- Kobe Bryant said his daughter Gianna would carry on his legacy in a 2018 interview with Jimmy Kimmel.
- Bryant and Gianna were among the nine people killed in a helicopter crash on Sunday in California.
- He told Kimmel in 2018 that his daughter wanted to be a professional basketball player.
- He said that when fans suggested Bryant needed to have a boy "to have somebody carry on the tradition, the legacy," Gianna replied: "I got this."
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Kobe Bryant said his daughter Gianna would "carry on his legacy" in an October 2018 interview with Jimmy Kimmel.
Bryant and 13-year-old Gianna were among the nine people killed in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, California on Sunday.
Appearing on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" in 2018, the retired NBA legend spoke of his daughter's bright future.
When Kimmel asked if Gianna wanted to be a professional basketball player like her father, Bryant didn't hesitate to answer.
"She does for sure," he told Kimmel.
"This kid, man... the best thing that happens is when we go out, and fans will come up to me. And she'll be standing next to me, and they will be like, 'you gotta have a boy, you and V gotta have a boy man, to have somebody carry on the tradition, the legacy.'
"And she is like, "I got this,'" he said, referring to Gianna.
In the interview, Bryant also opened up about his family life. He said for 2018, he and his three daughters dressed up as characters from the movie "A League of Their Own" to go trick-or-treating for Halloween.
"I was the black Tom Hanks," he joked.
Bryant also discussed the importance of setting young people up for success.
"You try to teach the kids what excellence looks like," he said.
"Some of them may want to play in the WNBA, some of them may not. But we try to give them a foundation of the amount of work and preparation that it takes to be excellent in whatever it is that you choose to do."
You can watch the interview here:
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