Vanessa Bryant and LeBron James wishes Kobe and Gigi were here to see Lakers win title
As the Los Angeles Lakers became NBA champions Sunday night, there were two people whose presence was especially missed.
Vanessa Bryant congratulated the team on Instagram Sunday in a heartfelt post, remembering her husband and her daughter.
“Wish Kobe and Gigi were here to see this,” Bryant wrote on Instagram.
It’s been almost nine months since Kobe Bryant, along with his daughter Gianna and seven others, died in a helicopter crash January 26.
The Lakers beat the Miami Heat 106-93 in Game 6 of the NBA Finals Sunday night. It was the Lakers’ first NBA Finals appearance since Kobe Bryant won his fifth and final NBA title.
“This is bigger than us.”
LeBron James on Laker’s Championship
And after the game, James and other Lakers like Anthony Davis spoke about why they wanted to win for Bryant, who led the team to five championships in his career.
“We got as close as you possibly can be, when that moment happened,” James said about the team following Bryant’s tragic passing. “It brought the whole basketball world close as well, but when you’re internal and it hits home, it just means that much more and we locked in from that very moment and said, ‘This is bigger than us.'”
