Kobe Bryant would have turned 45 this past Wednesday, August 23, and the event moved many basketball fans who they are still mourning the death of the legend. A sample of this was the attitude that she had Drake receiving a shirt from the legendary basketball player in full concert.
The presence of the rapper in the Crypto.com Arena Los Angeles caused a sensation this week as part of the tour ‘It’s All a Blur’. It was in this context that while he was on stage and in an interval between songs he received a T-shirt from a fan. Mamba.
What did Drake do? Far from ignoring it and moving on, he decided to take some time to remember the great player who shone in Los Angeles Lakers throughout his entire career. He picked it up and took advantage of the moment to generate an emotional climate among those present in the stadium that they did not take their eyes off the number ’24’.
“I’m going to delay this, because we have to show love to Kobe once”the singer told the crowd who was on hand to kick off the emotional moment. “When I started, I’m from a place called Toronto, Canada., by the way, and the first place I moved to in my life, and I had to move away from home, away from my mother. I drifted away from my friends, the first place that took me in was Los Angeles, California,” she added.
The rapper did not ignore the recognition of the basketball legend.
In addition, he explained that he has “lived here for a long time. And I will never forget in my life the day I was flown in to sign, right? And then he mentioned, “I was on Lil Wayne’s tour bus, I’ll never forget it. And he said to me: ‘I have an album to release, it’s called ‘The Carter III’, I want to play it for you, but we have to wait for someone to catch it first.”
“So I waited on the bus, I’m waiting on the bus, you know, half an hour, hour, hour and a half, finally, this tall figure walks on the bus, right through the bus door, and it’s Kobe Bryant.”he explained.
Finally, he closed: “That day, I sat there and I could listen to ‘Tha Carter III with Kobe and Lil Wayne. So I want you to know, Los Angeles, that you have been through a lot and tonight I want to pay you all my respects and all my love the right way.”
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From her Instagram account, Vanessa Laine remembered the former basketball player with a carousel of images and a very emotional comment. “Happy Birthday Baby. I love you always and forever, ”he wrote at the bottom of the post that generated quite an impact among his more than 15 million followers.
Kobe and Vanessa met in the year 2000when she was 17 years old and he was 20. In a very short time they established themselves as a couple despite the fact that the player’s family did not fully accept it and finally they were married on April 18, 2001 in the capilla of Saint Edwards, of Dana Point, California.
On January 26, 2020, Kobe was traveling with his then 13-year-old daughter Gianna and suffered a fatal accident as a result of the helicopter crashing in a mountainous area northwest of Los Angeles.
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2023-08-24 16:24:11
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