Kobe and Gigi Bryant Memorial Thread (RIP)

[CrookedAzzNikka]

Kobe Bryant Memorial Items Pulled From eBay, Against Policy

People looking to make a buck off items from the Kobe Bryant memorial will have to go somewhere other than eBay ... 'cause the company is actively working to remove all the items from the site.

As we previously reported ... shirts, pins, programs and other items from Monday's event at Staples Center hit the auction site this week. One XL shirt sold for a whopping $2,025.

But, we noticed multiple listings had disappeared from eBay over the past 24 hours -- so we reached out to eBay to find out what's up.

Turns out, eBay has a policy that prohibits sellers from profiting off of "human tragedy or suffering."

Good.
eBay sellers

 

[Sccit]

yeah, i know we lost Charmander too, but i think at the very least we should have that purple and gold theme that i know they were discussing.

Kobe has been a huge part of this forum, going back to SOHH days

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@Houston911 WE EVER GUNA GET THAT PURPLE N GOLD KOBE SKIN?

WOULD BE NICE TODAY ON THE 1 MONTH DATE

 

[Sterling Archer]

it was more than that

Kobe left his longtime GF who was close to Kobe's parents and married Vanessa. The girl Kobe left was literally with him from the very beginning. Pam also didn't like how Vanessa's mom lives in a mansion that was paid for by Kob, and he offered his parents $250k for a home. Kob lived on the mainline just outside of Philly. You can't get a townhouse with $250k where he grew up. So imagine your son giving his MIL a mansion and you can't get $450k for a standard suburban crib. Kob will always be my guy but that's FckdUpB...

Kobe OWNED that home he bought Vanessa's mom. She was just living in it. And the houses were comparable. The only difference was the price because its was in Newport fukking Beach and his parents stayed outside Vegas. Because I almost moved there myself, trust that a $300k home in Vegas at the time was extremely comparable to a 3mil crib in Newport. And as its pointed out, her mom never owned that property, Kobe still did. So he aint "buy" her that house. He bought it himself and let her live in it.

And theres no such thing as "longtime relationship" when you are in highschool breh. Stop.

 

[levitate]

Been foggy as fukk today...

 

[MikelArteta]

Shaq mentioning Kobe parents on TNT...WOW saying he got em if they need anything

Shaq is a great guy and a great friend. I worry for dude sometimes esp when he said he’s not sleeping etc

 

[MikelArteta]

part of Pam's gripe (she's the alpha between her and Jellybean) is that he didn't sign a pre-nup and married her in Cali. Imagine raising a son to be an athletic prodigy and he risks his financial future by not signing a pre-nup and marrying an opportunistic latina a few weeks after meeting her.

what I will say is that Vanessa earned her keep by weathering the storms for 18+ yrs and having 4 kids together.

I just hope Kobe took care of his parents, sisters, nieces & nephews in his will.

let’s be real breh if you have kids and your son comes home and says he’s going to marry some 17/18 year old girl he barely knows you’d be like

it worked out for Kobe but for the average person in that situation they would have been burned


Both Kobe and his parents played a part

 

[VegetasHairline]

 

[CanesMiamiLakers]

He took Brandy to the prom for the look. I went to proms with chicks that had BFs, it's more common than you think. He was with the chick from about age 15 to 21 but back then he wanted to be the next Will Smith so he kept everything low. He met his first love through his cousins who lived in Yeadon, just outside of Southwest Philly (Jellybean is from Southwest). She was the one Kob would cry to after losing games, she would watch game film with him, she was his rock basically in the beginning, and didn't run her mouth. She was devastated when he married Vanessa, took her yrs to recover.

and the fact remain, his mother in law lived better than his parents. Kobe's Uncle was a hooper (Pam's brother), Kobe's cousin was a hooper (Pam's nephew), Jellybean was a hooper (and he was 6'9), and his grandfather used to mail him vhs tapes of nba games. Kobe didn't become great out of nowhere, it was in his blood. He offered to buy his grandmother a house but she didn't want to leave her house in Southwest Philly.

At the end of the day, he offered his parents $250k when they requested $450k. Jellybean sent him to Lower Merion (one of the best public schools in the philly area), introduced him to his b-ball network, had Shamgod work with him on his handle, had him working out with John Lucas, Mo Cheeks, Tim Legler, and Sixers players. Kobe wouldn't have been GOATbe without the tutelage and lineage.

Man you preaching to the choir. These boys think a bytch is more important than they real family. She even said she wasn’t Kobe’s type when they were getting a divorce that 2nd time. Like I said I don’t know the situation but Kobe seemed more wrong than right in the situation with his parents and Vanessa seems to be caring the torch by not including his family in the memorial.

 

[goatmane]

 

[aceboon]

Rip posted some more HS footage

 

[Rosecrans]

Hope they keep this thread pinned for at least 24 months

 

[MikelArteta]

Shaq mentioning Kobe parents on TNT...WOW saying he got em if they need anything

 

[Controversy]

Kobe OWNED that home he bought Vanessa's mom. She was just living in it. And the houses were comparable. The only difference was the price because its was in Newport fukking Beach and his parents stayed outside Vegas. Because I almost moved there myself, trust that a $300k home in Vegas at the time was extremely comparable to a 3mil crib in Newport. And as its pointed out, her mom never owned that property, Kobe still did. So he aint "buy" her that house. He bought it himself and let her live in it.

And theres no such thing as "longtime relationship" when you are in highschool breh. Stop.

I'm not gonna put her name our there but Kobe was with J up until he met Vanessa. They were together a good 4 or 5+ yrs.

of course Kob owned the house, but the fact remains his MIL was treated better than his own mom. There would be no black mamba without Pam. I know Laker fans think they know Kob but before he was in LA, he was a teenager living in Philly who only hopped, spent time with his family, GF, GF's family and was groomed to be GOATbe. Kobe was looking in the mirror when he looked at his Mom. And I do think his parents should've got the 450

 

[Sterling Archer]

I'm not gonna put her name our there but Kobe was with J up until he met Vanessa. They were together a good 4 or 5+ yrs.

of course Kob owned the house, but the fact remains his MIL was treated better than his own mom. There would be no black mamba without Pam. I know Laker fans think they know Kob but before he was in LA, he was a teenager living in Philly who only hopped, spent time with his family, GF, GF's family and was groomed to be GOATbe. Kobe was looking in the mirror when he looked at his Mom. And I do think his parents should've got the 450

My point was that it was a stupid reason for his moms to buck. I'm saying that both his mom and Vanessa's mom got basically the same kind of house. One just cost more because of the location. It wasn't a "nicer" home. And his parents owned that house he got unlike Vanessa's mom. That also wasn't the only house he had bought them either.

The other point I made wasn't to suggest you weren't telling the truth about who he was with before. It was no matter who it was, it was just highschool. Kid shyt.

I don't think I know anything I don't know. I don't know any of these people personally. I only know things that were made public.

 

[2Quik4UHoes]

Been foggy as fukk today...

Same here....