Two years ago Wednesday, nine people perished in a helicopter crash in the hills northwest of Los Angeles, including the NBA legend and their 13-year-old daughter Gianna. Vanessa Bryant and her three other daughters are among those who have been trying to cope ever since. “Would you say you’ve been getting better or getting worse, you know?” the attorney asked her in a legal proceeding Oct. 12. “How do you feel?” “Grief isn’t linear,” Vanessa Bryant replied, according to a partial transcript of it filed in court last week. “It’s – every day is different, and I try to my best to put a smile on my face for my little girls. I want them to live in the love and not in the loss. And I make a conscious effort to try to portray that everything’s fine for them.”