Obviously, Gigi - everybody saw how she was kind of taking after Kobe with her play." "But you can't help but think about those kids that were on that helicopter. "We lost a legend in Kobe," said Breanna Stewart, an Olympic gold medalist, four-time NCAA champion at UConn and 2018 WNBA MVP. He was especially proud of how Gigi would ask specific, detailed questions about strategy, and how her skills kept improving. In interviews with the likes of Jimmy Kimmel and in social media posts, Bryant regularly commented on his daughter's competitive nature, love for basketball and mind for the game. "He's a basketball savant, and he's been like that since he was 16 years old. This little girl who's looking up to these players like they're superhuman, and you've got my players looking to her dad like, 'Oh my god.'. "Our kids were fascinated by her, and obviously for a little girl to be in the company of those players, I can't put myself in her shoes, but it must have been an unbelievable thrill. Auriemma recalled when Bryant and his daughter attended a UConn-UCLA game in Los Angeles, sitting behind the Huskies' bench. "Gigi started to show a tremendous interest in the game," UConn coach Geno Auriemma told ESPN's Holly Rowe before Monday's game. Gigi was just 13, and we'll never know if she would have developed into a top-level Division I player, or gone on to the WNBA. Gigi Bryant had become something of a celebrity as a young player, thanks to the adoration and devotion of her famous father. In the aftermath of the deaths of Bryant, Gianna (Gigi) and seven others, including two of Gigi's fellow young basketball players, Alyssa Altobelli and Payton Chester, in a helicopter accident Sunday in Los Angeles, these current women's basketball stars couldn't let go of this: what those young girls with big dreams won't get to do. Samuelson and her fellow WNBA players are grieving many losses. They were beautiful girls, beautiful people. But fast-forward to see them, and the growth they had made just in that year. "They were all kind of goofy, a little bit. So I saw them going into my senior year ," she said. "Kobe let me coach one of their practices. national team set to face her alma mater, UConn, that same night in an exhibition game, her eyes filled with tears.
So, as she stood in a quiet XL Center, with the U.S. In getting to know the basketball star and his second-oldest daughter, Gianna, Samuelson once helped with Bryant's Mamba Sports Academy girls' basketball program.
Having grown up in Huntington Beach, California, when Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers' dominated in the NBA, she understood what Bryant means to the City of Angels. Chicago Sky guard Katie Lou Samuelson couldn't hold back her emotions Monday.
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