Yahoo Sports Pleasing English teachers, pesky typos on Lakers' Kobe Bryant statue are corrected
Anyone who writes for a living knows the value of a good editor. Sculptors? Not so much.
So when the Lakers unveiled a statue of the late, great Kobe Bryant outside Crypto.com Arena in February, it wasn’t long before nitpickers noticed a few typos.
Beneath the 19-foot likeness of Bryant pointing triumphantly to heaven — a re-creation of a gesture he made in an 81-point performance against the Toronto Raptors in 2006 — is a reproduction of the game’s box score. In it, two other players’ names were misspelled along with the word “decision.”
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On Tuesday, the Lakers fixed those errors before the team's final regular-season game at home. L.A. wound up suffering a 134-120 loss to the Golden State Warriors.
The names of Raptors guard Jose Calderon and Lakers guard Von Wafer are now spelled correctly — as is "decision" — on the base of the statue.
The Lakers are planning two more statues of Bryant, one in the No. 24 jersey he wore in the second half of his 20-year career and another with his daughter Gianna, who was killed with her father in a helicopter crash on Jan. 26, 2020.
Times staff writer Chuck Schilken contributed to this report.
This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.
