
Former NBA star Kobe Bryant has remained busy since his retirement from professional basketball in 2016. From writing books and winning an Academy Award, to starting a children’s podcast, Kobe has been doing it all. That is except for watching NBA basketball matches.
Kobe has rarely appeared at NBA games since hanging up his Los Angeles Lakers jersey four years ago. But this season, Kobe has been sitting courtside more than ever, and the 41-year-old says it’s all because of one person — his daughter, Gigi Bryant. “You know what’s funny,” Kobe told former NBA players Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson on the Showtime Basketball podcast All the Smoke this week. “Before Gigi got into basketball, I hardly watched it, but now she’s into basketball, and we watch it every night.”
Since 13-year-old Gigi took up her father’s sport, the two have been able to bond while watching the next generation of players. “I mean every game,” Kobe said of his daughter’s viewing habits. “She watches everything!” “She likes watching Trae Young a lot. She watched Luka Doncic a lot. She watches James Harden. She watches Russell Westbrook. I mean she watches LeBron James,” Kobe said of Gigi’s favorite players. He and Gigi attended at least two Lakers games before the start of the new year, and it was the first time Kobe had been to a game since his jerseys were retired at Staples Center in late 2017.
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