🏀Ann Meyers Drysdale named recipient of 2024 #WNBA Kobe and Gigi Bryant Advocacy Award✅
0She was inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in 1993.
"Having been around the WNBA since its inception, I am truly humbled to accept the 2024 Kobe and Gigi Bryant WNBA Advocacy Award and to be viewed as an advocate for girls and women in sports," Meyers Drysdale stated. "I first met Kobe when his dad was coaching the Los Angeles Sparks, and I was on the Sparks' broadcast team. I knew then how much passion Kobe had for the game of basketball and how that devotion ran in the family.
"It was a full-circle moment for me when Kobe led his daughters to the sport, and we all saw the support he gave to girls and women in the game. As someone who has also lost a husband while raising young children, I hope to honor Vanessa's strength and bring further awareness to the ways that she continues to recognize her husband and daughter's legacy."
Previous Kobe and Gigi WNBA Advocacy Award winners:
2022: Chris Paul
2023: Pau Gasol