I hope all of you out there remember him the way you should and give your prayers to his wife and family. “It was wonderful the way he was coaching girls and getting them into the game. “I know many of you are out there and you miss him and still wish to see his brilliance on the court, and what he was doing as a dad,” Kareem Abdul-Jabbar said of Bryant. Tributes to Bryant by his friends, fans and former teammates poured out on social media on Wednesday. ON THE MORNING Kobe Bryant died, Swift's new primary artist, Jerry Gabo, narrowed down his mural options to two before settling on a picture of Kobe holding Gigi in his arms during the 2016 NBA. So I wanted to come out of respect and I thought this statue is beautiful.” “And then it popped up on my phone and we didn’t believe it. A coroner testified in Vanessa Bryant's suit against LA County over helicopter-crash photos of Kobe. Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna Bryant on November 17, 2019. NBA star Kobe Bryant’s daughter Gianna Bryant died with her dad. A top LA County coroner described in graphic testimony what Kobe Bryant's body looked like to give the jury an idea of what the crash-site photos may have shown. We live close and we could hear the helicopter,” she said. Updated at 12:41am Getty Gianna Bryant, Kobe Bryants daughter, is dead in the crash that killed him, reports say. Nicole Szuch-Dinets of Woodland Hills was one of the dozens of fans who made the trip to pay their respects. His daughter was 13 at the time of the crash. People would come up and they would leave with some sort of satisfaction.”Ī five-time NBA champion in his 20 seasons with the Los Angeles Lakers, Bryant’s death at age 41 shocked the world of professional sports and sent his legions of fans into mourning.īryant, who lived in the area for most of his life often used helicopters to beat Los Angeles’s heavy traffic, and on the day of the crash was taking Gianna to play in a basketball game at his academy outside the city. Bryants body was found on one side of the wreckage, and his daughters was found in a ravine on the opposite side. Flames engulfed the wreckage, but burns on the bodies were found to have occurred after the death. “Today was special because I witnessed a lot of that. The impact caused a crater and scattered debris over an area the size of a football field. “On this day, the second anniversary of the accident, I decided to bring it up from sunrise to sunset and create a bit of a healing process for fans,” he said. Diana Taurasi said, 'Watching Kobe play at the Great Western Forum as a rookie made this little girl believe she could be a Laker someday,' and later added, 'We promise to carry Gigis legacy. Sculptor Dan Medina said he hoped the statue could help Bryant’s many fans. It also includes an inscription of Bryant’s famous quote: “Heroes come and go, but legends are forever.” Engraved on the statue’s steel pedestal are the names of all nine victims of the crash, which occurred early in the morning on 26 January 2020, amid foggy weather.
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