Kobe was about more than anything,” said Vogel, who acknowledged there were some questions he may not be ready to address at this time. “He was the most feared man in the league for an entire generation.… His influence will be felt forever.” The Lakers display retired numbers on two walls above their practice gym. On Wednesday, Bryant’s No. 8 and No. 24 were lit up. > Lights on Kobe jersey at Lakers facility [pic.twitter.com/nK5wWvDJgU](https://t.co/nK5wWvDJgU) > > — Brad Turner (@BA\_Turner) [January 29, 2020](https://twitter.com/BA_Turner/status/1222623539846471680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) The team was flying home from Philadelphia on Sunday morning [when they learned about the crash](https://www.latimes.com/sports/lakers/story/2020-01-26/lakers-players-shocked-speechless-after-kobe-bryant-death). Players became emotional as they heard the news and Vogel addressed them once he heard. The team canceled practice on Monday, though a few players trickled into the facility. The franchise waited until Monday afternoon to release any statement regarding Bryant’s death out of respect for his widow, Vanessa, and his three surviving daughters. But the Lakers have also needed time to process and grieve the loss of a legend. “We’ve become a family in a very short time,” Vogel said. The organization has been reeling since Sunday morning. General manager Rob Pelinka was one of Bryant’s closest friends and Gianna’s godfather. Lakers executives, including owner Jeanie Buss and Linda Rambis, spent time at the team facility on Sunday and Monday. [Buss lost her mother](https://www.latimes.com/sports/lakers/story/2019-12-16/joann-buss-former-wife-of-legendary-lakers-owner-jerry-buss-dies) and a close friend, [former NBA Commissioner David Stern](https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/story/2020-01-01/david-stern-nba-commissioner-dead), in the last six weeks. Monday would have been her father’s 87th birthday. The Lakers were planning to honor Jerry Buss during Tuesday’s game against the Clippers, before Sunday’s crash changed everything, leading the NBA to postpone the game. On Monday, the team brought in grief counselors, who were made available to employees, according to a person familiar with the situation. Bryant’s history with many of them was long. He joined the organization in 1996, as a 17-year-old ready to take over the basketball world. No formal plans have been made on how to honor Bryant, but the Lakers created a space Sunday for fans to gather and hold a vigil outside their facility. They provided a large white canvas with a watermarked image of Bryant leaned against the wall for fans to sign, using Sharpies distributed by the Lakers. It was nearly full by Monday afternoon, and enough fans have visited since to fill up two more. On Wednesday morning, a fourth canvas was unfurled outside the facility, where one fan stood with a fresh bouquet of flowers. 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In a heartfelt social media post Wednesday, O’Neal said he will donate all his proceeds from the event to the Kobe and Vanessa Bryant Foundation and to the families of [the nine people killed](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-27/kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash-victims) in the helicopter crash Sunday in Calabasas. “Kobe would want us to push through and celebrate life,” O’Neal wrote. “So let’s do just that.” > [pic.twitter.com/T2rf0u9LlC](https://t.co/T2rf0u9LlC) > > — SHAQ (@SHAQ) [January 29, 2020](https://twitter.com/SHAQ/status/1222578450495627264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) Musical performers at the event include Diddy, Diplo, Pitbull and Diesel (the name Shaq uses [as an electronic music DJ](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2019-08-07/shaquille-oneal-dj-diesel-shaq-hard)). 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Brady McCollough](https://www.latimes.com/people/j-brady-mccollough) , [Dan Woike](https://www.latimes.com/people/dan-woike) and [Tania Ganguli](https://www.latimes.com/people/tania-ganguli) ![Makeshift memorial for Kobe Bryant outside Staples Center.](https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/af520e7/2147483647/strip/true/crop/6720x4480+0+0/resize/1200x800!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F02%2F5d%2F625c541c47ae9065d75ffb5021f3%2Fafp-getty-topshot-basket-nba-bryant-death.JPG) People gather around a makeshift memorial for Kobe Bryant on Jan. 26 outside Staples Center. (Apu Gomes / AFP via Getty Images) Late Wednesday morning, as a large media contingent waited outside the Lakers’ El Segundo practice facility for the team’s first meeting with the press since Saturday night’s game in Philadelphia, the franchise unfurled a fourth banner featuring Kobe Bryant for fans to leave their expressions of grief. Three days after Bryant and his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, died in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, fans were still coming by the facility to pay their respects. Three 10-foot-by-20-foot banners had no more room for new messages. Inside, while the Lakers prepared to discuss Bryant’s death with reporters, one fan stood outside with a fresh bouquet of flowers. The Lakers waited until Monday afternoon to release any statement out of respect for Bryant’s widow, Vanessa, and his three surviving daughters. But the franchise, feeling very much like a family this week, also needed time to process and mourn the loss of a legend. The organization has been reeling since the tragic event. Their general manager, Rob Pelinka, was one of Bryant’s closest friends and Gianna’s godfather. Lakers executives, including Jeanie Buss and Linda Rambis, spent time at the team facility on Sunday and Monday. Buss lost her mother and a close friend, former NBA commissioner David Stern, in the last six weeks. Monday would have been her father Jerry Buss’ 87th birthday. The Lakers were planning to honor Jerry Buss during Tuesday’s game against the Clippers, before Sunday’s crash changed everything, leading the NBA to postpone the game. On Monday, the team brought in grief counselors to help comfort employees, according to a person familiar with the situation. Bryant’s history with many of them was long. He joined the organization in 1996, as a 17-year-old ready to take over the basketball world. Formal plans have not been completed on how to honor Bryant. The first large white canvas banner with an image of Bryant leaned was erected at the facility on Sunday. Fans wrote messages on the banner using Sharpies distributed by the Lakers. It was nearly full by Monday afternoon, and enough fans have visited since to fill up two more. 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Fog and cloudy weather had descended on the region, limiting visibility. 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Campa, Jaclyn Cosgrove NTSB investigator Jennifer Homendy said at Tuesday’s news conference that her agency had recommended that the Federal Aviation Administration 16 years ago require that all choppers carrying six or more passengers be equipped with a terrain awareness and warning system, adding that the FAA has “failed to act” on the proposal. Because the FAA didn’t follow the recommendation, the chopper that crashed Sunday was not legally required to have the system. Shortly after she spoke, an FAA spokesman disputed that assessment, noting that the FAA requires the terrain alarm system for helicopter air ambulance operations. [Read more \>\>\>](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-28/deputies-patrol-kobe-bryant-crash-site-trespassers-face-arrest) Show more Jan. 28, 2020 9:40 PM PT - Share via Close extra sharing options - [Email](mailto:?body=John%20Altobelli%20and%20family%20are%20paid%20tribute%20at%20Orange%20Coast%20College%20baseball%20opener%0A%0Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Djohn-altobelli-and-family-are-paid-tribute-at-orange-coast-college-baseball-opener%0A%0ASunday%E2%80%99s%20helicopter%20crash%20killed%20John%20Altobelli%2C%2056%2C%20his%20wife%2C%20Keri%2C%2046%2C%20and%20their%20daughter%2C%20Alyssa%2C%2013%2C%20along%20with%20former%20Lakers%20star%20Kobe%20Bryant%2C%20his%2013-year-old%20daughter%2C%20Gianna%2C%20and%20four%20others.%20) - [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Djohn-altobelli-and-family-are-paid-tribute-at-orange-coast-college-baseball-opener) - [X](https://x.com/intent/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Djohn-altobelli-and-family-are-paid-tribute-at-orange-coast-college-baseball-opener&text=John%20Altobelli%20and%20family%20are%20paid%20tribute%20at%20Orange%20Coast%20College%20baseball%20opener) - [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Djohn-altobelli-and-family-are-paid-tribute-at-orange-coast-college-baseball-opener&title=John%20Altobelli%20and%20family%20are%20paid%20tribute%20at%20Orange%20Coast%20College%20baseball%20opener&summary=Kobe%20Bryant%2C%20the%20NBA%20MVP%20who%20had%20a%2020-year%20career%20with%20the%20Lakers%2C%20was%20killed%20Sunday%20when%20the%20helicopter%20he%20was%20traveling%20in%20crashed%20and%20burst%20into%20flames%20in%20the%20hills%20above%20Calabasas.%20&source=Los%20Angeles%20Times) - [Threads](https://threads.net/intent/post?text=John%20Altobelli%20and%20family%20are%20paid%20tribute%20at%20Orange%20Coast%20College%20baseball%20opener%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Djohn-altobelli-and-family-are-paid-tribute-at-orange-coast-college-baseball-opener) - [Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Djohn-altobelli-and-family-are-paid-tribute-at-orange-coast-college-baseball-opener&title=John%20Altobelli%20and%20family%20are%20paid%20tribute%20at%20Orange%20Coast%20College%20baseball%20opener) - [WhatsApp](https://api.whatsapp.com/send?text=John%20Altobelli%20and%20family%20are%20paid%20tribute%20at%20Orange%20Coast%20College%20baseball%20opener%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Djohn-altobelli-and-family-are-paid-tribute-at-orange-coast-college-baseball-opener) - Copy Link URL Copied\! - Print John Altobelli and family are paid tribute at Orange Coast College baseball opener Sunday’s helicopter crash killed John Altobelli, 56, his wife, Keri, 46, and their daughter, Alyssa, 13, along with former Lakers star Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, and four others. Two days [after the tragedy,](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-28/deputies-patrol-kobe-bryant-crash-site-trespassers-face-arrest) the Pirates took the field for the first time in 28 years without Altobelli, who guided OCC to four state championships and 705 victories, sent hundreds of players to four-year colleges and helped countless teenagers mature into young men since 1993. The crowd of about 2,000 that squeezed into Wendell Pickens Field on the school’s Costa Mesa campus included J.J. Altobelli, 29, a scout for the Boston Red Sox, and high school junior Alexis Altobelli, 16, the only surviving members of the Altobelli family. 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Campa](https://www.latimes.com/people/andrew-j-campa) and [Jaclyn Cosgrove](https://www.latimes.com/people/jaclyn-cosgrove) The helicopter that crashed Sunday in Calabasas, killing nine people including Kobe Bryant, was not equipped with a terrain alarm system that could have warned the pilot he was approaching a hillside, National Transportation Safety Board officials said Tuesday. The findings come as investigators are trying to determine why the helicopter crashed into a Calabasas hillside Sunday morning amid foggy conditions. NTSB investigator Jennifer Homendy said at Tuesday’s news conference that the helicopter was at 2,300 feet when it lost communication with air traffic controllers. The descent rate of the helicopter at the time of impact was more than 2,000 feet per minute. 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The National Transportation Safety Board video shows the charred wreckage of the helicopter, which broke apart on impact Sunday morning. Much of what remained of the chopper was burned beyond recognition. But a wheel and parts of the fuselage appear not to have been burned. The video was released as the NTSB is trying to determine the cause of the crash, a task expected to take months. 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On the day’s agenda was the same drill Fitch had used in hundreds of workouts during his previous 26 years evaluating NBA prospects. Fitch called it “baskets per minute,” and it was a souped-up version of the classic Mikan drill. Players alternated shooting on the left and right sides of the basket, using both hands, making as many baskets as possible in 60 seconds. Larry Bird was one of the best Fitch had ever tested. Nothing, however, topped what Fitch would witness that spring day inside the Sports Arena from Kobe Bryant. 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Having spent much of his NBA career on the road, traveling from city to city, he talked about a new job, shuttling his daughters around Newport Coast. “A lot of driving in a three-to-five mile radius,” he said. “Now, to have that, it’s absolutely wonderful. The time we spend in the car.” Bryant’s life, which [ended in a helicopter crash](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-28/the-questions-at-the-heart-of-the-kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash-investigation) Sunday, might have seemed all big-time sports and celebrity from the outside, but there was something more basic at its core. 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O’Neal and the acclaimed TNT crew of Ernie Johnson, Charles Barkley and Kenny Smith along with quests Jerry West, Dwyane Wade and Reggie Miller had come to Los Angeles on Tuesday to pay tribute to Bryant in an hourlong show called “Remembering Kobe.” O’Neal struggled to come to grips with Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, and seven others perishing when their helicopter crashed into a Calabasas hillside Sunday. 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After watching the Oregon women’s basketball team beat USC by 40 points at the Galen Center last January, the NBA legend, his daughter Gianna and other aspiring basketball players visited the Ducks. Bryant greeted players with hugs. He signed their shoes — Kobes, naturally — while they were still on their feet. He complimented their playing style. Bryant wasn’t in the courtside seat as a dad just chaperoning his daughter and her friends, Oregon coach Kelly Graves realized as he watched the interactions. This wasn’t a duty, this wasn’t an obligation and this wasn’t a publicity stunt. 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Shen, like many basketball fans growing up China, soon found out the league was filled with dynamic players. She picked a new favorite star — No. 24 of the Los Angeles Lakers. In the first NBA game she watched on television, the Rockets were playing the Lakers. 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Their relationship started several years ago when Bryant asked Sacca to serve as a mentor to help him grow as an investor and entrepreneur. They quickly became friends, bonding over business and fatherhood. Though Bryant built a reputation as a fearsome competitor on the basketball court and a businessman with wide-ranging pursuits off it, children brought out a different side. One occasion lingers in Sacca’s mind. 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Bryant, who grew up in Italy between the ages of 6 and 13, was a devout Milan fan. The 18-time NBA All-Star with the Lakers [died Sunday with his 13-year-old daughter](https://www.latimes.com/sports/liveblog/kobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas), Gianna, in a helicopter crash near Calabasas. As Milan and Torino warmed up before the game, the words “Legends Never Die” and “SempreKobe” — a play on the “SempreMilan,” or “AlwaysMilan,” hashtag often used by the club — were displayed on the advertising boards around the San Siro while images of Bryant were shown on the giant screen. 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Times reporter Arash Markazi caught up with Reigns and talked to him about Bryant. “I watched religiously throughout his career,” Reigns said. “I never thought losing someone like that, essentially a stranger, though obviously a public figure ... I didn’t realize it would affect me so much. It broke my heart. My heart goes out to his wife and his three girls that were left behind. All the families that were involved. 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But he was also known for his prickly personality and his villainous on-court demeanor as the self-named [Black Mamba](https://www.latimes.com/sports/lakers/story/2020-01-28/kobe-bryant-lakers-mamba-mentality-hate-losing-death-crash). Those aspects of Bryant’s complicated nature are recalled in Tuesday’s installment of HBO’s sports magazine “Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel.” The “Real Sports” segment focuses on two profiles the series conducted with Bryant, [who died Sunday](https://www.latimes.com/sports/liveblog/kobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas), along with his daughter Gianna and seven others, in a helicopter crash in Calabasas. The first piece, from 2000, finds the player discussing his early motivations to become great, including being inspired by the success of his father, pro basketball player Joseph Bryant. 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Today, local officials had the grim task of removing the remains of the victims, while investigators from the FAA and NTSB searched for clues. L.A. Times reporter Richard Winton saw the immediate aftermath at the time of the crash and has been covering the investigation from Calabasas. 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BROWN/AFP via Getty Images) Joining other tributes that have poured in around the world, the motion picture academy plans to acknowledge the [death of basketball legend Kobe Bryant](https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2020-01-26/complete-coverage-kobe-bryant-daughter-gianna-among-9-dead-in-helicopter-crash) at next month’s Oscars ceremony. The specific details are being kept under wraps at this time. The Oscars telecast has long included an In Memoriam segment to acknowledge notable members of the Hollywood community who passed away that year, but it is unclear whether Bryant will receive a separate tribute. 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Harley Rouda (D-Laguna Beach) and Maxine Waters (D-Los Angeles) led members of the California delegation in a moment of silence on the House floor Tuesday afternoon in honor of the nine victims who died in Sunday’s helicopter crash. Rouda named each of the victims in alphabetical order: John, Keri and Alyssa Altobelli, Kobe and Gianna Bryant, Payton and Sarah Chester, Christina Mauser and pilot Ara Zobayan.The congressman acknowledged the group’s love of basketball and singled out the parents’ and coaches’ on board who were steadfastly dedicated to nurturing the passion and talents of the three 13-year-old girls who died on their way to play a game.“ Orange County is grieving, but we will find solace and purpose in the legacy they left behind,” he said. 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That’s not accurate, according to a Nike representative, who told The Times on Tuesday that the sneakers weren’t purposefully pulled from the company’s e-commerce site but that the existing stock had sold out. The Beaverton, Ore., athletic goods maker has been making Bryant’s signature shoe since 2003, and searches for the Black Mamba’s name on Nike.com redirect to [a message of condolences](https://swoo.sh/3aJg6rt) dated Jan. 26. 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(Kathy Klein / For The Times) Drivers on Lake Avenue in Pasadena honked their horns late Sunday afternoon as Ron Bonilla drove his black-matte 2007 Toyota Tundra — with personal license plate KNG KOBE and a Lakers flag at half-mast — through traffic. Bonilla, 48, has been a Lakers fan since 1979, when Magic Johnson joined the team. “I’ve never felt so connected to any athlete or artist or entertainer as I felt with Kobe,” said Bonilla, proudly wearing Bryant’s No. 24 jersey and a Lakers cap. 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Bryant regularly used the helicopter, a Sikorsky S-76B owned by the charter service Island Express. Records show the aircraft had flown between John Wayne Airport, where it took off Sunday morning, and Camarillo Airport, where it was heading, about two dozen times in the past two years. 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Authorities on Sunday recovered the bodies of at least three victims from the helicopter wreckage. The next day, the search continued for the six remaining victims. Their bodies were eventually located and taken to the Los Angeles County Coroner’s forensic science center, where officials will work to identify them. Authorities investigating the devastating incident said the impact of the crash was intense, shattering the chopper and sending debris over a wide area. 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The film, which Granity Studios briefly made available for free Monday, has been taken down. The decision Tuesday to take down the video means it’ll be hard to find online — again. 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One fan has suggested a way the league can permanently honor one of its all-time greats — and close to 2 million people agree with the idea. Change the logo. 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(Matt Stiles & Priya Krishnakumar) There is no black box recording. The audio transmission released so far does not cover the actual moment of the crash. And the impact of the crash sent debris scattered over a huge area. These are some of the impediments the National Transportation Safety Board is facing as it investigates why a helicopter carrying Kobe Bryant and eight others crashed into a hillside in Calabasas, killing all on board. [The probe is still in its early stages](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-27/kobe-bryant-crash-and-helicopter-safety), and a final determination is months away. At its heart are some basic questions: Why was the pilot flying so low in the moments before the crash, and why could the chopper not clear the hillside? 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Dozens of journalists at the newspaper criticized the decision. Reporter Felicia Sonmez’s tweet Sunday, amid widespread public mourning over [Bryant’s death in a helicopter crash](https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2020-01-26/complete-coverage-kobe-bryant-daughter-gianna-among-9-dead-in-helicopter-crash), drew considerable backlash on social media. The Post reported that Somnez received threats of death and rape and had to move to a hotel after her home address was published online. The Post said Somnez deleted the original tweet at the request of a managing editor. She also received an email from executive editor Marty Baron saying: “A real lack of judgment to tweet this. Please stop. You’re hurting this institution by doing this.” Somnez shared the email with an Associated Press reporter. The Post said Somnez had been placed on paid leave while newsroom managers looked into the episode. A spokeswoman for the newspaper did not respond to questions about Baron’s role. 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Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel and Ellen DeGeneres struggled to keep it together while lamenting life’s fragility and recounting some of their fondest memories with the Laker legend. James Corden and Conan O’Brien were also among those who honored Bryant with reflective words and, in some cases, highlight reels of his past guest appearances. “Tonight’s show is going to be different from our usual show,” Kimmel began his “Jimmy Kimmel Live” monologue. “We don’t have a studio audience here tonight because going forward with a comedy show didn’t feel right, considering what happened yesterday.... That was a punch in the gut for many of us. Kobe was — and I know this might not make sense, but — he was just the last person you could ever imagine something like this happening to.” [Read More\>\>\>](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2020-01-28/kobe-bryant-jimmy-fallon-jimmy-kimmel-ellen-degeneres-video) Show more Jan. 28, 2020 9:30 AM PT - Share via Close extra sharing options - [Email](mailto:?body=Deputies%20on%20horseback%20patrol%20Kobe%20Bryant%20crash%20site%20as%20trespassers%20ignore%20warnings%0A%0A%0Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Ddeputies-on-horseback-patrol-kobe-bryant-crash-site-as-trespassers-ignore-warnings%0A%0AInvestigators%20and%20recovery%20teams%20were%20back%20at%20a%20Calabasas%20hillside%20Tuesday%2C%20continuing%20to%20remove%20remains%20from%20the%20site%20of%20a%20helicopter%20crash%20that%20killed%20Kobe%20Bryant%2C%20his%2013-year-old%20daughter%20and%20seven%20others%20as%20they%20tried%20to%20determine%20what%20caused%20the%20tragedy.%20) - [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Ddeputies-on-horseback-patrol-kobe-bryant-crash-site-as-trespassers-ignore-warnings) - [X](https://x.com/intent/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Ddeputies-on-horseback-patrol-kobe-bryant-crash-site-as-trespassers-ignore-warnings&text=Deputies%20on%20horseback%20patrol%20Kobe%20Bryant%20crash%20site%20as%20trespassers%20ignore%20warnings%0A) - [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Ddeputies-on-horseback-patrol-kobe-bryant-crash-site-as-trespassers-ignore-warnings&title=Deputies%20on%20horseback%20patrol%20Kobe%20Bryant%20crash%20site%20as%20trespassers%20ignore%20warnings%0A&summary=Kobe%20Bryant%2C%20the%20NBA%20MVP%20who%20had%20a%2020-year%20career%20with%20the%20Lakers%2C%20was%20killed%20Sunday%20when%20the%20helicopter%20he%20was%20traveling%20in%20crashed%20and%20burst%20into%20flames%20in%20the%20hills%20above%20Calabasas.%20&source=Los%20Angeles%20Times) - [Threads](https://threads.net/intent/post?text=Deputies%20on%20horseback%20patrol%20Kobe%20Bryant%20crash%20site%20as%20trespassers%20ignore%20warnings%0A%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Ddeputies-on-horseback-patrol-kobe-bryant-crash-site-as-trespassers-ignore-warnings) - [Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Ddeputies-on-horseback-patrol-kobe-bryant-crash-site-as-trespassers-ignore-warnings&title=Deputies%20on%20horseback%20patrol%20Kobe%20Bryant%20crash%20site%20as%20trespassers%20ignore%20warnings%0A) - [WhatsApp](https://api.whatsapp.com/send?text=Deputies%20on%20horseback%20patrol%20Kobe%20Bryant%20crash%20site%20as%20trespassers%20ignore%20warnings%0A%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Ddeputies-on-horseback-patrol-kobe-bryant-crash-site-as-trespassers-ignore-warnings) - Copy Link URL Copied\! - Print Deputies on horseback patrol Kobe Bryant crash site as trespassers ignore warnings By Los Angeles Times Staff ![CALABASAS, CA-JANUARY 26, 2020: People gather on Las Virgenes Road in Calabasas near the scene of a helicopter that crashed and burst into flames Sunday morning amid foggy conditions in the hills above. All people aboard were killed including Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant. (Mel Melcon/Los Angeles Times)](https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/1c9b508/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2800x1831+0+0/resize/1200x785!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F47%2Fb5%2F4c1b5eab4156a85f68d3854cc3d7%2Fla-photos-1staff-484313-la-me-kobe-crash4-mam.jpg) CALABASAS, CA-JANUARY 26, 2020: People gather on Las Virgenes Road in Calabasas near the scene of a helicopter that crashed and burst into flames Sunday morning amid foggy conditions in the hills above. All people aboard were killed including Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant. (Mel Melcon/Los Angeles Times) (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times) Investigators and recovery teams were back at a Calabasas hillside Tuesday, continuing to remove remains from the site of a helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter and seven others as they tried to determine what caused the tragedy. Authorities have recovered the bodies of at least three victims and say the process of removing others may take several days to complete. They said the impact of the crash was intense, shattering the chopper and sending debris over a wide area. “This was a pretty devastating accident,” National Transportation Safety Board investigator Jennifer Homendy said. “There is an impact area on one of the hills, and a piece of the tail is down the hill on the left side of the hill. The fuselage is on the other side of that hill. Then the main rotor is about hundred yards beyond that. 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(Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times) Bad Bunny is paying his respects to the late basketball legend Kobe Bryant the way he knows best: through music. The singer released the song “6 Rings” on Monday in honor of the late Lakers star, [who died in a helicopter crash](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-27/kobe-bryant-killed-helicopter-crash)over the weekend along with his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven others. The [two-minute track](https://soundcloud.com/yhlqmdlg/6-rings), sung in Spanish, includes commentary from Bryant’s 2006 game against the Toronto Raptors where the Lakers player scored a staggering 81 points. 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(Los Angeles Times) It took almost 200 pages in “Mamba Mentality,” Kobe Bryant’s 2018 book, for him to write explicitly about losing basketball games, and when he did, it was to the point. “THE AGONY OF DEFEAT IS AS LOW AS THE JOY OF WINNING IS HIGH,” he wrote in capital letters — white text on a black page below a photo of a himself sitting dejected on the Lakers bench. Bryant’s countenance let you know. 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Logan](https://www.latimes.com/people/erin-b-logan) TNT will air a one-hour special tribute to Kobe Bryant tonight at 7 p.m. The live special will be streamed from the Staples Center and will air ahead of the Celtics vs. Heat game in Miami. The tribute will be hosted by Shaquille O’Neal, Ernie Johnson, Charles Barkley and Kenny Smith. Dwyane Wade, Candace Parker and Steve Nash will be guests on the program. TNT’s pregame, halftime and postgame coverage will all focus on Bryant from the Staples Center, which was slated to host the postponed Lakers/Clippers game. 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Campa](https://www.latimes.com/people/andrew-j-campa) ![CALABASAS-CA-JANUARY 27, 2020: A small makeshift memorial near the site of the helicopter crash in Calabasas that killed Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna, and seven others Sunday morning, on Monday, January 27, 2020. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times)](https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/7fbb379/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2400x1600+0+0/resize/1200x800!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F59%2F18%2Fb02a9b7a4efb97556d4b80e9d162%2Fla-photos-1staff-484458-me-0127-kobe-follow-02-cmh.jpg) CALABASAS-CA-JANUARY 27, 2020: A small makeshift memorial near the site of the helicopter crash in Calabasas that killed Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna, and seven others Sunday morning, on Monday, January 27, 2020. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times) (Christina House/Los Angeles Times) As out-of-town visitors arrived in Calabasas looking to glimpse the hillside where Lakers legend Kobe Bryant, his daughter and seven other people died in a helicopter crash, some ran into sheriff’s checkpoints, some became lost and others had no idea where to go. Enter 70-year-old Linda Adams. The 30-year Calabasas resident pointed to a shortcut between Las Virgenes Creek, where fans gathered to scan the hillside, and Las Virgenes Road, which saved several travelers at least a mile of walking. A few onlookers even joined Adams to catch a better and closer view of the crash site. 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Every day he walked or drove past, looking at it so often that the towering likeness, soaring across a purple wall of Shoe Palace, merely had become a part of the landscape. To Anderson and so many others who’d grown up in the long shadow he cast, it seemed [Kobe Bryant always would be there](https://www.latimes.com/sports/lakers/story/2020-01-27/kobe-bryant-death-lakers-bill-plaschke-cursed-tv-tribute), his presence looming forever over Los Angeles. But on Sunday morning, Bryant died in a helicopter crash that killed eight others, including his daughter Gianna, and as Los Angeles mourned, turning the sidewalk outside Shoe Palace into a shrine, Anderson found himself thinking about that mural and the legacy of the man in it. 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(Photo by Harry How/Getty Images) (Getty Images) Lakers legend Kobe Bryant [died Sunday when the helicopter](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-27/kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash-becomes-focus-of-intense-federal-investigation) he was traveling in crashed and burst into flames in the hills above Calabasas. His daughter Gianna, 13, was also on board and [died along with seven others](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-27/kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash-victims). Bryant was known to give some memorable quotes over the years — some inspirational, some funny and all pure Kobe. Here are some that might provide a little comfort during this tragic time. 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Pinho When Gianna “Gigi” Bryant first told her basketball star father that she wanted to play the sport, Kobe Bryant took her seriously. “He kind of sat down with Gigi and said, ‘If you want to play, we’re going to do this,’” said Jeff Melton, assistant athletic director at Vanguard University. “’We’ll do this if this is a passion for you.’” When she said yes, her father — who became legendary for his 20-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers — began tapping into his world of opportunities. He arranged for her to meet her basketball idol, Katie Lou Samuelson, a guard for the WNBA’s Chicago Sky. He took her to Atlanta Hawks NBA games to watch Trae Young, another of her favorite players. 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It’s OK to be mad, to scream out in frustration. Most of all, it’s OK to ask for help. That was the message to the Orange Coast College baseball team as it prepared for Tuesday’s season opener against Chula Vista Southwestern, a game that will be played just two days after longtime Pirates coach John Altobelli, his wife, Keri, and their 13-year-old daughter, Alyssa,[died in the fiery helicopter crash](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-27/kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash-victims) that also killed former Lakers star Kobe Bryant [on Sunday.](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-27/kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash-becomes-focus-of-intense-federal-investigation) “We athletes, we’re macho, and we want to be tough, and because of that, sometimes we pretend like we’re not hurting,” former Cal State Fullerton and Oregon coach George Horton, a close friend of the Altobelli family, told players before practice Monday. 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I couldn’t bear one more moment of listening to that smug [Kobe Bryant](https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2020-01-26/complete-coverage-kobe-bryant-daughter-gianna-among-9-dead-in-helicopter-crash). Asked about the defense being played on him by the Nuggets’ Danilo Gallinari during a postgame news conference, Bryant filled the small media room with dripping sarcasm. He smiled, shook his head, and said something like, oh yeah, he was real worried, truly bothered, so stressed ... And I lost it. “Kobe, you’re such an asshole!” I yelled at him. 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Alfred/U-T San Diego) Sunday should have been a day filled with adrenaline-pumping competition set to a soundtrack of cheers and the scuffle of sneakers on a basketball court. It wasn’t supposed to be a day marred by a tragedy that took the lives of nine people and left a city heartbroken. Many of the victims of the Calabasas helicopter crash were united in their love of basketball, headed to a tournament at the Mamba Sports Academy in Thousand Oaks. They included Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna, a budding basketball player who was ready to follow in her father’s footsteps; baseball coach John Altobelli, his wife Keri and their basketball-playing daughter Alyssa; mother and daughter Sarah and Payton Chester; Mamba Academy basketball coach Christina Mauser and pilot Ara Zobayan. As Los Angeles collectively mourned their Lakers hero, multiple families and friends reeled while reality hit. 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A half-hour later, they were flying over thickening clouds in the San Fernando Valley. The pilot was worried enough to ask flight controllers to keep track of them. As he approached the hills of Calabasas at 150 miles per hour, they radioed him, telling him he was too low for them to see on radar. The pilot commenced a climb, rising 765 feet in 36 seconds, enough to clear adjacent hills. 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By [Paul Duginski](https://www.latimes.com/people/paul-duginski) ![](https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/9f44ad7/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1564x1051+0+0/resize/1200x806!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F72%2Fed%2Facce65b64b81b39157d6fed5356c%2Fla-me-marine-layer-graphics-02.jpg) (Paul Duginski / Los Angeles Times) On Sunday morning, when Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna and seven others were killed in a helicopter crash near Calabasas, there was a thick marine layer and patchy dense fog that obscured some of the terrain. The conditions were the result of a deteriorating cold front passing through the area with moist northwest flow, which caused low clouds to pile up against the northern slopes of Ventura and L.A. County mountains. There were showers to the north, and clouds pushing into coastal valleys were thick enough to cause drizzle along the coast and in nearby foothills, according to the National Weather Service. A webcam at Oat Mountain, northwest of Porter Ranch, suggested that the marine layer was 3,000 feet thick. 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(Jill Weisledero / Dodgers via Getty Images) Justin Turner received the news of [Kobe Bryant’s death](https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2020-01-26/complete-coverage-kobe-bryant-daughter-gianna-among-9-dead-in-helicopter-crash) Sunday from his wife, Kourtney, as he packed a van for his charity golf event Monday. The [Dodgers](https://www.latimes.com/sports/dodgers) third baseman’s initial reaction was like that of many others — he assumed it wasn’t true. He didn’t believe it until he heard radio reports confirming the unfathomable as he drove to Sherwood Country Club in Thousand Oaks near the site of the [helicopter crash](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-27/kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash-becomes-focus-of-intense-federal-investigation) that killed the 41-year-old Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter [Gianna](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2020-01-27/gianna-bryant-death-tough-on-teen-basketball-player) and seven others. “I was just shaking,” Turner said. 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He took one daughter to the mall. Accompanied another to a basketball game. Planned a Sunday morning trip with friends. And slept with his family at their house in Orange County. For nearly 20 years, one of the most famous names in sports lived a surprisingly public life in this unlikeliest of places. 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Jennifer Homendy, an NTSB member, said the pilot flying from Orange County to Ventura County requested special visual flight rules, which allow pilots to fly under 1,000 feet. A marine layer had settled over the region Sunday morning and some areas were shrouded in fog. Homendy said it remained unclear why the helicopter slammed into the hillside. Debris from the crash was scattered across 600 feet, she said. “It was a pretty devastating accident scene,” she added. “There is an impact area on one of the hills and a piece of the tail is down the hill on the left side of the hill. The fuselage is on the other side of that hill. Then the main rotor is about hundred yards beyond that. The debris field is about 500 to 600 feet.” She said there was no black box and it isn’t required. 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(Jason Armond /Los Angeles Times) Alexander Toney had just walked into the grocery store with his family on Sunday when he first heard rumors that Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant may have died. At first, the South L.A. barber didn’t believe it, saying he thought TMZ’s reports weren’t credible. But after more outlets confirmed that not only Bryant, but his 13-year old daughter, Gianna, and seven others died in the fiery helicopter crash, the grim reality sunk in. As they walked down the aisles getting their food, he said he wrapped his arms around his four kids more tightly than usual. 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- Print LeBron James breaks silence on Kobe Bryant’s death By [Tania Ganguli](https://www.latimes.com/people/tania-ganguli) LeBron James broke his silence on Monday evening, posting a wrenching message on Instagram in the form of a note [to the late Kobe Bryant](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-27/kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash-becomes-focus-of-intense-federal-investigation). “I’m not ready but here I go,” the post began. “Man I sitting here trying to write something for this post but every time I try I begin crying again just thinking about you, niece Gigi and the friendship/bond/brotherhood we had! I literally just heard your voice Sunday morning before I left Philly to head back to LA. Didn’t think for one bit in a million years that would be the last conversation we’d have.” Bryant called James after the Lakers played in Philadelphia on Saturday night to congratulate James for moving up to [third on the league’s all-time scoring list](https://www.latimes.com/sports/lakers/story/2020-01-25/lebron-james-passes-kobe-bryant-on-nba-career-scoring-list). In doing so, James had passed Bryant who scored 33,643 points in his NBA career. 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Jordan called Kobe when Kobe passed him. He wanted to pay it forward. 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Gioacchino Fusacchia, 60, coached Bryant in Rieti, a small town in central Italy, when the late athlete’s father, Joe, played professional basketball following a career in the NBA. “Kobe followed Joe everywhere, to matches, to training, and was already passionate about basketball,” said Fusacchia, who was in his mid-20s during the period the Bryants were in Rieti, from 1984 to 1986. Rieti was Joe’s first stop in a seven-year spell in Italy during which he played seasons with other Italian teams in the southern region of Calabria and the northern regions of Tuscany and Emilio-Romagna before returning to the United States. 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Granity Studios, the NBA star’s multimedia production company, made the Academy Award-winning film available for free Monday afternoon on the [dearbasketball.com](https://dearbasketball.com/) website and on Vimeo. “Dear Basketball” is based on a poem he wrote in November 2015 to announce his retirement. The poem was published by [the Players’ Tribune](https://www.theplayerstribune.com/en-us/articles/dear-basketball), a website that features first-person accounts written by pro athletes. 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But he called Newport Beach his home. It was here he raised his daughters, was involved in its schools and youth sports and made friends at the neighborhood grocery store and Starbucks. And it was this community that saw so much loss Sunday, as the helicopter carrying [Bryant](https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2020-01-26/complete-coverage-kobe-bryant-daughter-gianna-among-9-dead-in-helicopter-crash), his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, and seven others slammed into a hillside above Calabasas, killing all on board. Also on the copter were Newport Beach residents John Altobelli; his wife, Keri; and their daughter, Alyssa, who played on the same club team as Gianna Bryant. Newport Beach mother and daughter Sarah and Payton Chester were identified by friends and family as also being on board. 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(Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times) It usually happens during a pickup basketball game. A player plants his feet, jumps and shoots with a yell of “Kobe!” -- partly a joke, but also a plea to guide the ball into the hoop with the skill of the late Lakers great Kobe Bryant. It’s just a moment, but it’s a legacy that Bryant has left countless amateur basketball players -- and those folks just trying to throw a wad of paper into a faraway trash can -- around the world. As the news of [Bryant’s death in a helicopter crash on Sunday](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-26/aircraft-slams-into-hillside-explodes-in-flames-near-calabasas) spread, Twitter users and Times readers from all over shared memories of their “Kobe!” shots: jump shots, trick shots and three-point attempts. Here’s what they had to say (some responses have been lightly edited for clarity). 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That was impressive but not unexpected. Liz Habib’s voice cracked before she had to stop and wipe away tears, abandoning a KTTV-Channel 11 live standup. That felt appropriate. ESPN and ABC continued to televise the NFL’s Pro Bowl in a simulcast, a meaningless exercise, while pushing its live coverage of events to ESPN2. That was beyond awkward, bordering on disrespectful. Media outlets trying to disseminate what TMZ first reported Sunday morning as a helicopter crash in Calabasas that took five lives, [including that of retired Lakers star Kobe Bryant](https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2020-01-26/complete-coverage-kobe-bryant-daughter-gianna-among-9-dead-in-helicopter-crash), ignited the comprehension, disbelief and misinformation anxiety that often permeate the first 24 hours of a news cycle. 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Part love letter to his sport, it was also part eulogy. “My heart can take the pounding,” Bryant said in his narration, over a quiet moment in John Williams’ poignant score. “My mind can handle the grind. But my body knows it’s time to say goodbye. And that’s OK. I’m ready to let you go.” The 2017 film serves as a bit of tragic poetry following [the death of Bryant](https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2020-01-26/complete-coverage-kobe-bryant-daughter-gianna-among-9-dead-in-helicopter-crash), daughter Gianna and seven other people in a Calabasas [helicopter crash](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-27/kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash-becomes-focus-of-intense-federal-investigation) Sunday. The project began as a letter he penned in 2015 for the Players’ Tribune announcing his retirement from the NBA. Bryant created the production company Granity Studios — originally Kobe Studios — with ambitions to create books, TV series and even feature films. “Dear Basketball” was its first effort. 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It’s a fitting tribute to the legendary Lakers great [who wrote a poem called “Dear Basketball”](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2020-01-26/kobe-bryant-entertainment-dear-basketball-oscar) to announce his retirement from the NBA. That poem was made into a film that earned him an Academy Award, a Sports Emmy and an Annie Award. Bryant, 41, [died in a helicopter crash in Calabasas](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-26/aircraft-slams-into-hillside-explodes-in-flames-near-calabasas) on Sunday morning, along with his 13-year-old daughter and seven others. His [career with the Lakers](https://www.latimes.com/sports/lakers/story/2020-01-26/bill-plaschke-column-on-kobe-bryant) spanned 20 years before his retirement in 2016, and included five NBA championship titles, two Finals MVPs and one regular season MVP. The Times asked readers to write in [with their favorite memories of Bryant](https://www.latimes.com/sports/lakers/story/2020-01-26/kobe-bryant-memories-from-times-readers). If you have a poem to add, please submit it through the form below. 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(Reinhold Matay/Associated Press) The Clippers felt as though they’d been [put through an emotional wringer](https://www.latimes.com/sports/clippers/story/2020-01-26/clippers-players-devastated-after-learning-kobe-bryant-death) when playing Sunday in Orlando, where they tipped off against the Magic less than four hours after receiving news of [Kobe Bryant’s death in a helicopter crash](https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2020-01-26/complete-coverage-kobe-bryant-daughter-gianna-among-9-dead-in-helicopter-crash). Once their 112-97 victory was over, however, an understanding began to take hold that an [even more emotional scene](https://www.latimes.com/sports/gallery/fans-staples-center-mourn-death-kobe-bryant-pictures-photos) awaits them Tuesday at Staples Center, when the Lakers host the Clippers. The teams’ previous meetings this season, [both Clippers victories](https://www.latimes.com/sports/lakers/story/2019-12-25/kawhi-leonard-clippers-erase-15-point-deficit-to-beat-lakers), were already played amid a charged atmosphere, given each organization’s expectation to contend for this season’s NBA championship. Yet Tuesday, in what will be the Lakers’ first game since the death of the player Magic Johnson called the “[greatest Laker of all time](https://twitter.com/MagicJohnson/status/1221560645323124736?s=20),” figures to be a far more emotional backdrop. 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It made her reflect on what his absence might mean to women’s basketball, one of the most important recipients of his support since his retirement from the NBA. From taking his daughters to WNBA games to coaching his daughter in youth basketball, Bryant was setting the stage to become an invaluable contributor in an arena that needed support. He was headed to Thousand Oaks to coach daughter Gianna, 13, in a youth tournament Sunday when the [helicopter he was traveling in crashed](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-26/kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash-dense-fog-investigation), killing him, Gianna and seven others. Komaki said the word around the club circuit was Bryant might become the girls’ basketball coach at Newport Coast Sage Hill, where Gianna was possibly going to enroll. A Sage Hill representative denied that Bryant was a coaching candidate. Bryant’s eldest daughter, Natalia, attends Sage Hill and is on the volleyball team. 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(Getty Images) My youngest daughter and I were at a friend’s baby shower when we learned of [Kobe Bryant’s death](https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2020-01-26/complete-coverage-kobe-bryant-daughter-gianna-among-9-dead-in-helicopter-crash). I was glancing at my phone when a breaking news alert flashed across my screen, and I gasped. “What?” Darby said, reaching for her own phone. So she learned as I did that Kobe’s 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, had been with him when the helicopter crashed. I squeezed my own 13-year-old daughter’s hand under the table and said, “We’ll talk about it after,” and we returned, as best we could, to the shower’s excitement and joy. We did talk about it later, on the drive home, but I was just as shocked and numb as she. “I feel so sad,” she said as we walked into the house. “That is how everyone is going to feel,” I said unhelpfully, mechanically. “It is just a terrible, terrible thing.” [Read More \>\>\>](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2020-01-27/gianna-bryant-death-tough-on-teen-basketball-player) Show more Advertisement Jan. 27, 2020 12:32 PM PT - Share via Close extra sharing options - [Email](mailto:?body=%E2%80%98We%20all%20know%20him%20as%20just%20Kobe%2C%20a%20person.%E2%80%99%20Newport%20Coast%20neighbors%20salute%20Kobe%20Bryant%20at%20vigil%0A%0Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dwe-all-know-him-as-just-kobe-a-person-newport-coast-neighbors-salute-kobe-bryant-at-vigil%0A%0APeople%20who%20knew%20Kobe%20Bryant%20as%20the%20father%20of%20four%20who%20lived%20up%20the%20street%2C%20ordered%20a%20certain%20pink%20drink%20at%20the%20corner%20Starbucks%20and%20trick-or-treated%20with%20their%20children%20gathered%20Sunday%20night%20in%20a%20park%20not%20far%20from%20his%20home%20to%20share%20their%20memories.%20) - [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dwe-all-know-him-as-just-kobe-a-person-newport-coast-neighbors-salute-kobe-bryant-at-vigil) - [X](https://x.com/intent/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dwe-all-know-him-as-just-kobe-a-person-newport-coast-neighbors-salute-kobe-bryant-at-vigil&text=%E2%80%98We%20all%20know%20him%20as%20just%20Kobe%2C%20a%20person.%E2%80%99%20Newport%20Coast%20neighbors%20salute%20Kobe%20Bryant%20at%20vigil) - [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dwe-all-know-him-as-just-kobe-a-person-newport-coast-neighbors-salute-kobe-bryant-at-vigil&title=%E2%80%98We%20all%20know%20him%20as%20just%20Kobe%2C%20a%20person.%E2%80%99%20Newport%20Coast%20neighbors%20salute%20Kobe%20Bryant%20at%20vigil&summary=Kobe%20Bryant%2C%20the%20NBA%20MVP%20who%20had%20a%2020-year%20career%20with%20the%20Lakers%2C%20was%20killed%20Sunday%20when%20the%20helicopter%20he%20was%20traveling%20in%20crashed%20and%20burst%20into%20flames%20in%20the%20hills%20above%20Calabasas.%20&source=Los%20Angeles%20Times) - [Threads](https://threads.net/intent/post?text=%E2%80%98We%20all%20know%20him%20as%20just%20Kobe%2C%20a%20person.%E2%80%99%20Newport%20Coast%20neighbors%20salute%20Kobe%20Bryant%20at%20vigil%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dwe-all-know-him-as-just-kobe-a-person-newport-coast-neighbors-salute-kobe-bryant-at-vigil) - [Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dwe-all-know-him-as-just-kobe-a-person-newport-coast-neighbors-salute-kobe-bryant-at-vigil&title=%E2%80%98We%20all%20know%20him%20as%20just%20Kobe%2C%20a%20person.%E2%80%99%20Newport%20Coast%20neighbors%20salute%20Kobe%20Bryant%20at%20vigil) - [WhatsApp](https://api.whatsapp.com/send?text=%E2%80%98We%20all%20know%20him%20as%20just%20Kobe%2C%20a%20person.%E2%80%99%20Newport%20Coast%20neighbors%20salute%20Kobe%20Bryant%20at%20vigil%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dwe-all-know-him-as-just-kobe-a-person-newport-coast-neighbors-salute-kobe-bryant-at-vigil) - Copy Link URL Copied\! - Print ‘We all know him as just Kobe, a person.’ Newport Coast neighbors salute Kobe Bryant at vigil By Hillary Davis People who knew Kobe Bryant as the father of four who lived up the street, ordered a certain pink drink at the corner Starbucks and trick-or-treated with their children gathered Sunday night in a park not far from his home to share their memories. Newport Ridge Community Park is near Bryant’s Newport Coast home and near their homes too. These were neighbors of the retired Lakers basketball legend and youth basketball coach whom some of the younger people knew around their school gym as Mr. Bryant. ![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/bz24v1yXaKs/hqdefault.jpg) [×](https://www.latimes.com/sports/liveblog/kobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas) [Read More\>\>\>](https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/news/story/2020-01-27/in-a-newport-coast-neighborhood-they-salute-kobe-a-regular-guy-who-would-help-you-carry-your-groceries) Show more Jan. 27, 2020 11:44 AM PT - Share via Close extra sharing options - [Email](mailto:?body=Kobe%20Bryant%20didn%E2%80%99t%20mentor%20many%20young%20players%3B%20Anthony%20Davis%20was%20an%20exception%0A%0A%0Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dkobe-bryant-didnt-mentor-many-young-players-anthony-davis-was-an-exception%0A%0ADuring%20his%20playing%20career%2C%20there%20weren%E2%80%99t%20many%20young%20players%20whom%20Kobe%20Bryant%20mentored.%20) - [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dkobe-bryant-didnt-mentor-many-young-players-anthony-davis-was-an-exception) - [X](https://x.com/intent/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dkobe-bryant-didnt-mentor-many-young-players-anthony-davis-was-an-exception&text=Kobe%20Bryant%20didn%E2%80%99t%20mentor%20many%20young%20players%3B%20Anthony%20Davis%20was%20an%20exception%0A) - [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dkobe-bryant-didnt-mentor-many-young-players-anthony-davis-was-an-exception&title=Kobe%20Bryant%20didn%E2%80%99t%20mentor%20many%20young%20players%3B%20Anthony%20Davis%20was%20an%20exception%0A&summary=Kobe%20Bryant%2C%20the%20NBA%20MVP%20who%20had%20a%2020-year%20career%20with%20the%20Lakers%2C%20was%20killed%20Sunday%20when%20the%20helicopter%20he%20was%20traveling%20in%20crashed%20and%20burst%20into%20flames%20in%20the%20hills%20above%20Calabasas.%20&source=Los%20Angeles%20Times) - [Threads](https://threads.net/intent/post?text=Kobe%20Bryant%20didn%E2%80%99t%20mentor%20many%20young%20players%3B%20Anthony%20Davis%20was%20an%20exception%0A%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dkobe-bryant-didnt-mentor-many-young-players-anthony-davis-was-an-exception) - [Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dkobe-bryant-didnt-mentor-many-young-players-anthony-davis-was-an-exception&title=Kobe%20Bryant%20didn%E2%80%99t%20mentor%20many%20young%20players%3B%20Anthony%20Davis%20was%20an%20exception%0A) - [WhatsApp](https://api.whatsapp.com/send?text=Kobe%20Bryant%20didn%E2%80%99t%20mentor%20many%20young%20players%3B%20Anthony%20Davis%20was%20an%20exception%0A%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dkobe-bryant-didnt-mentor-many-young-players-anthony-davis-was-an-exception) - Copy Link URL Copied\! - Print Kobe Bryant didn’t mentor many young players; Anthony Davis was an exception By [Tania Ganguli](https://www.latimes.com/people/tania-ganguli) ![Lakers star Kobe Bryant, left, and New Orleans Pelicans forward Anthony Davis talk while sitting on the bench during a game at the 2012 London Olympics.](https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/d68b1e7/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2048x1152+0+0/resize/1200x675!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F2c%2Fb8%2F8e851e3e631055a0bdf48071c878%2Flat-sp-kobe-bryant-anthony-davis-20150121) Lakers star Kobe Bryant, left, and New Orleans Pelicans forward Anthony Davis talk while sitting on the bench during a game at the 2012 London Olympics. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) During his playing career, there weren’t many young players whom Kobe Bryant mentored. He made an exception for Anthony Davis. “Anthony was different just because of his curiosity about the game itself,” Bryant said [in an interview last fall](https://www.latimes.com/sports/lakers/story/2019-10-21/lakers-anthony-davis-humble-beginnings-in-chicago). “His obvious potential. His ability. But he had a curious nature about him and how he wanted to learn more and more about that game. So I’d gravitate toward that.” Bryant was [one of nine people killed in a helicopter crash](https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2020-01-26/complete-coverage-kobe-bryant-daughter-gianna-among-9-dead-in-helicopter-crash) Sunday morning along with his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna; Alyssa Altobelli, Gianna’s teammate on the Mamba basketball team; and her parents [John and Keri Altobelli](https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2020-01-26/orange-coast-college-baseball-coach-john-altobelli-died-kobe-helicopter-crash); Christina Mauser, who helped coach the Mamba girls basketball team; and the pilot, Ara Zobayan. Two other passengers haven’t been publicly identified yet. 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But on Sunday, he was simply a heartbroken Lakers fan. Following the sudden death of local hero Kobe Bryant, Nicholson reflected on his relationship with the basketball icon and his home team yesterday in a rare phone interview with CBS Los Angeles. Bryant [died early Sunday](https://www.latimes.com/sports/liveblog/kobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas) in a Calabasas helicopter crash along with his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, and seven others. “My reaction is the same as almost all of L.A.,” the actor said. “Suddenly, where everything was solid, there’s a big hole in the wall. I was so used to seeing and talking to Kobe that — it kills you. 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As Kobe Bryant plays out his 20th and final season with the Lakers, The Times has reached out to players, coaches and broadcasters for recollections about his career. 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Logan](https://www.latimes.com/people/erin-b-logan) Senate Chaplain Barry Black in an opening prayer ahead of the impeachment trial mourned the loss of Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna and “those who died with them.” “We all have a limited time on Earth to leave the world better than we found it,” Black said. “As this impeachment process unfolds, give our senators the desire to make the most of their time on Earth. Teach them how to live, o God, and lead them along the path of honesty.” > wow... Senate Chaplain Barry Black powerfully invoked the Bryants in his opening prayer ahead of today’s impeachment trial: “Lord... as millions mourn the deaths of Kobe and Gianna Bryant, and those who died with them, we think about life's brevity, uncertainty, and legacy.” [pic.twitter.com/Jm2SrPlJtI](https://t.co/Jm2SrPlJtI) > > — j.d. durkin (@jiveDurkey) [January 27, 2020](https://twitter.com/jiveDurkey/status/1221859420809895937?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) Show more Jan. 27, 2020 10:59 AM PT - Share via Close extra sharing options - [Email](mailto:?body=Justin%20Turner%20talks%20about%20the%20impact%20of%20Kobe%20Bryant%27s%20death%0A%0Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Djustin-turner-talks-about-the-impact-of-kobe-bryants-death%0A%0A%28Required%29) - [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Djustin-turner-talks-about-the-impact-of-kobe-bryants-death) - [X](https://x.com/intent/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Djustin-turner-talks-about-the-impact-of-kobe-bryants-death&text=Justin%20Turner%20talks%20about%20the%20impact%20of%20Kobe%20Bryant%27s%20death) - [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Djustin-turner-talks-about-the-impact-of-kobe-bryants-death&title=Justin%20Turner%20talks%20about%20the%20impact%20of%20Kobe%20Bryant%27s%20death&summary=Kobe%20Bryant%2C%20the%20NBA%20MVP%20who%20had%20a%2020-year%20career%20with%20the%20Lakers%2C%20was%20killed%20Sunday%20when%20the%20helicopter%20he%20was%20traveling%20in%20crashed%20and%20burst%20into%20flames%20in%20the%20hills%20above%20Calabasas.%20&source=Los%20Angeles%20Times) - [Threads](https://threads.net/intent/post?text=Justin%20Turner%20talks%20about%20the%20impact%20of%20Kobe%20Bryant%27s%20death%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Djustin-turner-talks-about-the-impact-of-kobe-bryants-death) - [Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Djustin-turner-talks-about-the-impact-of-kobe-bryants-death&title=Justin%20Turner%20talks%20about%20the%20impact%20of%20Kobe%20Bryant%27s%20death) - [WhatsApp](https://api.whatsapp.com/send?text=Justin%20Turner%20talks%20about%20the%20impact%20of%20Kobe%20Bryant%27s%20death%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Djustin-turner-talks-about-the-impact-of-kobe-bryants-death) - Copy Link URL Copied\! - Print Justin Turner talks about the impact of Kobe Bryant’s death > Justin Turner grew up a huge Lakers and [\#Kobe](https://twitter.com/hashtag/Kobe?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) fan. He said he was shaking yesterday when he heard the news. His foundation’s annual golf event just kicked off with a moment of silence for Kobe. 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Olympics By [David Wharton](https://www.latimes.com/people/david-wharton) ![U.S. guard Kobe Bryant is challenged by French guard Tony Parker during a preliminary round game at the 2012 London Olympics.](https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/48e30e3/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2540x1720+0+0/resize/1200x813!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F39%2F91%2F0a4c80ef4128ae797aa746fc9d1d%2Fafp-getty-files-us-accident-basket-nba-bryant17.JPG) U.S. guard Kobe Bryant is challenged by French guard Tony Parker during a preliminary round game at the 2012 London Olympics. (Mark Ralston / AFP via Getty Images) It was the summer of 2008 and [Kobe Bryant](https://www.latimes.com/sports/lakers/story/2020-01-26/lakers-kobe-bryant-obit) was playing on the [U.S team at the Summer Olympics](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-aug-23-sp-olyplaschke23-story.html) in Beijing. He mentioned to [Times columnist Bill Plaschke](https://www.latimes.com/sports/lakers/story/2020-01-26/bill-plaschke-column-on-kobe-bryant) that winning gold might be his greatest accomplishment, better than an NBA championship, a sentiment he knew might irritate some Laker fans. “So what?” he said. “If they don’t understand this, they don’t know what they’re talking about. It’s simple. You’re playing for your country.” On Monday, the International Olympic Committee issued its reaction to the sudden death of a basketball icon who won that gold in China and another one, four years later, in London. “Kobe was an outstanding and true Olympic champion,” IOC President Thomas Bach said. “He embraced the power of sport to change people’s lives.” [READ MORE \>\>\>](https://www.latimes.com/sports/olympics/story/2020-01-27/gold-medalist-lakers-kobe-bryant-remembered-olympic-champion) Show more Jan. 27, 2020 10:20 AM PT - Share via Close extra sharing options - [Email](mailto:?body=Southern%20California%20radio%20stations%20will%20go%20silent%20at%20noon%20in%20honor%20of%20Kobe%20Bryant%0A%0Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dsouthern-california-radio-stations-will-go-silent-at-noon-in-honor-of-kobe-bryant%0A%0AThe%20Southern%20California%20Broadcasters%20Association%20is%20asking%20its%20members%20to%20observe%20a%20synchronized%20moment%20of%20silence%20in%20honor%20of%20late%20local%20hero%20Kobe%20Bryant.%20) - [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dsouthern-california-radio-stations-will-go-silent-at-noon-in-honor-of-kobe-bryant) - [X](https://x.com/intent/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dsouthern-california-radio-stations-will-go-silent-at-noon-in-honor-of-kobe-bryant&text=Southern%20California%20radio%20stations%20will%20go%20silent%20at%20noon%20in%20honor%20of%20Kobe%20Bryant) - [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dsouthern-california-radio-stations-will-go-silent-at-noon-in-honor-of-kobe-bryant&title=Southern%20California%20radio%20stations%20will%20go%20silent%20at%20noon%20in%20honor%20of%20Kobe%20Bryant&summary=Kobe%20Bryant%2C%20the%20NBA%20MVP%20who%20had%20a%2020-year%20career%20with%20the%20Lakers%2C%20was%20killed%20Sunday%20when%20the%20helicopter%20he%20was%20traveling%20in%20crashed%20and%20burst%20into%20flames%20in%20the%20hills%20above%20Calabasas.%20&source=Los%20Angeles%20Times) - [Threads](https://threads.net/intent/post?text=Southern%20California%20radio%20stations%20will%20go%20silent%20at%20noon%20in%20honor%20of%20Kobe%20Bryant%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dsouthern-california-radio-stations-will-go-silent-at-noon-in-honor-of-kobe-bryant) - [Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dsouthern-california-radio-stations-will-go-silent-at-noon-in-honor-of-kobe-bryant&title=Southern%20California%20radio%20stations%20will%20go%20silent%20at%20noon%20in%20honor%20of%20Kobe%20Bryant) - [WhatsApp](https://api.whatsapp.com/send?text=Southern%20California%20radio%20stations%20will%20go%20silent%20at%20noon%20in%20honor%20of%20Kobe%20Bryant%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dsouthern-california-radio-stations-will-go-silent-at-noon-in-honor-of-kobe-bryant) - Copy Link URL Copied\! - Print Southern California radio stations will go silent at noon in honor of Kobe Bryant By [Christi Carras](https://www.latimes.com/people/christi-carras) The Southern California Broadcasters Association is asking its members to observe a synchronized moment of silence in honor of late local hero Kobe Bryant. The radio silence, set to occur at noon Pacific on Monday, will last for one minute and eight seconds — a nod to the Laker star’s original jersey number, 8. The organization also provided additional instructions on how stations should approach coverage of Bryant’s death throughout the day. 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(Christina House / Los Angeles Times) Los Angeles is a city in mourning. Makeshift memorials continue to pop up, from Thousand Oaks to Newport Beach. Fans converged on Staples Center, the Lakers training center in El Segundo, on Melrose Avenue and in Calabasas, where Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter Gianna, and seven others will [killed in a helicopter crash Sunday](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-27/kobe-bryant-killed-helicopter-crash). Bryant’s jersey number — 24 — already had special meaning, commemorating his 20 seasons with the Lakers. Many teams now say no one else will ever wear that number. 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That’s why L.A. loved them. By [Erika D. Smith](https://www.latimes.com/people/erika-d-smith) There’s this thing that happens when a person dies, especially when that person is famous and the death is unexpected. Those who are left behind to mourn tend to gloss over the bad decisions and focus on the good deeds, the heroic traits and the uncommonly charitable gestures. This was very much the case Sunday. Hours after a helicopter carrying Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, and seven others [slammed into the hills above Calabasas](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-27/kobe-bryant-killed-helicopter-crash), killing all on board, celebrities clamored to pay tribute to him during the [Grammy Awards](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/liveblog/grammy-awards-live-updates) at Staples Center. 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The rough terrain around the crash site off Las Virgenes Canyon Road has been a challenge for first responders from the beginning. On Monday, deputies could be seen on the hillside in off-road vehicles. Some remains were removed Sunday night, and officials said that the process could continue for several days. Los Angeles County Coroner Jonathan Lucas said the remains will be removed as quickly as possible, noting the location of the crash had made access an issue. 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That is a key question as federal investigators on Monday [begin an intense investigation](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-27/kobe-bryant-crash-and-helicopter-safety) into the cause of the crash. The helicopter, a Sikorsky S-76 built in 1991, departed John Wayne Airport at 9:06 a.m. Sunday, according to publicly available flight records. The chopper passed over Boyle Heights, near Dodger Stadium, and circled over Glendale during the flight. The crash occurred shortly before 10 a.m. near Las Virgenes Road and Willow Glen Street in Calabasas. 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Firefighters responding to a 911 call at 9:47 a.m. found a debris field in steep terrain with a quarter-acre brush fire. Paramedics arriving by helicopter [searched the area but found no survivors](https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2020-01-26/complete-coverage-kobe-bryant-daughter-gianna-among-9-dead-in-helicopter-crash)[.](https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2020-01-26/complete-coverage-kobe-bryant-daughter-gianna-among-9-dead-in-helicopter-crash) Bryant, who lived in Newport Beach and Los Angeles, was known to keep a chartered helicopter at Orange County’s John Wayne Airport. 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This was one special athlete, husband, father and friend. Having to write these words is hard enough but also knowing we have lost an amazing human being and his beautiful and talented daughter Gianna is heartbreaking. The commitment Kobe showed to his sport was inspiring, to go through the pain and to finish a game off like only he could inspired me to try to be better. Sometimes I would only go to games just to watch that clock go down to the last 2:00 minutes knowing that we were about to witness something special. Kobe always talked about Vanessa and his beautiful girls and how proud he was of them. Kobe’s passion was his family and basketball. He was determined to inspire the next generation of boys and girls to embrace the sport that he loved. His legacy will live on. My family’s love and prayers go out to Vanessa and the girls, to Kobe’s basketball family, and of course to the families of those who were tragically lost with him yesterday... 💛💜](https://www.instagram.com/p/B70tdg-B4C_/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading) > > A post shared by [David Beckham](https://www.instagram.com/davidbeckham/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading) (@davidbeckham) on Jan 27, 2020 at 4:46am PST Show more Advertisement Jan. 27, 2020 5:56 AM PT - Share via Close extra sharing options - [Email](mailto:?body=Rep.%20Maxine%20Waters%27%20statement%20on%20Bryant%27s%20death%0A%0Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Drep-maxine-waters-statement-on-bryants-death%0A%0A%E2%80%9CI%20am%20absolutely%20devastated%20and%20heartbroken%20by%20the%20sudden%20and%20tragic%20loss%20of%20Kobe%20Bryant%20and%20his%20beloved%20daughter%20Gianna.%20) - [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Drep-maxine-waters-statement-on-bryants-death) - [X](https://x.com/intent/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Drep-maxine-waters-statement-on-bryants-death&text=Rep.%20Maxine%20Waters%27%20statement%20on%20Bryant%27s%20death) - [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Drep-maxine-waters-statement-on-bryants-death&title=Rep.%20Maxine%20Waters%27%20statement%20on%20Bryant%27s%20death&summary=Kobe%20Bryant%2C%20the%20NBA%20MVP%20who%20had%20a%2020-year%20career%20with%20the%20Lakers%2C%20was%20killed%20Sunday%20when%20the%20helicopter%20he%20was%20traveling%20in%20crashed%20and%20burst%20into%20flames%20in%20the%20hills%20above%20Calabasas.%20&source=Los%20Angeles%20Times) - [Threads](https://threads.net/intent/post?text=Rep.%20Maxine%20Waters%27%20statement%20on%20Bryant%27s%20death%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Drep-maxine-waters-statement-on-bryants-death) - [Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Drep-maxine-waters-statement-on-bryants-death&title=Rep.%20Maxine%20Waters%27%20statement%20on%20Bryant%27s%20death) - [WhatsApp](https://api.whatsapp.com/send?text=Rep.%20Maxine%20Waters%27%20statement%20on%20Bryant%27s%20death%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Drep-maxine-waters-statement-on-bryants-death) - Copy Link URL Copied\! - Print Rep. Maxine Waters’ statement on Bryant’s death “I am absolutely devastated and heartbroken by the sudden and tragic loss of Kobe Bryant and his beloved daughter Gianna. Kobe Bryant was a king in Los Angeles and one of the greatest athletes the world has ever known. He thrilled Los Angelenos for 20 seasons at the Staples Center, was an 18-time NBA All Star, earned five NBA championships, was twice named the MVP of the NBA Finals, and earned the NBA’s MVP award. Fans around the world marveled at his skills on the court season after season. He was truly spectacular to watch. He was our champion, a living legend, and an inspiration to countless fans and aspiring athletes around the world. His loss is felt by millions of grieving fans who are in shock and disbelief by the tragic passing of such a prolific athlete, devoted husband, and loving father. My heart goes out to his wife, Vanessa, surviving children, relatives, teammates, and friends who are in mourning. I also extend my sincere condolences to the families and loved ones of all the victims who were onboard the helicopter. “Los Angeles is mourning the loss of one of our most beloved legends and icons. Though Kobe Bryant is no longer with us, our city will never forget what he meant to us, and we will keep his legacy alive forever.” Show more Jan. 27, 2020 4:08 AM PT - Share via Close extra sharing options - [Email](mailto:?body=Probe%20of%20Kobe%20Bryant%20crash%20will%20probably%20focus%20on%20fog%2C%20possible%20mechanical%20problems%0A%0Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dprobe-of-kobe-bryant-crash-will-probably-focus-on-fog-possible-mechanical-problems%0A%0AThe%20investigation%20into%20the%20helicopter%20crash%20that%20killed%20Kobe%20Bryant%2C%20his%20daughter%20Gianna%20and%20seven%20others%20aboard%20a%20Sikorsky%20S-76B%20will%20probably%20focus%20on%20foggy%20weather%20conditions%20and%20potential%20mechanical%20problems%2C%20aviation%20experts%20and%20pilots%20said.%20) - [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dprobe-of-kobe-bryant-crash-will-probably-focus-on-fog-possible-mechanical-problems) - [X](https://x.com/intent/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dprobe-of-kobe-bryant-crash-will-probably-focus-on-fog-possible-mechanical-problems&text=Probe%20of%20Kobe%20Bryant%20crash%20will%20probably%20focus%20on%20fog%2C%20possible%20mechanical%20problems) - [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dprobe-of-kobe-bryant-crash-will-probably-focus-on-fog-possible-mechanical-problems&title=Probe%20of%20Kobe%20Bryant%20crash%20will%20probably%20focus%20on%20fog%2C%20possible%20mechanical%20problems&summary=Kobe%20Bryant%2C%20the%20NBA%20MVP%20who%20had%20a%2020-year%20career%20with%20the%20Lakers%2C%20was%20killed%20Sunday%20when%20the%20helicopter%20he%20was%20traveling%20in%20crashed%20and%20burst%20into%20flames%20in%20the%20hills%20above%20Calabasas.%20&source=Los%20Angeles%20Times) - [Threads](https://threads.net/intent/post?text=Probe%20of%20Kobe%20Bryant%20crash%20will%20probably%20focus%20on%20fog%2C%20possible%20mechanical%20problems%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dprobe-of-kobe-bryant-crash-will-probably-focus-on-fog-possible-mechanical-problems) - [Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dprobe-of-kobe-bryant-crash-will-probably-focus-on-fog-possible-mechanical-problems&title=Probe%20of%20Kobe%20Bryant%20crash%20will%20probably%20focus%20on%20fog%2C%20possible%20mechanical%20problems) - [WhatsApp](https://api.whatsapp.com/send?text=Probe%20of%20Kobe%20Bryant%20crash%20will%20probably%20focus%20on%20fog%2C%20possible%20mechanical%20problems%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fsports%2Fliveblog%2Fkobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas%23p%3Dprobe-of-kobe-bryant-crash-will-probably-focus-on-fog-possible-mechanical-problems) - Copy Link URL Copied\! - Print Probe of Kobe Bryant crash will probably focus on fog, possible mechanical problems By The Times The investigation into the helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna and seven others aboard a Sikorsky S-76B will probably focus on foggy weather conditions and potential mechanical problems, aviation experts and pilots said. Visibility in the region was so poor at the time of the crash, which occurred shortly before 10 a.m. in Calabasas, that the Los Angeles police and county sheriff’s departments had grounded their helicopters. 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But they were outnumbered by fans dressed in purple and yellow and white jerseys with the numbers 8 and 24 across their chests and his name — BRYANT — emblazoned across their backs. As the sun set Sunday, a surreal scene unfolded outside Staples Center, where celebrities who had gathered for the 62nd Grammy Awards mourned alongside devastated fans who flocked to the arena where Lakers legend Kobe Bryant — who died in a helicopter crash Sunday morning — has two jerseys hanging from the rafters. 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La Ganga](https://www.latimes.com/people/maria-l-la-ganga) Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, who owns the Los Angeles Times and is a part owner of the Lakers, was also Bryant’s friend, mentor and basketball “assistant” when the two played hoops at Soon-Shiong’s home court during Bryant’s recovery. He choked up as he spoke about the loss of a legend, about how he will miss the long conversations the two shared about all aspects of life and about Bryant’s aspirations as he underwent recovery. 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Readable Markdown	Kobe Bryant, the NBA MVP who had a 20-year career with the Lakers, was killed Sunday when the helicopter he was traveling in crashed and burst into flames in the hills above Calabasas. His daughter Gianna, 13, was also on board and died along with seven others. Lakers’ Rob Pelinka releases statement on Kobe Bryant and Gianna Rob Pelinka, the Lakers vice president, basketball operations and general manager, released a statement on Thursday saying that his lost his best friend and his goddaughter on Sunday. They are the first words from Pelinka since the [helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant](https://www.latimes.com/sports/liveblog/kobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas), his 13-year-old daughter Gianna, [and seven others.](https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2020-01-26/complete-coverage-kobe-bryant-daughter-gianna-among-9-dead-in-helicopter-crash) “On Sunday, I lost my best friend and sweet goddaughter. With that, there has been an amputation of part of my soul.” Pelinka goes on describing the player, husband, “girl-dad” and best friend Bryant was. “Kobe was a force of nature, deep, and obsessed with excellence. He was wise, determined, passionate. A visionary beyond measure. A dedicated and loving husband, and a ‘girl-dad’ like no other. When he walked into a room, the energy ignited. He was high voltage, with a motor that had no limits. His mind had an infinite capacity to learn. He was, simply put, the most inspirational athlete of our time. What the world may not know, is that he was also best friend anyone could ever imagine.” [Read more \>\>\>](https://www.latimes.com/sports/lakers/story/2020-01-30/lakers-rob-pelinka-releases-statement-on-kobe-bryant-and-gianna) Clippers, who usually cover Lakers logos at Staples Center, to display Kobe Bryant’s jerseys Intent on creating their own identity, the Clippers usually cover the Lakers’ banners and retired jersey numbers for their home games at Staples Center. But for the Clippers’ game against Sacramento on Thursday — the first NBA contest to be played in the arena since the [death of Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna and seven other people in a helicopter crash in Calabasas](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-29/experts-cite-weather-the-largest-killer-in-aviation-as-likely-key-factor-in-kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash) on Sunday — the Clippers left Bryant’s retired jerseys uncovered and on display high above the floor. The rest of the Lakers’ championship banners and retired jerseys were covered by the usual images of Clipper players and a city landscape but Bryant’s 8 and 24 stood out on a stark black background. ![Kobe Bryant's jerseys remain uncovered ahead of a Clippers game against the Kings.](https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/2bfc4bb/2147483647/strip/true/crop/4032x3024+0+0/resize/1200x900!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F97%2F9e%2Fd7728049454bb3864563d8c0254a%2Fkobe-clippers.jpg) Kobe Bryant’s jerseys are uncovered ahead of a Clippers game against the Kings. (Helene Elliott / Los Angeles Times) A moment of silence is scheduled for just past 7:33 p.m. The hockey Kings on Wednesday played the first sporting event at Staples Center after Bryant’s death. Players honored him by wearing his jersey to the arena and commemorative decals on their helmets, and the team remembered him in a pregame ceremony. [Read More \> \> \>](https://www.latimes.com/sports/clippers/story/2020-01-30/clippers-honor-kobe-bryant-first-game-at-staples-center) How Kobe Bryant changed the sneaker world Michael Jordan was professional basketball’s first [signature shoe king](https://www.latimes.com/business/la-ig-michael-jordan-jordan-brand-sneakers-sneaker-20190214-story.html), but Kobe Bryant was arguably his heir apparent, as crucial and challenging to the brand he represented — Nike — as he famously was with his Lakers teammates on the court. Jordan made sneakers cool, but Bryant changed the shoes themselves, creating the market in minimalist, low-silhouette footwear in a league in which everyone was still lacing up their high tops to protect their ankles. That led to a succession of NBA superstars adopting the same lighter, quicker shoe style, which helped liberate their moves on the hardwood. It happened soon after Bryant left Adidas to sign a four-year, \$40-million deal with Nike in 2003, then pushed the company to build a basketball shoe as sleek and safe as those worn in professional soccer. [Read More \>\>\>](https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-01-29/kobe-bryant-nike-sneakers) Metta World Peace shares life lessons he learned from Kobe Bryant ![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/I4eeISaxSKE/hqdefault.jpg) Mariachi band says farewell to Kobe Bryant with ‘Amor Eterno’ tearjerker As the world continues to mourn the death of [Kobe Bryant](https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-01-30/kobe-bryant-chartered-helicopter-industry) and eight others, the tributes to the late basketball great keep getting more heart-wrenching. Amid a massive crowd outside Staples Center this week, a mariachi troupe gathered to [honor Bryant](https://www.latimes.com/sports/lakers/story/2020-01-26/lakers-kobe-bryant-obit), his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, and the other seven lives lost with a poignant rendition of “Amor Eterno,” a goodbye ballad by the late Mexican singer Juan Gabriel. [Read more \>\>\>](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2020-01-30/kobe-bryant-mariachi-amor-eterno-tribute) Gigi and Kobe Bryant befriended a small-town basketball star and her trainer dad Hailey Van Lith lives basketball in her tiny town — Cashmere, Wash., population 3,152 — and as the nation’s No. 1 guard and No. 2 overall player on the women’s basketball ranking site Prospects Nation, the 18-year-old knows a bit about celebrity and fame. But last summer, as she waited in a Thailand airport after a Team USA game, she wasn’t prepared for a message from [basketball legend Kobe Bryant](https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2020-01-26/complete-coverage-kobe-bryant-daughter-gianna-among-9-dead-in-helicopter-crash). “The text was from one of Kobe’s main guys — I called him ‘T,’ and he just basically said that Kobe knew about me, loved my game and really wanted to get me to L.A. to work with him and talk about basketball,” Hailey said in a phone interview Monday as she drove to practice at Cashmere High School. [Read more \>\>\>](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-30/gigi-kobe-bryant-teen-basketball-star-hailey-van-lith) Vanessa Bryant shares the pain of her family’s loss: ‘Our beautiful blessings taken from us too soon’ Vanessa Bryant took to social media on Wednesday to thank the public for their support and express her grief over the helicopter crash that killed her husband, Kobe, daughter Gianna and seven others Sunday. “There aren’t enough words to describe our pain right now. I take comfort in knowing that Kobe and Gigi both knew that they were so deeply loved. We were so incredibly blessed to have them in our lives. I wish they were here with us forever. They were our beautiful blessings taken from us too soon,” she wrote on Instagram. “I’m not sure what our lives hold beyond today, and it’s impossible to imagine life without them. But we wake up each day, trying to keep pushing because Kobe, and our baby girl, Gigi, are shining on us to light the way. Our love for them is endless — and that’s to say, immeasurable. I just wish I could hug them, kiss them and bless them. Have them here with us, forever.” [Read More \>\>\>](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-29/vanessa-bryant-shares-the-pain-of-her-familys-loss-our-beautiful-blessings-taken-from-us-too-soon) Basketball star, Oscar winner and ... rapper? Remembering Kobe Bryant’s music career ![Lakers superstar Kobe Bryant takes the stage at the House of Blues in 2000.](https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/66e9c2f/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1506x847+0+0/resize/1200x675!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F6f%2F71%2Fba72f852ad13a3a9d991fcfbc313%2Fla-kobe-bryant-career-pictures-pg-010) (Clarence Williams / Los Angeles Times) Bryant’s solo single, “K.O.B.E.,” which debuted at the 2000 All-Star game, featured supermodel Tyra Banks and referenced his baller reputation in the lyrics. “What I live for? Basketball, beats and broads,” he raps on the track, his flow not particularly smooth or lyrical. “From Italy to the U.S., yes, it’s raw.” Writing for The Times in 2015, Dexter Thomas [wasn’t exactly impressed](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/posts/la-et-ms-forget-coaching-kobe-the-rap-game-needs-you-20151130-htmlstory.html) by the song. “It’s embarrassing. That cheap-sounding beat, the uninspired hook, the awkward chorus — this is more off-target than those three airballs he threw in 1997 against the Utah Jazz,” he wrote. While shooting an accompanying video for the splashy release, directed by BET Award winner Hype Williams, Bryant met his wife, Vanessa. And though their personal relationship would continue to develop for the next 20 years, footage from their professional collaboration never saw the light of day. Despite Bryant’s rising star power on the court, the song was not well-received, and “Visions,” the album it was slated to launch, was eventually shelved. Bryant officially got the ax from Sony soon enough, never to return to music again — except in a 2011 Taiwanese [Sprite commercial](https://youtu.be/eaW0jUGaHe0) and, of course, in other musicians’ lyrics, which often saluted the self-proclaimed Black Mamba and his larger-than-life legacy. [Read More \> \> \>](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2020-01-29/kobe-bryant-rapper-songs-music) Kawhi Leonard flew with Ara Zobayan often: ‘He was one of the best pilots’ The pilot involved in the helicopter crash Sunday that killed former Lakers star Kobe Bryant and eight others also flew Kawhi Leonard often and was regarded highly by the Clippers superstar. “Great guy, super nice,” Leonard said Wednesday of Ara Zobayan, a pilot from Huntington Beach who flew for the charter service Island Express. “He was one of the best pilots. That is a guy who you ask for to fly you from city to city. It’s just surreal still.” Leonard was close with Bryant, saying their relationship began during his second or third season in the NBA. Last summer, Bryant hosted Leonard, Clippers teammate Paul George and a handful of other players at his Mamba Academy in Thousand Oaks. One piece of advice Leonard sought from Bryant last summer, after signing with the Clippers as a free agent, was how Bryant used a helicopter often to cut down his commute to and from his home in Newport Beach. Leonard, last season, purchased a house in Rancho Santa Fe, north of San Diego. (In December, Leonard also purchased a penthouse near Staples Center.) “I talked to him about it before our transition to playing in L.A, just seeing how \[he\] got back and forth from Newport and he said he was doing it for about 17 years or so,” Leonard said. “Yeah, same pilot, everything, the whole situation, this whole program, the setup, how he was traveling back and forth was the same way I was getting here from San Diego.” Asked whether the crash gave him pause to continue to using helicopters, Leonard was unsure. “The things that you hear, you don’t know what’s real yet,” he said. “I can’t really speak on it. I don’t know. I don’t know yet. It’s a lot of thoughts in my head.” Zobayan, 50, had a commercial certificate and was a certified flight instructor with 8,200 hours of flight time as of July, said Jennifer Homendy, a National Transportation Safety Board member. “\[Zobayan\] will drop me off and say he is about go pick up Kobe. ‘Kobe said hello.’ Or he’ll just be like, ‘I just dropped Kobe off and he said hello.’ Vice versa. So, it’s a crazy interaction. He’s a good dude and I’m sorry for everybody.” Clippers’ Lou Williams on Kobe Bryant, being a \#GirlDad Kobe Bryant’s influence will be ‘felt forever,’ Lakers coach Frank Vogel says ![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/GxBqh4x_M1E/hqdefault.jpg) Lakers coach Frank Vogel talks about Kobe Bryant. After their practice in El Segundo on Wednesday morning, the Lakers gave their players the option of speaking to reporters about [the tragic death of Kobe Bryant](https://www.latimes.com/sports/liveblog/kobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas). They decided to continue to mourn in private. Lakers coach Frank Vogel stepped forward to make the first public comments from a member of the organization since a helicopter carrying [Bryant, his daughter Gianna and seven others](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-27/kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash-victims) crashed into a Calabasas hillside Sunday morning, killing all aboard. Vogel said he told the players they could talk when they’re ready and not a moment before. As Vogel addressed the media, LeBron James was nearby on the practice court, hoisting up jumpers. “We want to represent what Kobe was about more than anything,” said Vogel, who acknowledged there were some questions he may not be ready to address at this time. “He was the most feared man in the league for an entire generation.… His influence will be felt forever.” The Lakers display retired numbers on two walls above their practice gym. On Wednesday, Bryant’s No. 8 and No. 24 were lit up. The team was flying home from Philadelphia on Sunday morning [when they learned about the crash](https://www.latimes.com/sports/lakers/story/2020-01-26/lakers-players-shocked-speechless-after-kobe-bryant-death). Players became emotional as they heard the news and Vogel addressed them once he heard. The team canceled practice on Monday, though a few players trickled into the facility. The franchise waited until Monday afternoon to release any statement regarding Bryant’s death out of respect for his widow, Vanessa, and his three surviving daughters. But the Lakers have also needed time to process and grieve the loss of a legend. “We’ve become a family in a very short time,” Vogel said. The organization has been reeling since Sunday morning. General manager Rob Pelinka was one of Bryant’s closest friends and Gianna’s godfather. Lakers executives, including owner Jeanie Buss and Linda Rambis, spent time at the team facility on Sunday and Monday. [Buss lost her mother](https://www.latimes.com/sports/lakers/story/2019-12-16/joann-buss-former-wife-of-legendary-lakers-owner-jerry-buss-dies) and a close friend, [former NBA Commissioner David Stern](https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/story/2020-01-01/david-stern-nba-commissioner-dead), in the last six weeks. Monday would have been her father’s 87th birthday. The Lakers were planning to honor Jerry Buss during Tuesday’s game against the Clippers, before Sunday’s crash changed everything, leading the NBA to postpone the game. On Monday, the team brought in grief counselors, who were made available to employees, according to a person familiar with the situation. Bryant’s history with many of them was long. He joined the organization in 1996, as a 17-year-old ready to take over the basketball world. No formal plans have been made on how to honor Bryant, but the Lakers created a space Sunday for fans to gather and hold a vigil outside their facility. They provided a large white canvas with a watermarked image of Bryant leaned against the wall for fans to sign, using Sharpies distributed by the Lakers. It was nearly full by Monday afternoon, and enough fans have visited since to fill up two more. On Wednesday morning, a fourth canvas was unfurled outside the facility, where one fan stood with a fresh bouquet of flowers. Clippers’ Paul George on Kobe Bryant: ‘He was my Michael Jordan’ Clippers’ Kawhi Leonard says he talked to Kobe immediately after winning NBA title Shaq will donate Super Bowl party proceeds to Kobe’s foundation, crash victims’ families After days of deliberation following [the death of his “brother” Kobe Bryant](https://www.latimes.com/sports/lakers/story/2020-01-28/shaquille-oneal-tearfully-says-he-never-could-have-imagined-kobe-bryant-dying), Shaquille O’Neal has decided to proceed with “[Shaq’s Fun House](https://shaqsfunhouse.com/),” an carnival-style event scheduled for Friday night in Miami as one of the events leading up to Super Bowl LIV. In a heartfelt social media post Wednesday, O’Neal said he will donate all his proceeds from the event to the Kobe and Vanessa Bryant Foundation and to the families of [the nine people killed](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-27/kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash-victims) in the helicopter crash Sunday in Calabasas. “Kobe would want us to push through and celebrate life,” O’Neal wrote. “So let’s do just that.” Musical performers at the event include Diddy, Diplo, Pitbull and Diesel (the name Shaq uses [as an electronic music DJ](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2019-08-07/shaquille-oneal-dj-diesel-shaq-hard)). ESPN anchor’s tribute to Kobe Bryant sparks \#GirlDad trend The final moments of Kobe Bryant’s fatal flight, turn by turn By Matt Stiles , Swetha Kannan, Casey Miller and Andrea Roberson ![](https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/759eabc/2147483647/strip/true/crop/400x300+0+0/resize/1200x900!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fb1%2F8e%2Fe1f545944e2d883745aa87486ce7%2Fhp.gif) [A reconstruction of the flight by The Times](https://www.latimes.com/projects/kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash-3d-map/#nt=1col-7030col1-main) tracks the helicopter’s path starting at a crucial moment near the end when the pilot left the San Fernando Valley above the 101 Freeway. Fog and cloudy weather had descended on the region, limiting visibility. NTSB to FAA after helicopter crash: We warned you about terrain alert system By Richard Winton, Hannah Fry, Andrew J. Campa, Jaclyn Cosgrove NTSB investigator Jennifer Homendy said at Tuesday’s news conference that her agency had recommended that the Federal Aviation Administration 16 years ago require that all choppers carrying six or more passengers be equipped with a terrain awareness and warning system, adding that the FAA has “failed to act” on the proposal. Because the FAA didn’t follow the recommendation, the chopper that crashed Sunday was not legally required to have the system. Shortly after she spoke, an FAA spokesman disputed that assessment, noting that the FAA requires the terrain alarm system for helicopter air ambulance operations. [Read more \>\>\>](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-28/deputies-patrol-kobe-bryant-crash-site-trespassers-face-arrest) John Altobelli and family are paid tribute at Orange Coast College baseball opener Sunday’s helicopter crash killed John Altobelli, 56, his wife, Keri, 46, and their daughter, Alyssa, 13, along with former Lakers star Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, and four others. Two days [after the tragedy,](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-28/deputies-patrol-kobe-bryant-crash-site-trespassers-face-arrest) the Pirates took the field for the first time in 28 years without Altobelli, who guided OCC to four state championships and 705 victories, sent hundreds of players to four-year colleges and helped countless teenagers mature into young men since 1993. The crowd of about 2,000 that squeezed into Wendell Pickens Field on the school’s Costa Mesa campus included J.J. Altobelli, 29, a scout for the Boston Red Sox, and high school junior Alexis Altobelli, 16, the only surviving members of the Altobelli family. [Read More \>\>\>](https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2020-01-28/orange-coast-season-opener) Kobe Bryant’s helicopter was not equipped with terrain warning system that could have alerted pilot to hillside The helicopter that crashed Sunday in Calabasas, killing nine people including Kobe Bryant, was not equipped with a terrain alarm system that could have warned the pilot he was approaching a hillside, National Transportation Safety Board officials said Tuesday. The findings come as investigators are trying to determine why the helicopter crashed into a Calabasas hillside Sunday morning amid foggy conditions. NTSB investigator Jennifer Homendy said at Tuesday’s news conference that the helicopter was at 2,300 feet when it lost communication with air traffic controllers. The descent rate of the helicopter at the time of impact was more than 2,000 feet per minute. [Read More \>\>\>](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-28/deputies-patrol-kobe-bryant-crash-site-trespassers-face-arrest) Dramatic video of wreckage from Kobe Bryant helicopter crash is released Federal investigators on Tuesday released a dramatic video showing the scene where Kobe Bryant’s helicopter crashed into a Calabasas hillside, killing the NBA great, his daughter and seven other people. The National Transportation Safety Board video shows the charred wreckage of the helicopter, which broke apart on impact Sunday morning. Much of what remained of the chopper was burned beyond recognition. But a wheel and parts of the fuselage appear not to have been burned. The video was released as the NTSB is trying to determine the cause of the crash, a task expected to take months. [Read More \>\>\>](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-28/dramatic-video-of-wreckage-from-kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash-is-released) Kobe Bryant had a legendary workout for Clippers, who did him a favor by not drafting him In the spring of 1996, fewer than a dozen Clippers officials watched as coach Bill Fitch ran a 17-year-old guard from Philadelphia through a solo predraft workout in Los Angeles. On the day’s agenda was the same drill Fitch had used in hundreds of workouts during his previous 26 years evaluating NBA prospects. Fitch called it “baskets per minute,” and it was a souped-up version of the classic Mikan drill. Players alternated shooting on the left and right sides of the basket, using both hands, making as many baskets as possible in 60 seconds. Larry Bird was one of the best Fitch had ever tested. Nothing, however, topped what Fitch would witness that spring day inside the Sports Arena from Kobe Bryant. [Read More \>\>\>](https://www.latimes.com/sports/clippers/story/2020-01-28/kobe-bryant-legendary-workout-clippers-favor-passing-on-him) Kobe Bryant’s devotion to family became paramount when his basketball career ended It was December 2017, more than a year after Kobe Bryant [had retired from basketball](https://www.latimes.com/sports/lakers/story/2020-01-26/kobe-bryant-memories-from-times-readers), and the Lakers great was expounding upon a fundamental truth of parenthood. Having spent much of his NBA career on the road, traveling from city to city, he talked about a new job, shuttling his daughters around Newport Coast. “A lot of driving in a three-to-five mile radius,” he said. “Now, to have that, it’s absolutely wonderful. The time we spend in the car.” Bryant’s life, which [ended in a helicopter crash](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-28/the-questions-at-the-heart-of-the-kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash-investigation) Sunday, might have seemed all big-time sports and celebrity from the outside, but there was something more basic at its core. [Read More \>\>\>](https://www.latimes.com/sports/lakers/story/2020-01-28/kobe-bryant-devotion-family-became-paramount-basketball-career-ended) A tearful Shaquille O’Neal on Kobe Bryant’s death: ‘I’ve lost a little brother’ Shaquille O’Neal sat in a chair at center court inside Staples Center wearing a gray suit with tears streaming down his face as he talked about dealing with the death of his friend and former Lakers teammate Kobe Bryant. O’Neal and the acclaimed TNT crew of Ernie Johnson, Charles Barkley and Kenny Smith along with quests Jerry West, Dwyane Wade and Reggie Miller had come to Los Angeles on Tuesday to pay tribute to Bryant in an hourlong show called “Remembering Kobe.” O’Neal struggled to come to grips with Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, and seven others perishing when their helicopter crashed into a Calabasas hillside Sunday. [Read More \>\>\>](https://www.latimes.com/sports/lakers/story/2020-01-28/shaquille-oneal-tearfully-says-he-never-could-have-imagined-kobe-bryant-dying) Kobe Bryant became champion of women’s sports after career [Kobe Bryant](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-28/the-questions-at-the-heart-of-the-kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash-investigation) sauntered through the locker room doors and eyes widened. After watching the Oregon women’s basketball team beat USC by 40 points at the Galen Center last January, the NBA legend, his daughter Gianna and other aspiring basketball players visited the Ducks. Bryant greeted players with hugs. He signed their shoes — Kobes, naturally — while they were still on their feet. He complimented their playing style. Bryant wasn’t in the courtside seat as a dad just chaperoning his daughter and her friends, Oregon coach Kelly Graves realized as he watched the interactions. This wasn’t a duty, this wasn’t an obligation and this wasn’t a publicity stunt. [Read More \>\>\>](https://www.latimes.com/sports/lakers/story/2020-01-28/kobe-bryant-became-champion-of-womens-sports-after-career) Kobe Bryant’s winning skills captivated fans in the NBA’s huge China market By Tommy Yang As a middle school student, Shen Yuqi started to follow the NBA largely because of Chinese superstar Yao Ming, a 7-foot, 6-inch phenom who caught her attention during the 2006-07 season. Shen, like many basketball fans growing up China, soon found out the league was filled with dynamic players. She picked a new favorite star — No. 24 of the Los Angeles Lakers. In the first NBA game she watched on television, the Rockets were playing the Lakers. [Read More \>\>\>](https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-01-28/nba-and-kobe-bryant-fans-in-china) Fans pay tribute to late NBA star Kobe Bryant ![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/KwFm42TbSCM/hqdefault.jpg) More and more fans flood the Lakers training facility in El Segundo on Monday to pay respects to retired NBA star Kobe Bryant, who died Sunday in a helicopter crash in Calabasas. The time Kobe Bryant took part in a child’s goldfish funeral In the 2½ days after [Kobe Bryant died in a helicopter crash](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-28/the-questions-at-the-heart-of-the-kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash-investigation), billionaire investor Chris Sacca sifted through old emails and text messages with the [Lakers](https://www.latimes.com/sports/lakers) star. “Somehow yesterday was bad and today feels even worse,” Sacca said in an email to The Times on Tuesday. Their relationship started several years ago when Bryant asked Sacca to serve as a mentor to help him grow as an investor and entrepreneur. They quickly became friends, bonding over business and fatherhood. Though Bryant built a reputation as a fearsome competitor on the basketball court and a businessman with wide-ranging pursuits off it, children brought out a different side. One occasion lingers in Sacca’s mind. [Read More \>\>\>](https://www.latimes.com/sports/lakers/story/2020-01-28/kobe-bryant-took-part-in-a-child-goldfish-funeral) AC Milan, Kobe Bryant’s favorite Italian soccer team, pays tribute during match AC Milan and its fans paid tribute to Kobe Bryant with lights and applause before and during Tuesday’s Italian Cup game against Torino at the San Siro stadium. Bryant, who grew up in Italy between the ages of 6 and 13, was a devout Milan fan. The 18-time NBA All-Star with the Lakers [died Sunday with his 13-year-old daughter](https://www.latimes.com/sports/liveblog/kobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas), Gianna, in a helicopter crash near Calabasas. As Milan and Torino warmed up before the game, the words “Legends Never Die” and “SempreKobe” — a play on the “SempreMilan,” or “AlwaysMilan,” hashtag often used by the club — were displayed on the advertising boards around the San Siro while images of Bryant were shown on the giant screen. [Read More \>\>\>](https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2020-01-28/ac-milan-pays-tribute-to-kobe-bryant-at-san-siro-match) WWE star Roman Reigns did what many dads had done after Kobe Bryant and Gianna died WWE [superstar Roman Reigns](https://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-sports-newsletter-20190311-story.html), who grew up a huge Lakers fan, was preparing for Sunday’s Royal Rumble pay-per-view event when he learned of [the death of Kobe Bryant](https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2020-01-26/complete-coverage-kobe-bryant-daughter-gianna-among-9-dead-in-helicopter-crash) and his daughter Gianna. Times reporter Arash Markazi caught up with Reigns and talked to him about Bryant. “I watched religiously throughout his career,” Reigns said. “I never thought losing someone like that, essentially a stranger, though obviously a public figure ... I didn’t realize it would affect me so much. It broke my heart. My heart goes out to his wife and his three girls that were left behind. All the families that were involved. [Read More \>\>\>](https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2020-01-28/wwe-roman-reigns-kobe-bryant-death-royal-rumble) HBO’s ‘Real Sports’ grapples with Kobe Bryant’s complex legacy Kobe Bryant’s greatness as a basketball player is unquestioned. But he was also known for his prickly personality and his villainous on-court demeanor as the self-named [Black Mamba](https://www.latimes.com/sports/lakers/story/2020-01-28/kobe-bryant-lakers-mamba-mentality-hate-losing-death-crash). Those aspects of Bryant’s complicated nature are recalled in Tuesday’s installment of HBO’s sports magazine “Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel.” The “Real Sports” segment focuses on two profiles the series conducted with Bryant, [who died Sunday](https://www.latimes.com/sports/liveblog/kobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas), along with his daughter Gianna and seven others, in a helicopter crash in Calabasas. The first piece, from 2000, finds the player discussing his early motivations to become great, including being inspired by the success of his father, pro basketball player Joseph Bryant. [Read More\>\>\>](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2020-01-28/kobe-bryant-hbo-real-sports-bryant-gumbel-retrospective) Washington Post clears writer who tweeted about Kobe Bryant rape allegation A Washington Post reporter who had been placed on administrative leave after she [tweeted a link to a story about a 2003 rape allegation against Kobe Bryant](https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2020-01-26/what-happened-kobe-bryant-sexual-assault-case) has been cleared to return to work, the paper said Tuesday. In a statement, the Post said that an internal review had determined that political reporter Felicia Sonmez was “not in clear and direct violation of our social media policy,” but that the tweets were “ill-timed.” Sonmez’s tweet came in the hours after Bryant, 41, [died in a helicopter crash Sunday](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-28/deputies-patrol-kobe-bryant-crash-site-trespassers-face-arrest). [Read More\>\>\>](https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-01-28/wapo-clears-writer-who-tweeted-about-bryant-rape-allegation) Video Column: Kobe Bryant was much more than just an iconic basketball star ![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/nWSbRUu7ZeE/hqdefault.jpg) Kobe Bryant was much more than just an iconic basketball star. L.A. Times sports and culture columnist LZ Granderson has covered the NBA and Kobe Bryant for decades. Investigators from the FAA and NTSB searched for clues in Kobe’s helicopter crash By Los Angeles Times Staff ![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/vtd_ZXHIzjQ/hqdefault.jpg) Turning now to the investigation as federal authorities work to unravel the mystery of why Kobe’s helicopter crashed. Today, local officials had the grim task of removing the remains of the victims, while investigators from the FAA and NTSB searched for clues. L.A. Times reporter Richard Winton saw the immediate aftermath at the time of the crash and has been covering the investigation from Calabasas. (Required) NTSB Calabasas, CA Helicopter Crash B-Roll ![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/GvjzFWbJJxo/hqdefault.jpg) NTSB Board Member Jennifer Homendy briefs media on the Jan. 26 helicopter crash in Calabasas, Calif. Film academy to acknowledge Kobe Bryant’s death at the Oscars ![TOPSHOT - Kobe Bryant poses in the press room with the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film for "Dear Basketball," during the 90th Annual Academy Awards on March 4, 2018, in Hollywood, California. (Photo by FREDERIC J. BROWN / AFP) (Photo credit should read FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)](https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/b0a362c/2147483647/strip/true/crop/3308x2488+0+0/resize/1200x903!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F9c%2F2a%2F26f8694744748b3c19001c15ac57%2Fgettyimages-927297360.jpg) TOPSHOT - Kobe Bryant poses in the press room with the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film for “Dear Basketball,” during the 90th Annual Academy Awards on March 4, 2018, in Hollywood, California. (Photo by FREDERIC J. BROWN / AFP) (Photo credit should read FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images) (FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images) Joining other tributes that have poured in around the world, the motion picture academy plans to acknowledge the [death of basketball legend Kobe Bryant](https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2020-01-26/complete-coverage-kobe-bryant-daughter-gianna-among-9-dead-in-helicopter-crash) at next month’s Oscars ceremony. The specific details are being kept under wraps at this time. The Oscars telecast has long included an In Memoriam segment to acknowledge notable members of the Hollywood community who passed away that year, but it is unclear whether Bryant will receive a separate tribute. Bryant won an Academy Award in 2018 for producing and writing the five-minute animated short “Dear Basketball.” [Read More\>\>\>](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2020-01-28/film-academy-kobe-bryant-oscars) California lawmakers have a moment of silence on House floor for Kobe Bryant, other crash victims Reps. Harley Rouda (D-Laguna Beach) and Maxine Waters (D-Los Angeles) led members of the California delegation in a moment of silence on the House floor Tuesday afternoon in honor of the nine victims who died in Sunday’s helicopter crash. Rouda named each of the victims in alphabetical order: John, Keri and Alyssa Altobelli, Kobe and Gianna Bryant, Payton and Sarah Chester, Christina Mauser and pilot Ara Zobayan.The congressman acknowledged the group’s love of basketball and singled out the parents’ and coaches’ on board who were steadfastly dedicated to nurturing the passion and talents of the three 13-year-old girls who died on their way to play a game.“ Orange County is grieving, but we will find solace and purpose in the legacy they left behind,” he said. Waters addressed the loss of Kobe and Gianna Byrant specifically, before the House fell silent.“ I stand today on behalf of all Californians, and certainly the entire city of Los Angeles and millions of fans worldwide who are mourning the sudden loss of Kobe Bryant,” she said. “Our hearts go out to his wife, Vanessa, surviving daughters, Natalia, Bianka and Capri, relatives, teammates and friends.” Fans pay tribute to late NBA star Kobe Bryant ![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/KwFm42TbSCM/hqdefault.jpg) More and more fans flood the Lakers training facility in El Segundo on Monday to pay respects to retired NBA star Kobe Bryant, who died Sunday in a helicopter crash in Calabasas. Why you can’t buy Kobe Bryant’s signature sneakers on Nike.com When Kobe Bryant sneakers on Nike’s e-commerce site disappeared from the merchandise mix at some point in the 24 hours after Bryant’s death, some published reports claimed that it was part of Nike’s effort to limit secondary resellers’ ability to lay in a supply of sneakers that could later be sold at grief-inflated prices. That’s not accurate, according to a Nike representative, who told The Times on Tuesday that the sneakers weren’t purposefully pulled from the company’s e-commerce site but that the existing stock had sold out. The Beaverton, Ore., athletic goods maker has been making Bryant’s signature shoe since 2003, and searches for the Black Mamba’s name on Nike.com redirect to [a message of condolences](https://swoo.sh/3aJg6rt) dated Jan. 26. [Read More\>\>\>](https://www.latimes.com/lifestyle/story/2020-01-28/kobe-bryant-sneakers-sold-out-nike) Lakers fan pays tribute to Kobe Bryant with his ‘KNG KOBE’ truck ![Ron Bonilla stands behind his truck that features a KNG KOBE license plate and a Lakers flag at half-staff.](https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/01ee7b9/2147483647/strip/true/crop/4032x3024+0+0/resize/1200x900!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F28%2F1b%2Fa9d8013c42299d505e5b64d20040%2Fimg-9871.jpeg) (Kathy Klein / For The Times) Drivers on Lake Avenue in Pasadena honked their horns late Sunday afternoon as Ron Bonilla drove his black-matte 2007 Toyota Tundra — with personal license plate KNG KOBE and a Lakers flag at half-mast — through traffic. Bonilla, 48, has been a Lakers fan since 1979, when Magic Johnson joined the team. “I’ve never felt so connected to any athlete or artist or entertainer as I felt with Kobe,” said Bonilla, proudly wearing Bryant’s No. 24 jersey and a Lakers cap. [Read More\>\>\>](https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2020-01-28/lakers-fan-pays-tribute-to-kobe-bryant-with-his-kng-kobe-truck) H.B.’s Ara Zobayan, who flew doomed Bryant helicopter, was an experienced pilot and instructor By The Daily Pilot Staff Ara Zobayan of Huntington Beach — the pilot of the helicopter that crashed in Calabasas on Sunday, killing nine people, including Zobayan and retired Lakers star Kobe Bryant — was an experienced flier and a certified flight instructor with more than 8,000 hours of flight time, sources said this week. Bryant regularly used the helicopter, a Sikorsky S-76B owned by the charter service Island Express. Records show the aircraft had flown between John Wayne Airport, where it took off Sunday morning, and Camarillo Airport, where it was heading, about two dozen times in the past two years. [Read More\>\>\>](https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/news/story/2020-01-28/ara-zobayan-kobe-pilot) All bodies recovered from Kobe Bryant crash site as investigation continues By Los Angeles Times Staff The bodies of Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter and seven others who died in a helicopter crash have been recovered from a Calabasas hillside, coroner officials said Tuesday. Authorities on Sunday recovered the bodies of at least three victims from the helicopter wreckage. The next day, the search continued for the six remaining victims. Their bodies were eventually located and taken to the Los Angeles County Coroner’s forensic science center, where officials will work to identify them. Authorities investigating the devastating incident said the impact of the crash was intense, shattering the chopper and sending debris over a wide area. [Read More\>\>\>](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-28/deputies-patrol-kobe-bryant-crash-site-trespassers-face-arrest) Kobe Bryant’s studio removes Oscar-winning ‘Dear Basketball’ film from website Don’t be surprised if you can’t find Kobe Bryant’s Oscar-winning animated short “Dear Basketball” streaming online anymore in the wake of [the basketball star’s death](https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2020-01-26/complete-coverage-kobe-bryant-daughter-gianna-among-9-dead-in-helicopter-crash). The film, which Granity Studios briefly made available for free Monday, has been taken down. The decision Tuesday to take down the video means it’ll be hard to find online — again. [Read More\>\>\>](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2020-01-27/kobe-bryant-dear-basketball-documentary-muse) Petition to use Kobe Bryant image in NBA logo approaches 2 million signatures In the days since [the helicopter crash that took the lives](https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2020-01-26/complete-coverage-kobe-bryant-daughter-gianna-among-9-dead-in-helicopter-crash) of Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, and seven others, NBA players and teams have been paying tribute to the Lakers legend, with gestures including [handwritten messages](https://www.latimes.com/lifestyle/story/2020-01-27/athletes-stars-pay-wearable-tribute-kobe-bryant) on their sneakers and [intentional clock violations](https://www.latimes.com/sports/clippers/story/2020-01-26/clippers-players-devastated-after-learning-kobe-bryant-death) of 8 and 24 seconds in honor Bryant’s jersey numbers and [custom pregame jerseys](https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/kobe-bryant-tributes-pistons-wear-custom-no-8-no-24-jerseys-timberwolves-leave-basketball-at-foul-line/). One fan has suggested a way the league can permanently honor one of its all-time greats — and close to 2 million people agree with the idea. Change the logo. [Read More\>\>\>](https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2020-01-28/kobe-bryant-petition-nba-logo-2-million-signatures) The questions at the heart of the Kobe Bryant helicopter crash investigation By Los Angeles Times Staff ![Flight graphic for the homepage.](https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/2d11e0b/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1840x613+0+0/resize/1200x400!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F5a%2F13%2Feee36a444752bf35f84a7a356cee%2Fkobe-final-flight-homepage-padding.png) (Matt Stiles & Priya Krishnakumar) There is no black box recording. The audio transmission released so far does not cover the actual moment of the crash. And the impact of the crash sent debris scattered over a huge area. These are some of the impediments the National Transportation Safety Board is facing as it investigates why a helicopter carrying Kobe Bryant and eight others crashed into a hillside in Calabasas, killing all on board. [The probe is still in its early stages](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-27/kobe-bryant-crash-and-helicopter-safety), and a final determination is months away. At its heart are some basic questions: Why was the pilot flying so low in the moments before the crash, and why could the chopper not clear the hillside? [Read More\>\>\>](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-28/the-questions-at-the-heart-of-the-kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash-investigation) Washington Post places reporter on leave after tweet about Kobe Bryant rape allegations By Associated Press WASHINGTON —The Washington Post has placed a political reporter on administrative leave after she tweeted a link to a story about rape allegations against NBA superstar Kobe Bryant, who was killed Sunday. Dozens of journalists at the newspaper criticized the decision. Reporter Felicia Sonmez’s tweet Sunday, amid widespread public mourning over [Bryant’s death in a helicopter crash](https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2020-01-26/complete-coverage-kobe-bryant-daughter-gianna-among-9-dead-in-helicopter-crash), drew considerable backlash on social media. The Post reported that Somnez received threats of death and rape and had to move to a hotel after her home address was published online. The Post said Somnez deleted the original tweet at the request of a managing editor. She also received an email from executive editor Marty Baron saying: “A real lack of judgment to tweet this. Please stop. You’re hurting this institution by doing this.” Somnez shared the email with an Associated Press reporter. The Post said Somnez had been placed on paid leave while newsroom managers looked into the episode. A spokeswoman for the newspaper did not respond to questions about Baron’s role. [Read More\>\>\>](https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-01-28/washington-post-places-reporter-on-leave-after-bryant-tweet) Watch TV’s comics honor Kobe Bryant: ‘He always showed up to save the day’ Tears replaced laughs on the comedy scene Monday as TV hosts delivered touching tributes to Kobe Bryant, who [died Sunday](https://www.latimes.com/sports/liveblog/kobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas) in a helicopter crash along with his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, and seven others. Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel and Ellen DeGeneres struggled to keep it together while lamenting life’s fragility and recounting some of their fondest memories with the Laker legend. James Corden and Conan O’Brien were also among those who honored Bryant with reflective words and, in some cases, highlight reels of his past guest appearances. “Tonight’s show is going to be different from our usual show,” Kimmel began his “Jimmy Kimmel Live” monologue. “We don’t have a studio audience here tonight because going forward with a comedy show didn’t feel right, considering what happened yesterday.... That was a punch in the gut for many of us. Kobe was — and I know this might not make sense, but — he was just the last person you could ever imagine something like this happening to.” [Read More\>\>\>](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2020-01-28/kobe-bryant-jimmy-fallon-jimmy-kimmel-ellen-degeneres-video) Deputies on horseback patrol Kobe Bryant crash site as trespassers ignore warnings By Los Angeles Times Staff ![CALABASAS, CA-JANUARY 26, 2020: People gather on Las Virgenes Road in Calabasas near the scene of a helicopter that crashed and burst into flames Sunday morning amid foggy conditions in the hills above. All people aboard were killed including Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant. (Mel Melcon/Los Angeles Times)](https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/1c9b508/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2800x1831+0+0/resize/1200x785!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F47%2Fb5%2F4c1b5eab4156a85f68d3854cc3d7%2Fla-photos-1staff-484313-la-me-kobe-crash4-mam.jpg) CALABASAS, CA-JANUARY 26, 2020: People gather on Las Virgenes Road in Calabasas near the scene of a helicopter that crashed and burst into flames Sunday morning amid foggy conditions in the hills above. All people aboard were killed including Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant. (Mel Melcon/Los Angeles Times) (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times) Investigators and recovery teams were back at a Calabasas hillside Tuesday, continuing to remove remains from the site of a helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter and seven others as they tried to determine what caused the tragedy. Authorities have recovered the bodies of at least three victims and say the process of removing others may take several days to complete. They said the impact of the crash was intense, shattering the chopper and sending debris over a wide area. “This was a pretty devastating accident,” National Transportation Safety Board investigator Jennifer Homendy said. “There is an impact area on one of the hills, and a piece of the tail is down the hill on the left side of the hill. The fuselage is on the other side of that hill. Then the main rotor is about hundred yards beyond that. The debris field is about 500 to 600 feet.” [Read More\>\>\>](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-28/deputies-patrol-kobe-bryant-crash-site-trespassers-face-arrest) Bad Bunny releases ‘6 Rings,’ a tribute song to Kobe Bryant ![Bad Bunny luciendo un nuevo "look" durante su presentación en el Calibash 2020 en Los Ángeles.](https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/b5883ed/2147483647/strip/true/crop/840x560+0+0/resize/1200x800!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fab%2Fd9%2Fe34628d24b55bd38aae38e128a51%2Fdownload-4.jpg) Bad Bunny luciendo un nuevo “look” durante su presentación en el Calibash 2020 en Los Ángeles. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times) Bad Bunny is paying his respects to the late basketball legend Kobe Bryant the way he knows best: through music. The singer released the song “6 Rings” on Monday in honor of the late Lakers star, [who died in a helicopter crash](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-27/kobe-bryant-killed-helicopter-crash)over the weekend along with his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven others. The [two-minute track](https://soundcloud.com/yhlqmdlg/6-rings), sung in Spanish, includes commentary from Bryant’s 2006 game against the Toronto Raptors where the Lakers player scored a staggering 81 points. [Read More\>\>\>](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2020-01-28/bad-bunny-kobe-bryant-6-rings-tribute-song) Kobe Bryant HATED losing so much that it set him apart from his Lakers teammates ![Kobe Bryant sits on the bench during a Lakers overtime loss to the Phoenix Suns.](https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/fb279a4/2147483647/strip/true/crop/351x425+0+0/resize/1200x1453!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F98%2F71%2F5cfcb3c93c7cca4aae581838b248%2Fla-lakers-iys2u6nc) (Los Angeles Times) It took almost 200 pages in “Mamba Mentality,” Kobe Bryant’s 2018 book, for him to write explicitly about losing basketball games, and when he did, it was to the point. “THE AGONY OF DEFEAT IS AS LOW AS THE JOY OF WINNING IS HIGH,” he wrote in capital letters — white text on a black page below a photo of a himself sitting dejected on the Lakers bench. Bryant’s countenance let you know. [Read More\>\>\>](https://www.latimes.com/sports/lakers/story/2020-01-28/kobe-bryant-lakers-mamba-mentality-hate-losing-death-crash) TNT to air live Kobe Bryant tribute ahead of Celtics-Heat game tonight TNT will air a one-hour special tribute to Kobe Bryant tonight at 7 p.m. The live special will be streamed from the Staples Center and will air ahead of the Celtics vs. Heat game in Miami. The tribute will be hosted by Shaquille O’Neal, Ernie Johnson, Charles Barkley and Kenny Smith. Dwyane Wade, Candace Parker and Steve Nash will be guests on the program. TNT’s pregame, halftime and postgame coverage will all focus on Bryant from the Staples Center, which was slated to host the postponed Lakers/Clippers game. Tourists and fans invade Calabasas hillside where Kobe Bryant’s helicopter crashed ![CALABASAS-CA-JANUARY 27, 2020: A small makeshift memorial near the site of the helicopter crash in Calabasas that killed Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna, and seven others Sunday morning, on Monday, January 27, 2020. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times)](https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/7fbb379/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2400x1600+0+0/resize/1200x800!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F59%2F18%2Fb02a9b7a4efb97556d4b80e9d162%2Fla-photos-1staff-484458-me-0127-kobe-follow-02-cmh.jpg) (Christina House/Los Angeles Times) As out-of-town visitors arrived in Calabasas looking to glimpse the hillside where Lakers legend Kobe Bryant, his daughter and seven other people died in a helicopter crash, some ran into sheriff’s checkpoints, some became lost and others had no idea where to go. Enter 70-year-old Linda Adams. The 30-year Calabasas resident pointed to a shortcut between Las Virgenes Creek, where fans gathered to scan the hillside, and Las Virgenes Road, which saved several travelers at least a mile of walking. A few onlookers even joined Adams to catch a better and closer view of the crash site. [Read More\>\>\>](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-27/tourists-and-fans-invade-calabasas-hillside-where-kobe-bryants-helicopter-crashed) Kobe Bryant’s death hits close to home for USC basketball players ![Melrose Avenue memorial for Kobe Bryant](https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/565fbaa/2147483647/strip/true/crop/755x542+0+0/resize/1200x861!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F7d%2F41%2F71e44b7c4df2a7a0045b08a2c7ec%2Fkobe.JPG) (Britny Mejia/ Los Angeles Times) The mural towered over Melrose Avenue, and for three years, since it was painted outside of the sneaker shop across from Fairfax High, Ethan Anderson would stare at it from a classroom window. Every day he walked or drove past, looking at it so often that the towering likeness, soaring across a purple wall of Shoe Palace, merely had become a part of the landscape. To Anderson and so many others who’d grown up in the long shadow he cast, it seemed [Kobe Bryant always would be there](https://www.latimes.com/sports/lakers/story/2020-01-27/kobe-bryant-death-lakers-bill-plaschke-cursed-tv-tribute), his presence looming forever over Los Angeles. But on Sunday morning, Bryant died in a helicopter crash that killed eight others, including his daughter Gianna, and as Los Angeles mourned, turning the sidewalk outside Shoe Palace into a shrine, Anderson found himself thinking about that mural and the legacy of the man in it. [Read More\>\>\>](https://www.latimes.com/sports/usc/story/2020-01-28/usc-trojans-basketball-kobe-bryant-death-crash) Kobe Bryant: Here are some of the Mamba’s most memorable quotes ![LOS ANGELES, CA - APRIL 13: Kobe Bryant \#24 of the Los Angeles Lakers address the media during the post game news conference after scoring 60 point in his final NBA game at Staples Center on April 13, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Harry How/Getty Images)](https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/84d4d96/2147483647/strip/true/crop/4641x3089+0+0/resize/1200x799!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fbf%2Fd8%2F0793767a4e919d3c4cf9bbb13aa3%2Fhttps-delivery.gettyimages.com%2Fdownloads%2F521069974.jpg) LOS ANGELES, CA - APRIL 13: Kobe Bryant \#24 of the Los Angeles Lakers address the media during the post game news conference after scoring 60 point in his final NBA game at Staples Center on April 13, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Harry How/Getty Images) (Getty Images) Lakers legend Kobe Bryant [died Sunday when the helicopter](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-27/kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash-becomes-focus-of-intense-federal-investigation) he was traveling in crashed and burst into flames in the hills above Calabasas. His daughter Gianna, 13, was also on board and [died along with seven others](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-27/kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash-victims). Bryant was known to give some memorable quotes over the years — some inspirational, some funny and all pure Kobe. Here are some that might provide a little comfort during this tragic time. [Read More \>\>\>](https://www.latimes.com/sports/lakers/story/2020-01-27/kobe-bryant-most-memorable-quotes) Vanguard University, practice home of Kobe Bryant’s club team, mourns the basketball great and his daughter By Faith E. Pinho When Gianna “Gigi” Bryant first told her basketball star father that she wanted to play the sport, Kobe Bryant took her seriously. “He kind of sat down with Gigi and said, ‘If you want to play, we’re going to do this,’” said Jeff Melton, assistant athletic director at Vanguard University. “’We’ll do this if this is a passion for you.’” When she said yes, her father — who became legendary for his 20-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers — began tapping into his world of opportunities. He arranged for her to meet her basketball idol, Katie Lou Samuelson, a guard for the WNBA’s Chicago Sky. He took her to Atlanta Hawks NBA games to watch Trae Young, another of her favorite players. [Read More \>\>\>](https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/news/story/2020-01-27/vanguard-university-home-to-kobe-bryants-mamba-team-mourns-the-loss-of-a-basketball-legend) Orange Coast College baseball team to play two days after coach John Altobelli died It’s OK to cry, to be overcome by grief. It’s OK to be mad, to scream out in frustration. Most of all, it’s OK to ask for help. That was the message to the Orange Coast College baseball team as it prepared for Tuesday’s season opener against Chula Vista Southwestern, a game that will be played just two days after longtime Pirates coach John Altobelli, his wife, Keri, and their 13-year-old daughter, Alyssa,[died in the fiery helicopter crash](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-27/kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash-victims) that also killed former Lakers star Kobe Bryant [on Sunday.](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-27/kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash-becomes-focus-of-intense-federal-investigation) “We athletes, we’re macho, and we want to be tough, and because of that, sometimes we pretend like we’re not hurting,” former Cal State Fullerton and Oregon coach George Horton, a close friend of the Altobelli family, told players before practice Monday. [Read More \>\>\>](https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2020-01-27/orange-coast-college-baseball-team-play-two-days-after-coach-john-altobelli-died) Column: Kobe Bryant’s reaction when I cursed him on TV showed the real Kobe, as he always did It was in the first round of the [2012 playoffs](https://www.latimes.com/sports/lakers/la-xpm-2012-may-04-la-sp-ln-lakers-nuggets-game-3-live-coverage-20120504-story.html), the [Lakers](https://www.latimes.com/sports/lakers) were in Denver, and I couldn’t take it anymore. I couldn’t bear one more moment of listening to that smug [Kobe Bryant](https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2020-01-26/complete-coverage-kobe-bryant-daughter-gianna-among-9-dead-in-helicopter-crash). Asked about the defense being played on him by the Nuggets’ Danilo Gallinari during a postgame news conference, Bryant filled the small media room with dripping sarcasm. He smiled, shook his head, and said something like, oh yeah, he was real worried, truly bothered, so stressed ... And I lost it. “Kobe, you’re such an asshole!” I yelled at him. [Read More \>\>\>](https://www.latimes.com/sports/lakers/story/2020-01-27/kobe-bryant-death-lakers-bill-plaschke-cursed-tv-tribute) Mothers, fathers, daughters, coaches: Here are the 9 killed in the Kobe Bryant helicopter crash By Los Angeles Times Staff ![Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna Bryant took in the U.S. Women's National soccer team game vs. China at Qualcomm Stadium on April 10, 2014](https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/7f259cb/2147483647/strip/true/crop/4320x2880+0+0/resize/1200x800!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F2c%2F25%2F105175f445f1bcaf9982d8cd60ad%2Fkc-kobe-001.JPG) (K.C. Alfred/U-T San Diego) Sunday should have been a day filled with adrenaline-pumping competition set to a soundtrack of cheers and the scuffle of sneakers on a basketball court. It wasn’t supposed to be a day marred by a tragedy that took the lives of nine people and left a city heartbroken. Many of the victims of the Calabasas helicopter crash were united in their love of basketball, headed to a tournament at the Mamba Sports Academy in Thousand Oaks. They included Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna, a budding basketball player who was ready to follow in her father’s footsteps; baseball coach John Altobelli, his wife Keri and their basketball-playing daughter Alyssa; mother and daughter Sarah and Payton Chester; Mamba Academy basketball coach Christina Mauser and pilot Ara Zobayan. As Los Angeles collectively mourned their Lakers hero, multiple families and friends reeled while reality hit. [Read More\>\>\>](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-27/kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash-victims) The last flight of Kobe Bryant By Los Angeles Times Staff A light fog had settled on the runway of John Wayne Airport Sunday morning when Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna and six other passengers boarded a chartered helicopter to fly to a basketball tournament in Thousand Oaks. A half-hour later, they were flying over thickening clouds in the San Fernando Valley. The pilot was worried enough to ask flight controllers to keep track of them. As he approached the hills of Calabasas at 150 miles per hour, they radioed him, telling him he was too low for them to see on radar. The pilot commenced a climb, rising 765 feet in 36 seconds, enough to clear adjacent hills. [Read More](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-28/the-last-flight-of-kobe-bryant)\>\>\> What causes the deep marine layer that played a role in the Kobe Bryant helicopter crash? ![](https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/9f44ad7/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1564x1051+0+0/resize/1200x806!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F72%2Fed%2Facce65b64b81b39157d6fed5356c%2Fla-me-marine-layer-graphics-02.jpg) (Paul Duginski / Los Angeles Times) On Sunday morning, when Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna and seven others were killed in a helicopter crash near Calabasas, there was a thick marine layer and patchy dense fog that obscured some of the terrain. The conditions were the result of a deteriorating cold front passing through the area with moist northwest flow, which caused low clouds to pile up against the northern slopes of Ventura and L.A. County mountains. There were showers to the north, and clouds pushing into coastal valleys were thick enough to cause drizzle along the coast and in nearby foothills, according to the National Weather Service. A webcam at Oat Mountain, northwest of Porter Ranch, suggested that the marine layer was 3,000 feet thick. [Read More\>\>\>](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-27/deep-marine-layer-kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash) Huge Kobe Bryant fans Justin Turner and Clayton Kershaw mourn his death ![Lakers legend Kobe Bryant poses for a photo with Dodgers great Tommy Lasorda during a game at Dodger Stadium in July 2013.of the Los Angeles Lakers and Tommy Lasorda attend a game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the New York Yankees on July 31, 2013 at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, Caifornia.](https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/79abc20/2147483647/strip/true/crop/3000x1993+0+0/resize/1200x797!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F8a%2F05%2Ff397d4fc48d398689390cfa55326%2F175289495.jpg) Lakers legend Kobe Bryant poses for a photo with Dodgers great Tommy Lasorda during a game at Dodger Stadium in July 2013.of the Los Angeles Lakers and Tommy Lasorda attend a game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the New York Yankees on July 31, 2013 at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, Caifornia. (Jill Weisledero / Dodgers via Getty Images) Justin Turner received the news of [Kobe Bryant’s death](https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2020-01-26/complete-coverage-kobe-bryant-daughter-gianna-among-9-dead-in-helicopter-crash) Sunday from his wife, Kourtney, as he packed a van for his charity golf event Monday. The [Dodgers](https://www.latimes.com/sports/dodgers) third baseman’s initial reaction was like that of many others — he assumed it wasn’t true. He didn’t believe it until he heard radio reports confirming the unfathomable as he drove to Sherwood Country Club in Thousand Oaks near the site of the [helicopter crash](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-27/kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash-becomes-focus-of-intense-federal-investigation) that killed the 41-year-old Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter [Gianna](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2020-01-27/gianna-bryant-death-tough-on-teen-basketball-player) and seven others. “I was just shaking,” Turner said. [Read More \>\>\>](https://www.latimes.com/sports/dodgers/story/2020-01-27/huge-kobe-bryant-fans-justin-turner-clayton-kershaw-mourn-death) In Orange County, Kobe Bryant grew from basketball’s enfant terrible into a ‘typical dad’ By Los Angeles Times Staff The last Saturday of Kobe Bryant’s life came and went like any typical weekend at home for the retired Lakers superstar. He took one daughter to the mall. Accompanied another to a basketball game. Planned a Sunday morning trip with friends. And slept with his family at their house in Orange County. For nearly 20 years, one of the most famous names in sports lived a surprisingly public life in this unlikeliest of places. [Read More \>\>\>](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-28/kobe-bryant-orange-county) Kobe’s helicopter didn’t have a black box because one wasn’t required, NTSB says By Los Angeles Times Staff Just before crashing into a Calabasas hillside, the pilot of Kobe Bryant’s helicopter rapidly ascended to avoid a cloud layer, the National Transportation Safety Board said Monday. Jennifer Homendy, an NTSB member, said the pilot flying from Orange County to Ventura County requested special visual flight rules, which allow pilots to fly under 1,000 feet. A marine layer had settled over the region Sunday morning and some areas were shrouded in fog. Homendy said it remained unclear why the helicopter slammed into the hillside. Debris from the crash was scattered across 600 feet, she said. “It was a pretty devastating accident scene,” she added. “There is an impact area on one of the hills and a piece of the tail is down the hill on the left side of the hill. The fuselage is on the other side of that hill. Then the main rotor is about hundred yards beyond that. The debris field is about 500 to 600 feet.” She said there was no black box and it isn’t required. [Read More \>\>\>](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-27/kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash-becomes-focus-of-intense-federal-investigation) The day after his death, the talk at barbershops in L.A. was about Kobe and his legacy ![Lawrance Tolliver, owner of Tolliver's Barber Shop in South LA, works on Jospeh Kenery Monday, January 27, 2020, where the talk was all about the helicopter crash that tooth life of Kobe Bryant, his daughter, Gianna, and seven others.](https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/3a97982/2147483647/strip/true/crop/5760x3840+0+0/resize/1200x800!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F6f%2Fdb%2F2c32bb284e5e86aa6d9aecac036e%2Fla-photos-1staff-484624-me-kobe-follow04-ja.JPG) Lawrance Tolliver, owner of Tolliver’s Barber Shop in South LA, works on Jospeh Kenery Monday, January 27, 2020, where the talk was all about the helicopter crash that tooth life of Kobe Bryant, his daughter, Gianna, and seven others. (Jason Armond /Los Angeles Times) Alexander Toney had just walked into the grocery store with his family on Sunday when he first heard rumors that Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant may have died. At first, the South L.A. barber didn’t believe it, saying he thought TMZ’s reports weren’t credible. But after more outlets confirmed that not only Bryant, but his 13-year old daughter, Gianna, and seven others died in the fiery helicopter crash, the grim reality sunk in. As they walked down the aisles getting their food, he said he wrapped his arms around his four kids more tightly than usual. [Read More \>\>\>](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-28/the-talk-at-barbershops-in-l-a-was-about-kobe-and-his-legacy) Jimmy Fallon pays tribute to Kobe Bryant ![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/aAByKcPJ5NQ/hqdefault.jpg) Jimmy Fallon pays tribute to Lakers legend Kobe Bryant LeBron James breaks silence on Kobe Bryant’s death LeBron James broke his silence on Monday evening, posting a wrenching message on Instagram in the form of a note [to the late Kobe Bryant](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-27/kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash-becomes-focus-of-intense-federal-investigation). “I’m not ready but here I go,” the post began. “Man I sitting here trying to write something for this post but every time I try I begin crying again just thinking about you, niece Gigi and the friendship/bond/brotherhood we had! I literally just heard your voice Sunday morning before I left Philly to head back to LA. Didn’t think for one bit in a million years that would be the last conversation we’d have.” Bryant called James after the Lakers played in Philadelphia on Saturday night to congratulate James for moving up to [third on the league’s all-time scoring list](https://www.latimes.com/sports/lakers/story/2020-01-25/lebron-james-passes-kobe-bryant-on-nba-career-scoring-list). In doing so, James had passed Bryant who scored 33,643 points in his NBA career. [Read More \>\>\>](https://www.latimes.com/sports/lakers/story/2020-01-27/lebron-james-breaks-silence-on-kobe-bryants-death) Kobe Bryant’s final flight, minute by minute ![(Matt Stiles & Priya Krishnakumar / Los Angeles Times)](https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/1181908/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1375x2794+0+0/resize/1200x2438!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F54%2F14%2F691c32164b0e9c1ed817a4b21df0%2Fkobe-final-flight-web.png) Kobe Bryant called LeBron James on Saturday night after he was passed on scoring list ‘You made us dream’: Kobe Bryant is mourned in Italy, where he first learned to play By Tom Kingston ROME — As the world [mourns](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-27/kobe-bryant-killed-helicopter-crash) the death of [Kobe Bryant](https://www.latimes.com/sports/lakers/story/2020-01-26/lakers-kobe-bryant-obit), his first coach recalled how the basketball legend cried when taken out during a game at the age of 7 because he was too good. Gioacchino Fusacchia, 60, coached Bryant in Rieti, a small town in central Italy, when the late athlete’s father, Joe, played professional basketball following a career in the NBA. “Kobe followed Joe everywhere, to matches, to training, and was already passionate about basketball,” said Fusacchia, who was in his mid-20s during the period the Bryants were in Rieti, from 1984 to 1986. Rieti was Joe’s first stop in a seven-year spell in Italy during which he played seasons with other Italian teams in the southern region of Calabria and the northern regions of Tuscany and Emilio-Romagna before returning to the United States. [Read More\>\>\>](https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2020-01-27/kobe-bryant-italy-coach) Kobe Bryant’s studio removes Oscar-winning ‘Dear Basketball’ film from website After [Kobe Bryant’s death Sunday](https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2020-01-26/complete-coverage-kobe-bryant-daughter-gianna-among-9-dead-in-helicopter-crash), finding his animated short “Dear Basketball” to watch online was a difficult task — until now. Granity Studios, the NBA star’s multimedia production company, made the Academy Award-winning film available for free Monday afternoon on the [dearbasketball.com](https://dearbasketball.com/) website and on Vimeo. “Dear Basketball” is based on a poem he wrote in November 2015 to announce his retirement. The poem was published by [the Players’ Tribune](https://www.theplayerstribune.com/en-us/articles/dear-basketball), a website that features first-person accounts written by pro athletes. [Read More \>\>\>](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2020-01-27/kobe-bryant-dear-basketball-documentary-muse) Fatal crash hit Newport Beach hard: 5 other residents, not just Bryants, were victims By Luke Money and Hillary Davis Kobe Bryant was a Los Angeles superstar. But he called Newport Beach his home. It was here he raised his daughters, was involved in its schools and youth sports and made friends at the neighborhood grocery store and Starbucks. And it was this community that saw so much loss Sunday, as the helicopter carrying [Bryant](https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2020-01-26/complete-coverage-kobe-bryant-daughter-gianna-among-9-dead-in-helicopter-crash), his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, and seven others slammed into a hillside above Calabasas, killing all on board. Also on the copter were Newport Beach residents John Altobelli; his wife, Keri; and their daughter, Alyssa, who played on the same club team as Gianna Bryant. Newport Beach mother and daughter Sarah and Payton Chester were identified by friends and family as also being on board. [Read more \>\>\>](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-27/kobe-bryant-crash-a-wrenching-loss-for-newport-beach) NBA postpones Lakers-Clippers game that was set for Tuesday The NBA has postponed the Lakers-Clippers game that was scheduled for Tuesday. “The decision was made out of respect for the Lakers organization, which is deeply grieving the tragic loss of Lakers legend Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna and seven other people in a helicopter crash on Sunday.” No makeup date has been released. [Read More \>\>\>](https://www.latimes.com/sports/lakers/story/2020-01-27/lakers-clippers-game-tuesday-change) The legacy of ‘Kobe!’ jump shots lives on through fans ![Lakers star Kobe Bryant shoots a jump shot over the outstretched hand of a Pistons defender in the Lakers' 97-85 victory.](https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/7025734/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2048x1195+0+0/resize/1200x700!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F50%2F64%2F15bbd1943eeb3a60926320fbc3bc%2Fla-sp-lakers-pistons-la0032352939-20151115) (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times) It usually happens during a pickup basketball game. A player plants his feet, jumps and shoots with a yell of “Kobe!” -- partly a joke, but also a plea to guide the ball into the hoop with the skill of the late Lakers great Kobe Bryant. It’s just a moment, but it’s a legacy that Bryant has left countless amateur basketball players -- and those folks just trying to throw a wad of paper into a faraway trash can -- around the world. As the news of [Bryant’s death in a helicopter crash on Sunday](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-26/aircraft-slams-into-hillside-explodes-in-flames-near-calabasas) spread, Twitter users and Times readers from all over shared memories of their “Kobe!” shots: jump shots, trick shots and three-point attempts. Here’s what they had to say (some responses have been lightly edited for clarity). [Read More \>\>\>](https://www.latimes.com/sports/lakers/story/2020-01-27/kobe-bryant-jump-shots-legacy) Coverage of the Kobe Bryant helicopter crash included missteps, insights and tears Jim Hill rushed into the KCBS-Channel 2 studio in suit and tie and had Magic Johnson on the phone while other local TV crews were scrambling to do fan-on-the-street reactions. That was impressive but not unexpected. Liz Habib’s voice cracked before she had to stop and wipe away tears, abandoning a KTTV-Channel 11 live standup. That felt appropriate. ESPN and ABC continued to televise the NFL’s Pro Bowl in a simulcast, a meaningless exercise, while pushing its live coverage of events to ESPN2. That was beyond awkward, bordering on disrespectful. Media outlets trying to disseminate what TMZ first reported Sunday morning as a helicopter crash in Calabasas that took five lives, [including that of retired Lakers star Kobe Bryant](https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2020-01-26/complete-coverage-kobe-bryant-daughter-gianna-among-9-dead-in-helicopter-crash), ignited the comprehension, disbelief and misinformation anxiety that often permeate the first 24 hours of a news cycle. [Read More \>\>\>](https://www.latimes.com/sports/lakers/story/2020-01-27/kobe-bryant-death-helicopter-crash-media-coverage) Kobe Bryant short film ‘Dear Basketball’ plays like a eulogy from the man who made it By Tim Greiving The mood of Kobe Bryant’s [Oscar-winning](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2020-01-26/kobe-bryant-entertainment-dear-basketball-oscar) animated short film, “Dear Basketball,” always seemed a little curious. Part love letter to his sport, it was also part eulogy. “My heart can take the pounding,” Bryant said in his narration, over a quiet moment in John Williams’ poignant score. “My mind can handle the grind. But my body knows it’s time to say goodbye. And that’s OK. I’m ready to let you go.” The 2017 film serves as a bit of tragic poetry following [the death of Bryant](https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2020-01-26/complete-coverage-kobe-bryant-daughter-gianna-among-9-dead-in-helicopter-crash), daughter Gianna and seven other people in a Calabasas [helicopter crash](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-27/kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash-becomes-focus-of-intense-federal-investigation) Sunday. The project began as a letter he penned in 2015 for the Players’ Tribune announcing his retirement from the NBA. Bryant created the production company Granity Studios — originally Kobe Studios — with ambitions to create books, TV series and even feature films. “Dear Basketball” was its first effort. [Read More\>\>\>](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2020-01-27/kobe-bryant-dear-basketball-short-film) Kobe Bryant fans honor him through poetry In a request for Kobe Bryant memories, some fans expressed themselves through poetry. It’s a fitting tribute to the legendary Lakers great [who wrote a poem called “Dear Basketball”](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2020-01-26/kobe-bryant-entertainment-dear-basketball-oscar) to announce his retirement from the NBA. That poem was made into a film that earned him an Academy Award, a Sports Emmy and an Annie Award. Bryant, 41, [died in a helicopter crash in Calabasas](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-26/aircraft-slams-into-hillside-explodes-in-flames-near-calabasas) on Sunday morning, along with his 13-year-old daughter and seven others. His [career with the Lakers](https://www.latimes.com/sports/lakers/story/2020-01-26/bill-plaschke-column-on-kobe-bryant) spanned 20 years before his retirement in 2016, and included five NBA championship titles, two Finals MVPs and one regular season MVP. The Times asked readers to write in [with their favorite memories of Bryant](https://www.latimes.com/sports/lakers/story/2020-01-26/kobe-bryant-memories-from-times-readers). If you have a poem to add, please submit it through the form below. [Read More\>\>\>](https://www.latimes.com/sports/lakers/story/2020-01-27/kobe-bryant-fans-honor-him-through-poetry) Column: Kobe Bryant’s death is a setback for women’s basketball, Sierra Canyon coach laments Sierra Canyon High girls’ basketball coach Alicia Komaki said she spent 12 hours Sunday sitting in her Chatsworth office watching nonstop news coverage about [Kobe Bryant’s death](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-27/kobe-bryant-crash-and-helicopter-safety). It made her reflect on what his absence might mean to women’s basketball, one of the most important recipients of his support since his retirement from the NBA. From taking his daughters to WNBA games to coaching his daughter in youth basketball, Bryant was setting the stage to become an invaluable contributor in an arena that needed support. He was headed to Thousand Oaks to coach daughter Gianna, 13, in a youth tournament Sunday when the [helicopter he was traveling in crashed](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-26/kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash-dense-fog-investigation), killing him, Gianna and seven others. Komaki said the word around the club circuit was Bryant might become the girls’ basketball coach at Newport Coast Sage Hill, where Gianna was possibly going to enroll. A Sage Hill representative denied that Bryant was a coaching candidate. Bryant’s eldest daughter, Natalia, attends Sage Hill and is on the volleyball team. [Read More\>\>\>](https://www.latimes.com/sports/highschool/story/2020-01-27/kobe-bryants-death-is-setback-for-womens-basketball) Column: For my 13-year-old basketball player, Gianna Bryant’s death was a bigger blow than Kobe’s ![Gianna Bryant and her father, basketball great Kobe Bryant, attend the 2019 WNBA All-Star Game at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas.](https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/ea750c8/2147483647/strip/true/crop/3064x2067+0+0/resize/1200x810!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fdd%2F65%2F4adf26344da980fd5a89fd001476%2Fhttps-delivery.gettyimages.com%2Fdownloads%2F1164646804.jpg) (Getty Images) My youngest daughter and I were at a friend’s baby shower when we learned of [Kobe Bryant’s death](https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2020-01-26/complete-coverage-kobe-bryant-daughter-gianna-among-9-dead-in-helicopter-crash). I was glancing at my phone when a breaking news alert flashed across my screen, and I gasped. “What?” Darby said, reaching for her own phone. So she learned as I did that Kobe’s 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, had been with him when the helicopter crashed. I squeezed my own 13-year-old daughter’s hand under the table and said, “We’ll talk about it after,” and we returned, as best we could, to the shower’s excitement and joy. We did talk about it later, on the drive home, but I was just as shocked and numb as she. “I feel so sad,” she said as we walked into the house. “That is how everyone is going to feel,” I said unhelpfully, mechanically. “It is just a terrible, terrible thing.” [Read More \>\>\>](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2020-01-27/gianna-bryant-death-tough-on-teen-basketball-player) ‘We all know him as just Kobe, a person.’ Newport Coast neighbors salute Kobe Bryant at vigil By Hillary Davis People who knew Kobe Bryant as the father of four who lived up the street, ordered a certain pink drink at the corner Starbucks and trick-or-treated with their children gathered Sunday night in a park not far from his home to share their memories. Newport Ridge Community Park is near Bryant’s Newport Coast home and near their homes too. These were neighbors of the retired Lakers basketball legend and youth basketball coach whom some of the younger people knew around their school gym as Mr. Bryant. ![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/bz24v1yXaKs/hqdefault.jpg) [Read More\>\>\>](https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/news/story/2020-01-27/in-a-newport-coast-neighborhood-they-salute-kobe-a-regular-guy-who-would-help-you-carry-your-groceries) Kobe Bryant didn’t mentor many young players; Anthony Davis was an exception ![Lakers star Kobe Bryant, left, and New Orleans Pelicans forward Anthony Davis talk while sitting on the bench during a game at the 2012 London Olympics.](https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/d68b1e7/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2048x1152+0+0/resize/1200x675!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F2c%2Fb8%2F8e851e3e631055a0bdf48071c878%2Flat-sp-kobe-bryant-anthony-davis-20150121) (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) During his playing career, there weren’t many young players whom Kobe Bryant mentored. He made an exception for Anthony Davis. “Anthony was different just because of his curiosity about the game itself,” Bryant said [in an interview last fall](https://www.latimes.com/sports/lakers/story/2019-10-21/lakers-anthony-davis-humble-beginnings-in-chicago). “His obvious potential. His ability. But he had a curious nature about him and how he wanted to learn more and more about that game. So I’d gravitate toward that.” Bryant was [one of nine people killed in a helicopter crash](https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2020-01-26/complete-coverage-kobe-bryant-daughter-gianna-among-9-dead-in-helicopter-crash) Sunday morning along with his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna; Alyssa Altobelli, Gianna’s teammate on the Mamba basketball team; and her parents [John and Keri Altobelli](https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2020-01-26/orange-coast-college-baseball-coach-john-altobelli-died-kobe-helicopter-crash); Christina Mauser, who helped coach the Mamba girls basketball team; and the pilot, Ara Zobayan. Two other passengers haven’t been publicly identified yet. [READ MORE\>\>\>](https://www.latimes.com/sports/lakers/story/2020-01-27/kobe-bryant-death-anthony-davis-reaction) Longtime Lakers fan Jack Nicholson mourns Kobe Bryant: ‘It kills you’ Hollywood veteran Jack Nicholson is a three-time Oscar winner and 12-time nominee, with more than 70 credits to his name. But on Sunday, he was simply a heartbroken Lakers fan. Following the sudden death of local hero Kobe Bryant, Nicholson reflected on his relationship with the basketball icon and his home team yesterday in a rare phone interview with CBS Los Angeles. Bryant [died early Sunday](https://www.latimes.com/sports/liveblog/kobe-bryant-dies-in-helicopter-crash-in-calabasas) in a Calabasas helicopter crash along with his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, and seven others. “My reaction is the same as almost all of L.A.,” the actor said. “Suddenly, where everything was solid, there’s a big hole in the wall. I was so used to seeing and talking to Kobe that — it kills you. It’s just a terrible event.” [READ MORE \>\>\>](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2020-01-27/kobe-bryant-jack-nicholson-interview-tribute) NBA greats talk about the impact Kobe Bryant had on them This story originally published on latimes.com on April 11th, 2016. As Kobe Bryant plays out his 20th and final season with the Lakers, The Times has reached out to players, coaches and broadcasters for recollections about his career. [READ MORE \>\>\>\>](https://www.latimes.com/sports/lakers/la-sp-kobe-chronicles-20160406-snap-htmlstory.html) Chaplain of Senate impeachment trial mourns Kobe’s passing Senate Chaplain Barry Black in an opening prayer ahead of the impeachment trial mourned the loss of Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna and “those who died with them.” “We all have a limited time on Earth to leave the world better than we found it,” Black said. “As this impeachment process unfolds, give our senators the desire to make the most of their time on Earth. Teach them how to live, o God, and lead them along the path of honesty.” Justin Turner talks about the impact of Kobe Bryant’s death (Required) A look back at Kobe Bryant, gold medalist, as he looked forward to L.A. Olympics ![U.S. guard Kobe Bryant is challenged by French guard Tony Parker during a preliminary round game at the 2012 London Olympics.](https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/48e30e3/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2540x1720+0+0/resize/1200x813!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F39%2F91%2F0a4c80ef4128ae797aa746fc9d1d%2Fafp-getty-files-us-accident-basket-nba-bryant17.JPG) (Mark Ralston / AFP via Getty Images) It was the summer of 2008 and [Kobe Bryant](https://www.latimes.com/sports/lakers/story/2020-01-26/lakers-kobe-bryant-obit) was playing on the [U.S team at the Summer Olympics](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-aug-23-sp-olyplaschke23-story.html) in Beijing. He mentioned to [Times columnist Bill Plaschke](https://www.latimes.com/sports/lakers/story/2020-01-26/bill-plaschke-column-on-kobe-bryant) that winning gold might be his greatest accomplishment, better than an NBA championship, a sentiment he knew might irritate some Laker fans. “So what?” he said. “If they don’t understand this, they don’t know what they’re talking about. It’s simple. You’re playing for your country.” On Monday, the International Olympic Committee issued its reaction to the sudden death of a basketball icon who won that gold in China and another one, four years later, in London. “Kobe was an outstanding and true Olympic champion,” IOC President Thomas Bach said. “He embraced the power of sport to change people’s lives.” [READ MORE \>\>\>](https://www.latimes.com/sports/olympics/story/2020-01-27/gold-medalist-lakers-kobe-bryant-remembered-olympic-champion) Southern California radio stations will go silent at noon in honor of Kobe Bryant The Southern California Broadcasters Association is asking its members to observe a synchronized moment of silence in honor of late local hero Kobe Bryant. The radio silence, set to occur at noon Pacific on Monday, will last for one minute and eight seconds — a nod to the Laker star’s original jersey number, 8. The organization also provided additional instructions on how stations should approach coverage of Bryant’s death throughout the day. [READ MORE \>\>\>](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2020-01-27/kobe-bryant-california-radio-stations-moment-of-silence) 24 grieving fans talk about losing their hero: ‘This is a Kobe town’ ![Fans gather at the corner of Las Virgenes Road and Willow Glen Street in Calabasas near the site of the crash where Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna were among 9 dead in a helicopter crash on Sunday.](https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/b338c59/2147483647/strip/true/crop/6507x4095+0+0/resize/1200x755!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F8e%2F10%2F89baf81f4cc3a91f3ffd787bf8e3%2Fla-photos-1staff-484250-me-0126-kobe-calabasas-crash-05-cmh.jpg) Fans gather at the corner of Las Virgenes Road and Willow Glen Street in Calabasas near the site of the crash where Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna were among 9 dead in a helicopter crash on Sunday. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times) Los Angeles is a city in mourning. Makeshift memorials continue to pop up, from Thousand Oaks to Newport Beach. Fans converged on Staples Center, the Lakers training center in El Segundo, on Melrose Avenue and in Calabasas, where Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter Gianna, and seven others will [killed in a helicopter crash Sunday](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-27/kobe-bryant-killed-helicopter-crash). Bryant’s jersey number — 24 — already had special meaning, commemorating his 20 seasons with the Lakers. Many teams now say no one else will ever wear that number. Here is what 24 Angelenos had to say about No. 24: [READ MORE \>\>\>](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-27/kobe-bryant-fans-grief) Kobe Bryant and Nipsey Hussle weren’t perfect angels. That’s why L.A. loved them. There’s this thing that happens when a person dies, especially when that person is famous and the death is unexpected. Those who are left behind to mourn tend to gloss over the bad decisions and focus on the good deeds, the heroic traits and the uncommonly charitable gestures. This was very much the case Sunday. Hours after a helicopter carrying Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, and seven others [slammed into the hills above Calabasas](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-27/kobe-bryant-killed-helicopter-crash), killing all on board, celebrities clamored to pay tribute to him during the [Grammy Awards](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/liveblog/grammy-awards-live-updates) at Staples Center. [READ MORE \>\>\>](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-27/kobe-bryant-nipsey-hussle-death-grammy-tribute) The grim, delicate task of removing remains from the Kobe Byrant helicopter crash site On the remote Calabasas hillside where [Kobe Bryant’s helicopter crashed](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-27/kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash-becomes-focus-of-intense-federal-investigation), Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies and other emergency personnel spent Monday morning with the delicate task of removing the remains of victims. The rough terrain around the crash site off Las Virgenes Canyon Road has been a challenge for first responders from the beginning. On Monday, deputies could be seen on the hillside in off-road vehicles. Some remains were removed Sunday night, and officials said that the process could continue for several days. Los Angeles County Coroner Jonathan Lucas said the remains will be removed as quickly as possible, noting the location of the crash had made access an issue. [READ MORE \>\>\>](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-27/removing-remains-kobe-byrant-helicopter-crash-site) Kobe Bryant had a special kinship with Latino fans and culture The mood at El Camino Real in Fullerton was somber during the Sunday lunch rush, despite the steaming bowls of menudo in front of nearly everyone in the packed Mexican restaurant. Its most famous regular, Kobe Bryant, had died earlier that morning in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, along with his daughter Gianna and seven others. Families shook their heads in disbelief as they scrolled through their smartphones for the latest updates between sips of the tripe soup. Freddy Castañeda, son of El Camino Real’s owners, showed customers a photo that Bryant had taken in the kitchen alongside his sister Marissa nearly 20 years ago. [Read more\>\>](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-27/kobe-bryant-latino-fans) Kobe Bryant flew in thick fog that had grounded law enforcement helicopters By Richard Winton, Ben Poston, Matthew Ormseth, Kim Christensen Did foggy weather Sunday morning play a role in the [helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter and seven others](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-27/kobe-bryant-killed-helicopter-crash)? That is a key question as federal investigators on Monday [begin an intense investigation](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-27/kobe-bryant-crash-and-helicopter-safety) into the cause of the crash. The helicopter, a Sikorsky S-76 built in 1991, departed John Wayne Airport at 9:06 a.m. Sunday, according to publicly available flight records. The chopper passed over Boyle Heights, near Dodger Stadium, and circled over Glendale during the flight. The crash occurred shortly before 10 a.m. near Las Virgenes Road and Willow Glen Street in Calabasas. [READ MORE \>\>](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-27/kobe-bryants-helicopter-fog-grounded-law-enforcement-helicopters) Kobe Bryant helicopter crash at center of intense federal investigation By Hannah Fry, Richard Winton, Ruben Vives, Matthew Ormseth Federal investigators on Monday began to try to unravel the mystery of why a helicopter carrying Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter and seven other people slammed into the side of a hill in Calabasas. Firefighters responding to a 911 call at 9:47 a.m. found a debris field in steep terrain with a quarter-acre brush fire. Paramedics arriving by helicopter [searched the area but found no survivors](https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2020-01-26/complete-coverage-kobe-bryant-daughter-gianna-among-9-dead-in-helicopter-crash)[.](https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2020-01-26/complete-coverage-kobe-bryant-daughter-gianna-among-9-dead-in-helicopter-crash) Bryant, who lived in Newport Beach and Los Angeles, was known to keep a chartered helicopter at Orange County’s John Wayne Airport. [READ MORE \>\>](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-27/kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash-becomes-focus-of-intense-federal-investigation) David Beckham: ‘... my words won’t ever be enough ...’ Rep. Maxine Waters’ statement on Bryant’s death “I am absolutely devastated and heartbroken by the sudden and tragic loss of Kobe Bryant and his beloved daughter Gianna. Kobe Bryant was a king in Los Angeles and one of the greatest athletes the world has ever known. He thrilled Los Angelenos for 20 seasons at the Staples Center, was an 18-time NBA All Star, earned five NBA championships, was twice named the MVP of the NBA Finals, and earned the NBA’s MVP award. Fans around the world marveled at his skills on the court season after season. He was truly spectacular to watch. He was our champion, a living legend, and an inspiration to countless fans and aspiring athletes around the world. His loss is felt by millions of grieving fans who are in shock and disbelief by the tragic passing of such a prolific athlete, devoted husband, and loving father. My heart goes out to his wife, Vanessa, surviving children, relatives, teammates, and friends who are in mourning. I also extend my sincere condolences to the families and loved ones of all the victims who were onboard the helicopter. “Los Angeles is mourning the loss of one of our most beloved legends and icons. Though Kobe Bryant is no longer with us, our city will never forget what he meant to us, and we will keep his legacy alive forever.” Probe of Kobe Bryant crash will probably focus on fog, possible mechanical problems By The Times The investigation into the helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna and seven others aboard a Sikorsky S-76B will probably focus on foggy weather conditions and potential mechanical problems, aviation experts and pilots said. Visibility in the region was so poor at the time of the crash, which occurred shortly before 10 a.m. in Calabasas, that the Los Angeles police and county sheriff’s departments had grounded their helicopters. [Read more \>\>](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-27/kobe-bryant-crash-and-helicopter-safety) Kobe Bryant fans and Grammy attendees mourn together They arrived in glitzy gold gowns and tailored tuxedos, silk suits and cheetah-patterned stilettos that would pop on the red carpet. But they were outnumbered by fans dressed in purple and yellow and white jerseys with the numbers 8 and 24 across their chests and his name — BRYANT — emblazoned across their backs. As the sun set Sunday, a surreal scene unfolded outside Staples Center, where celebrities who had gathered for the 62nd Grammy Awards mourned alongside devastated fans who flocked to the arena where Lakers legend Kobe Bryant — who died in a helicopter crash Sunday morning — has two jerseys hanging from the rafters. [Read more \>\>](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-27/kobe-bryant-fans-gather-outside-staples-center-on-grammy-night) Lakers part owner was a mentor to Kobe Bryant and a friend Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, who owns the Los Angeles Times and is a part owner of the Lakers, was also Bryant’s friend, mentor and basketball “assistant” when the two played hoops at Soon-Shiong’s home court during Bryant’s recovery. He choked up as he spoke about the loss of a legend, about how he will miss the long conversations the two shared about all aspects of life and about Bryant’s aspirations as he underwent recovery. [Read more \>\>](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-26/lakers-part-owner-patrick-soon-shiong-was-mentor-to-kobe-bryant-and-friend) L.A. Times front page after the death of Kobe Bryant ![](https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/c54add4/2147483647/strip/true/crop/3262x6732+0+0/resize/1200x2477!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F44%2F8b%2Ff45286914035a32e7cfdddb2d8eb%2F0127-a1-kobe-dies-final.jpg) The front page of the L.A. Times special section on Kobe Bryant’s passing ![](https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/910076f/2147483647/strip/true/crop/3274x6733+0+0/resize/1200x2468!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fb3%2Ffc%2Ffd4eed8e498387c9afc6d94b8002%2Fv1.jpg)
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