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Kobe Bryant Day (also called Mamba Day [a]) is a day that is celebrated on August 24 in Los Angeles and Orange County [2] commemorating the life of basketball player Kobe Bryant. [3] The date was chosen as the holiday because of Bryant's numbers on his jerseys (8 and 24), [4] as well as it being the day after his birthday, August 23. [5]
Kobe Bryant (right), former Los Angeles Lakers player, being interviewed by Iván Kasanzew 11 days before the crash.. On Sunday, January 26, 2020, at approximately 9:06 a.m. PST (17:06 UTC), [3] eight passengers and one pilot departed from John Wayne Airport (SNA) in Orange County, California, in a 1991 Sikorsky S-76B helicopter, registration N72EX.
Kobe Bryant would have been 45 on Wednesday. Lakers fans and others are celebrating the late NBA legend on his birthday and Thursday, which is Kobe Bryant Day. How Kobe Bryant is being celebrated ...
Kobe Bean Bryant (/ ˈ k oʊ b i / KOH-bee; August 23, 1978 – January 26, 2020) was an American professional basketball player. A shooting guard, he spent his entire 20-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
The annual Kobe Bryant Day celebration will include the unveiling of a giant outdoor mural at the West Coast Trial Lawyers' offices at 1147 S. Hope St. in downtown Los Angeles at 10 a.m.
Bryant’s most notable single-game performance was his 81-point game in a 122-104 victory over the Toronto Raptors on Jan. 22, 2006. "It was an honor to be a bug on the windshield as he had his ...
Lakers star Kobe Bryant watches a tribute video at Staples Center before the final game of his career on April 13, 2016. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)
Kobe Bryant in 2006. Kobe Bryant was a shooting guard for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA) for his entire 20-year career. Selected 13th overall by the Charlotte Hornets in the 1996 NBA draft, Bryant was traded to the Los Angeles Lakers for Vlade Divac a month later.