LOS ANGELES — A statue of late Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant and his daughter, Gigi Bryant, was scheduled to be unveiled throughout a non-public ceremony on Friday, in response to a broadcast report.
The statue is situated outdoors Crypto.com Enviornment close to the Los Angeles Kings’ monument celebrating the group’s fiftieth anniversary, ESPN reported, citing nameless sources. The statue will probably be obtainable for the general public to go to beginning Saturday morning.
The statue is the second of three deliberate monuments to Kobe Bryant, who died in a helicopter crash together with Gigi Bryant and 7 others in January 2020.
The primary statue, unveiled on Feb. 8, is a 19-foot bronze memorial to Bryant’s 81-point sport towards the Toronto Raptors.
Friday’s date (8/2/24) holds comparable numerology that means to the February ceremony (2/8/24), representing each of Bryant’s uniform numbers (8 and 24) and the No. 2 that 13-year-old Gigi wore on the basketball courtroom.