{"id":2822,"date":"2021-05-16T20:05:34","date_gmt":"2021-05-16T14:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sabguru.com\/en\/?p=2822"},"modified":"2021-05-16T20:05:34","modified_gmt":"2021-05-16T14:35:34","slug":"lakers-legend-kobe-bryant-inducted-into-basketball-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sabguru.com\/en\/lakers-legend-kobe-bryant-inducted-into-basketball-hall-of-fame\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers legend Kobe Bryant inducted into Basketball Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>NBA and Los Angeles Lakers legend, Kobe Bryant was inducted posthumously into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as part of the Class of 2020 on Saturday night.\u00a0Kobe Bryant&#8217;s wife Vanessa Bryant paid tribute to the late NBA legend Saturday as he was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last year, the five-time\u00a0NBA champion and his 13-year-old daughter Gianna\u00a0were killed in a helicopter crash along\u00a0with seven others in southern California.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Welcome home <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/20HoopClass?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#20HoopClass<\/a>. \ud83c\udfc6\ud83c\udfc0 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/p8XCIy7M30\">pic.twitter.com\/p8XCIy7M30<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Basketball HOF (@Hoophall) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Hoophall\/status\/1393725166270795776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 16, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><em><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">\u00a0&#8220;I wish my husband was here to accept this incredible award. He and Gigi deserved to be here to witness this. Gigi would be so proud to watch her daddy get enshrined into the Basketball Hall of Fame. There will never be anyone like Kobe,&#8221; Vanessa Bryant said. &#8220;Kobe was one of a kind. He was special, he was humble &#8212; off the court &#8212; but bigger than life. Congratulations baby. All of your hard work and sacrifices paid off. You did it. You&#8217;re in the Hall of Fame now. You&#8217;re a true champ. You&#8217;re not just an MVP, you are an all-time great. I&#8217;m so proud of you. I love you forever and always.&#8221; <\/span><\/strong><\/em><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Kobe Bryant&#8217;s wife Vanessa Bryant said.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/20HoopClass?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#20HoopClass<\/a> enshrinee, Kobe Bryant. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/j328vaUZiZ\">pic.twitter.com\/j328vaUZiZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA (@NBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBA\/status\/1393713277344047110?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 15, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-paragraph-id=\"paragraph_9CED173B-F99B-0620-1C94-734F31B65F54\">\n<p>Kobe Bryant and the others were voted into the Hall of Fame as part of the 2020 class, but the formal induction ceremony was delayed because of the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"title style-scope ytd-video-primary-info-renderer\"><strong>Watch video : Kobe Bryant&#8217;s Top 10 Plays of his Career<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div id=\"info\" class=\"style-scope ytd-video-primary-info-renderer\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jhyANGHDDH8\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBA and Los Angeles Lakers legend, Kobe Bryant was inducted posthumously into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as part of the Class of 2020 on Saturday night.\u00a0Kobe Bryant&#8217;s wife Vanessa Bryant paid tribute to the late NBA legend Saturday as he was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. 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