Kobe Bryant’s death a lesson in mortality for UNC players who grew up idolizing him

Posted Feb 1, 2020
For a long time on Sunday afternoon, nobody talked and nobody moved inside of the North Carolina basketball team’s players’ lounge. They stared in silence at the television and tried to process what they were seeing. Kobe Bryant was gone. Roy Williams, the Tar Heels’ coach, had informed his players after practice ended. Some of them had met Bryant. (Durham Herald-Sun)

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