Current and former Celtics mourned the loss of one of the team’s biggest on-court rivals, Kobe Bryant, after his tragic death in a helicopter crash Sunday.
Bryant, 41, who was one of nine people, along with his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, killed in the crash outside Los Angeles, was one of the faces of the Celtics-Lakers rivalry in the early 2000s. He dropped the 2008 NBA Finals to Boston before hoisting the Finals MVP trophy after a win over the Celtics two years later.
Boston’s Big 3 of Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett, and Ray Allen took to social media to share their reactions to the news.