There will be no Larry Bird video tribute to Kobe Bryant, a la Michael Jordan and the Charlotte Hornets, before the Lakers-Celtics game Wednesday night.
Instead, the screens of TD Garden will likely come to life with video of fans in green heckling Kobe Bryant throughout his career, spewing hateful words onto the court, tossing their heads in disgust after an unbelievable Mamba shot.
Then, almost as abruptly as it started, it will stop, and text will come onto the screens saying something along the lines of, “As much as we’ve hated you, greatness respects greatness,” and fade to black, or green, depending on how their video intern was feeling that day.