The Los Angeles Lakers match on Friday night at the Staples Center was not in the NBA like its predecessors, as it was devoted to a solemn tribute to the legend of the late team Kobe Bryant, and it was confirmed that his memory will be forever in a climate of sadness and tears.

Bryant, 41, who spent 20 seasons with the Lakers and crowned the league title on five occasions, died with his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven other people after a helicopter crash last Sunday in Calabasas in Los Angeles, southern California.

After the accident, the Lakers made their first game against the Portland Trail Blazers yesterday evening after it was scheduled in front of its neighbor in the city Clippers last Tuesday.

On each stadium, which has a capacity of 20,000 spectators, was placed on Bryant's No. 24 shirt, or his No. 8 shirt on his first career. Two empty stools were reserved on the side of the stadium, and two bouquets of flowers were placed on them to honor Bryant and his daughter. Two large figures of figures 24 and 8 were formed in yellow rose and placed in the middle of the field.

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Then the club showed Bryant videos on giant screens on the stadium, which included interviews and clips during his career with the team, baskets and pictures with the family, while Ben Hong, son of Los Angeles, played the cello in a very impressive atmosphere.

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After a silence of 24.2 seconds (24 Bryant numbers and 2 numbers for his daughter Gianna in the Mamba team), "Boys to Man" from Philadelphia - the birthplace of Kobe - sang the song "The Star Spangled Banner" where the eyes of the team star and Bryant friend LeBron James were teared with tears. .

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After that, it was James's turn to address the fans with a word from the heart after he mentioned the names of the nine people who died and said, "The first thing that comes to mind is my family. I look around the stadium, we are all sad, we all suffer, and we all have our hearts broken ... when we go through times Likewise, the best thing to do is to lean on the shoulders of your family members. "

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James, who moved to the Lakers in 2018, continued, "This is a festive twenty years of blood, sweat, tears, broken body, rise, refraction, countless hours, and the determination he made to be as great as possible."

And he added, "Tonight we celebrate the child who came here at the age of 18, retired at the age of 38, and became the best father we have known in the last three years."

"My colleagues and I will carry his legacy not only for this year, but as long as we play basketball we love, because this is what Kobe wants," said James, who was crowned with Bryant with the 2008 Beijing Olympics and London 2012 golds.

He concluded with "Kobe Bryant's words: Mamba Ott", which is the last two words Bryant said during the speech after his last match with Lakers when he retired in 2016, to complete James "but with our words: We will not forget you."

After the Lakers players wore shirts No. 24 and 8 during the warm-up, they were all presented with a unified sentence "From Lower Merion High School, No. 8, Kobe Bryant."

As usual in every league match since the traumatic accident, the Los Angeles Lakers did not pay for the 24 seconds allocated to each team, while Blazer stayed at home for 8 seconds in honor of Bryant.

Blazer won the game 117-119, led by Damien Lillard, who scored 48 points, scored 9 rebounds and gave 10 assists.