TMZ is reporting that basketball star Kobe Bryant has died along with at least three others in his private helicopter after it crashed in California early Sunday morning.
Sources say his wife and kids were not on board, but it was not clear who the other passengers were who perished in the crash...
Kobe Bryant -- 17-time NBA All-Star, five-time NBA champion, two-time Olympic gold medalist, 11-time all-NBA first teamer and a surefire Hall-of-Famer -- announced this season will be his last in a poem on The Players' Tribune.