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Vanessa Bryant\u00a0is remembering her husband\u00a0Kobe Bryant\u00a0on what would have been his 44th birthday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, the wife of the late athlete marked the special day with a tribute post on Instagram. \u201cHappy birthday, baby! I love you and miss you so much! #44 \u2764\ufe0f @kobebryant,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n
Along with the sweet message, Vanessa shared a throwback picture of her being embraced by her husband, who is wearing\u00a0a Los Angeles Lakers 2009 championship T- shirt and hat.<\/p>\n
Vanessa and Kobe\u2019s friends also paid tribute to the late athlete in the comments. \u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cHappy birthday \u2764\ufe0f\u2764\ufe0f\u2764\ufe0f\u2764\ufe0f\u2764\ufe0f\u2764\ufe0f\u2764\ufe0f\u2764\ufe0f\u2764\ufe0f\u2764\ufe0f\u2764\ufe0f\u2764\ufe0f\u2764\ufe0f\u2764\ufe0f I love you V!!!,\u201d Khloe Kardashian wrote. \u00a0<\/p>\n \u201c\u2764\ufe0f\u2764\ufe0f\u2764\ufe0fHappy Birthday King Kobe,\u201d fellow basketball star Lisa Leslie added.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cHappy Birthday Kobe,\u201d Monica, Vanessa\u2019s friend\u00a0and singer,\u00a0commented. \u00a0<\/p>\n Kobe\u2019s sister, Sharia Washington, also celebrated her brother\u2019s birthday with a series of throwback pictures featuring the late athlete as a kid.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201c8.23.78 You were born for greatness. \u2764\ufe0f Happy birthday Bean! #44 \u2018A lot of people say they want to be great, but they\u2019re not willing to make the sacrifices necessary to achieve greatness.\u2019 \u2013 KB,\u201d Sharia wrote, quoting her brother.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Kobe\u2019s birthday comes one day after\u00a0Vanessa was joined by her and Kobe\u2019s 20-year-old daughter, Natalia, and friends Monica and Ciara at the\u00a0Los Angeles courthouse\u00a0for the third week of trail\u00a0for her case against Los Angeles County regarding graphic photos taken and shared by officers from the helicopter crash site that killed her husband, the couple\u2019s 13-year-old daughter, Gianna Bryant, and seven others in January 2020. \u00a0<\/p>\n Vanessa\u2019s appearance on Monday marked the first since\u00a0she took the stand on Friday\u00a0and recounted the emotional moment when she was alerted that the graphic photos of Kobe and Gianna had been taken. <\/p>\n She shared while on the stand that, to this day, she experiences panic attacks and anxiety over the possibility of seeing the photos from the devastating 2020 helicopter crash.\u00a0<\/p>\n Since her husband and her daughter\u2019s passing, Vanessa kept their memory alive by marking special occasions with her and Kobe\u2019s\u00a0daughters, Natalia, Bianka, 5, and Capri, 3. \u00a0<\/p>\n In July,\u00a0the\u00a0Bryant women visited the Italian city where Kobe lived when he was a child. \u201cVisited Reggio Calabria, a city my husband lived in when he was about 8 years old,\u201d Vanessa captioned photos of her youngest daughters wearing pink dresses. \u00a0<\/p>\n <\/p><\/div>\n![\"Vanessa](\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/1661271745_111_image-164.png\" "\\"Vanessa")