The emotional tribute to Kobe Bryant in the NBA All Star Game

02/16/2020 - 22:18

• Clarín.com
• sports

It was clear that Kobe Bryant was going to be honored during the NBA All-Star Game. For his stellar figure, for his winning career and for his ancestry in the spectators of this game.

And so it was just at the United Center in Chicago, where the Los Angeles Lakers star, tragically killed along with his daughter Gianna in a plane crash, was remembered by everyone.

Magic Johnson, emblem of the Lakers, conducted a special ceremony in which he remembered Kobe and David Stern, a former NBA commissioner who died earlier this year.

The former driver of the Angelina franchise asked for 8 seconds of silence in the stadium and the players from the East and West took their hands in the middle of the floor.

"Kobe has worked with these players," Magic synthesized, before giving way to actress and singer Jennifer Hudson, born in Chicago. And it was all emotion among the spectators and in the world, which followed it on TV.

Then he took command Common, actor and singer, who spoke to fans with images of Kobe Bryant behind him, in addition to one by Barack Obama and another by Michael Jordan. And it was time for the All-Star Game.