{"id":144078,"date":"2020-04-18T09:15:29","date_gmt":"2020-04-18T07:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=144078"},"modified":"2020-04-18T09:15:29","modified_gmt":"2020-04-18T07:15:29","slug":"gianna-bryant-alyssa-altobelli-payton-chester-selected-as-honorary-picks-at-wnba-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/gianna-bryant-alyssa-altobelli-payton-chester-selected-as-honorary-picks-at-wnba-draft\/","title":{"rendered":"Gianna Bryant, Alyssa Altobelli, Payton Chester selected as honorary picks at WNBA draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gianna Bryant, Alyssa Altobelli and Payton Chester, who were among nine killed in a January helicopter crash that also claimed the life of Kobe Bryant, were named honorary selections in Friday&#8217;s WNBA draft.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It would have been a dream come true for her,&#8221; Gianna&#8217;s mother, Vanessa, said. &#8220;Kobe and Gigi loved the WNBA. Thank you. I want to congratulate all of this year&#8217;s draft picks. Congratulations. Work hard. Never settle. Use that Mamba Mentality.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Also on Friday, WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert announced the new Kobe &amp; Gigi Bryant WNBA Advocacy Award, which will recognize &#8220;an individual or group who has made significant contributions to the visibility, perception and advancement of women&#8217;s and girls&#8217; basketball at all levels.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Kobe was an incredible champion of women&#8217;s basketball and Gianna shared his passion and dedication to our game,&#8221; Engelbert said in a statement. &#8220;The Kobe &amp; Gigi Bryant WNBA Advocacy Award will honor their legacy and reflect Kobe&#8217;s commitment to mentoring the next generation of players, promoting the game and giving back to the community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M6VHtNpZObw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-wiqefCsGhY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The WNBA had said it planned to honor the memory of the three young teammates during the draft, which was held virtually in response to the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":158,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[7605],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-144078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-wnba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144078"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=144078"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=144078"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=144078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}