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BAKER CITY HERALD — 3A MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 2020 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL CIVIL WAR SERIES Ducks finish sweep of OSU NBA LEGEND AND HIS DAUGHTER, SEVEN OTHERS KILLED IN HELICOPTER CRASH Kobe Bryant dies at age 41 NBA history, fi nishing two decades with the Lakers as CALABASAS, Calif. — a prolifi c shot-maker with NBA legend Kobe Bryant, a sublime all-around game his 13-year-old daughter and and a relentless competitive seven others were killed in ethic. He held that spot in the a helicopter crash on a steep league scoring ranks until hillside in dense morning Saturday night, when the fog in Southern California Lakers’ James passed him on Sunday, his sudden death for third place during a game at age 41 touching off an in Philadelphia, Bryant’s outpouring of grief for a star hometown. whose celebrity transcended “Continuing to move the basketball. game forward (at)King- The chopper went down James,” Bryant wrote in his Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times-TNS last tweet. “Much respect my in Calabasas, about 30 miles northwest of downtown Los Kobe Bryant’s competitiveness was one of his strongest brother.” Angeles. Authorities said qualities during his Hall of Fame career. Bryant had one of the that nine people were aboard greatest careers in recent the helicopter and all were “We used to talk often, and I tissues and walked away NBA history and became one killed. Bryant, an all-time will miss those conversations alone from the Lakers plane of the game’s most popular basketball great who spent very much. He was a fi erce that had just landed in players as the face of the 16- his entire 20-year career competitor, one of the greats Southern California. time NBA champion Lakers with the Los Angeles Lak- of the game and a creative Thousands of people franchise. He was the league ers, was among the victims, force.” gathered to mourn Bryant MVP in 2008 and a two-time a person familiar with the NBA players were in tears outside the Staples Center NBA scoring champion, and situation told The Associated during pre-game warmups in downtown Los Angeles, he earned 12 selections to the Press. as crowds chanted “Kobe! where there is a statue of NBA’s All-Defensive teams. Bryant’s 13-year-old Kobe!” Tiger Woods was the retired Lakers legend. He teamed with O’Neal in daughter Gianna also was unaware of the news during Mourners in number 24 a combustible partnership to killed, a different person his fi nal round at Torrey jerseys mixed with those in lead the Lakers to consecu- familiar with the case said. Pines in San Diego when he fancy dress arriving at the tive NBA titles in 2000, 2001 News of the charismatic started hearing the gal- downtown arena for Sunday and 2002. He later teamed superstar’s death rocketed lery yell “Do it for Mamba,” evening’s Grammy Awards. with Pau Gasol to win two around the sports and enter- referring to Bryant by his People carried fl owers and more titles in 2009 and 2010. tainment worlds, with many nickname. chanted “Kobe!” and “MVP!” “There’s no words to taking to Twitter to register People were glued to their under giant video screens express the pain I’m going their shock, disbelief and phones and TV screens all showing Bryant’s smiling through,” O’Neal tweeted anguish. around the world as news face. Sunday. “(at)kobebryant I “Words can’t describe the of the crash spread and “This is where we needed love u and u will be missed. pain I am feeling. I loved networks broke into pro- to be,” said Naveen Cheerath, ... IM SICK RIGHT NOW.” Kobe — he was like a little gramming with live cover- 31. Bryant retired in 2016 brother to me,” retired NBA age. A visibly shaken LeBron Bryant retired in 2016 as after scoring 60 points in his great Michael Jordan said. James wiped his eyes with the third-leading scorer in fi nal NBA game. By Stefanie Dazio Associated Press OREGON MEN’S BASKETBALL Ducks dominate UCLA EUGENE (AP) — UCLA was in a giving mood and Oregon was only too happy to be on the receiving end. The 12th-ranked Ducks took advantage of a season- worst 23 turnovers by the Bruins to score 34 points and went on to a 96-75 victory Sunday, the largest winning margin for Oregon in the series since 2003. “To go on the road against the 12th-ranked team in the country, (with the) best point guard in the country and turn it over 23 times, you’ve got no chance,” UCLA coach Mick Cronin said. Lillard leads Blazers By Anne M. Peterson AP Sports Writer PORTLAND — On a night when he set another fran- chise mark, Damian Lillard’s thoughts weren’t on his game. They were on Kobe Bryant. Lillard had 50 points and 13 assists, becoming the fi rst Portland player with 40-plus points in three straight games, and the Trail Blazers beat the Indiana Pacers 139-129 on a Sunday marked by grief over the death of the NBA great. “I think it was the right decision for us to go out there and compete today in his honor. I think that’s what he would have wanted,” Lillard said. “It was a tough game to play as far as your energy and where your heart is, to say the least.” CJ McCollum returned after a three-game absence because of an ankle injury and added 28 points for the Blazers (20-27). Hassan Whi- teside had 21 points and 14 rebounds. Chris Duarte led the Ducks with 24 points and also had six of Oregon’s 15 steals to go with six rebounds and fi ve assists. That followed Du- arte’s game against USC on Thursday in which he scored 30 points with 11 rebounds and eight steals. “We defi nitely need that from him,” Oregon’s Payton Pritchard said. “Chris has a special talent and defensively this week he’s shown what he’s capable of. “We’ve got to hold him to that standard because this team needs that.” Pritchard added 19 points and six assists for the Ducks (17-4, 6-2 in the Pac-12) in upping their home record to 12-0. Will Richardson fi nished with 17 points for Oregon. Jake Kyman led the Bruins (10-10, 3-4) with 20 points and Jalen Hill added 16 points and a game-high eight rebounds. Other than the turnovers, the statistics were remark- ably similar. The Ducks shot 57% from the fi eld, including 11 of 23 3-pointers. The Bru- ins fi nished at 50% includ- ing 10 of 24 3-pointers. The Bruins had a 25-23 edge in rebounds. By Gary Horowitz Associated Press CORVALLIS — Oregon’s Sabrina Ionescu played with a heavy heart Sunday against No. 7 Oregon State. The Ducks’ All-American senior guard learned that her close friend Kobe Bryant died in a helicopter crash Sunday morning, a few hours before tip-off of a much- anticipated matchup of Top 10 teams. Bryant attended an Oregon game on Dec. 14 at Long Beach State. Ionescu was in tears during a pregame moment of silence honoring Bryant, and then scored 19 points and played all 40 minutes to lead No. 4 Oregon (17-2, 7-1 Pac-12) to a 66-57 victory before a sell-out crowd at Gill Coliseum. Oregon coach Kelly Graves said Ionescu never consid- ered not playing in the game. “I know it was really hard on her,” Graves said. “To see her go out and her teammates battle for her and play (with) the kind of spirit and enthusiasm and intensity that Kobe Bryant always played the game I think was an incredible testament to a really championship-char- acter fi lled team.” Players from both teams gathered together at mid- court and offered a prayer for Bryant and his family. Or- egon State guard Aleah Goodman gave Ionescu a hug. “Obviously Kobe was a huge infl uence for all of us,” Goodman said. “He’s been my favorite player growing up. What he’s done for women’s basketball alone was huge.” Oregon players were not made available to the media postgame, but Ionescu was emotional after the game in a TV interview about the death of Bryant, who had mentored her. “Everything I do, I do it for him. This season is for him,” she said. Ionescu also had “”Forever 24” and a heart on her shoes. 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