Mourners left more than 1,300 basketballs outside the Staples Center in Los Angeles as a tribute to NBA legend Kobe Bryant
Cleanup of the makeshift Kobe Bryant memorial outside the Staples Center in Los Angeles began Monday at 4 a.m. local time, and the crew was busy. Fans of the late Lakers star had left more than 1,300 basketballs at the memorial in tribute.
Staples Center president Lee Zeidman shared on Twitter an image of some of the 1,353 basketballs -- many of them containing handwritten messages.Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven other people were killed in a helicopter crash near Los Angeles on January 26.NBA will honor Kobe Bryant, his daughter and helicopter crash victims with special patches during All-Star weekendFans left thousands of items at the memorial to pay their respects to Bryant and other victims of the crash.
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