{"id":287583,"date":"2020-02-03T10:24:35","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T17:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1118842"},"modified":"2020-02-03T10:24:35","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T17:24:35","slug":"how-pregnant-ciara-and-russell-wilson-paid-tribute-to-kobe-bryant-at-the-super-bowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/how-pregnant-ciara-and-russell-wilson-paid-tribute-to-kobe-bryant-at-the-super-bowl\/","title":{"rendered":"How Pregnant Ciara and Russell Wilson Paid Tribute to Kobe Bryant at the Super Bowl"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"38.635782747604\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"32\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2020031\/rs_634x1024-200131072004-634-Ciara-Russell-Wilson-LT-13120-SPL5144255_005.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Ciara, Russell Wilson\" alt=\"Ciara, Russell Wilson\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Robert O&#8217;Neil \/ SplashNews.com<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"22.109030837004\">\n<p>There were only two numbers&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/ciara\">Ciara<\/a><\/strong>and&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/russell_wilson\">Russell Wilson<\/a><\/strong> were rocking at the&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/2020_super_bowl\">2020 Super Bowl<\/a><\/strong>:&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/kobe_bryant\">Kobe Bryant<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s numbers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A week after the iconic athlete <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1115856\/kobe-bryant-dead-in-helicopter-crash-at-age-41\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">died in a helicopter crash<\/a> at 41 years old, the superstar pair headed to Miami, where they proudly sported the former Los Angeles Lakers player&#8217;s two famous numbers at the annual game.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In snaps shared on social media, you can see the songstress and her Seattle Seahawks quarterback husband donning Lakers jerseys with 24 and 8 on them. In some of the shots, you can also see the performer&#8217;s growing baby bump. Just days earlier, the pair announced they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1117680\/ciara-is-pregnant-with-baby-no-3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">have another baby on the way<\/a>. The two are parents to 2-year-old daughter&nbsp;<strong>Sienna<\/strong>, as well as 5-year-old&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/future\">Future<\/a><\/strong>, who Ciara welcomed with ex&nbsp;<strong>Future<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After news broke of the helicopter crash, which took the lives of Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter&nbsp;<strong>Gianna<\/strong>&nbsp;and seven others, Ciara took to social media.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"58\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"6\">\n<p>&#8220;This news is heartbreaking. I am lost for words,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;Praying for @VanessaBryant, the Bryant family, and other families that have lost someone. Rest In Paradise Kobe and Gianna.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"57\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"4\">\n<p>&#8220;You were one of my greatest inspirations,&#8221; Wilson wrote over on his page. &#8220;You will forever be missed. #RIP Kobe and Gianna. #MambaMentality.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-5\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"35.559610705596\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"17.104622871046\">\n<p>While the event was for football, the late basketball legend was not far from everyone&#8217;s mind. Ahead of&nbsp;kickoff, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1117506\/super-bowl-2020-honors-kobe-bryant-one-week-after-his-death\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a moment of silence was held<\/a> in honor of all the victims of the crash and an image of Bryant and his daughter was displayed along with the names of those lost.&nbsp;In further tribute, the competing Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers teams lined up on the 24-yard lines, a nod to Bryant&#8217;s iconic number.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>During&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/jennifer_lopez\">Jennifer Lopez<\/a><\/strong> and&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/shakira\">Shakira<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s halftime show, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1117473\/how-jennifer-lopez-and-shakira-honored-kobe-bryant-during-the-super-bowl-halftime-show\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cross lit up in purple and yellow<\/a>, the colors of his longtime team.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As Lopez said during a press conference ahead of the game, &#8220;I think it&#8217;s affecting everybody so much because it&#8217;s just reminding us again how fragile life is and how we have to appreciate every single moment and how we have to love people when they&#8217;re here and not wait.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tune-in-6\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"34\">\n<p class=\"tune-in__text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\">Watch <i>E! News<\/i> weekday mornings at 7 a.m. and don&#8217;t miss our <i>2020 Oscars: E&#8217;s Inside Guide<\/i> special Friday, Feb. 7 at 11 p.m.!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1118842\/how-pregnant-ciara-and-russell-wilson-paid-tribute-to-kobe-bryant-at-the-super-bowl?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert O&#8217;Neil \/ SplashNews.com There were only two numbers&nbsp;Ciaraand&nbsp;Russell Wilson were rocking at the&nbsp;2020 Super Bowl:&nbsp;Kobe Bryant&#8216;s numbers.&nbsp; A week after the iconic athlete died in a helicopter crash at 41 years old, the superstar pair headed to Miami, where they proudly sported the former Los Angeles Lakers player&#8217;s two famous numbers at the annual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-01 15:12:21","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}