UConn’s Azzi Fudd
Kobe, Gigi Bryant Had been ‘Watching Down On Us’
… Throughout Title Sport
Revealed April 11, 2025 12:45 AM PDT
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UConn star Azzi Fudd says she believes her Huskies received an help from the Mamba and the Mambacita throughout their title tilt final weekend … telling TMZ Sports activities she felt Kobe and Gianna Bryant “watching down on us” in the course of the large recreation.
Some 5 years after the NBA legend and his daughter — who was an enormous UConn fan — handed away in a tragic helicopter accident … Fudd says she felt their presence as she and her teammates have been taking down South Carolina within the nationwide championship in San Antonio.
She advised us all of it turned crystal clear to her when somebody identified just a few Bryant-related numbers within the matchup’s field rating.
“Another person requested me,” Fudd advised us whereas she labored a ceremonial shift with Kk Arnold at a Elevating Cane’s this week, “there have been a pair scores — 24, 8 — within the stat line they usually have been like, ‘Do you imagine in God’s energy?'”
“And I used to be like, ‘Yeah, that is God. That is them. That is Kobe. That is Gigi. That is them watching down on us, cheering us on on this recreation. She was there. She’s not right here, however she was there in spirit.”
Fudd had met the Bryant duo earlier than their deaths … she really labored out with them in Los Angeles only a few months previous to the accident. She posed with the 2 for photos in the course of the on-court session, and after we reminded her of the snaps, she received a bit emotional … as she realized Gigi “would have been a freshman” this 12 months if she had survived.
“That positively did cross my thoughts,” she stated.
Vanessa really shouted out Fudd and her teammates following their large win over the Gamecocks … and Fudd advised us this week she was grateful for the sort phrases.
“Vanessa’s unbelievable,” she stated, “and so is her total household.”
