It’s still hard to process that one of the greatest basketball players of all-time has left us. But that’s exactly what tragically transpired with Kobe Bryant and eight others passing away in a horrible helicopter accident over the weekend.
It leaves a pit in all of our stomachs because of what Kobe meant to the game and well beyond it. In addition to this senseless tragedy that took the life of Bryant, it also claimed the lives of three young women including Kobe’s daughter Gianna “Gigi” Bryant who was just 13-years old.
On Sunday evening, Syracuse basketball head coach Jim Boeheim released a statement via his social media feed:
“Kobe Bryant wasn’t only one of the greatest basketball players ever, he was also the hardest working player I’ve ever been around.