One year after NBA superstar Kobe Bryant was killed along with one of his teenage daughters in a helicopter crash in California, tributes to the basketball …
One year after NBA superstar Kobe Bryant was killed along with one of his teenage daughters in a helicopter crash in California, tributes to the basketball legend and cultural icon poured in. «He’s still here. He still lives among us. He’s in our daily struggles. He’s in our personal triumphs. He’s in our last-second defensive stops or buzzer-beating shots or wherever we require that Mamba Mentality. Even amid a pandemic in which nobody is supposed to be anywhere, Kobe is everywhere,» wrote longtime Los Angeles Times sports columnist Bill Plaschke. «He came to Los Angeles as a kid, departed it as a man, and for those 24 years, we witnessed every painful and precocious bit of his growth. Right before our eyes. Directly into our living rooms. With equal parts shock and awe. We gasped at the mistakes and swooned at the dramatics and reveled in the journey,» Plaschke added. “It’s been crazy, [watching] this city grow and growing with it.
