Yesterday was a very sad day for sports. Even if you don't like sports, you surely know the sad news of helicopter crash that took the life of Kobe Bryant at the age of 41, of his 13-year-old daughter along with seven other people who were in a crashed helicopter.
Bryant, had starred in some ads for Apple, the last and most recent being in 2016, where he announced the new generation (at that time) of Apple TV, and with which this device reached the fourth generation. Tim Cook, has expressed his sadness upon hearing the news.
Tim Cook has been devastated to hear the news in a tweet where he states that feels devastated and heartbroken and where he states that he admired both his humanity and his athletic prowess.
Devastated and heartbroken by the passing of Kobe Bryant. I admired his athletic prowess from afar and his humanity close up. He was an original. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family, friends and fans. R.I.P.
- Tim Cook (@tim_cook) January 26, 2020
In 2016, Bryant appeared in an advertisement where it was promoted the launch of the fourth, and highly anticipated, generation of Apple TV, A model that offered us as the main novelty the possibility of interacting with Siri to ask it to open a streaming video application and show the content from a specific minute.
In the video above, we can see the ad, where featured with actor Michael B. Jordan, actor known for the films Creed: The Legend of Rocky in 2015, Creed II in 2018 and the third part that is being filmed right now.
Winner of an Oscar from the Hollywood Academy
Shortly after retiring, Bryant, who had always had a special interest in the audiovisual world, went behind the cameras to create an animated short called Dear Basketball, with which he was awarded an Oscar.
Dear Basketball It is based on a letter that Kobe Bryant sent to announce your retirement from the world of professional basketball, a short five minute long with hand drawings and where Kobe talks like since he was a kid they had been fascinated by basketball.
