Street outside Staples Center will be renamed Kobe Bryant Boulevard, LA City Council says

Inside Staples Center, Kobe Bryant's Nos. 8 and 24 have hung from the rafters since 2017. And now outside Staples Center, a portion of Figueroa Street will be renamed in the Los Angeles Lakers star's honor. Figueroa Street will be unveiled as Kobe Bryant Boulevard between Olympic Boulevard and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, according to Los Angeles City Council member Herb J. Wesson Jr.

Wesson Jr. made the announcement on Monday, Aug. 24 -- 8/24 on the calendar -- which is officially known as Kobe Bryant Day in Los Angeles and Orange County. Bryant and his daughter, Gianna, were among nine people who perished in a helicopter crash in January.

The Lakers will wear special "Black Mamba" uniforms to remember Bryant and his daughter for Game 4 of their first round series against the Portland Trail Blazers on Monday. Sunday was Bryant's birthday. He would have been 42.

A portion of West 11th street, which intersects with Figueroa and separates Staples Center from the plaza at L.A. Live, was already renamed Chick Hearn Court after the longtime Lakers play-by-play announcer in 2002.