NBA's very own superstar Kobe Bryant and his daughter of 13-years-old Gianna, as well as seven other passengers, were tragically killed during a helicopter crash in California that shook the whole world regardless of your opinion of the game.
Video Games and Kobe Bryant's Relationship
Kobe has a long history with video games because he was almost always on them, especially for the games that centered on basketball since that is where he shines the most. It is only natural for video games to commemorate such an individual.
Popular video game 2K20 is part of the NBA 2K series and has decided to do a simple, but ever so meaningful remembrance for Bryant, which is just a picture of him in black and white and the year he was born and the year he passed away. Simple, yes.
What other games or apps will follow suit in this while the news is still fresh, and while the world still mourns from this tragic news? Readers have to wait and see for this, but no matter what side of the spectrum you may it be, you are a fan or not really into sports. This is indeed a tragedy not worth repeating at any cost for both basketball history.
What you Should Know if you Haven't Already
His career spanned over 20 long years under the Los Angeles Lakers, with numerous awards that make him one of the most celebrated basketball superstars on the whole of NBA. "Black Mamba" was a nickname he coined himself lead NBA in scoring for a long time. Kobe entered the NBA when he was still 17 years old and had to make his parents cosign his contract to make it legally binding.
He won 5 NBA Championships, an 18-time All-Star, 15- time member of the All-NBA Team, 12-time All-Defensive team, MVP back in 2008, lastly widely regarded as one of the greats in the NBA history and that is not debatable because even Michael Jordan himself considers him as such.
Back on December 1, 2015, Bryan played his first game after his announcement that he will be retiring after his 20th season in the NBA against the Philadelphia 76ers, his hometown team, and lost to them 103-91 at the end of the final buzzard.
For his last game of the season, however, against the Utah Jazz, it was a whole different story--scoring 60 points out of the 101 the team had overall. It was a season-high record, even to the point of Kobe outscoring the opponent's team 23-21 in the fourth quarter.
The Lakers finished the season with their worst record ever received in a season which was 17-65.
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