Remembering Basketball Legend Kobe Bryant | PBS NewsHour

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Summary: Fans across the country are mourning the loss of NBA great Kobe Bryant, who died Sunday in a helicopter crash along with eight others, including his 13-year-old daughter. The group was headed to a basketball game of Bryant’s daughter, Gianna, and other parents and children were on the plane. Known on the court for being both fiercely competitive and spectacularly talented, Bryant was the rare athlete who managed to transcend sports. In recent years, Bryant was well into establishing his post-basketball career, as a businessman, a writer and filmmaker — a short film titled “Dear Basketball” won an Oscar in 2018 — and overseeing the Kobe and Vanessa Bryant Family Foundation.

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