In his post-basketball playing days, Kobe Bryant was one of women’s basketball’s biggest advocates and the coach of his daughter Gianna “Gigi” Bryant. The two were fixtures at some of the biggest women’s basketball games, with the late Hall of Fame shooting guard trying to show his daughter the best and brightest the game had to offer.
Often, that meant UConn. And after the Huskies beat South Carolina to win the national title, Vanessa Bryant — Kobe’s wife and Gigi’s mom — took to Instagram with a heartwarming and heartbreaking message to celebrate the Huskies’ title.
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“Gigi would have loved being there with you,” Vanessa Bryant’s Instagram stories post reads. “‘When you think you can’t, UCONN’~Gianna…
