介绍:
2020年1月26日，NBA传奇球星科比·布莱恩特因乘坐的直升飞机意外坠毁不幸身亡。当时同在飞机上的，还有科比的二女儿吉安娜·布莱恩特。吉安娜继承了科比的篮球天赋，正在为将来进军WNBA不断努力。她打球的视频也在社交媒体上广为流传，无数球迷憧憬着将来可以在WNBA的赛场上可以看到这位“小曼巴”。然而这一切，都随着这一场意外戛然而止了。在今天这个特别的日子里，让我们一起纪念科比，和他同样热爱篮球的女儿。
英文原文
The Bryant Who Dreamed of Playing in the WNBA
梦想打WNBA的这位“布莱恩特”
By Joshua Robinson
She was a 13-year-old who harbored dreams of playing in the Women’s National Basketball Association. She was a guard with an uncanny ability to create open shots. And she happened to have one of the greatest basketball teachers on the planet living in her house.
她是一位十三岁的少女，怀揣着在美国职业女子篮球联赛打球的梦想。她是一名球场上的后卫，在创造大空位投篮机会方面有着非凡的能力。并且，她刚好拥有这个星球上最伟大的篮球老师之一，就和她住在同一屋檐下。
Her name was Gianna “Gigi” Bryant, the second and most public of former Los Angeles Lakers superstar Kobe Bryant’s four daughters.
她的名字叫做吉安娜·布莱恩特，小名吉吉，是前洛杉矶湖人队的超级巨星科比·布莱恩特的二女儿，也是科比四个女儿中最被公众熟悉的一个。
Gianna was already known in basketball circles as a budding star, thanks in part to her father blasting out clips of her youth-team games on social media. Kobe often said that she had been the one to rekindle his love for the game.
作为一名冉冉升起的新星，吉安娜在篮球圈已经为人熟知。这有一部分要归功于她父亲，他在社交媒体上发布的她在少年队比赛的视频片段广为流传。科比常常说吉安娜让他重新燃起了对篮球的热爱。
Gianna’s basketball education was unfolding with an AAU team in California. But most recently her schooling in the game had taken her to courtside seats at Barclays Center in New York, where Kobe could be seen breaking down the finer points of a game between the Brooklyn Nets and the Atlanta Hawks.
吉安娜的篮球训练开始于加利福尼亚的一支业余体育联合会球队。但是最近，她学习篮球的地方变成了纽约巴克莱中心的场边观众席，在那里可以看到科比为她分析布鲁克林篮网队对阵亚特兰大老鹰队的比赛细节。
The next step Gianna had imagined for herself was being recruited by the University of Connecticut, home to the most successful women’s program in college basketball history — and a natural pathway to the pros.
在吉安娜的计划中，她希望自己下一步可以被康涅狄格大学录取——那是大学篮球历史上最成功的女子球队所在的学校，从而顺理成章地踏上职业篮球之路。
In November 2017, Gianna visited the UConn players in their locker room and was photographed with the team and coach Geno Auriemma.
2017年11月，吉安娜前往康涅狄格大学的球队更衣室拜访了球员们，并与她们及球队教练杰诺·奥利埃马一起合了影。
Kobe made sure to tell him all about his basketball-playing daughter. As Auriemma remembered it, Kobe called her “Baby Mamba.”
科比肯定向奥利埃马事无巨细地介绍了自己这个打篮球的掌上明珠。据奥利埃马回忆，科比把吉安娜称为“小曼巴”。
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