Taylor Swift shared a sweet moment with Bianka Bryant, daughter of the late NBA icon Kobe Bryant, on Thursday.
In a touching moment that was caught on video, the singer handed Bryant her hat and shared a hug with the 6-year-old while performing the song “22” during the first of six shows at Inglewood’s SoFi Stadium.
Vanessa Bryant, who was married to Kobe Bryant for nearly 19 years before his death in 2020, shared a photo of Swift and her daughter embracing onstage.
“We love you [Taylor Swift],” she captioned the photo.
Swift has typically handed off her hat when performing “22” on her Eras Tour, but this is not the singer’s first sweet moment with the Bryant family.
Natalia Bryant, Vanessa and Kobe Bryant’s 20-year-old daughter who was also at the concert with her mom and sister, once received a “Folklore” cardigan from Swift.
The Bryants embraced their Swiftie side for Thursday’s show. Vanessa Bryant shared a photo of a custom jean jacket she wore that featured a picture of her late husband and Swift.
The photo is from a 2015 concert at the Staples Center, where the Los Angeles Lakers legend presented her with a banner in the rafters for the “most sold out performances” at the venue.
The jacket also featured a colorful “Say You’ll Remember Me” patch, a nod to Swift’s song “Wildest Dreams.”
Vanessa Bryant shared snaps of several friendship bracelets from Natalia that she wore to the show, as well. Those include bracelets that read “KOBE” and “GIGI,” in memory of her husband and her late daughter Gianna Bryant.
She posted a video of Gianna and Natalia on her Instagram story that shows the pair jamming out to “You Belong With Me” in 2018.
Kobe Bryant himself was an admirer of Swift’s. He once praised the singer’s work ethic in an interview on “The Jordan Harbinger Show.”
“Look at what she’s doing. It’s unbelievable to be able to pull that off over and over and over and over. So I’ll look at things like that to try to learn from them as much as I can,” Bryant said, adding that Swift is at the “top of the game.”
“She’s a sweet kid,” he added. “I mean, she was a sweetheart to my girls before she even blew up and became Taylor Swift, so that’s why I like her. If she needs anything from me, I’m always there. But you can’t have that level of consistent success and not be a killer. It’s impossible.”