The restoration efforts for the destroyed mural depicting Lakers legend and his young daughter, supported by the team’s latest star, are perfect.
The restored mural featuring Kobe Bryant and his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, is located on the side of a building at the corner of 14th Avenue and Main Street in downtown Los Angeles. The mural depicts Bryant embracing and kissing a young girl wearing a Lakers No. 8 jersey with a basketball.
Lakers star Luka Doncic has provided a $5,000 donation to help restore the mural.
“Kobe is LA. He and Gigi mean this city, the Lakers organization, and personally to me,” Doncic said in a statement provided by the Luka Doncic Foundation. “I’m glad you did anything to ensure he and his daughter are respected.”
Five NBA All-Stars and five All-NBA First Team Selections and Bryant are featured in the Viva League Robe mural.
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Luka Donsic is painted next to the destroyed murals of Kobe and Gianna Bryant (right).
Vandals covered the mural in downtown LA with black and white paint around April 29th.
The move by artist Louie “Slow” created artwork honoring the Hall of Fame basketball players who won five NBA championships and played the entire career with the Lakers and his teenage daughter.
Nine people, including Kobe and Gianna Bryant, were on helicopters when they crashed on January 26, 2020 onto the hillside in the Calabasas area of northwest Los Angeles.
Police have not identified suspects of vandalism.
