Remembering Kobe Bryant: Tributes and Legacies

Kobe Bryant was a legendary basketball player who entered the NBA straight out of high school in 1996. He won five championships and one regular-season MVP award. Across the world, players, coaches and fans mourned Bryant's death. The NBA announced after his death that the All-Star Game MVP award, which he won four times, would be renamed in his honor. Bryant's legacy is all over the NBA floor, and his imprint on the look and feel of modern basketball is among his greatest legacies. He was relentless, curious and infinitely complicated, and he never stopped trying to inspire. The Kobe memorial, and the moments that moved us, was held to honor him and his daughter Gianna. Here is how Los Angeles, the Lakers and the NBA world honored Kobe and Gianna Bryant.