Kobe Bryant and Daughter Gianna Honored With Moving “Girl Dad” Statue
Kobe Bryant and Gianna “Gigi” Bryant‘s father-daughter relationship has been immortalized on the dwelling of the Los Angeles Lakers.
A bronze statue of the late NBA legend and the 13-year-old was just lately put in outdoors Crypto.com Arena. The sculpture, the second of Kobe that was positioned on the venue this 12 months, “represents Kobe and Gianna’s exceptional basketball legacy and the uplifting relationship Kobe shared with all four of his daughters,” the NBA mentioned in an announcement Aug. 2.
“Kobe was the final word Girl Dad,” Vanessa told a small group of friends and family at the unveiling, according to the basketball league, “and Gigi was the final word Daddy’s woman.”
The two had been amongst 9 folks killed in a helicopter crash on a hill in Calabasas, Calif. Kobe, 41, and Gianna are survived by Vanessa and the couple’s daughters Natalia, now 21, Bianka, 7, and Capri, 5.
Karon Davis designed the statue, which was created by the artists of Rotblatt Amrany Studio. The sculpture depicts Kobe together with his arm round Gianna and angel wings behind them, with purple and yellow flowers—the Lakers’ workforce colours—planted round it.
