Sabrina Ionescu honored the unhurried Kobe Bryant sooner than the WNBA season opener on Friday night.
The WNBA’s 2020 #1 select arrived at the Barclays Center wearing a Kobe Bryant Dusky Mamba metropolis edition jersey – No. 8 – no question channeling her mentor sooner than the New York Liberty’s first sport at their new home in Brooklyn.
It’s no longer the first time Ionescu has honored the Lakers memoir, and we doubt this incessantly is the final.
Ionescu pays tribute to Kobe Bryant
The faded Oregon extensive title concluded her collegiate profession with the Ducks with an spectacular message to her teammates at Matthew Knight Arena, thanking them for no longer letting her gentle rep overshadowed by darkness in the wake of Bryant’s demise.
About a weeks earlier, at the seek recordsdata from of Vanessa Bryant, Ionescu delivered a well-spoken, emotional tribute to Kobe and his daughter Gianna at their celebration of existence.
Vanessa Bryant would possibly well additionally hold chosen any different of basketball legends to keep up a correspondence at the memorial. The actual fact that Ionescu used to be one among the few chosen to pay tribute to Kobe and GiGi speaks volumes of her relationship with Kobe and is a testomony to his strengthen for girls’s basketball as a entire.
Ionescu stays stop with the Bryant family and embodies the Mamba Mentality. She borrowed a dash from Kobe’s playbook tonight, hitting a deep three at the buzzer to select out the Liberty over the Indiana Fever.
It’s the first map stop of the WNBA’s 25th season and the first as a professional for Ionescu after lacking all but three video games of her rookie season with an ankle damage.
