Kobe Bryant’s days of playing basketball are over but he is still causing a stir at Los Angeles’ Staples Center, though indirectly. During last night’s LA Clippers-Portland Trail Blazers playoff game, a fan wearing a Blake Griffin t-shirt asked to give a shout out on the microphone during a game break. He pulled an okie-doke on everyone in attendance when he shouted “The Black Mamba Kobe Bryant.” The man was met with a shower of boos from Clipper fans in the arena.
Unfortunately for us, the moment was not captured on the video, but the sports reporters that were in the building gave us some tweets chronicling the entire thing.
Guy in a Blake Griffin J-shirt just asked to give a shout out over the PA and he shouted out “the Black Mamba Kobe Bryant”. Met with boos
— Dan Woike (@DanWoikeSports) April 21, 2016
A Clippers fan wearing a Blake Griffin jersey shirt is getting booed after giving a shoutout on the court to “The Black Mamba, Kobe Bryant.”
— Arash Markazi (@ArashMarkazi) April 21, 2016
Guy on the floor shooting free throws for prizes at the TO just gave a big shout out to Kobe Bryant- place boo’d. #Clippers
— Liz Habib (@LizHabib) April 21, 2016
Fan participating in contest during timeout just used his mic time to shout out Kobe and Clippers fans were having none of it ???
— Nate Jones (@JonesOnTheNBA) April 21, 2016
This dude just shouted out Kobe Bryant after airballing two free throws during a timeout contest.
— Casey Holdahl (@CHold) April 21, 2016
Kobe would surely be proud.
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