Good morning, Bay Area. It’s Monday, Jan 27, and the sports world is shaken by the death of an NBA great. Meanwhile, we investigate the dangerous conditions at SF General. Here’s what you need to know to start your day.

NBA legend Kobe Bryant was killed in a helicopter crash in Southern California on Sunday at the age of 41. The words, a day later, still seem unreal.

Details of the tragic copter crash that claimed the lives of Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter and seven others are still coming to light. But what is known: The reaction was swift and very emotional.

When people talk about work ethic in the realm of NBA legends, columnist Bruce Jenkins writes, they will begin with Bryant. Even as he ruled the sport, he outworked everyone on the team and league. It wasn’t for show; his mission in life was to get better.

More:

– Tearful tribute from the Oakland native Brian Shaw.

Warriors GM Bob Myers reflects on Bryant.

• “Warriors Off Court” podcast: Connor Letourneau on Bryant’s legacy.

San Francisco General Hospital’s emergency room is ground zero for the city’s crises of homelessness, mental health and addiction. But the hospital is understaffed, overwhelmed and struggling to keep up with demand.

The Chronicle interviewed more than a dozen nurses, who spoke about the troubling conditions at the city’s only Level 1 Trauma Center. In one case, a nurse was brutally attacked in the ER in October.

Reporter Trisha Thadani examines how things there have become so dangerous. Read the entire story here.

Also: Read other stories in our series Broken Care.

If you’re looking for the origins of Richard Sherman’s intensity and competitiveness, look no further than one of his favorite athletes: Muhammad Ali.

The 49ers cornerback channels the boxing champ’s famous bravado in an NFL career marked by triumph and verbal tussles. Asked what about Ali always captivated him, Sherman replies: “Just his work ethic, his confidence, his ability to do what he said he was going to do.”

Writer Ron Kroichick recounts Sherman’s journey from Stanford University to Seattle and back to the Bay Area and how he helped lead the team to football’s biggest stage, the Super Bowl.

Read more about 49ers:

Brent Jones breaks down tight end match-up: George Kittel against Travis Kells.

10 moves that turned the 49ers into the super bowl.

• S.F.’s rapid rebuild came with its whiffs: “We’re not going to play scared.”

• 49ers safeties’ rare path from high school teammates to Super Bowl starters.

For nearly a year, Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has focused on appealing to Latino voters who could be key to winning California and other states with similar demographics. Since May, his campaign has been organizing block by block in Latino neighborhoods such as Oakland’s Fruitvale.

“They are doing their homework, and it shows,” Jacqueline Martinez Garcel, CEO of the Latino Community Foundation, says of the Sanders campaign.

Senior political writer Joe Garofoli explains why this grassroots strategy appears to be working.

St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church in the Sunset District, which closed in December, is being considered as a future site for affordable housing. It’s one of many struggling churches around the city that could help address San Francisco’s housing crisis.

The idea comes as Assemblywoman Buffy Wicks and state Sen. Scott Wiener are working to make it easier to build affordable housing on church-owned properties.

JK Dineen reporter takes more attention to these efforts.

More:

• Is some housing better than none? S.F. project wins key OK after arguing for break on city’s demands.

• Heather Knight: S.F. says no thanks to free housing for homeless on Tenderloin parking lot.

Family affair: Billy Eylish and Phineas win big at Grammys 2020.

• D.A.’s decision: Chesa Boudin drops assault charges against man who allegedly attacked cop.

Coronavirus update: US to evacuate personnel in Wuhan, the center of the flare, on a flight to SFO. Also: That the people of the Bay Area should know about the outbreak.

A new wave of homelessness: Can regionalism, the prevention of a tsunami unprotected in the Bay Area?

• Trump mandate: New rule requires separate bill for abortion insurance in Covered California.

• Prolific organ donor: Sunnyvale man has half a liver and a very big heart.

• Bay Area transplants: Carl Nolte ponders how long it takes for a newcomer to become a San Franciscan.

• S.F. deal offers water, sewer insurance: Kathleen Pender details what homeowners need to know.

– Wedding wear woes: the dangers of wedding shopping while the Indian plus-size.

Guy: Charles fry, who founded the grocery chain in the Bay Area, dies at the age of 92 years.

• Getting “To Be Real”: Rashaad Newsome won’t explain his art. It’s your job to understand it.

In the summer of 1985, Annette Jackson and her high school boyfriend drove into the city in his drop-top Mercury Cougar toward Ocean Beach. Not to the beach — only once has she gone to the beach — but a few blocks east of it, to Thanh Long.

Now 53, Annette’s relationship with the restaurant has long outlasted the boyfriend. “Oh, I dropped him my first year of college!” she says. “But I kept the crab.”

Thanh Long has been drawing diners to Judah and 46th Avenue long before the stretch became a media darling as a magnet for bearded surfers and clog-clad women seeking espresso, ceramics and succulents. Rachel Levin writes about how Thanh Long and its special crab recipe became a tradition among generations of African Americans in the Bay Area.

From the Drinking with Esther newsletter: Yes, restaurant wine lists are confusing, but occasionally they get it right.

“Red means stop”: S.F. restaurants to use color-coded health inspection signs.

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