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Despite all his glorious achievements and awards, the thing that made Kobe Bryant the proudest would be coaching his daughter, especially, his second daughter Gianna. He was the coach for his daughter’s basketball team and he would mentor a young Gigi with his vast basketball knowledge.

Kobe was extremely proud of Gigi, and he used to rave about her on every occasion. After his retirement, Kobe became more and more involved with his daughter. They used to have intense workouts together. Gigi had the opportunity to learn from one of the masters of the game.

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Kobe Bryant was proud of Gigi’s Clutch Genes

Vanessa Bryant posted a video of Kobe Bryant doing an interview where he was raving about his daughter. She posted it on 2/2/22 day in honor of Gianna, whose jersey number was 2. She shared it with a caption” TwosDay-2/22/22 Gianna Maria-Onor’e Bryant #2 #Mambacita.

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Kobe shared an incident where he was proud of his daughter. He said, “There was a game we had, where she gets a steal and she goes to the free-throw line with a chance to win the game. At these tournaments, there are kids everywhere and there is parent everywhere.”

“All of a sudden seems like the whole place knows that Gianna is at the free-throw line with a chance to win the game cause they all come rushing over to the court.”

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“I’m looking at her and I was gonna call timeout. Just so I can give her advice and calm her nerves… You know what let me just see what she does in a situation. And she goes to the free-throw line and everybody behind holds up the camera phone waiting to see.”

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“She looks up and she looks at it and she closed her eyes and she takes a couple of deep breaths. She just completely calms down, she goes to the free-throw line, drains them, wins the game. I was like, all right man.”

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Kobe was incredibly proud of Gigi at that moment as she displayed incredible nerves to win the game. Seems like she learned it from the great Black Mamba himself. It would have been very exciting to see Gigi develop and see Kobe coaching. Unfortunately, though, we will never get to know what could have happened, as we tragically lost both Kobe and Gigi in 2020.

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