Author Paulo Coelho - Piero Oliosi / Polaris / Starface

You will probably never know the content of the children's book planned by Paulo Coelho and Kobe Bryant. After the death of the legendary basketball player in a helicopter crash this Sunday, the Brazilian author announced on Twitter that he preferred to abandon the project rather than finish it alone.

"You were more than a great player, my dear Kobe Bryant. I learned a lot from our interactions, ”he posted.

You were more than a great player, dear Kobe Bryant. I learned a lot by interacting with you. Will delete the draft right now, this book has lost its reason pic.twitter.com/pZWyT8xObw

- Paulo Coelho (@paulocoelho) January 26, 2020

The plot of the book is unknown, but Kobe Bryant had revealed that the book was going to be about sport and magic.

Sport and magic

"I deleted my first version because it made no sense to publish it without him. It wouldn't bring anything to his family, it wouldn't mean anything without him. It won't stop me from writing, one day, what I learned from Kobe and writing about the colorful person he was. But this children's book no longer makes sense, ”added Paulo Coelho to the Associated Press.

Kobe Bryant died on Sunday in a helicopter crash that killed a total of nine people, including Gianna, his 13-year-old daughter and basketball hopeful.

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