WNBA commissioner, Cathy Engelbert, reflects on the advocate that Kobe Bryant was for women's sports, and how the last photo of him and daughter Gianna proves it.
A photo of Kobe Bryant and daughter Gianna sitting court-side at their last Los Angeles Lakers game together is special and poignant for the obvious reasons — and a more subtle one.
“On December 29th, one of the last pictures with Gigi was Kobe wearing the orange WNBA sweatshirt we gave him,” Cathy Engelbert, the organization’s commissioner, shared at the 2020 Makers Conference. “I never thought he would wear it, by the way. But there he was court-side at a Lakers game, and thank goodness we have that picture to remember his advocacy by.”
“It was supposed to be an hour meeting, it was two hours. He was really interested in hearing how we’re going to transform the league, what he was doing on youth and girls basketball. So this was real advocacy for our league,” Engelbert continued. “He wanted to help us invest, help advocate.”
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