A portion ofFigueroa Street near Staples Center will be renamedKobe Bryant Boulevard, City Councilman Herb J. Wesson Jr. announced Monday. "Figueroa Street will soon be Kobe Bryant Boulevard between Olympic (Boulevard) & (Martin Luther King Jr.
Boulevard). Kobe’s legacy is bigger than basketball. #KobeBryantBlvd will be a reminder to everyone, young and old who drive down it, there is no obstacle too big and that with the #Mambamentality, anything is possible,"Wesson said via Twitter.
It remains unclear when the renaming will occur. The late Los Angeles Lakers superstar would have turned 42 on Sunday. And Monday, or 8/24, in 2016 wasdeclared Kobe Bryant Day (Bryant wore No.
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