Kobe Bryant wrote ‘How bout those Lakers’ as eighth grader in yearbook that’s up for auction

Long before he became an all-time great for the Los Angeles Lakers, Kobe Bryant gave the NBA team a shoutout in a friend’s middle school yearbook.

When he was in eighth grade, Bryant wrote “How bout those Lakers” in the autographs section of the 1992 memento released by Bala Cynwyd Middle School...