Justin Sun pays tribute to Kobe Bryant

Tributes paid to basketball legend Kobe Bryant

Tron founder Justin Sun has led the tributes from the cryptocurrency community to basketball icon Kobe Bryant, who was killed in a helicopter crash yesterday.

The pair are understood to have developed a friendship through Tron events attended by the 41-year-old NBA star.

Bryant, who was killed instantly along with 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven others when their helicopter slammed into the ground, was a keen advocate of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology.

He was a guest speaker a little over a year ago alongside Sun at the niTROn Summit in San Francisco.

Taking to Twitter, Sun said it had been a great honour to meet the five-time NBA champion.

“I’ll forever remember us discussing the future of blockchain,” he said, adding that the next niTROn Summit would hold a minute’s silence out of respect.

The aircraft – a privately chartered Sikorsky S-76B – came down in fields near the Californian city of Calabasas where it burst into flames. The LA County Sheriff’s spokesman said there were no survivors.

An eyewitness – Gavin Masak – told CBS News about what he saw and heard.

“It wasn’t exactly like an explosion sound but it was like a loud boom,” he explained.

“It was a helicopter, but it sounded like a jet, like it was loud, so I went inside and told my dad what was happening.

Kobe Bryant at niTROn

“So when I came out I saw smoke on the hill but it wasn’t like a big, black cloud of smoke, it was just grey.”

Other witnesses claimed the helicopter sounded like it was having difficulty with its engine in the seconds before the impact.

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