REMEMBRANCE: Looking back at Kobe Bryant and what he meant to me On Sunday, January 26, Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna Bryant passed away in a helicopter crash that took the lives of seven other people in California. Around the world, tributes have poured in for Kobe, Gianna, assistant girls basketball coach Christina Mauser, Orange Coast baseball coach John Altobeli, his wife Keri, their daughter Alyssa, and the pilot, Ara Zobayan. For me, Kobe has a...