KOBE’S 19 FOOT BRONZE STATUE
At Crypto.com Arena on Thursday, the Lakers presented a monument of Kobe Bryant which is 19 foot made from Bronze, their most adored player, in an emotional homage.
Bryant was portrayed wearing the No. 8 on his uniform in the statue that was revealed at the ceremony.
However, according to his wife Vanessa Bryant, three sculptures will be made; the other two will feature him donning the No. 24 jersey and Gianna, his daughter who perished in the same helicopter crash that claimed Kobe’s life in 2020. At the ceremony, none of the others were on exhibit.
“Because fans all over the world and the City of Angels loved Kobe so much, he will have three statues in front of the arena – also known as the house that Kobe built,” Vanessa said.
Vanessa said Bryant himself played a role in designing the statue.
At Crypto.com Arena on Thursday, the Lakers presented a monument of Kobe Bryant which is 19 foot bronze statue, their most adored player, in an emotional homage
Bryant was portrayed wearing the No. 8 on his uniform in the statue that was revealed at the ceremony.
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Additional information:
• Base is imprinted with KOBE BEAN BRYANT “Black Mamba”
• KOBE’S 19 FOOT BRONZE STATUE
• Pose depicts Bryant’s career-high 81-point performance
• Kobe is surrounded by five championship trophies
• Kobe quotation on base: “Leave the game better than you found it.” And leave a legend behind you when the time comes to part ways.
However, according to his wife Vanessa Bryant, three sculptures will be made; the other two will feature him donning the No. 24 jersey and Gianna, his daughter who perished in the same helicopter crash that claimed Kobe’s life in 2020. At the ceremony, none of the others were on exhibit.
American professional basketball player Kobe Bryant was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on August 23, 1978, and passed away in Calabasas, California, on January 26, 2020. Bryant helped the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA) win five titles between 2000–02 and 2009–10.
Joe (“Jelly Bean”) Bryant, Bryant’s father, played professional basketball for eight seasons in the NBA and an additional eight seasons in Italy, where Bryant attended school.
Quick Facts about Kobe’s Past
Kobe Bryant was forced to split the spotlight as the Lakers’ best player with Shaquille O’Neal, his well-liked and gifted teammate. Despite their tense relationship, Phil Jackson, who took over as Lakers coach in 1999, guided them to success. The Lakers had won three straight NBA titles by the time Bryant, a shooting guard, was 23 years old. Bryant and O’Neal formed a very efficient tandem.
In 2002, following their third championship, Kobe Bryant and the Lakers faced challenges. The Lakers lost in the second round of the 2003 playoffs. Bryant was charged with raping a young woman in Colorado a few months later. After months of persecution by Bryant’s supporters and certain media members, the woman refused to testify, and Bryant maintained his innocence. Eventually, all charges were dismissed. (Bryant later issued an apology and acknowledged realizing his accuser didn’t think their sex was consenting; a civil lawsuit was settled in 2005.) The whole thing damaged his reputation. In 2004, the Lakers under Bryant’s leadership made it back to the NBA Finals, but the Detroit Pistons defeated them.
In addition to his professional successes, he competed for the United States men’s basketball teams in the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the 2012 London Olympic Games, where they won gold medals. After writing the poem “Dear Basketball” in 2015, Bryant used it as the inspiration for a short film of the same name, which he also narrated, two years later. An Academy Award for best animated short film was given to the project.
Bryant spoke about his basketball philosophy in his 2018 book The Mamba Mentality: How I Play, which was named after the nickname “The Black Mamba” he gave himself when he was a player. Bryant and his 13-year-old daughter were among the nine persons on board a helicopter when it crashed on January 26, 2020, on their way to a ladies basketball competition. Later that year, he was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
