Artist Dan Medina, who lives in Los Angeles, decided to sculpt the star and his daughter, Gianna, holding a basketball. Kobe Bryant and daughter Gianna, who were respectively 41 and 13 years old, won a tribute this Wednesday (26/1), a date that marked exactly two years since the death of the two, and seven other people, who suffered a helicopter crash on January 26, 2020, in the Calabasas region of Los Angeles, California.
Artist Dan Medina, who lives in Los Angeles, decided to sculpt a smiling father and daughter side by side with Gianna holding a basketball - a passion he inherited from the Los Angeles Lakers star - and Kobe wearing the legendary number 24 of the California franchise. , for which he played in the NBA from 1996 to 2016, when he retired from the courts. Medina's sculpture was placed right where the helicopter carrying Kobe and Gianna crashed, but it only stayed there on the anniversary of the duo's death. Now Dan wants to file a request to get permission so that a full-size version of the part can be permanently installed on site.
Medina was on hand to greet fans who made the 2.1km walk to pay tribute to the legend of the sport. “This is all on me, no one asked me to do this. On this day, the second anniversary of the accident, I decided to bring him from sunrise to sunset and create a healing process for the fans. Today (Wednesday) was special because I witnessed a lot of that.
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People came and went with some sort of satisfaction,” he said. At the base of the 73 kg bronze statue, Medina added the names of all nine victims who died in the helicopter crash on the slopes of Calabasas. It also includes an inscription of Bryant's famous quote: "Heroes come and go, but legends are forever."
In addition to Gianna, Kobe and Vanessa Bryant, who have been married since 2001, have three more daughters: Natalia, 19, Bianka, 5, and Capri, 2.
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