San Antonio Spurs assistant head coach Becky Hammon said Kobe Bryant inspired her during her playing days in the WNBA, adding the basketball legend appreciated the women's game.
It's not only the National Basketball Association that suffered a huge blow with Kobe Bryant's passing, but the women's game was also impacted by losing one of the sport's biggest ambassadors.
The son of former NBA player Joe "Jellybean" Bryant, Kobe support of women's sports was well documented, and it was Gianna developing a passion for basketball that returned Bryant to the sport he spent most of his life mastering. According to reports, the Sikorsky S-76B helicopter carrying Bryant, Gianna, and seven others passengers was headed to Thousand Oaks for a basketball tournament at Bryant's Mamba Sports Academy before the helicopter crashed. Bryant launched the academy in 2018 to assist athletes with performance training and also used the space to coach the AAU team Gianna played on.
Before departing from the NBA in 2016, Bryant finished his career with 33,643 career points , 48,637 minutes and appeared in 1,346 games . At 34 years old, Bryant became the youngest player in NBA history to surpass the 30,000-point mark in a career that will receive that highest level of approval this year, in Springfield, Massachusetts, according to Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame chairman Jerry Colangelo.
"He understood what it took to fight and to win and to maintain a certain level of living whether it was on the court or off the court," NBA agent Aaron Goodwin of Goodwin Sports Management told CNBC. "He put his time into being the best that he could be, and he took no prisoners.", recalled when she initially discovered Bryant was a fan of her basketball skills. While on a road trip with the New York Liberty.
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