Emergency responders cover remains at the site of the helicopter crash that killed nine people including Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna on Sunday in Calabasas. Frankie Becerra sports his Kobe Bryant jersey as he views the Watts Kobe Bryant Memorial Mural, created by artist PeQue Brown. Pau Gasol and Snoop Dogg paid tribute to Kobe Bryant at the ESPYs Harrison Faigen 6/22/2020. Naima Smith, 37, lays flowers at a makeshift memorial during a vigil for Kobe Bryant in Leimert Park on Sunday. The mural is by Art Gozukuchikyan on the side of VEM Exotic Rentals on Ventura Boulevard in Studio City. A memorial service to honor the lives of Kobe and Gianna Bryant was held Monday in Los Angeles at the Staples Center. A couple pay their respects at a memorial at home plate in honor of Orange Coast College head baseball coach John Altobelli, who perished with wife Keri, and daughter, Alyssa, in Sunday’s helicopter crash with Kobe Bryant. ... every item that was left at the Kobe Bryant memorial outside the Staples Center came with a handwritten note. The mourners included Lakers legends Jerry West, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Magic Johnson and Pau Gasol. The event will also honor victims Bryant and his daughter were laid to rest in a cemetery in Southern California on Feb. 7. Gasol won two NBA championships with Bryant as a member of the Los Angeles Lakers. A tribute to Kobe Bryant is projected on the Los Angeles Times building. Nothing says a family vacation like an RV Naima Smith, 37, and Swania Hogue, 48, both of Los Angeles, mourn the loss of Kobe Bryant at a vigil in Leimert Park on Sunday.
Pics of Tim Duncan seated with DeMar DeRozan...and Tony Parker, Manu Ginobili seated with Gregg Popovich at today's Former Spurs center Pau Gasol was there as well to honor the lives of Bryant and his daughter. Fans are flocking to the area and having photos taken with the mural. Vanessa Bryant called Kobe 'the MVP of girl dads' and predicted that her daughter Gianna could have become 'the best player in the WNBA' at the public memorial for both of them Monday. Mourners huddle at L.A. Live, across from Staples Center, site of the home court of Kobe Bryant and the Lakers.
The Lakers beat the Celtics in Game 7 at Staples Center — the fifth and final NBA championship for Bryant.“To see how a lot of people honored him, it was incredibly moving and touching to me,” Gasol said of the reaction from around the world after Bryant’s death. It’s just devastating.”He added, “It’s up to each and every one of us to pick up where he left off.”An L.A. memorial will be held for Bryant and Gianna at Staples Center on Monday, Feb. 24. Raised in Europe, Bryant had much in common with the Spanish center/forward. A man kisses the ground as Lakers fans gather at a memorial to Kobe Bryant outside Staples Center. Monday’s memorial service was an opportunity for the public to reflect on Bryant’s life and mourn the loss of the basketball legend and his daughter. Spurs Sports and Entertainment CEO R.C.
Fans gather outside Staples Center at a makeshift memorial to Kobe Bryant. Public memorial service remembers the private Kobe Bryant. NBA star Pau Gasol, who won two back-to-back championships with “[She] got a message from a friend saying that Kobe Bryant had died in a helicopter crash. Outside the arena, screens will go dark, and the space around LA Live will be barricaded to those who do not have tickets to the sold-out memorial. Those who didn’t receive a ticket to the memorial A death certificate for Bryant states that his “final disposition” occurred Feb. 7 at Pacific View Memorial Park in Corona del Mar. It was Bryant’s fourth championship and Gasol’s first.The team would earn their revenge against the Celtics a year later when they faced them in the 2010 NBA Finals. 8 and No. Lakers fans mourn the death of Kobe Bryant at a makeshift memorial. ... Pau Gasol … The investigation continues Tuesday at the crash site in Calabasas where a helicopter carrying Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna, and seven others crashed, killing all aboard. He did not leave until he got on an airplane to visit the U.S. ahead of next week's "It just felt wrong being away from here when I had the chance to and it's not easy to travel with crutches, a boot and stuff, but I needed to be here to be close to his family and to be available. Jianing Zhang, right, and his girlfriend Cathy Xiao gather with others near the helicopter crash site in Calabasas that claimed the lives of Kobe Bryant, his daughter, Gianna, and seven others Sunday.
Pau Gasol, who won two NBA championships with Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers, said he could not talk to anyone for days after hearing about Bryant's death.Bryant died in a helicopter crash on Jan. 26 in Calabasas, California with his 13-year-old daughter Gianna Bryant and seven others. Sports