A teenage artist in the Philippines painted a stunning portrait of Kobe Bryant on the wall of their house as tribute to the late basketball star.<br /><br />Christian Mark Samson from Nueva Ecija spent 10 hours daubing the mural with the help of his younger brother Jakery.<br /><br />He said: "Kobe Bryant was our childhood hero. I have happy memories of watching him as a young boy, so we were affected when we heard the news he had died.''<br /><br />The finished mural shows Kobe wearing his iconic yellow and purple Los Angeles Lakers jersey shirt.<br /><br />He was killed alongside his 13-year-old daughter Gianna in a helicopter crash in LA on January.
