{"id":442066,"date":"2026-08-24T15:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T15:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/442066\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T15:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T15:54:09","slug":"pacific-wheel-to-display-kobe-bryants-lakers-jersey-numbers-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/442066\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacific Wheel to display Kobe Bryant\u2019s Lakers jersey numbers \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kobe Bryant’s two Lakers jersey numbers will light up the Santa Monica coastline Monday night when the Pacific Wheel displays a 90-foot tribute to the late basketball star in recognition of Kobe Bryant Day.<\/p>\n

The Ferris wheel at Pacific Park on the Santa Monica Pier will display “LA (heart) 24” and “LA (heart) 8” in Lakers purple and gold beginning at sunset, about 7:30 p.m., and continuing until midnight. Custom patterns and transitions celebrating Bryant<\/a>‘s career and legacy in Los Angeles will also be displayed across the wheel’s 174,000 LED lights.<\/p>\n

Aug. 24 is observed as Kobe Bryant Day in Los Angeles, with the 8\/24 date representing the two jersey numbers Bryant wore during his 20-season career with the Lakers. The observance comes one day after Bryant’s Aug. 23 birthday.<\/p>\n

Bryant spent his entire NBA career with the Lakers from 1996 to 2016, helping the team win five NBA championships and earning 18 All-Star selections. He was named the league’s Most Valuable Player in 2008 and was twice named NBA Finals MVP.<\/p>\n

The Lakers retired both of Bryant’s jersey numbers, No. 8 and No. 24, in December 2017, making him the first player in franchise history to have two numbers retired.<\/p>\n

Nine people, including the 41-year-old Bryant and 13-year-old daughter Gianna, were killed in a helicopter crash in Calabasas on Jan. 26, 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kobe Bryant’s two Lakers jersey numbers will light up the Santa Monica coastline Monday night when the Pacific…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[17959,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-442066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-kobe-bryant","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}