Tag: Kobe Bryant

Kobe Bryant among 9 others to be inducted into Basketball Hall of Fame

Written by Fort Myers Mortgage Syndicated User on May 16, 2021. Posted in Fort Myers Mortgage, Mortgage Fort Myers.

LOS ANGELES / CNN — Kobe Bryant was officially inducted in to the Basketball Hall of Fame on Saturday night. “I wish my husband was here to accept this incredible award,” Bryant’s wife, Vanessa Bryant, said at the ceremony, as she was joined onstage by basketball legend Michael Jordan. “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.” The NBA legend was posthumously elected into the Hall last April in his first year of eligibility — just months after Bryant, his...

Michael Jordan shares final text messages from Kobe Bryant

Written by Fort Myers Mortgage Syndicated User on May 12, 2021. Posted in Fort Myers Mortgage, Mortgage Fort Myers.

NBC News — Michael Jordan said that he still gets choked up when looking at a series of 17-month old texts. Jordan and the late basketball icon Kobe Bryant chatted via text about family, hoops and tequila just weeks before his death, the Chicago Bulls legend revealed. Jordan told ESPN that he’s kept the final texts even if they inevitably bring a tear to his eye. “He was just so happy,” Jordan said of Bryant’s final weeks of life. “He was doing so well.” The two basketball stars exchanged messages on December 8 2019, seven weeks before Bryant, 41,...