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Sporting world mourns loss of NBA
legend Kobe Bryant, 13-year-old daughter
Coach Cook earns 300th career win, two
Hilltoppers reach 1,000 career points
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On Saturday, Jan. 25, Bry-
ant was in his hometown of
Lakers legend Earvin “Magic”
Johnson summed up Bryant’s
impact on his peers in one
of a series of tweets on Sun-
scoring list to take the No. 3
spot.
Just 14 hours before his
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In the last week, Coach Cook earned his 300th career collegiate win
against Texas A&M International. The Hilltoppers are currently 17-2 and
are top of their division for the 2019-20 season under his guidance.
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Kobe Bryant spent his entire NBA career with the LA Lakers. He
sits fourth on the all-time scoring list with 33,643 points.
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sity men’s basketball team great responsibility,
the arc and 50% from the
field.
The Hilltoppers have
continued to be perfect at
home, improving to 11-0
at home and 17-1 overall.
The team has continually
shown their dominance
with a flashy offense and
gritty defense.
Spears is currently av-
eraging 51.3 % from the
field and 44% from be-
yond the arc, stats that
named him to the Bevo
Francis Award Watch
List. He recently reached
1,000 career points — only
taking 52 games to do so.
Spears is headlining this
year’s offense with flashy
dunks, supreme athleti-
cism and multiple 20+
point games. Although
Spears is a leader on the
court, his biggest chal-
lenge is off the court.
“They have been on me
about being more of a
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leader. They know the team
follows me and being able to
Spears."I always attribute my
success to the Almighty Yah-
weh my creator, coach Cook
for trusting in me to play my
game and my teammates for
their support as well.”
The team has also been
helped by the efforts of
Dorian Lopez, who has
scored 15+ points in five of
their last seven games, boost-
ing his season average to 12.5
points per game. This recent
scoring success has helped
him reach the 1,000 point
milestone in his career.
Lopez has played a big role
on the boards, too, totaling
at least nine rebounds four
times over the same seven
game stretch. In the team’s
last game, he played a crucial
role in a narrow win, scoring
a season-high 22 points with
day, claiming Bryant “gave his Philadelphia watching the
knowledge, time, and talent Lakers take on the 76ers.
to tutor so many at the youth But more specifically, Bry-
level, collegiate level, & NBA ant wanted to witness his
& WNBA players. Words companion and former com-
can’t express the impact that petitor LeBron James surpass
five makes from beyond the
arc. Lopez continuing at this
elevated level of play will be
important to the team’s suc-
cess as they move towards the
end of the season.
“First off, all my credit goes
to my family... coach Cook
and my teammates. They are
always there for me when my
head starts to drop. It just
goes to show the hard work I
have put in and the trust my
coach also put into me to al-
low me to have the ball and
make decisions. Growing up,
I was always told I was going
to play after college so scoring
those 1000 points is gratify-
ing.”
The team ended the week-
end 1-1, defeating Angelo
State but falling short to
Lubbock Christian. The
Hilltoppers will continue
conference play by hosting
Tarleton State on Thurs. Jan
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kicked off the new year with
a No. 6 national ranking. The
team defeated the Javelinas
73-64, which was followed
by another marginal win over
Texas A&M International.
The win over the Dust
Devils marked Cook’s 300th
collegiate career win, and he
is entering his eleventh sea-
son as the centerpiece of the
team’s success. With a roster
of premier players such as
seniors Ashton Spears and
Dorian Lopez, Cook has the
opportunity to make school
history once again.
Cook left his New York
roots and joined the team in
2009. The group, made up
of mostly veterans, has flour-
ished under Cook’s leader-
ship. The team is currently
averaging 38% from beyond
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On Jan. 26, Kobe Bryant
died in a helicopter crash in
Calabasas, California. Bry-
ant’s 13-year-old daughter,
Gianna, was reportedly also
on board during the fatal ac-
cident along with seven other
passengers, including Orange
County baseball coach John
Altobelli, his wife Keri and
his daughter Alyssa.
The helicopter was flying
them to Thousand Oaks for
a game, as it often would. The
shocking news was first re-
ported by TMZ and stunned
sports fans worldwide as Bry-
ant is widely touted as one of
basketball’s greatest all-time
players.
Bryant, 41, will be re-
membered for the countless
records the future Hall of
Famer accumulated through-
out his storied NBA career
as well as his intense mental
strength, or "Mamba Mental-
ity,” which was key to perfect-
ing his craft.
The Los Angeles Lak-
ers legend, who entered
the league right out of high
school, accomplished almost
everything imaginable on
the hardwood. In his time
on the court, he racked up
five NBA championships, an
MVP award, 15 All-Star ap-
pearances, 12 All-Defensive
selections and two scoring
titles. In 2006, Bryant scored
81 points in a single game
- the most points scored in
the modem era and the most
since Wilt Chamberlain’s
100-point game in 1962.
Bryant even won an Oscar
in 2018 for his involvement
in the short film, "Dear Bas-
ketball"
Yet, for all his achievements
during a stellar 20-year ca-
behind his longtime wife death, Bryant congratulated
Vanessa and their three other James on Twitter, praising
daughters. In the aftermath him for “continuing to move
of the breaking reports, vid- the game forward.”
eos of Bryant and his daugh- Bryant has moved the game
ter Gianna’s recent public forward more than anyone
outings have resurfaced and else, and his loss will continue
circulated. to send shockwaves through
As recently as Dec. 21, the the sports world and beyond.
two were seen courtside at
Brooklyn’s Barclays Center
reer, Bryant was more than during a game, where they
just a legendary basketball shared a loving father-daugh-
player. He was a generational ter moment smiling with one
figure. A role model. A sport- another and breaking-down
ing and human icon. the game detail-by-detail.
“The Black Mamba” leaves Sunday’s news is a stark re-
a legacy off the court just as minder of the fragility of life
much as he does on it. Fellow and a desperately tragic shock
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