![]() ![]() The Orange County girls’ basketball team that Bryant coached - which included his 13-year-old daughter Gianna - was playing their first tournament at the two-day Mamba Cup, with players ages 9 to 14 from all over California and a few other states competing. The weekend was an exciting one in the Bryant household. Bryant spent the previous day at a basketball tournament and with his family ![]() Even though he retired from the sport in 2016, scoring an impressive 60 points in his final game, he found his way in other realms, most notably winning an Oscar in 2018 for his animated short Dear Basketball.ĭespite all that greatness, what made Bryant most human was his love for his family - his wife Vanessa, who he married in 2001, and their four daughters, Natalia, Gianna, Bianka and Capri.Īnd ultimately, it was for the love of basketball and his daughter Gianna that he met his untimely end that Sunday morning on his way to the second day of his daughter’s basketball tournament. In 2006, he scored 81 points in a single game - the second-highest in NBA history. And unlike players who zig-zagged around through teams, for all 20 seasons he played, he remained a Los Angeles Laker. ![]() He was a five-time NBA champion, 18-time All-Star, two-time NBA finals MVP - and two-time Olympic gold medalist to boot. The way Bryant mastered the sport, it seems as if he was invincible. The headline accompanying it was completely surreal: Basketball great Kobe Bryant was dead at the age of 41. The helicopter may have crashed into a hillside in Calabasas, California, on Sunday, January 26, 2020, but it was immediately felt around the world. ![]()
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