Kobe Bryant, Yao Ming and NBA commissioner David Stern pose with children during the NBA Cares Special Olympics Basketball Clinic in Shanghai in 2013. Photo: AP Kobe Bryant, Yao Ming and NBA commissioner David Stern pose with children during the NBA Cares Special Olympics Basketball Clinic in Shanghai in 2013. Photo: AP
Kobe Bryant, Yao Ming and NBA commissioner David Stern pose with children during the NBA Cares Special Olympics Basketball Clinic in Shanghai in 2013. Photo: AP
Tim Noonan
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Tim Noonan

Kobe Bryant’s death is China’s loss as kindred spirit is mourned in ‘second home’

  • The shocking death of the NBA icon will be felt heavily in China, a place he has referred to as his ‘second home’
  • LA Lakers star first visited China in 1998 and he has been mobbed ever since but legacy includes giving back through his charity

Tim Noonan
Tim Noonan

Updated: 9:43pm, 27 Jan, 2020

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Kobe Bryant, Yao Ming and NBA commissioner David Stern pose with children during the NBA Cares Special Olympics Basketball Clinic in Shanghai in 2013. Photo: AP Kobe Bryant, Yao Ming and NBA commissioner David Stern pose with children during the NBA Cares Special Olympics Basketball Clinic in Shanghai in 2013. Photo: AP
Kobe Bryant, Yao Ming and NBA commissioner David Stern pose with children during the NBA Cares Special Olympics Basketball Clinic in Shanghai in 2013. Photo: AP
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