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‘Dear Kobe, Thank You’: Lakers Legend Bryant Enshrined in Hall of Fame
Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant was inducted posthumously to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on Saturday, as the class of 2020 was enshrined after months of delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The five-time NBA champion died last year aged 41 in a helicopter crash alongside his daughter and seven others, shocking the world of professional sport and sending his legions of fans into mourning.
Bryant’s widow Vanessa, who started dating Kobe when she was 17, offered an acceptance on his behalf as presenter Michael Jordan stood nearby.
Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant was inducted posthumously to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on Saturday, as the class of 2020 was ensh
The eight-time NBA champion spoke to CNBC s The News with Shepard Smith about his relationship with the former Lakers superstar and his thoughts about his late friend, who will be inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame on Saturday. I ll remember [Bryant] as someone that I loved like a brother. The playful moments with him, some of the funny things and exchanges we had. Watching him when he first started to what he became, West told CNBC.
Bryant, 41, his daughter Gianna, 13, and seven other people died Jan. 26, 2020, in a helicopter crash near Calabasas, California.
West, a former player and 14-time NBA All-Star, went on to coach the Lakers and eventually moved to the team s front office. He was behind the Lakers dynasty in the 80s and is the proud owner of eight championship rings over his lifetime. He is also the man who is credited with bringing Bryant to the Lakers after orchestrating a draft-day trade with the Charlotte Hornets.
In the WNBA’s Early Days, Houston’s Comets Came Around Every Year
As the WNBA begins its twenty-fifth season, the league’s first dynasty still resonates in Texas and throughout the world of women’s basketball.
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Cynthia Cooper and the Houston Comets after clinching the 1999 WNBA Finals at the Compaq Center.
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On August 26, 2000, the Houston Comets won the WNBA title. This was no surprise; four seasons into the league’s existence, the Comets were the only champions it had known. But the game, the second in a best-of-three Finals against the New York Liberty, was nevertheless the purest form of sports spectacle: virtuosic, tense, and saturated with emotional subtext.