The Los Angeles Lakers used Tuesday's practice to honor the late Kobe Bryant with a specific huddle-breaking message:

On Monday, multiple members of the Lakers discussed Bryant, whose tragic passing in January clearly still looms large over the franchise for which he played 20 seasons and won five championships:

“A day doesn't go by where I don't think about him,” LeBron James said during a media availability session. “A day doesn't go by where our organization does not remember him and think about not only Kobe, but Gigi, (wife) Vanessa, and the other girls.”

“They're part of this family. Just as big as anybody in this organization's history, so we still wear 24 and 8 and No. 2 with pride and remembrance of how great they were,” he added.

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Lakers head coach Frank Vogel opined that coping with Bryant's death together has formed deeper bonds within the roster:

“Any time a group like ours goes through something so emotionally deep, I just think it forms bonds, strengthened our group,” he told reporters in Orlando. “We always, even prior to this happening, we wanted to embody what he stood for and even more so now with what happened. We want to honor his memory.”

The Lakers’ first scrimmage will take place on July 23 against the Dallas Mavericks. L.A. will tip off the league's restart in a matchup with the Los Angeles Clippers on July 30.

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