Gianna Bryant, Alyssa Altobelli and Payton Chester Honored During WNBA Draft

Gianna Bryant‘s dreams of being drafted into the WNBA came true on Friday, nearly three months after the tragic helicopter crash that killed the 13-year-old, her father Kobe Bryant and seven others.
During the WNBA draft on Friday, commissioner Cathy Englebert named Gianna and her Mamba Academy teammates Alyssa Altobelli and Payton Chester, who also died in the crash, honorary draftees.
Englebert read out the three girls’ names just as she would announce any other draftee in a t