On the latest episode of Podcast P, which is introduced by Wave Sports and Entertainment, New York Knicks star Julius Randle joined Paul George on the present. The basketball world is still mourning the tragic passing of Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gigi, and the seven different lives lost in January 2020. To make issues worse, it has turn into nearly unimaginable for the typical client to buy sneakers from Bryant's signature sneaker line with Nike. More than three years after his unintentional dying, Kobe Bryant will again be the center of a signature shoe line.

In his second game back after resting, he had 23 points, eleven assists, and 11 rebounds in a 111–103 win over Denver, and became simply the third participant in league historical past to record multiple triple-doubles in a season at age 36 or older. On January 21, 2015, Bryant suffered a rotator cuff tear in his right shoulder while driving baseline for a two-handed dunk in opposition to the New Orleans Pelicans. Though he's right-handed, he returned to play within the recreation and ran the offense while capturing, dribbling, and passing almost completely along with his left hand.

On November 2, 2012, Bryant scored forty points with two steals, and he passed Magic Johnson as the Lakers profession chief in steals. However, the Lakers misplaced the game to the Clippers and started the season 0–3 for the first time in 34 years and simply the fourth time in franchise historical past. After starting the season 1–4, coach Mike Brown was fired. He was replaced by Mike D'Antoni, who Bryant knew as a child when Bryant's father was enjoying in Italy and D'Antoni was additionally a star participant there.

On March sixteen, Bryant scored a season-high 65 factors in a house recreation against the Portland Trail Blazers, which helped finish the Lakers 7-game dropping streak. This was the second-best scoring efficiency of his 11-year profession. The only different Laker to do so was Elgin Baylor, who additionally scored 50+ in three consecutive contests in December 1962. Bryant finished the 12 months with a complete of ten 50-plus level games, matched solely by Chamberlain. Bryant also received his second straight scoring title that season. Throughout the 2006–07 season, his jersey turned the highest selling NBA jersey within the United States and China.

He has gained the All-Star MVP Award 4 instances , tying him for the most All Star MVP Awards in NBA history. He is a 14-time member of the All-NBA group and an 12-time member of the All-Defensive staff; he's also the youngest player ever to receive defensive honors. At the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics, he gained gold medals as a member of the USA nationwide staff. In 2009, Sporting News and TNT named Bryant the top NBA player of the 2000s . Tragedy struck the world of basketball and sport generally on 26 January 2020 when Bryant was killed in a helicopter crash in California at the age of forty one.

In 2012, American rapper Chief Keef released a music paying tribute to Bryant called "Kobe". It was featured on his debut studio album, Finally Rich, as part of the deluxe edition. For the NBA 2K21 soundtrack, Damian Lillard, under his stage name Dame D.O.L.L.A., launched a tribute observe also titled "Kobe," featuring Snoop Dogg and Derrick Milano.

This cemented Bryant's reputation as a "clutch player". Bryant started taking half in basketball when he was three, and the Lakers were his favorite group when he was rising up. When Bryant was six, his father retired from the NBA and moved his family to Rieti in Italy to continue taking part in skilled basketball. After two years, they moved first to Reggio Calabria, then to Pistoia and Reggio Emilia.

Zobayan, 50, first turned interested in flying when he emigrated from Lebanon in the Eighties, his girlfriend of seven years told investigators. He received his private pilot certificate in 2001 and had flown greater than 8,500 hours on the time of the crash, together with 1,250 in the Sikorsky S-76. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and Los Angeles Police Department later stated low clouds and fog in the space had prompted them to floor their own helicopters on the morning of the crash. Investigators even in contrast footage from cameras within the area, perched behind house plate at three youth baseball fields, to estimate visibility at the time of the crash. The helicopter did, nonetheless, lack two notable elements. It did not have a flight recorder, colloquially generally known as a "black field," that could have provided additional knowledge for investigators.