Gianna Bryant's Mom And Sister Celebrate What Would Have Been Her 16th Birthday

From left: Vanessa, Kobe, Natalia and Gianna Bryant in 2019.
From left: Vanessa, Kobe, Natalia and Gianna Bryant in 2019.
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Vanessa Bryant took a second this weekend to have a good time her late daughter Gianna’s sixteenth birthday.

She acknowledged the milestone Sunday on Instagram with an animated video finished within the type of late husband Kobe Bryant’s Oscar-winning 2017 quick “Expensive Basketball.”

“From the primary time you imagined profitable a WNBA championship, I knew one factor was actual: You have been particular,” Vanessa stated within the clip. “You got here from greatness, nevertheless it was by no means about what you inherited. It was about what you gave to others.”

“When somebody stands up for gender equality, I see you preventing alongside them,” she continued. “And each time somebody performs her hardest, I do know that’s you on the court docket.”

The mom of 4 continued to pay tribute all through the day on Sunday, posting throwback images of Gianna in addition to memorial billboards and artwork installations which were erected within the two years since her demise.

Kobe (left) and Gianna Bryant were among the nine passengers killed in a January 2020 helicopter crash in Calabasas, California.
Kobe (left) and Gianna Bryant have been among the many 9 passengers killed in a January 2020 helicopter crash in Calabasas, California.
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“Completely satisfied birthday Mambacita,” she captioned one. “We love you Gigi!”

Vanessa wasn’t the one Bryant member of the family to acknowledge Gianna’s birthday. Additionally paying tribute was daughter Natalia, 19, who shared a throwback photograph of her kissing her youthful sister on the cheek.

“I really like you to the moon and again,” Natalia wrote.

Kobe and Gianna Bryant have been among the many 9 passengers killed in a January 2020 helicopter crash in Calabasas, California, about 30 miles west of downtown Los Angeles.

On Sunday, Nike additionally honored Gianna by unveiling a particular pair of “Mambacita Candy 16” footwear that function a black snakeskin sample. That very same day, the Kobe and Gianna Bryant Dream Court docket ― a basketball court docket for households that includes an enormous, butterfly-shaped sculpture depicting the pair courtside ― opened in Anaheim, California’s Pearson Park.

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