{"id":397283,"date":"2024-07-16T17:25:06","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T15:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=397283"},"modified":"2024-07-16T17:25:06","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T15:25:06","slug":"joe-bryant-father-of-kobe-and-former-nba-player-dies-at-69","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/joe-bryant-father-of-kobe-and-former-nba-player-dies-at-69\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Bryant, father of Kobe and former NBA player, dies at 69"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe &#8216;Jellybean&#8217; Bryant, Kobe&#8217;s father, passed away at the age of 69 after suffering a heart attack.<\/p>\n<p>During his career as a player, Bryant defended the colors of Rieti, Reggio Emilia, Reggio Calabria, and Pistoia, even taking the little Kobe all over Italy.<\/p>\n<p>It has been four and a half years since Jan. 26, 2020, the day his son Kobe and granddaughter Gigi died along with seven other people in a helicopter crash.<\/p>\n<p>Joe and Kobe were inseparable in the very early part of the &#8216;Mamba&#8217;s&#8217; career as stars at Lower Merion High School.<\/p>\n<p>But after joining the Los Angeles Lakers, and beginning what would become a memorable NBA career, their relationship soured as Kobe demanded more freedom and independence from his family.<\/p>\n<p>Joe made no public comment on his son&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Olimpia Milan is deeply saddened by the death of Joe. Bryant at 69.A legend in the Italian league for seven seasons and Kobe\u2019s dad, he was Olimpia\u2019s part owner during the 1999-00 season along his son and Mr Pasquale Caputo. Our condolences to the Bryant family<br \/>\nMay he rest in\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sp1Z5eVh7a\">pic.twitter.com\/sp1Z5eVh7a<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Olimpia Milano (@OlimpiaMI1936) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OlimpiaMI1936\/status\/1813221246605156501?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 16, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We are saddened to announce the passing of La Salle basketball great Joe Bryant.<\/p>\n<p>Joe played for the Explorers from 1973-75 and was a member of our coaching staff from 1993-96. He was a beloved member of the Explorer family and will be dearly missed. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/A3sgZzVkkt\">pic.twitter.com\/A3sgZzVkkt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 La Salle Men\u2019s Basketball (@LaSalle_MBB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LaSalle_MBB\/status\/1813225708887679273?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 16, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been four and a half years since Jan. 26, 2020, the day his son Kobe and granddaughter Gigi died along with seven other people in a helicopter crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":397282,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-397283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/07\/joe-bryant.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397283","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\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397283"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=397283"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=397283"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=397283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}