NBA On December 29, 2019, Bryant and his daughter Gigi went to the Lakers vs. Mavs
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S.e is celebrating the first anniversary of the last time Kobe Bryant went to an NBA game and that left one of the unforgettable anecdotes of ‘La Mamba’.
On December 29, 2019, at the request of his daughter Gigi, Kobe was at the Staples Center to see Luka Doncic and the Mavericks against the Lakers and during the third quarter he tried to play with the Slovenian.
When Doncic stood on the side to serve he looked away because someone was saying something in Slovenian and he was surprised to find it was Kobe. “Someone spoke Slovenian. He spoke my language. It was a great surprise”, Doncic said after the game
A week later, he spoke on ESPN about the episode, if Kobe had offended him anything.
“I can not say it. Or someone spoke Slovenian, I turn and see Kobe and think ‘what the hell is going on?’ ‘, Doncic recalls laughing.
Kobe’s ‘gift of tongues’ was quite well known, as he communicated with Pau Gasol on the field in Spanish, in addition to speaking Italian occasionally, and at the time I learned Bosnian words to order them to Jusuf Nurkic.
That game between Mavs and Lakers was the last game Bryant saw in an NBA stadium, as less than one A month later, he died in a helicopter crash outside Los Angeles, along with Gigi and seven others.