![]() “You’ve just got to put on a happy face and you’ve got to do what you’ve got to do,” he said. Bryant also won two Olympic gold medals and a hemispheric International Basketball Federation title with the US Men’s National Team.Ĭameras caught Auriemma on the sideline, lowering his head and dabbing his eyes during Monday’s commemoration.Īfter the game, which the Huskies lost, Auriemma said it was difficult to take the court with the pall of the UConn fans’ deaths hanging over the Harry A. Maddie Meyer/Getty Imagesīoth jerseys were hoisted into the rafters of the Staples Center following the Lakers luminary’s retirement in 2016. UConn’s Crystal Dangerfield then took the inbound pass and allowed the shot clock to expire, spurring a 24-second violation in honor of the number Bryant wore in high school and during the latter half of his pro career.Ī jersey to honor Gianna Bryant sits on the UConn bench Monday. Team USA guard Sue Bird, a former Husky, declined to bring the ball across midcourt, resulting in an 8-second violation – an ode to the number Bryant wore when he first joined the Los Angeles Lakers in 1996. Once the game tipped off, the players continued the tribute, borrowing from the NBA’s Atlanta Hawks and Washington Wizards. ![]() The team tweeted a photo of the memorialization with the caption, “Mambacita is forever a Husky” – a nod to the teen’s nickname, derived from her famous father’s sobriquet, Black Mamba. A bouquet wrapped in blue and white ribbons was placed in front of it. 2 jersey – the digit Gigi wore – over one of their bench seats. zz1D5SbFe8- Arash Markazi October 26, 2018īefore UConn’s Monday exhibition game against the US Women’s National Team, the Huskies draped a No. Reggie Miller tries to convince Kobe Bryant to send his daughter to play basketball at UCLA but he says she is hellbent on going to UConn. The father and daughter attended games as fans, and in an October 2018 exchange captured by an ESPN reporter, the elder Bryant told fellow sharpshooting NBA legend Reggie Miller, who was pressing him to send Gigi to UCLA, that his daughter “is hellbent on UConn.” ![]() Gigi, as she was known, always wanted to play for the Huskies, who have lifted a record 11 championship trophies and whose coach, Geno Auriemma, is arguably the best hoops skipper of all time. Three thousand miles away in Storrs, Connecticut, the news came with an especially brutal epilogue. Gianna Bryant had her 13-year life cut short this weekend when the Sikorsky S-76B carrying her, father Kobe Bryant and seven others crashed in Calabasas, California. It was well known that Mambacita wanted to be a University of Connecticut Husky, and on Monday she became an honorary member of the most decorated team in women’s college basketball. ![]()
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