Here’s a look at how the 18-time All-Star is awarded.
The city of Los Angeles
“Figueroa Street will soon become Kobe Bryant Boulevard between Olympic (Boulevard) and (Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard),” Wesson tweeted.
“Kobe’s legacy is bigger than basketball. #KobeBryantBlvd will be a reminder to everyone, young and old, who lead it, there are no obstacles too big and that with # Mambamentality, anything is possible.”
The Lakers
The Lakers will wear special black Nike jerseys that Bryant helped design during the team’s Game 4 match against the Portland Trail Blazers on Monday night.
The jerseys were originally released in 2017 and feature a snakeskin-like print along with a special patch dedicated to Bryant’s daughter Gianna who wore the number 2 during her basketball career.
Bryant, who has won two Olympic gold medals, played his entire professional career with the Los Angeles Lakers and won five NBA championships.
Nike
The commercial, narrated by rapper Kendrick Lamar, features clips of Bryant along with Nike-sponsored athletes and others who have been inspired by him.
“Kobe taught us to be better,” Lamar says in the video. “Better leader, better generation, better nation. Just be better. Can you do it? … Better me, better you, better us.”
Nike said it will also release a series of special Kobe Protro sneakers, and the company has made a $ 1 million donation to the Mamba and Mambacita Sports Foundation.
Former teammates
Pau Gasol and Shaquille O’Neal, two former team-mates of Bryant’s Lakers, also posted tributes to their friend on social media.
O’Neal, who played with Bryant on the Lakers from 1996 to 2004, also posted a video on Sunday – which features clips from their days together with the Lakers – on Sunday.
Other LA teams
Eric Levenson of CNN contributed to this report.
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