On Friday, the Los Angeles Lakers played their first game since the death former Laker, Kobe Bryant, his daughter, Gianna, and seven others in a helicopter crash on Sunday. The Lakers took several measures to honour those lost, including having Kobe’s jersey placed backwards on every seat in the Staples Center arena. They left two  the courtside seats empty, however, and placed Gianna’s jersey on one and Kobe’s frontwards on the other, with some red roses. The 13-year-old’s basketball team sat courtside in their memory, and when the Lakers appeared on the court just before tip-f, they were all wearing Kobe’s jersey. 

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At halftime, and Charlie Puth also took to the court to perform  in honour everyone who died in the tragic event. The song has ten been performed in order to pay tribute to someone who has passed away, and was originally written for 2015’s Furious 7 in honour the late Fast & Furious actor, Paul Walker, who died in 2013. Watching the emotional Kobe tribute below: