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    Arash Markazi: Six of my favorite off-the-court memories of Kobe Bryant

    by Arash Markazi, Los Angeles Times Feb 09, 2020 4 minutes

    LOS ANGELES - The stories came pouring in from friends, family and complete strangers who wanted to pass on their encounters with Kobe Bryant. Most of them began the same way, "I only met Kobe one time, but ..."

    It would be normal to romanticize those moments in the immediate aftermath of the death of Bryant, his daughter Gianna and seven others in a helicopter crash two weeks ago, but they all made me smile because they perfectly reflected the man I grew to know over the last 20 years.

    Bryant would be the first to tell you he wasn't exactly the most humble person at the beginning of his career. At an

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