The emotion is great, even planetary. Icon of the NBA, his sport, and even beyond, as evidenced by the tributes that have multiplied since Sunday evening, Kobe Bryant was certainly a world star. A legend.
So this Monday morning, the day after the announcement of his death in a helicopter accident in Calabasas, near Los Angeles - which claimed the lives of nine people in total, including the player's daughter, Gianna Bryant - this terrible disappearance obviously makes the front page of many newspapers around the world.
The Parisian thus devotes two pages to "The tragic death of a legend" and titles in its front page "The star Kobe Bryant killed in an accident".
L'Equipe, which obviously offers a very large dossier with the terrible news, headlines on a superb portrait of Kobe "The Bryant star".
Very relayed also on Sunday evening on social networks, this title of an article in Liberation, "Broken Lakers", in reference to the Los Angeles Lakers, club in which Kobe Bryant has spent most of his career.
In Spain and Italy, other basketball courts in Europe, the emotion is also obviously very great. Marca, the Spanish sports newspaper delivers a superb black and white front page titled "Pain and Glory". Its Italian counterpart, Corriere dello Sport, says "Farewell to Kobe", and pays homage to a "Basketball Myth".
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El Pais, the Spanish equivalent of the World in France, also devotes a large part of its edition of the day to "The legend of basketball" and opens its front page with a photo of the player.
Even the Wall Street Journal
In the United States, a country literally plunged into mourning since the announcement of this tragic disappearance, it is all the general press which salutes the memory and the imprint left by Kobe Bryant.
The New York Times opens its front page with an image showing fans of the Lakers idol meditating in Los Angeles. Same cover for the Washington Post, which highlights "The NBA Icon".
Yet subject to very serious economic news, the Wall Street Journal also offers his a photo of Kobe Bryant and also discusses the death of the daughter of the player, Gianna, who also perished in this helicopter crash.
