Detroit — The silence was deafening, the way it often is in times like these, when the usual emotions get swept up in a vacuum created by tragedy.
But there’s the scripted quiet, like the moment the Pistons and Cavaliers observed before Monday night’s game at Little Caesars Arena, honoring the late Kobe Bryant, an NBA icon who perished with eight others, including his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, in a helicopter crash Sunday near his home in California.
For 24 seconds prior to Monday’s pregame player introductions, the building fell silent, a nod to the number Bryant wore at the end of his Lakers career.