It is not solely the Nationwide Basketball Affiliation that suffered an enormous blow with Kobe Bryant's passing, however the girls's recreation wa
It is not solely the Nationwide Basketball Affiliation that suffered an enormous blow with Kobe Bryant’s passing, however the girls’s recreation was additionally impacted by shedding one of many sport’s greatest ambassadors.
In an interview with CNBC, San Antonio Spurs assistant coach Becky Hammon, who performed eight seasons within the WNBA, described Bryant as a “basketball fan” who “appreciated” the ladies’s league.
“He watched the WNBA, and I feel as he had extra time on his arms in retirement, he obtained extra concerned and was simply starting to be that voice for thus many ladies that possibly did not have a robust voice or as massive or as loud or carried as a lot weight as his did, and nonetheless does,” Hammon mentioned earlier than the Spurs hosted the Chicago Bulls Monday night time. “The ladies’s recreation misplaced an actual advocate and somebody who actually believed that ladies can do something.”
Bryant, and his 13-year-old daughter Gianna, were among nine people killed in a helicopter crash Sunday morning in Calabasas, Los Angeles. Bryant was 41 and survived by his spouse Vanessa, their daughters Natalia, Bianka, and Capri.
The son of former NBA participant Joe “Jellybean” Bryant, Kobe help of girls’s sports activities was effectively documented, and it was Gianna growing a ardour for basketball that returned Bryant to the game he spent most of his life mastering.
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