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Vanessa Bryant, wife of late NBA legend Kobe Bryant, marked the couple’s 19th wedding anniversary with a touching post on Instagram.
She posted a throwback photo of the couple with the caption, ‘My king, my heart, my best friend.’
Kobe and Vanessa got married on April 18th 2001 and had four daughters together, Gianna, Natalia, Bianca and Capri.
Kobe and their daughter Gianna, popularly referred to as Gigi, along with seven others passed away in January after a plane they were travelling in crashed.
In a 2001 video Vanessa also shared, Kobe spoke about finding ‘the one’.
“It’s hard to pinpoint what exactly makes a person the one for you, but you just know,” he said. “But all I know is that she caught my heart and I just knew she was the one.”
On Friday, the WNBA named Gigi, who played for the Mambas, along with teammates Alyssa Altobelli and Payton Chester were named honorary draftees.
Kobe and Gigi were honoured by the WNBA when an award was named after them, the ‘Kobe & Gigi Bryant WNBA Advocacy Award. The award ‘will recognize an individual or group who has made significant contributions to the visibility, perception and advancement of women’s and girls’ basketball at all levels’
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