Kobe Bryant died on 26 January 2020 in Calabasas, aged 41. An American basketball player, Bryant spent his entire twenty-year National Basketball Association career with the Los Angeles Lakers, who drafted him straight from high school. He won five league championships, was named the league's Most Valuable Player in 2008, and was an eighteen-time All-Star. Known for an obsessive work ethic he called the Mamba Mentality, he scored 81 points in a game in 2006, among the highest totals in league history. After retiring he won an Academy Award for the animated short Dear Basketball. He died in a helicopter crash in California along with his daughter Gianna and seven others.
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