The love that Los Angeles Lakers fans feel for Kobe Bryant is near unparalleled by any other fan-base with a single player. Obviously a lot of that is a construct of Kobe having spent each of his 20 seasons in the NBA as a member of the Lakers, but being a once-in-a-generation type of talent certainly doesn’t hurt either.
However, one of the interesting things that brings about as Kobe Bryant plays his last season in the NBA and with the Lakers is that this rabid fan-base wants to take away a memory from Kobe’s farewell tour.