The last time we spoke, Gigi told me that her best birthday party ever was on her 13th birthday. Her parents brought her and some friends to a Lakers game, and she dressed like a superfan: She wore a yellow-and-purple wig, her braces were yellow and purple, and she had on her very own Kobe uniform. Years later, at a Taylor Swift show in L.A., Gigi finally saw Kobe in person. “Taylor was like, ‘Go over. Say hi,’ ” Gigi recalled. “And I couldn’t. Kobe Bryant is one of the only people who make me starstruck.”