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LOS ANGELES - Joe"Jellybean" Bryant, the father of the late Lakers basketball legend Kobe Bryant and a former coach for the Los Angeles Sparks of the W NBA , died Tuesday at age 69.
La Salle University in Philadelphia, where Joe Bryant played from 1973- 75, confirmed the news on X, posting,"He was a beloved member of the Explorer family and will be dearly missed."The former Philadelphia 76er died four years after his son Kobe and granddaughter Gianna were killed in a helicopter crash in Calabasas.
Joe Bryant was a first-round draft pick of the Golden State Warriors in the 1975 NBA draft. His rights were sold to the Philadelphia 76ers months later. He spent four seasons with the Sixers before playing for the San Diego Clippers and Houston Rockets.He was a coach with the Los Angeles Sparks from 2005 to 2007.Copyright 2024, City News Service, Inc.
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