Tag: Gigi Bryant

Members of the Warriors will attend Kobe and Gianna Bryant’s memorial service in Los Angeles

Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson, Draymond Green and Bob Myers will represent the Golden State Warriors at Kobe and Gianna Bryant’s memorial service.

The impact of Kobe Bryant’s tragic passing is still making waves through the NBA. Players from across the league have poured emotional tributes on the court and through social media in Bryant’s honor.

Members of the Golden State Warriors, including Stephen Curry and Draymond Green, have used social media to share their feelings on Bryant’s loss.

In their first home game since his passing, the Warriors paid respect to the fallen Lakers legend. During the game, Curry wore a Bryant jersey on the sideline.

The Staples Center will host a memorial service for Bryant and his daughter Gianna on Monday in Los Angeles.

After Golden State’s loss to the New Orleans Pelicans on Sunday night, Steve Kerr spoke to reporters about Bryant’s upcoming memorial.

Via Lets Go Warriors:

Steph and Draymond will go down to LA for the service with Bob. And the rest of the staff and team will stay here and practice tomorrow. It’ll be a tough day for the NBA, and it’s been a tough few weeks for everybody, and it doesn’t seem real; it really doesn’t. It’s just a constant reminder when you hear his name, when you see him on TV — see images. It’s just a constant reminder of what happened and how tragic it was and how tragic it is for his family. We will all be thinking of Vanessa [Bryant] and the family, and the Lakers. And then the service tomorrow, like I said; Draymond, Steph and Bob will represent us there.

Along with Curry, Thompson and Bob Myers, Klay Thompson is expected to attend the service, according to Conor Letourneau of the San Francisco Chronicle.

The Warriors will travel to Bryant’s home arena as a full team on April 7 in their final game against the Los Angeles Lakers for the 2019-20 season.

LeBron James on moving through tragedy: ‘You have to lean on somebody’

The Los Angeles Lakers are learning how to move forward after the loss of Kobe Bryant and LeBron James is sharing his experience.

The Los Angeles Lakers play a game later this evening, only their third game so far since the tragic passing of Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gigi, and seven others in a helicopter crash last week. While the Lakers have already honored Kobe at their first home game since the tragedy and expect to see memorials for Kobe at every road game, the process isn’t becoming any easier with repetition.

According to our own Mark Medina of USA TODAY, James thinks the emotional toll of the mourning of Bryant will be an ongoing thing. The only thing that James says he and the Lakers can affect is how they go through it: together.

“There was some weird stuff going on,” James said. “That’s just pretty cool. It’s a daily reminder.”

 And with those reminders, the Lakers might feel joy and pain.

“There is no way one individual can do it on their own,” James said. “You have to lean on somebody in order to gain strength. That’s the only reason we’ve been able to get through it together.”

For many around the world and especially for the Lakers, the last 10 days have been difficult and completely uncharted territory. But the Lakers are doing what they’ve done a fantastic job of all season long and that’s staying together.

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LeBron James chose All-Star team to honor Gigi Bryant because of his daughter Zhuri

The Los Angeles Lakers star was given the choice for his All-Star team to wear No. 2 or to wear No. 24 in this month’s All-Star Game.

We are still just only starting to begin to see the ways the Los Angeles Lakers and the basketball world are honoring the memory of Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gigi, and seven others in a helicopter crash eight days ago. One of the biggest events on the basketball calendar will also be the site of tributes to Bryant, with both teams in the NBA All-Star Game wearing numbers to honor Kobe and Gigi.

The NBA announced last week that Team LeBron will wear No. 2, the number that Gigi wore while playing for her Mamba Academy Team, while Team Giannis will wear No. 24 in the game. James was asked about why he chose to wear No. 2 on Monday and he said the choice was inspired by his own daughter Zhuri, according to Tania Ganguli of the Los Angeles Times.

James has tried to look for ways to honor Zhuri and honor women even more in recent years. Last year he released a special version of his Nike signature shoe exclusively for women, the Nike LeBron 16 Harlem Fashion Row. He said that his daughter was a major inspiration for that choice as well.

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LeBron James says ‘just make sure to hug your family’ after Friday game

The Los Angeles Lakers star shared how he felt after the death of Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gigi and seven others.

The Los Angeles Lakers did their best to get back to business on Friday night against the Portland Trail Blazers as they continue to mourn the tragic loss of Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gigi, and seven others in a helicopter crash on Sunday. LeBron James put it upon himself to lead Laker Nation, giving a speech before the game and pledging to honor Kobe. And after the game, he spoke to reporters for the first time since Bryant’s tragic passing.

In the week since the tragedy, LeBron and the rest of the players on the Lakers had slowly started to open themselves up. Last night, James spoke to reporters for the first time and shared the impact that the sudden loss of Bryant left on him.

On the night that the Lakers schedule game against the Clippers was cancelled earlier this week, James was able to attend his son Bronny’s final home game of the season at Sierra Canyon.

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NBA All-Star 2020: Team LeBron to wear No. 2 for Gigi, Team Giannis to wear 24 for Kobe

Both teams in the 2020 NBA All-Star Game in Chicago will honor the memory of Gianna Bryant and Kobe Bryant in a couple of weeks.

Earlier this week, the NBA announced changes to the format for the upcoming 2020 All-Star Game, which also includes a tribute to Kobe Bryant. But the gesture of changing the structure of the game isn’t the only thing the NBA is doing to honor the memory of Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gigi, and seven others who were lost in a helicopter crash on Sunday.

The NBA announced on Friday that both teams in the game, Team LeBron and Team Giannis, will wear numbers dedicated to the memory of the Bryant’s who passed on Sunday. Everyone on Team LeBron will wear No. 2, the number Gigi wore, while Team Giannis will wear No. 24 in honor of Kobe. Both teams will also wear jersey patches honoring the memory of John, Keri and Alyssa Altobelli, Sarah and Payton Chester, Christina Mauser and Ara Zobayan.

The reserves for the All-Star Game were announced on Thursday and the draft for the All-Star Game with Team LeBron and Team Giannis is scheduled to happen next Thursday after the NBA trade deadline passes.

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Lakers to play first game since Kobe’s death Friday vs. Blazers

The Los Angeles Lakers are taking the court for the first time since the tragic passing of Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gigi, and seven others.

The Los Angeles Lakers, more than anybody in the basketball world, have needed time to mourn the loss of Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gigi, and seven others. After postponing Tuesday’s game against the Los Angeles Clippers, the Lakers will be back on the court against a team that Kobe himself loved to torture, the Portland Trail Blazers.

But tonight will be about much more than just the Lakers against the Blazers. While the details on it are scarce, the Lakers are planning to have a special pre-game ceremony where they will honor Kobe’s memory. While they have not yet scheduled a funeral or memorial for Kobe, the start of tonight’s game is expected to function a little bit like a mini-memorial, according to comments made from head coach Frank Vogel on Thursday.

The weight of the night was even too much for one of the players on the Trail Blazers, Carmelo Anthony. Anthony, who was a friend of Kobe and played with him on the 2008 and 2012 Olympic gold medal teams, did not travel with the Blazers for personal reasons.

None of the players on the Lakers have been able to speak to reporters yet since the tragedy and while it’s customary that they speak after tonight’s game, there’s no guarantee that the many Lakers touched by Kobe’s legacy will be able to speak about him just yet.

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It looks like LeBron James is getting a tattoo tribute to Kobe Bryant

Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James showed his Instagram followers that he’s getting a new tattoo to honor the late Kobe Bryant.

LeBron James, Anthony Davis and the rest of the players on the Los Angeles Lakers still are not ready to speak with reporters after the tragic passing of Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna and seven others in a helicopter crash. But the two players are starting to show how they are dealing with the tragedy in ways that they feel comfortable with on social media.

Head coach Frank Vogel once again spoke for the franchise on Thursday, but on Wednesday night, LeBron James shared one of the ways in which he is honoring Kobe Bryant after his death. James, it appears, is getting a tattoo dedicated to Kobe.

Some twitter sleuths also did some digging and found that it looks like Anthony Davis is also getting some ink dedicated to Kobe.

The Lakers will be back on the basketball court on Friday night against the Portland Trail Blazers. Head coach Frank Vogel told reporters that they will be honoring Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gigi, and the seven other victims at Friday night’s game.

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Bronny throws down amazing alley-oop as Sierra Canyon honors Kobe, Gigi

With LeBron James in attendance, Bronny Jr. and Zaire Wade honored the memory of Kobe and Gigi Bryant in the season’s final home game.

The Los Angeles Lakers are still in the process of grieving the tragic loss of Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gigi, and seven others in a helicopter crash on Sunday, with Tuesday’s scheduled game against the L.A. Clippers being postponed for a later date. But the cancellation gave LeBron James a special opportunity to watch his son Bronny and his Sierra Canyon teammates play their final regular season home game of the season, where they honored the memory of Kobe and Gigi.

Bronny wore a pair of Kobe’s last night with messages written on them to both Kobe and “Lil’ Sis” Gigi. And with his father watching courtside, Bronny threw down the best dunk of his young career.

Members of Sierra Canyon and Campbell Hall both took special 24-second and 8-second violations to honor Kobe’s memory. Also, the entire Sierra Canyon squad wore Kobe for the in-game tributes to him prior to moving to their regular uniforms for the rest of the game.