News of the shocking deaths of basketball star Kobe Bryant , his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven others, continues to reverberate around the globe on Monday. Bryant and the others died Sunday when the helicopter they were on crashed into a hillside in Calabasas, California. But the American athlete was mourned far beyond the borders of his home country. His Italian home feels the loss Bryant lived in Italy as a child while his father, Joe Bryant, played basketball there, and his death hit many in the country hard. Luca Vecchi, the mayor of the northern Italian town of Reggio Emilia, where Bryant lived, mourned the player in numerous Facebook posts . “Kobe Bryant grew up here and was for all of us a Reggiano,” Vecchi wrote in a post. “A basketball legend that all our city will remember forever with affection and gratitude.” Philippines: House of Kobe court A new basketball court in Valenzuela City, in Metro Manila , Philippines, dubbed “House of Kobe,” had just opened hours...
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