✅ Lakers athletic trainer Gary Vitti: 'I was not supposed to outlive Kobe Bryant'

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✍  Last Updated Jan 28, 2020 8:19 AM EST  Throughout Kobe Bryant's 20-season career, there was always one person by his side: Lakers head athletic trainer Gary Vitti. The two met when Bryant was 17 years old, entering the NBA out of high school in 1996.  "The joke was that I watched him grow up and he watched me grow old," Vitti told "CBS This Morning Saturday" co-host Dana Jacobson. "I was not supposed to outlive Kobe Bryant." Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven others died Sunday in a helicopter crash. They were one their way to a youth basketball tournament started by Bryant.  In his 32-year career as the Los Angeles Lakers' head athletic trainer, Vitti was no stranger to working with legends, but he said Bryant was different than the rest. "If you really look at Kobe from the perspective that an athletic trainer would, there's nothing special about him," he said. But asked what made Bryant great, he said, "He worked harder than anyone that I've ever been around." V ...
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