Kobe Bryant

The timeless statement, 'kings never die,' has never been truer than on Thursday: the third anniversary of the tragic helicopter crash that took the life...

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Amalia Holguin of Sage Hill School is a freshman point guard playing varsity basketball who played for Kobe Bryant's Mamba Academy team. She was the last player ...

“As a group, there’s a legacy and a commitment to excellence that was instilled in them,” Walters said, adding: “I think that it will never go away for them. Want to play in the WNBA? And Bryant’s decision to bet on her gave her fearlessness, her father said. And Walters knows the confidence won’t waver. And so he invited her to the next day’s practice. “It was kind of an interesting tactic,” Bazzell said. Holguin is the last of them to reach high school. Afterward, Bryant came up to her father, who still remembers the conversation. Bryant identified the chip on her shoulder, Mamba trainer Alex Bazzell remembered. The Times looks back on the life of the Lakers legend. She goes coast to coast for a layup, hits a deep three. [Newport Beach Sage Hill](https://www.latimes.com/sports/highschool/story/2022-03-12/sage-hill-wins-state-division-2-girls-basketball-championship), defenders have started pressing so close in Holguin’s airspace, they could guess the flavor.

On January 26th, 2020, a dark year for the world was presaged by a particularly dark day for Los Angeles, when beloved former Los Angeles Lakers shooting ...

A trade to acquire future Hall of Fame power forward/center Pau Gasol at the 2008 deadline immediately vaulted the Lakers back to title contention. After O'Neal was shipped off to the Miami Heat, Bryant wandered in the wilderness of non-contention for a while, trapped on several talent-challenged Lakers clubs. From 2000-2004, Bryant and a fellow LA immortal, center Shaquille O'Neal, led the Lakers to four NBA Finals appearances in five years, winning three, despite the fact that they absolutely hated each other from at least 2002-2004.

On Jan. 26, 2020, basketball star Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven others died in a helicopter crash.

Three years ago, basketball lost one of the greatest players of all time. On January 26, 2020, Kobe Bryant died at the age of 41 in a helicopter crash while ...

Meanwhile, his widow, Vanessa Bryant, always managed to keep her composure. "When Kobe died, a piece of me died," the NBA legend said. [Los Angeles Lakers](https://www.marca.com/en/basketball/nba/los-angeles-lakers.html)' Staples Center was surrounded by thousands of fans who left at the gates bouquets of flowers, images of the idol, messages and letters. On January 26, 2020, Kobe Bryant died at the age of 41 in a helicopter crash while on his way to a game with his daughter Gianna, 13, and her friends. [basketball](https://www.marca.com/en/basketball/nba.html) lost one of the greatest players of all time. [LeBron James' frustration on the day he scored 46 points](https://www.marca.com/en/basketball/nba/los-angeles-lakers/2023/01/25/63d1685446163f541c8b459d.html)

Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant passed away three years ago today. But many around the NBA, including members of the Orlando Magic, feel his presence.

His success with [Shaquille O'Neal](https://www.si.com/nba/2022/06/26/shaquille-oneal-says-he-wants-to-buy-the-magic) in the early 2000s put the Lakers back on the basketball map after struggling to find an identity after Magic Johnson retired. Every NBA player, should they have been asked the question, is likely inspired by Kobe in one way or another. "He was one of those guys that was a once-in-a-generation talent. On the tragic day three years ago, the NBA world felt as if it stood still, and in some ways it still feels like that. "He's one of my favorite players," Wendell Carter Jr. [Magic](https://www.si.com/nba/magic/news/orlando-magic-start-off-hot-survive-late-indiana-pacers-run-nba-game-recap) at the old Amway Arena.

Three years ago Thursday, the sports world stood still as we heard of the gut-wrenching death of Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter ...

Though he retired in 2016, his career off the court became almost as inspiring as his 20 years in the NBA. While it's been three years since his untimely death, fans around the globe are not yet over the awful news that has still left the world in grief. The NBA world immediately came together to mourn the loss that day with several teams opting for 24-second shot clock violations in tribute to Bryant's retired No.

Kobe Bryant was died in helicopter crash along with his daughter Gianna. Los Angeles Lakers legend is remembered by NBA and basketball fraternity.

The views expressed here are that of the respective authors/ entities and do not represent the views of Economic Times (ET). Shaquille O'Neal departed for [Miami Heat](/topic/miami-heat)in 2004 and Kobe Bryant became the talisman for his side. Three years ago on the tragic day of January 26, 2020 Basketball legend Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter [Gianna](/topic/gianna)and seven persons died in a helicopter crash in California's Calabasas.

On the 3-year anniversary of the death of Kobe Bryant, we take a look at how Dak Prescott and Saquon Barkley used Mamba Mentality.

And Barkley was always an admirer of how Bryant went about his business, which helped him come back stronger after an ACL tear in 2020. Prescott devoured them in the first two months of his rehab. The books gave Prescott answers, but those answers were still months away as Prescott sat on that cart crying in pain in Arlington. Back in 2020, the Cowboys signal-caller suffered a devastating foot injury against the Giants and Logan Ryan quickly felt Prescott’s pain. Later that evening, Ryan mailed a pair of books to Dak that made a serious difference in his rehab: And by no surprise, Kobe stories are coming out of the woodwork as we remember one of the greatest to ever do it.

Three years ago Thursday, the sports world stood still as we heard of the gut-wrenching death of Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven others that passed away in a tragic helicopter crash in Calabasas, Calif.

Though he retired in 2016, his career off the court became almost as inspiring as his 20 years in the NBA. While it's been three years since his untimely death, fans around the globe are not yet over the awful news that has still left the world in grief. The NBA world immediately came together to mourn the loss that day with several teams opting for 24-second shot clock violations in tribute to Bryant's retired No.

On January 26, 2020, Bryant and eight others - including his daughter Gigi - died in a tragic helicopter crash in the hills outside Los Angeles as they ...

'We got to know a lot more after he passed away but those of us like myself and Jay and obviously the NBA community knew him far more intimately. Bryant and the other passengers were headed to Gigi's basketball game at his Mamba Sports Academy in Thousand Oaks, 'The way I try to best remember him is through my actions every single day. It's like a pall hovering over the city of Los Angeles that you don't get to see him any longer. Every time I walk through my door and I see my kids, that day forever changed my life.' [Kobe Bryant](/sport/kobe_bryant/index.html), three years to the day since he died in a helicopter crash in [Los Angeles](/news/los-angeles/index.html).

GREAT FALLS — Three years ago on Jan. 26, a tragic helicopter crash in southern California resulted in the passing of Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gigi Bryant, ...

“The fact that he wanted people to watch women’s basketball and be open to women’s basketball around the world,” said Macdonald. "Just how he talked and coached and how hard he got his players to play. Just the way he carried himself with his confidence and the preparation that he put in,” said Kralj. Bryant was a huge advocate for women’s basketball — a true fan of the game. “The whole message is hard work and never giving up. But it was about more than just trying to knock down his infamous fadeaway jumper because Bryant inspired others to work harder and be better.

Kobe Bryant's Mamba Academy girls reunited at Sage Hill Stephen Curry has his mouthguard. Amalia Holguin has her gum.By this point in her freshman season at ...

And so he invited her to the next day’s practice. He is focused on broadening and diversifying Southern California preps coverage and particularly interested in what makes athletes tick on and off the field. Want to play in the And Bryant’s decision to bet on her gave her fearlessness, her father said. And Walters knows the confidence won’t waver. Holguin is the last of them to reach high school. The Times looks back on the life of the Lakers legend. Afterward, Bryant came up to her father, who still remembers the conversation. Bryant identified the chip on her shoulder, Mamba trainer Alex Bazzell remembered. And juniors Eadie, Zoie Lamkin, Annabelle Spotts and Kat Righeimer have stuck together from their Mamba days, now the core of the Lightning. In a mid-January game against Orange County power Santa Ana Mater Dei, Holguin is hounded every time she touches the ball, picked up full-court, face-guarded. Holguin started with gum in the sixth grade; didn’t like mouthpieces but had to be chewing something.

Thursday marks three year since Kobe and Gianna Bryant died with seven others in a helicopter crash during the early morning hours of Jan. 26, 2020.

[Ara Zobayan](https://people.com/sports/pilot-identified-in-kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash-ara-zobayan/). [Women Changing the World](https://people.com/sports/vanessa-bryant-on-grief-love-life-after-kobe-gianna-death-exclusive/) issue. But getting out of bed and pushing forward is going to make the day better for my girls and for me. [John Altobelli](https://people.com/sports/john-altobelli-honored-orange-coast-college-pirates-baseball-game/), [Keri Altobelli](https://people.com/sports/college-baseball-coach-john-altobelli-his-wife-and-daughter-dead-in-kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash/), [Alyssa Altobelli](https://people.com/sports/helicopter-crash-victim-john-altobelli-wife-kids-were-first-family-orange-coast-college/), [Sarah Chester, Payton Chester](https://people.com/sports/kobe-bryant-crash-sarah-chester-payton-chester-dream-family/), and [Christina Mauser](https://people.com/sports/christina-mauser-helicopter-crash-daughter-4th-birthday/) — all perished when the helicopter crashed on a hillside in Calabasas, just 14 miles away from their Thousand Oaks destination. The group was flying from John Wayne Airport in Orange County to a basketball tournament at Kobe's Mamba Sports Academy in Thousand Oaks. [Kobe Bryant](https://people.com/tag/kobe-bryant/), his daughter, [Gianna](https://people.com/parents/gianna-bryant-throwback-photos/), and seven others.

This is a compilation of social media tributes to Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna and the seven others who died in a helicopter crash, three years ago ...

This is a compilation of social media tributes to Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna and the seven others who died in a helicopter crash, three years ago ...

On the three-year anniversary of Kobe Bryant's death, NBA players and teams paid tribute to the Black Mamba.

[pic.twitter.com/PvPSlCwGdC] [January 27, 2023] [pic.twitter.com/0iV6av8PpX] [January 26, 2023] From pregame tunnel fits, to sneakers and more, take a look at how Bryant was honored on this day.

Jayson Tatum paid tribute to Kobe Bryant on Thursday night three years after the Lakers legend died in a tragic helicopter crash. Tatum wore Bryant's purple ...

Tatum joins the Bucks’ Giannis Antetokounmpo (captain) and the Nets’ Kevin Durant as representatives in the East frontcourt. Just to have something to show him in the biggest game of my career so far. It was not the first time that the 25-year-old has honored one of his idols in a Celtics uniform. [Massachusetts sports betting](https://www.masslive.com/betting/massachusetts/)is coming soon. Jayson Tatum paid tribute to Kobe Bryant on Thursday night three years after the Lakers legend died in a tragic helicopter crash. It will be the fourth straight All-Star appearance for Tatum as a member of the [Celtics](https://www.masslive.com/celtics/2023/01/celtics-trade-rumors-jakob-poeltl-downplayed-as-potential-option-report.html) and the third straight start in the game itself.

On the three-year anniversary of Kobe Bryant's death, NBA players and teams paid tribute to the Black Mamba.

Every time I speak I acknowledge Kobe and honor his memory by having the crowd crowd clap 8 times and point up to heaven. [pic.twitter.com/0iV6av8PpX] [January 26, 2023] From pregame tunnel fits, to sneakers and more, take a look at how Bryant was honored on this day.

This is a compilation of social media tributes to Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna and the seven others who died in a helicopter crash, three years ago ...

On Jan. 26, 2020, basketball star Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven others died in a helicopter crash.

Los Angeles Lakers Hall of Fame shooting guard Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna and seven other souls were lost three years ago today, on an ill-fated ...

I’m grateful that I got to spend time with him and learn from him as a man.” “Him as a spirit is eternal. “Kobe as the man was very inspirational,” Irving told Robinson.

Katie Fiso is one of the top-ranked girls basketball players in the country. Her AAU team played against Kobe and Gigi Bryant in their final game.

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