'Mambacita is forever a Husky,' the women's basketball team wrote on Twitter on Monday night
Kobe Bryant and Gianna Bryant cheering on UConn
“It’s intimidating to have to follow in those footsteps. But she really embraced it,” the WNBA player said.“Having kids to get to play the sport was huge for him,” a former business associate of Bryant’s said. “He always said he’d continue the game rather he had a son or a daughter. He was blessed enough to have four daughters and Gigi, God bless her soul, loved the sport.”
“[Gianna]’s pretty fierce. She loves playing, she loves shooting. She came to me last summer and asked if I would teach her the game a little bit, so she really just started playing, but she picked up things innately,” he told RELATED: ‘The Kid’s Like Me:’ Everything Kobe Bryant Said About His Daughter, Gianna, and Her Love of Basketball
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