CALABASAS (KUSI) – Basketball fans across the country were remembering Tuesday’s first anniversary of the helicopter crash in Calabasas that killed Lakers legend Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven others, as a final determination on the probable cause of the crash approaches.
Bryant’s widow Vanessa took to Instagram on Tuesday to post a letter she received from one of Gianna’s best friends, which read in part, “My mind constantly thinks of your beautiful daughter. Her smile and attitude push me to be better. You have probably heard this, but if I ever become a mom, I hope my daughter turns out exactly as yours did.”
By City News Service
Jan 26, 2021
CALABASAS (CNS) - Basketball fans across the country were remembering today s first anniversary of the helicopter crash in Calabasas that killed Lakers legend Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven others, as a final determination on the probable cause of the crash approaches.
Bryant s widow Vanessa took to Instagram on Tuesday to post a letter she received from one of Gianna s best friends, which read in part, “My mind constantly thinks of your beautiful daughter. Her smile and attitude push me to be better. You have probably heard this, but if I ever become a mom, I hope my daughter turns out exactly as yours did.
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A memorial tribute to Bryant and his daughter Gianna. (Matt Troutman/Patch)
CALABASAS, CA An De Vooght of Topanga remembers her husband telling her it was too foggy to bike the morning of Sunday, Jan. 26, 2020. She said it was the first time in 18 years he had warned her against completing her regular trek along Mullholland near Las Virgenes Road.
As soon as she got onto the windy, invisible roads, De Vooght regretted her decision. She turned on her light at 9 in the morning, hoping it would help her visibility. It did not. She turned on her phone to check the weather, and saw that there had been a crash nearby. As events slowly rolled in, she, along with the rest of the country and the world, learned that it had been a helicopter crash that killed Lakers star Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter Gianna, and the seven other passengers aboard.
On the Anniversary of Kobe Bryant’s Death, Fans Remember the Lakers Legend
Black Mamba fans in Southern California and around the world are reflecting on Kobe Bryant’s life Jan. 26, the first anniversary of his death, along with the passing of his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven others, in a Calabasas helicopter crash.
Bryant is survived by his wife, Vanessa, and daughters Natalia, 18; Bianka, 4; and Capri, 1.
One year later, tributes to the Los Angeles Lakers legend sprang up everywhere in the Southland, including murals on buildings and any other imaginable surfaces.
Because his loss hurt so much for Bryant fans, most of them talk first of that tragic day in recollection. Bryant and the others in the helicopter were going from Orange County to the former Lakers’ Mamba Sports Academy in Thousand Oaks for a youth basketball game, with Bryant scheduled to coach his daughter’s team.