NBA legend Kobe Bryant, 41, and his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, along with seven others, died in a helicopter crash just outside of Los Angeles on Sunday morning. A few hours earlier, what was Sunday evening in Japan, former Duke basketball player Ryan Kelly played in a game for the Sun Rockers Shibuya.
What's the connection? Well, that depends on you, the reader. In other words, some may explain all of the following numbers as nothing more than a coincidence. To each his own.
What Kelly's wife, Lindsay, tweeted late Sunday evening — Monday afternoon at their home in Tokyo — may make the most sense to those who, in times of sorrow, accept God's plan is beyond our understanding yet seek comfort in signs of His presence.