Worldwide sports, and specifically basketball, lost one of its most prominent stars through the ages with the death of American basketball legend Kobe Bryant who died and his daughter Gianna (13 years old), in a helicopter crash in Calabasas in Los Angeles, southern California, at the age of 41, on Sunday, in addition to seven people Others.
His most prominent stations:
- A professional American basketball player born on August 23, 1978, Philadelphia in Pennsylvania and then moved with his family to Italy.
He played in the National Basketball League from 1996 on the Los Angeles Lakers.
- Bryant played all his 20 seasons in the NBA among Lakers and won the title five times and participated in the All-Star Game 18 times.
- He finished third in the list of points scores over the ages with 33643 points until LeBron James surpassed him last Saturday.
- Bryant won the Academy Award 2018 for the short animated movie, "Der Baskettol".
Won two Olympic golds for the American Men's Basketball Team in 2008 and 2012.
- Bryant retired after the 2015-2016 season due to injuries, and in recent years the former Lakers player has focused on his own business and projects.
Bryant has four daughters from his wife, Vanessa, Gianna, Natalia, Bianca and Capri, born in June 2019.