Like Taurasi, Auriemma shared stories about Bryant constantly asking for coaching tips for his daughter and how to run practices for his girls' team. Kobe snapped a photo of his daughter with head coach Geno Auriemma, associate head coach Chris Dailey and the entire women’s team and … This is Kathy Auriemma; wife of women’s college basketball coach Geno Auriemma, the fab head coach for the UConn Huskies. And he was allowing Gigi to be Gigi, not Kobe Bryant's daughter." UConn, Geno Auriemma and Team USA offer touching tribute to Kobe Bryant and Gianna Bryant 'Gigi' hoped to one day play for UConn, and the program honored her memory along with her father Geno Auriemma, the University of Connecticut women's basketball coach, recalled the excitement Gigi Bryant showed while visiting UConn during Monday's celebration of life honoring Kobe Bryant. He felt that this was "a hell of a thing" for a parent to do. "He was being dad, he wasn't being Kobe Bryant. And there’s Dad, bringing his daughter to … As Auriemma explained, the simple fact that Bryant wanted his daughter to shine was an example of the type of father that he was. Italian born head coach Auriemma was just a seven-year-old boy when he moved to Pennsylvania with his family; a lucky moved for the US Women’s Basketball Association, otherwise, they would have never hired him and the story the U.S … Read Geno Auriemma’s speech from the Kobe Bryant memorial ... “And when they came to UConn and they sat behind the bench. But the question is what anyone is supposed to do about that when the leading voice in women’s basketball, Geno Auriemma, makes his own daughter bang … Not as Long as Auriemma Is in Charge After a trying season for Coach Geno Auriemma and his team, UConn’s women find themselves in a familiar …

Geno Auriemma, Diana Taurasi honor Kobe and Gigi Bryant at Celebration of Life Memorial The basketball world honored the lives of Kobe Bryant and daughter Gigi on Monday. Kathy Auriemma.