Kobe Bryant Blvd Soon.
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Kobe Bryant Blvd Soon.

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Inside Staples Center, Kobe Bryant's Nos. 8 and 24 have hung from the rafters since 2017. And now outside Staples Center, a portion of Figueroa Street will be renamed in the former Los Angeles Lakers star's honor.

Figueroa Street will be unveiled as Kobe Bryant Boulevard between Olympic Boulevard and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, according to Los Angeles City Council member Herb J. Wesson Jr.

A portion of West 11th Street, which intersects with Figueroa and separates Staples Center from the plaza at L.A. Live, was already renamed Chick Hearn Court after the longtime Lakers play-by-play announcer in 2002.

The Lakers wore special "Black Mamba" uniforms to remember Bryant and his daughter for Game 4 of their first-round series against the Portland Trail Blazers on Monday night. Sunday was Bryant's birthday. He would have been 42. ESPN