A woman has shared a moving story of how Kobe Bryant put a smile on the face of a terminally ill young fan in the hospital.
Facebook user Kristen O’Connor Hecht shared the heart-warming tribute to the late basketball legend on Monday, the day after his tragic death in a helicopter crash, alongside his 13-year-old daughter and seven others. According to the woman, Kobe Bryant’s only request was that the meeting wasn’t publicized.
The tragic death of basketball legend Kobe Bryant in a helicopter crash is an event full of gratitude and sadness for his fans all around the world.
While all of them are full of fondness, gratitude, and only the best words about the late basketball player, this particular one underlines Bryant’s true and sincere kindness and humbleness.
After all, most famous people like their good deeds to be talked about but Bryant was not one of them. His way of keeping the kind acts he’s done over the years to himself is the true definition of saying “not all heroes wear capes”.
Ms O’Connor Hecht described how Bryant, 41, apparently took time out of his busy schedule to visit the dying five-year-old boy at a hospital in Phoenix, Arizona.
At the time, her husband Tom was the director of corporate partnerships for the city’s basketball team the Phoenix Suns, who were due to play Bryant’s team the Lakers later that week.
According to her Facebook post, “I called Tom at the Phoenix Suns making the request, believing that there would be virtually no way this would happen,” Hecht wrote in her post, adding that little Kobe had a heart defect.
“A day later Tom called me and said, ‘He’ll do it!’ I was thrilled and thought I’d bring the ball or whatever it was to work.”
Bryant was so humble and kind-hearted that he visited the hospital the very next day.
They both played basketball while laughing and enjoying. When the time came for the five-time NBA champion to leave, he asked Hecht if there was any way he could help with the boy’s treatment.
Moreover, Kobe asked if he can do any financial assistance for the thing young ill child. Unfortunately, the boy died the following week. Hecht would soon receive an emotional letter from the boy’s mother thanking her for the visit with Bryant.
This story is really heart-warming and showing how kind-hearted, humble and caring Bryant was.
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