Within hours of hearing of Bryant’s death Sunday, Coelho announced that he would delete the draft, rather than finish without the 41-year-old five-time NBA champion. “I deleted the draft because it didn’t make any sense to publish without him,” Coelho said by phone on Monday from his home in Geneva. AD“That doesn’t stop me from writing someday about things I learned from Kobe and how much of a larger than life person he was,” Coelho said. “Kobe was always very concerned about making a book that was a positive example for children, especially those coming from humble beginnings,” Coelho said. Little by little we were going ahead,” Coelho said.

Source: Washington Post January 27, 2020 23:03 UTC