Madison Square Garden pays tribute throughout the game to Kobe Bryant | NBA on ESPN

The Nets Knicks coming here at MSG Madison Square Garden was lit up in the Lakers' uniform colors, purple and gold, in honor of Kobe Bryant. Bryant and his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, and seven other people were reportedly killed in a helicopter crash this morning in Calabasas, California. on the way to Gianna's Travel basketball

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, Bryant was 41 years old and one of the greatest players in NBA history, the New York Knicks joined the NBA family and mourned the devastating loss of a beloved global icon and of the NBA, Kobe Bryant, who died today in Kobe had a multitude of iconic moments at the age of 41 in a tragic helicopter accident that also took the life of his daughter Gianna, an 18-time All-Star, two NBA Finals MVP, two-time Olympic gold medalist and five-time NBA champion. here at Madison Square Garden, including setting the N Madison Square Garden record of 61 points in 2009 and tonight we remember the life and legacy of Kobe Bryant and join the Los Angeles Lakers, the bus family and the entire world of the basketball in mourning his passing, please join us. in a moment of silence in honor of number 24 Kobe Bryant welcome back to Madison Square Garden where the Knicks and the Nets will play on this incredibly sad day for the NBA and Claude I'm on my way to the arena I thought about Bill Gallo Gallo is the legendary cartoonist sports that when Thurman Munson passed away the next day he had an incredibly moving cartoon and it was his two characters that he based on Bertha and yucky and the red basement parts of the cartoon say now disgusting I just can't feel it.

She liked to play ball today and she was crying and that's how I think a lot of us feel good tonight we just don't feel like conveying it. I know a lot of the players, excuse me, don't feel like playing, it's just a sad, sad day. I know you're right, Mike, it was like a shooter for you. It's clear that these players don't know why what the players are doing is cool. This happened in the

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before, on each team's first possession, they're going to take a 24. -second violation in honor of the number 24, I echo obediently, the Spurs and the Raptors did it today and whoever won the tip would do it first and Now next time we will make the same gesture in

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that we barely did for Commissioner Colton in his calm overview with them, with their loved ones, with their family and friends, and those debts are just as tragic and sad, but today for the basketball fans, Co P represented the sport we all love as much as very few others.

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