Kobe Bryant's death leaves NBA players, others in shock
NEW YORK (AP) - Kobe Bryant authored some of his most memorable moments at Madison Square Garden and made himself a 装飾／要点 of the Lakers-Celtics 競争.
Bryant was remembered for that and so much more Sunday after the five-time NBA 支持する／優勝者, his teenage daughter and seven others were killed in a ヘリコプター 衝突，墜落.
尊敬の印s 注ぐd in from around the basketball, entertainment and political worlds. Players and teams who competed with and against Bryant struggled their way through the games that were scheduled, unable to 召喚する his 激しい 競争の激しい spirit.
"We laughed and joked about the Mamba mentality. We're all going to need it 権利 now," Clippers coach Doc Rivers said through 涙／ほころびs before his team played in Orlando.
Madison Square Garden was lit up in the Lakers' gold and purple colors for the game between the New York Knicks and Brooklyn 逮捕するs. 逮捕するs 星／主役にする Kyrie Irving didn't play, leaving the 円形競技場 after 審理，公聴会 of Bryant's death.
The 18-time All-星／主役にする made his first All-星／主役にする 外見 at MSG in 1998, a passing of the たいまつ game in which Michael Jordan played for the final time as a member of the Chicago Bulls. Bryant later 始める，決める the 得点する／非難する／２０ing 記録，記録的な／記録する at the 現在の 円形競技場 when he 得点する／非難する／２０d 61 points in 2009, a 示す that was later bettered by Carmelo Anthony.
FILE - In this April 13, 2016, とじ込み／提出する photo, a 巨大（な） 旗，新聞一面トップの大見出し／大々的に報道する congratulating Kobe Bryant is draped around 中心的要素s 中心 before his last NBA basketball game in downtown Los Angeles. Bryant, the 18-time NBA All-星／主役にする who won five 選手権s and became one of the greatest basketball players of his 世代 during a 20-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers, died in a ヘリコプター 衝突，墜落 Sunday, Jan. 26, 2020. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel, とじ込み／提出する)
Bryant played twice against Rivers and the Celtics for the 選手権, with Boston winning in 2008 and the Lakers taking the 2010 肩書を与える, when Bryant 逮捕（する）d his second 連続した NBA 決勝戦 最高殊勲選手 award.
"We always liked to reminisce. We would always laugh at our 見解／翻訳／版s of our losses," Rivers said. "You know, when we （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 them in 2008, he had his 見解／翻訳／版. And when they （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 us in 2010, I had my 見解／翻訳／版, and then we would laugh at how different we looked at the games."
Pau Gasol, a former チーム仲間 of Bryant's during those series, tweeted, "Beyond 荒廃させるd... my big brother... I can´t, I just can´t believe it."
The Lakers and Celtics already had the NBA's most famous 競争, but it had been 活動停止中の since the heydays of 魔法 Johnson and Larry B ird before Bryant helped lead its 再開.
Johnson, just days after giving an emotional speech during a 記念の service for former NBA Commissioner David 厳しい, was 荒廃させるd again after Bryant, 41, and 13-year-old daughter Gianna were の中で those killed in Southern California.
"As I try to 令状 this 地位，任命する, my mind is racing," Johnson wrote on Twitter. "I´m in 不信 and have been crying all morning over this 破滅的な news that Kobe and his young daughter, Gigi have passed away in a ヘリコプター 衝突，墜落. Cookie and I are heartbroken."
Bryant also helped the U.S. 勝利，勝つ Olympic 肩書を与えるs in 2008 and 2012, after the Americans had been shut out of gold メダルs in major international basketball 競争s since 2000.
"He was in constant 追跡 of doing something special and there will never be a greater 軍人 in our sport," said マイク Krzyzewski, who coached Bryant on those teams after trying to 新採用する him to Duke.
Players around the NBA 栄誉（を受ける）d Bryant by 持つ／拘留するing the ball for 24 seconds - one of his jersey numbers - for a 24-second 発射 clock 違反 at the start of games. 強硬派s All-星／主役にする guard Trae Young, who usually wears No. 11, wore Bryant's other number Sunday night, No. 8, before Atlanta's game against the Wizards. He changed 支援する to his own number for the game.
In another 尊敬の印 to the No. 24, サッカー 星／主役にする Neymar held up two fingers on one 手渡す and four on the other during a 祝賀 after a goal.
Philadelphia 76ers 中心 Joe Embiid said that he started playing basketball after watching Bryant in the 2010 NBA 決勝戦.
"I had never watched ball before that and that 決勝戦 was the turning point of my life," Embiid wrote on Twitter. "I WANTED TO BE LIKE KOBE. I´m so FREAKING SAD 権利 now!!!!"
Tiger 支持を得ようと努めるd was told of Kobe Bryant´s passing by his caddie Joey LaCava coming off the 18th green at Torrey Pines on Sunday at the 農業者's 保険 Open.
"Joey just told me coming off 18th green," 支持を得ようと努めるd told CBS. "I didn´t understand why t he people in the gallery were 説, `Do it for Mamba.´ But now I understand. It´s a shocker to everyone. Unbelievably sad and one of the more 悲劇の days."
And not only for fellow 競技者s. Bryant had been busy in the arts after 退職 as a player and quickly been successful.
"Kobe was a legend on the 法廷，裁判所 and just getting started in what would have been just as meaningful a second 行為／法令／行動する," former 大統領 Barack Obama tweeted. "To lose Gianna is even more heartbreaking to us as parents. Michelle and I send love and 祈りs to Vanessa and the entire Bryant family on an 考えられない day."
Former Lakers 星／主役にする Kareem Abdul-Jabbar tweeted that "Most people will remember Kobe as the magnificent 競技者 who 奮起させるd a whole 世代 of basketball players. But I will always remember him as a man who was much more than an 競技者."
Syracuse University men's basketball coach Jim Boeheim 以前 worked with Bryant with Team USA.
"He was not only one of the greatest basketball players ever, he was also the hardest working player I´ve ever been around," Boeheim tweeted. "I was so fortunate to have known him and coached him with Team USA. Our thoughts and our 祈りs are with his wife, Vanessa, and the Bryant family."
Bryant's death reverberated beyond sports. In 2018, he won an 学院 Award in the animated short film 部類.
Gavin Newsom, the 知事 of California, and First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom 問題／発行するd a 声明 regarding about Bryant that read:
"We 嘆く／悼む the 悲劇の and untimely death of a California icon and basketball legend, Kobe Bryant. In his 20-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers, he made history with raw talent and unparalleled dedication that raised the 妨げる／法廷，弁護士業 and 覆うd the way for a newer 世代 of players."
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AP Sports Writer Steve Reed in Charlotte, North Carolina; AP ゴルフ Writer Doug Ferguson in San Diego; AP Sports Writer Aaron 耐えるd in Raleigh, North Carolina; Associated 圧力（をかける） writers Raul Dominquez in San A ntonio, Texas and 刑事 Scanlon in Orlando, Florida, 与える／捧げるd to this 報告（する）／憶測.
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The exterior of Madison Square Garden, 権利, is lit in gold and purple, the Los Angeles Lakers colors, as the Empire 明言する／公表する Building is at left, in the wake of the death of retired NBA 星／主役にする Kobe Bryant before the start of a basketball game between the Brooklyn 逮捕するs and the New York Knicks, Sunday, Jan. 26, 2020, in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
The exterior of Madison Square Garden, 権利, is colored orange and purple, as the Empire 明言する／公表する Building in the wak of the death of retired NBA 星／主役にする Kobe Bryant before the start of a basketball game between the Brooklyn 逮捕するs and the New York Knicks, Sunday, Jan. 26, 2020, in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
