NBA On December 29, 2019, Bryant and his daughter Gigi went to watch the Lakers vs. Mavs
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Sand celebrates the first anniversary of the last time Kobe Bryant went to watch an NBA game and that he 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’s mind.
When Doncic was on the sidelines to pull it off, he looked back because someone said something in Slovenian and was surprised to see that it was Kobe. “Someone was speaking Slovenian. He spoke my language. It was a big surprise,” said Doncic after the match
A week later he spoke on ESPN about the episode, about whether Kobe had told him any insults.
“I can’t say. Or that someone spoke Slovenian, I turn around and see Kobe and I think ‘what the hell is going on?’ “, Doncic laughs.
Kobe’s ‘gift of languages’ was well known, as he only communicated in Spanish with Pau Gasol on the court, in addition to speaking Italian occasionally, and at the time learned words in Bosnian to decrelas to Jusuf Nurkic.
This duel between Mavs and Lakers was the last game Bryant saw in an NBA stadium, as less than one but later he will die in a helicopter crash on the outskirts of Los Angeles with Gigi and seven other people.