BOULDER — One day later, members of the Colorado men's basketball team still found it hard to fathom that basketball legend Kobe Bryant was gone.
Bryant and his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, were among nine people killed Sunday in a helicopter crash in California. The news broke Sunday afternoon, when many of the Buffs were in weekend study hall and were thus together for what was clearly an emotional event.
"I feel like I lost my superhero," a subdued CU point guard McKinley Wright IV said after Monday's practice. "That was my guy, that's who I looked up to, more than anybody.