Stay Connected
Atlanta Black Star/Video/ABS Originals
ABS OriginalsEntertainmentNews Video

Drake Pays Tribute to Kobe Bryant In His Home Gymnasium

Posted byBy Daryl Nelson | Published on: CommentsComments (0)

Drake took to Instagram Stories on Monday, March 16, showing his home gymnasium and how it pays tribute to NBA star Kobe Bryant.

The gym is mostly colored in blue and has the logo of his label OVO Sound in the center of the floor. Then as the camera swings around, a No. 8 and No. 24 can be seen next to each other on a wall, which are the numbers that Bryant wore when he played with the Los Angeles Lakers.

Drake (L) honored Kobe Bryant (R) in his home gymnasium. (Photo: Paras Griffin/Getty Images Entertainment via Getty Images/Kevin Winter/Getty Images Entertainment via Getty Images)

Drake also added a caption to the video and seemed to bring up the coronavirus, as well as the call for social distancing to slow down its spread.

“My life for the next however long,” he wrote.

Earlier in the year, following the tragic death of Kobe Bryant, Drake posted a photo of a jacket that he wore at the 2016 NBA All Star Game that honored Bryant since Bryant was retiring that year.

“😤😔🥺 it can’t be,” Drake captioned that post.

Bryant was killed in a helicopter crash on Jan. 26 with his 13-year-old daughter Gianna Bryant and seven other people in Calabasas, California.

For many years now, Drake has been known to be a big basketball fan, and he’s currently a global ambassador for the Toronto Raptors. He often sits courtside at a lot of Raptors’ games and talks trash to their opponents.

In fact, it was something that Drake was criticized for when he trolled Giannis Antetokounmpo during Games 3 and 4 of the Eastern Conference Finals last year.

Drake laughed when Antetokounmpo missed free throws during those games and celebrated from his seat.

As for his isolation these days to do his part toward reducing the number of coronavirus outbreaks, Drake will have anything but a shabby spot in which to do that.

Photos and a video of his sprawling home, located in Toronto, Canada,
surfaced in October 2019.

From the views, you could see a hallway that seems to go on forever, plus a
massive bar and swimming pool that both look like they belong in a swanky
hotel.

There appear to be several large rooms with all kinds of pricey-looking
furniture in them.

Not bad at all for a place to lock yourself away in indefinitely.

 

 

 

 

Still independent.

We hope this story was worth your time. For over 14 years, Atlanta Black Star has stayed Black-owned and independently run. We didn't get here by waiting on ad budgets that were never built to prioritize us. Our readers did that.

Corporate support for Black media has always been thin. Outlets like ours get roughly 1% of the $170 billion spent on U.S. advertising each year, and that margin is shrinking further as advertisers walk back the DEI-linked commitments they made in 2020. That's the backdrop. It's not why we're asking.

The wider picture isn't any steadier. Newspaper ad revenue has fallen more than 80% since 2005, and local newsrooms are closing at a rate of roughly two a week nationwide. When outlets go under, it's rarely the ones built to center a Black perspective from the ground up that get to stick around.

We know a request for support isn't why you came here. But without readers choosing to fund this work directly, the depth of reporting we can do at home and abroad shrinks along with everyone else's. If you're not in a position to give, that doesn't change how much we value you as a reader.

If you are able to, a recurring contribution does more for us than a single one-time gift, because it lets us plan the next investigation instead of just the next invoice. It takes about 30 seconds, no long form, no account. Thank you for continuing to support independent journalism and freedom of the press.

Give once Give monthly Support another way

Related Stories

Back to top