Kobe Bryant legacy, influence still growing a year after his death
Arash Madani pens a heartfelt letter to Gianna Bryant, one year after the helicopter crash that took the life of Kobe, Gianna and seven others.
| January 26, 2021, 8:22 AM
January 26, 2021, 8:22 AM
He’s been gone a year, taken along with his teenaged daughter, Gianna, and seven others — friends, parents, teammates and the trusted pilot of the doomed helicopter — in an instant, and far, far too soon.
In death, Kobe Bryant looms as large as he did in life. Like any transcendent star dying young, Bryant will forever be beautiful and perfect in memory, his flaws fading, the appreciation for his gifts swelling.