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Saturday was a bittersweet day for Vanessa Bryant<\/strong> and her daughters: It was announced that her late husband Kobe Bryant<\/a><\/strong> will be posthumously inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n

Vanessa expressed her feelings about the honor via a video interview on ESPN that day, more than two months after the 41-year-old NBA legend and retired Los Angeles Lakers star was killed in a helicopter crash<\/a> in Calabasas, California, along with the couple’s 13-year-old daughter<\/a> Gianna Bryant<\/strong> and seven other people.<\/p>\n

“It’s incredible accomplishment and honor and we’re extremely proud of him,” Kobe’s wife said, sitting beside the couple’s eldest daughter Natalia Bryant<\/strong>, 17. “Obviously, we wish that he was here with us to celebrate but it’s definitely the peak of his NBA career and every accomplishment that he had as an athlete was a stepping stone to be here, so we’re incredibly proud of him. There’s some solace in knowing that he was probably going to be a part of the 2020 hall of fame class.”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Kobe was an 18-time All-Star and five-time NBA champion during his 20-year career with the Lakers.<\/p>\n

In Kobe’s honor, ESPN aired on Saturday a rerun of his final NBA game from 2016, in which his team faced off against the Utah Jazz.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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“We’re incredibly proud of him.”<\/p>\n

Vanessa and Natalia Bryant joined Rece Davis after Kobe’s induction into the Basketball Hall of Fame. pic.twitter.com\/HX31pyvgPe<\/a><\/p>\n

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Kobe and Gianna were honored at a massive public memorial and celebration of life<\/a> at Los Angeles’ Staples Center, home of the Lakers, in late February. Vanessa, who also shares 9-month-old daughter Capri Bryant<\/strong> with the late athlete, gave an emotional speech<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Saturday was a bittersweet day for Vanessa Bryant and her daughters: It was announced that her late husband Kobe Bryant will be posthumously inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Vanessa expressed her feelings about the honor via a video interview on ESPN that day, more than two months after the 41-year-old NBA legend and retired […]<\/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-290450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-24 00:29:59","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\/290450","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=290450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}