So she learned as I did that Kobe’s 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, had been with him when the helicopter crashed. “It is just a terrible, terrible thing.”She did her homework, I made dinner. As my son and countless others have said, for anyone who played or watched basketball, Kobe was a fixed point, a standard against whom everything was measured. Gianna Bryant was neither landmark nor fixed point; she was a beautiful, talented 13-year-old girl on her way to play basketball. Later that night, I learned that Alyssa Altobelli, another beautiful, talented 13-year-old, was also killed in the crash, along with her parents, John and Keri Altobelli.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 27, 2020 19:41 UTC