Five years ago on Sunday, the basketball world lost a giant. On Jan. 26, 2020, Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven others died in a tragic helicopter crash outside of Los Angeles.

Roland Lazenby, a Salem native and NBA writer, published Bryant’s biography, Showboat: The Life of Kobe Bryant," in 2016.

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