Tanner Pearson played in the same Staples Center arena as Kobe Bryant, but he didn’t know the superstar. The Vancouver Canucks’ winger, and former member of the Los Angeles Kings, knew what everybody else knew about the 41-year-old Bryant. “When you thought of them, you thought of Kobe in the time I was there because he meant so much to the Lakers and basketball itself. He was so happy talking about her and taking her to basketball games and being her coach too. L.A. was foggy and the pilot circled several times at low altitude in hopes that the fog would lift.

Source: National Post January 27, 2020 03:33 UTC