Then there’s players such as Avery Bradley, who grew up in a home where showing emotions was encouraged. “If I needed to cry, I needed to cry,” Bradley said. “To this day, sometimes I might watch a little Disney movie and it will probably make me cry. I don’t really care.” Bradley said that Bryant’s death humanized athletes. “It takes off that whole Superman cape in a way,” Bradley said. “Seeing one of our own brothers, what happened. I think we’re all human. And people forget that as professional athletes we have feelings too. This was a moment where I feel like everybody had a chance to see that.”