Detroit Pistons’ fight for playing time at power forward could be fierce

Three weeks away from the NBA draft, it’s time to speculate what moves teams at the top of the board could pull off. And yes, some of them might seem crazy.

The pilot of the helicopter that crashed in thick fog, killing Kobe Bryant and seven other passengers, reported the aircraft was ascending when it actually was heading for the ground, federal investigators said in documents released Wednesday. Ara Zobayan radioed to air traffic controllers that he was climbing to 4,000 feet (1,220 meters) to get above clouds on Jan. 26 when, in fact, the chopper was plunging toward a hillside where it crashed northwest of Los Angeles, killing all nine people aboard. The report by the National Transportation Safety Board said Zobayan may have ”misperceived” the angles at which he was descending and banking, which can happen when a pilot becomes disoriented in low visibility.