Kobe Bryant and Daughter Gianna Honored With Statue at Crash Site 2 Years After Their Deaths
usmagazine.comA touching reminder. Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna Bryant were honored at the site of their helicopter crash on Wednesday, January 26, two years after their deaths.Sculptor Dan Medina erected a statue of the late NBA All-Star and his daughter at the location in Calabasas, California where they died in a fatal accident in January 2020 alongside seven other passengers.
At the time, the athlete was 41 and Gianna was 13.The brass monument shows Kobe wearing his Los Angeles Lakers uniform and smiling down at Gianna with his arm around her.
The base is inscribed with the phrase: “Heroes come and go, but legends are forever.”Beneath the sculpture, Medina listed the names of everyone who was killed in the crash, including baseball coach John Altobelli, his wife, Keri, and their daughter Alyssa.
Pilot Ara Zobayan, girls’ basketball coach Christina Mauser, Sarah Chester and her daughter Payton were also on board when the helicopter went down on its way to a basketball game at the Mamba Academy in Thousand Oaks, California, which Kobe was scheduled to coach.The sculptor placed the 150-pound sculpture at the crash site himself at 4 a.m.
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