He starred at the most impactful Lakers game in history even though it was the first Lakers game he had ever attended. “I felt this connection with everyone who was suffering,” Hong said, “because I was suffering.”Yet somehow, on the wings of the magical memory of Kobe Bryant, he soared. “It opened up all those scabs of sadness.”It only figures that on a night when the impact of Kobe Bryant was being remembered, that impact continued to grow. At her funeral, accompanied by Hye-Jin Kim on the piano, Hong played a passage from the “Quartet For The End of Time” by Olivier Messiaen. Cellist Ben Hong performs a tribute to Kobe Bryant on Jan. 31 at Staples Center.

Source: Los Angeles Times February 08, 2020 15:00 UTC