Los Angeles Lakers great and five-time NBA champion Kobe Bryant was among nine killed in a deadly helicopter crash in California on Sunday. The smooth shooting guard and perennial NBA All-Star who was one of the league’s most prolific scorers was with his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, when the plane crashed near Calabasas. He was 41.

The son of former NBA player, Joe “Jelly Bean” Bryant and Pamela Cox Bryant, Kobe Bean Bryant, a 6-feet 6-inch shooting guard, entered the NBA straight out of Lower Merion High School from the Philadelphia suburbs in 1996 when he was just 17. The very next year, he would be voted to his first NBA All-Star team, and by the time he retired in 2016, after 20 years playing for the Lakers, he would be an 18-time All-Star.

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His accomplishments read like a wish list for every NBA player: “Bryant retired in 2016 as a five-time NBA champion, 11-time All-NBA first-team selection, 2008 MVP, two-time Finals MVP, 18-time All-Star and four-time All-Star MVP who spent his 20-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers. He also won gold medals with USA Basketball at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and 2012 London Olympics,” according to USA Today.

Source: Forever Mamba: The Life and Legacy of Kobe Bean Bryant