Kobe Bryant perished in a helicopter crash in 2020 along with his 13-year-old daughter Gianna. The sports star has been immortalized in bronze and the monument has been placed in Star Plaza outside the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles.
Vanessa, his wife, remembered her husband and her daughter in an emotional speech as she unveiled the tribute. Vanessa revealed the statue's pose had previously been signed off by Kobe himself, and it's going to be one of three monuments to him that will be erected around the arena.