{"id":769058,"date":"2022-01-27T21:31:46","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T21:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/27\/kobe-bryant-statue-placed-at-site-of-helicopter-crash\/"},"modified":"2022-01-27T21:31:46","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T21:31:46","slug":"kobe-bryant-statue-placed-at-site-of-helicopter-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/27\/kobe-bryant-statue-placed-at-site-of-helicopter-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Kobe Bryant statue placed at site of helicopter crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/123020601_2022-01-27t030311z_1720650717_rc2d7s9htfhn_rtrmadp_3_people-kobe-bryant-statue-46e43efd1a4589f121ee871acf01d4189c12c524-1-696x392.jpg\"   alt=\"Medina hopes a permanent statue will be created in memory of the five-time NBA champion\" title=\"Medina hopes a permanent statue will be created in memory of the five-time NBA champion\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Medina hopes a permanent statue will be created in memory of the five-time NBA champion<br \/>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Sculptor Dan Medina took a statue of Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna to the site of their helicopter crash on the two-year anniversary of the tragedy.<\/p>\n<p>The 73kg bronze statue is temporary but Medina hopes a permanent version is sited in a prominent Los Angeles spot.<\/p>\n<p>He took the statue to the California site, where nine people died, from dawn to dusk on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is all on my own, no one asked me to do it,\u201d said Medina.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn this day, the second anniversary of the accident, I decided to bring it up from sunrise to sunset and create a bit of a healing process for fans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday was special because I witnessed a lot of that. People would come up and they would leave with some sort of satisfaction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The names of the nine victims of the crash are engraved on the statue\u2019s base, which also includes an inscription of Bryant\u2019s famous quote \u2018Heroes come and go, but legends are forever.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"_hug6Jx2UaI\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sports Ministry, GFA can\u2019t be trusted with another Coach Appointment - Fire 4 Fire (27-1-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_hug6Jx2UaI?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medina hopes a permanent statue will be created in memory of the five-time NBA champion Sculptor Dan Medina took a statue of Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna to the site of their helicopter crash on the two-year anniversary of the tragedy. The 73kg bronze statue is temporary but Medina hopes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":769059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[3419,2922,3420,3421,3422,3423],"class_list":["post-769058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-bryant","tag-crash","tag-helicopter","tag-kobe","tag-site","tag-statue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=769058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}