Red roses adorned the courtside seats where Kobe and Gianna Bryant sat at the last Los Angeles Lakers game they attended.
The jerseys of late Los Angeles Laker Kobe Bryant, right, and his daughter Gianna are draped on the seats the two last sat on at Staples Center, prior to the Lakers' NBA basketball game against the Portland Trail Blazers in Los Angeles, Friday, Jan. 31, 2020. The last game two attended was on Dec. 29, 2019 when the Lakers faced the Dallas Mavericks.
LeBron James, wearing No. 24, wiped his eyes as the anthem ended. He and Anthony Davis, wearing No. 8, hugged. “Laker Nation, I would be selling you short if I read off this , so I'm going to go straight from the heart,” he said. Inside the Lakers locker room, Bryant's No. 24 gold jersey hung on a wooden hanger from a fire alarm next to James' locker. It was Bryant's locker when he helped the team win five NBA championships during his 20 years in Los Angeles.
The music began playing once the public flowed through the doors. Several fans donned the gold T-shirts at their seats; others took pictures of the video board and the electronic ribbon scrolling the victims' names around the upper level.
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