In January 2020, NBA great Kobe Bryant and his 13-year-old daughter Gianna were among the nine people to perish in a California helicopter accident. Bryant had been close to Michael Jordan, who’d been both friend and mentor to the younger athlete. It wasn’t surprising, then, that Jordan was invited to deliver a eulogy for Bryant during a subsequent memorial service at the Los Angeles sports venue then known as Staples Center. “Kobe was my dear friend. He was like a little brother,” Jordan said in his emotional speech, reported USA Today.
“He used to call me, text me, 11:30, 2:30, 3 o’clock in the morning, talking about post-up moves, footwork, and sometimes, the triangle,” Jordan continued, admitting that at first, he found those late-night texts to be annoying. “But then it turned into a certain passion. This kid had passion like you would never know,” he added.
Jordan concluded his remarks by sharing thoughts that were very similar to what he’d said following the death of his father three decades earlier. “No one knows how much time we have,” he said before emphasizing how much Bryant’s death had stripped away from him. “When Kobe Bryant died, a piece of me died,” he told the audience, fighting back tears. “I promise you from this day forward, I will live with the memories of knowing that I had a little brother and I tried to help in every way I could.”
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