US basketball

Pau Gasol names daughter after Gianna Bryant

Delfin Dioquino

This is AI generated summarization, which may have errors. For context, always refer to the full article.

Pau Gasol names daughter after Gianna Bryant

Pau Gasol. Photo from Instagram/@paugasol

Just like his close friend Kobe Bryant, Pau Gasol becomes a girl dad

Pau Gasol and his wife Cat memorialized Gianna Bryant by naming their firstborn after the daughter of late NBA great Kobe.

The 40-year-old Pau announced on Instagram that their daughter will be called Elisabet Gianna.

“Our little one has finally arrived! The delivery went really well and we could not be happier! Elisabet Gianna Gasol, a very meaningful name for our super beautiful daughter!” Pau wrote.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CFFxFK9gxSR/

Vanessa Bryant, widow of Kobe, congratulated Pau and Cat, saying she cannot wait to hold her goddaughter.

“So touched by your request to honor my Gigi,” Vanessa wrote on Instagram. “Kob would have loved to have been her godfather.”

Gianna died in January in a helicopter crash that killed 8 others, including Los Angeles Lakers icon Kobe.

Kobe developed a close friendship with Pau after they played together for the Lakers for 7 seasons and won back-to-back NBA titles in 2009 and 2010.

Since Kobe died, Pau and Cat have been spending time with Vanessa and her daughters Natalia, Bianka, and Capri. – Rappler.com

Add a comment

Sort by

There are no comments yet. Add your comment to start the conversation.

Summarize this article with AI

How does this make you feel?

Loading
Download the Rappler App!
Person, Human, Clothing

author

Delfin Dioquino

Delfin Dioquino dreamt of being a PBA player, but he did not have the skills to make it. So he pursued the next best thing to being an athlete – to write about them. He took up journalism at the University of Santo Tomas and joined Rappler as soon as he graduated in 2017.