Vanessa Bryant Announces Kobe Bryant to Be Honored With Statue Outside Lakers' Arena
etonline.comKobe Bryant with a statue featured outside their Crypto.com Arena.Vanessa Bryant shared the news in a video shared on the basketball team's Instagram page, informing fans that the statue in her late husband's honor will be unveiled on Feb.
8, 2024.«As you know, Kobe played his entire 20-year NBA career as a Los Angeles Laker,» Vanessa says in the clip. «Since arriving in this city and joining the Lakers organization, he felt at home here, playing in the City of Angels.»«On behalf of the Lakers, my daughters and me, I am so honored that, right in the center of Los Angeles, in front of the place known as 'The House That Kobe Built,' we are going to unveil his statue so that his legacy can be celebrated forever.
Hope to see you there,» she adds.«Kobe's legacy immortalized 2•8•24,» the post's caption reads.Kobe and their daughter, 13-year-old Gianna «Gigi» Bryant, tragically died in January 2020 when a helicopter carrying them, seven other passengers, and the pilot crashed in Calabasas, California.
There were no survivors.His Lakers jersey numbers were 8 and 24, and Gianna wore the number 2 when she played basketball, thus the 2/8/24 statute unveiling date.A post shared by Los Angeles Lakers (@lakers)The honor makes Kobe the seventh Laker to be commemorated with a statue.
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