A look at the shirts fans are receiving at Kobe and Gianna Bryant's 'Celebration of Life' memorial. KobeFarewell 💜💛
Ahead of speaking during Monday's memorial, Oregon basketball star Sabrina Ionescu wrote about Bryant -- who had become a close friend and mentor as she looked to the WNBA -- for ."Kobe always saw the bigger picture," she wrote."That was clear with everything he did in his life — but to me it was especially clear with the way that he looked at and treated the game of women’s basketball.
"And that’s what I always loved so much about Kobe, and it’s one of the things that I hope people will remember about him," she wrote."All that he cared about really was your love of the game. That was the test you had to pass with Kobe: Could you match him passion for passion when it came to hoops. If you could do that, then you had his respect.
The mural took about three days to paint, and Ponce wanted to make sure that he portrayed Bryant's full life, not just his career as a basketball star."When I first painted him, he had retired so I mostly did a Laker thing," he explained."But I wanted to do something a little bigger than that. So we alluded to life outside of basketball as well and so we just wanted to paint a bigger picture with this mural.
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