Kobe Bryant will have his obligatory, necessary and expected tribute in one of the mythical places for the ‘gods’ of sports history in the city of Los Angeles, the door of the old Staples Center -now Crypto.com Arena-. There, the ‘Mamba’ will endure with a statue, accompanied by her daughter Gigi and on the perfect date. On August 8, 2024.
8/8/24. The dates coincide with the two numbers that Bryant used in the Lakers and with which he reached five championship rings in stages as mythical as the first with Shaquille O’Neal and the second with his great friend Pau Gasol. Besides, that 24 has another story. “It was a way of saying that he was above 23. Michael Jordan’s. Every record he had went after him,” confessed Kevin Garnett, Kobe’s old rival.
Legendary print of Kobe biting his shirt.
Together with Gigi, his daughter. She is appreciated by the basketball community for her potential and her regular presence at the foot of the game track. And remembered after the unfortunate helicopter crash. A way to honor those values that framed one of the great mentalities of the sport.
That of ‘Kob’ will be another statue that will form that ‘star walk’ next to the great angelino pavilion. He will accompany Magic Johnson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Shaquille O’Neal, Elgin Baylor, Jerry West, journalist Chick Hearn, boxer Óscar de la Hoya and hockey player Wayne Greatzky.
2023-08-10 08:06:53
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