LeBron James is my current favorite NBA player, but with all due respect to him and Kawhi Leonard, Kobe Bryant is the true king of L.A. athletics.
I can speak from first-hand experience. When I visited the LeBron mural with the other Laker greats near Melrose and Fairfax district of Los Angeles in July of 2018, a Laker fan spotted me in my LeBron shirt and said “Yo!! That piece [mural] is nice, but check this one out!!”
When I went over towards him, I saw the Kobe mural across the street commemorating his last game and career.