Exclusive | Daddy, why are they calling you a GOAT!? NBA legend Kobe Bryant reveals how his daughter took offence at his famous moniker

Five-time NBA champ Kobe Bryant was strolling through Disneyland with his family one day when the animal name-calling first started. Or so his innocent 11-year-old daughter Gianna thought.

“It’s me, my wife [Vanessa], my eldest daughter Natalia and our middle child Gianna,” Kobe tells the Post. “And fans throughout the park keep walking by me saying ‘you’re the GOAT, you’re the GOAT!’

“Finally, Gianna turns to one of them and shouts ‘how rude’. I asked her what was wrong, and she says, ‘they keep calling you a goat, that is so rude!’

“Oh baby, I think they mean the Greatest Of All Time,” responded the retired American, before Gianna went on to thank the fan who commended her father’s golden 20 years as a Los Angeles Lakers legend.

Bryant laughed aloud as he revealed for the first time his GOAT anecdote in an intimate cafe in Mission Hills Haikou, China – perhaps the only moment of peace he had there.

The Black Mamba, who was promoting the first ever national NBA headquarters and interactive museum, had been tailed by thousands of his disciples throughout the day.