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Two days after the
tragic deaths of
Kobe Bryant and his 13-year-old daughter
Gianna Bryant, fans and journalists are clearly still grieving. They are also
sending out incredibly touching tributes to the basketball legend, including a recent viral video of ESPN’s
Elle Duncan.
In the clip, Duncan, who only interview Kobe once, captured a moment where he was beaming about his wife’s when she was eight months pregnant with her daughter.
“I asked him advice on raising girls, as he quite famously had three at the time,” Duncan recounted. “He said, ‘just be grateful that you’ve been given that gift because girls are amazing.’ His third daughter, Bianka, was about a year-and-a-half old at the time, so I asked if he wanted more children. He said that his wife Vanessa really wanted to try again for a boy, but was sort of jokingly concerned that it would be another girl. And I was like, ‘four girls, are you joking? What would you think? How would you feel?’ Without hesitation, he said ‘I would have five more girls if I could. I’m a girl dad.’”
My eyes are sweating.
Not surprisingly, this video went viral and the hashtag #GirlDad started trending on social media with fathers posting adorable pictures of themselves with the little girls in their lives.
Take a look at the best Black Twitter #GirlDad photos: