Former President Barack Obama remembered Kobe Bryant and eight others killed in a helicopter crash during a speech at the NBA All-Star Weekend Newsmaker Brunch in Chicago. “That loss is somet…
The former president, who is father to daughters Malia and Sasha, went on to offer his condolences to the “NBA family,” the Bryants and relatives of former NBA Commissioner David Stern, who died on New Year’s Day.
Obama spent time with Bryant on multiple occasions. At one event, the two filled care packages for families at an NBA Cares event at a Boys and Girls Club in Washington, D.C. in 2010 [pictured above].were killed when the helicopter they were riding in crashed into a hillside in Calabasas, California on the morning on Jan. 26.
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