Derek Jeter is remembering his longtime friend and fellow athlete, Kobe Bryant.
ET confirmed on Sunday that Bryant and his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, had died in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, California, along with seven other passengers. Bryant was 41.
"Throughout our friendship, the most meaningful conversations we had -- they were always about family," Jeter begins his piece. "When I think of Kobe, I really just end up thinking about those special few personal conversations that we were lucky enough to share together, each time one of us had a new baby daughter," writes Jeter, who shares daughters Bella, 2, and Story, 1, with his wife, Hannah."I end up thinking about how, here was this guy who was beyond gifted as an athlete, who was obsessed with being a champion, who was down as an absolute assassin with the ball in his hands.
Noting that the late athlete"loved being a dad," Jeter concludes, "Rest in peace to Kobe Bryant — who knew that his life was only as important as the love he had for the people in it. Who knew that he was born to play basketball. But it was family over everything." Bryant is survived by his wife Vanessa and their daughters, Natalia, 17, Bianka, 3, and Capri, 7 months.
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