No.252064
By : Jeff Nowak
https://muckrack.com/jeff-nowak
Just hours after former Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant and eight others were killed in a California helicopter crash, NBA teams are paying tribute to his legacy.
At the start of the New Orleans Pelicans and Boston Celtics game, a video and photo montage of Bryant played while the Smoothie King Center crowd observed a 24 second moment of silence for Bryant and his daughter, Gianna.
The crowd applauded and chanted “Kobe,” in honor of the retired guard who finished his career wearing the No. 24 jersey.
Both teams started the match with another tribute, with Pelicans guard Lonzo Ball holding the basketball near midcourt as the 24-second shot clock ran down for what will go down as a turnover in the stat book. Celtics guard Kemba Walker did the same on the other side, matching a tribute by the Toronto Raptors and San Antonio Spurs earlier in the day.
https://www.nola.com/sports/pelicans/article_190d9ac0-4093-11ea-8983-0b75d7902d43.html
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