Speaker 1: According to TMZ, the late Kobe Bryant gifted his father
Speaker 1: his first LA Lakers Championship ring back in two thousand.
Speaker 1: This was Kobe's first ring of five championship rings he
Speaker 1: would win throughout his NBA career with the Lakers. The
Speaker 1: ring is fourteen Carrett gold with forty diamonds. When social
Speaker 1: media got the news of the ring being auction the
Speaker 1: outrage poured out. Reportedly, this is not the first time
Speaker 1: Kobe's parents have tried to sell this ring and other memorabilia,
Speaker 1: and back in two thousand and six, Kobe attempted to
Speaker 1: sue his parents because he wasn't notified of the auction
Speaker 1: beforehand and did not give them permission to sell any
Speaker 1: of his items. The lawsuit allegedly led to Kobe and
Speaker 1: his parents relationship ending.
Speaker 2: Wowf and so now they're doing it again.
Speaker 3: Uh so, Kobe, Kobe's fans, they're upset, yank you very much.
Speaker 2: So outrage they sure?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Oh you do his parents need the money? Is that
Speaker 2: what this is all about? Your thinks here?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, hell yeah they need the money. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah you know, man, look I don't you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, situations like that, Yeah, that's sad.
Speaker 4: Well, here's the deal. You know they I don't, I
Speaker 4: don't know. You know, he gave it to them.
Speaker 5: Now before if that he had a problem with him
Speaker 5: selling it, he was here, you know, give it back
Speaker 5: to me. If you're gonna sell it, give it back
Speaker 5: to me. I gave it to y'all for sentimental reason.
Speaker 5: Now he's gone, mm hmmm. Sitting there on the ring.
Speaker 5: You know, they have a right to sell it because
Speaker 5: it's there's what what what?
Speaker 4: What?
Speaker 1: What?
Speaker 5: Don't sit right with the fans at hides hide. Look,
Speaker 5: but the ring is just sitting there, you know, and they.
Speaker 2: Need the money.
Speaker 3: Okay, wow, But when people people passed away.
Speaker 4: Sometimes, yeah, that's what happened. That's what happened, you know.
Speaker 1: And other news out of l a former NBA player
Speaker 1: Lamar odom and Olympia and Kaitlyn Jenner have teamed up
Speaker 1: for a new podcast. It's called Keeping Up with Sports.
Speaker 1: That's the name of their new podcast. They were both
Speaker 1: once featured on Keeping Up with the Kardashians, of course,
Speaker 1: with Lamar being the ex husband of Chloe Kardashian and Caitlin,
Speaker 1: of course, was Chris Jenner's ex and the goal of
Speaker 1: the podcast is to take a fresh look at what
Speaker 1: it takes to be the best at what you do.
Speaker 4: The first abody anybody watching the.
Speaker 2: First episode?
Speaker 4: Anybody watching that mass Sugar?
Speaker 2: Ray Leonard was on the first episode.
Speaker 4: Did you see it? Yeah?
Speaker 1: On social Yeah? Yeah, interesting. I think that's an interesting combo.
Speaker 1: Keeping up with sports, I love the name, a playoff.
Speaker 1: Keeping up with Kardashians.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well it ain't neither one of y'all keep up
Speaker 4: with your.
Speaker 2: Kardashian Oh you mean Lamar and Caitlin Yella.
Speaker 5: I don't think the name catch you at all. I
Speaker 5: think it a waste of damn town. I don't find
Speaker 5: him interesting. They just don't watch your people. To me,
Speaker 5: they're not interested to me, they're not interested to me.
Speaker 5: Lamar's not a great talker or can about what Caitlyn thinks.
Speaker 2: Well, we'll see, we'll see how it does. Okay, all right,
Speaker 2: We're moving on to Lil Wayne.
Speaker 1: Lil Wayne is accused of lying about his drug use
Speaker 1: to the US government so that he could get eight
Speaker 1: point nine million dollars in pandemic loans.
Speaker 2: This happened back in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 1: According to the Business Insider, Lil Wayne listed his company
Speaker 1: as a drug free workplace, and he made hismployees aware
Speaker 1: of the dangers of using drugs. The Small Business Association
Speaker 1: is in the process of monitoring all recipients of the loans,
Speaker 1: and Little Wayne's Young Money Touring Company, Inc. Was flagged.
Speaker 1: If anyone is found to have violated the rules, they
Speaker 1: could be forced to go to a drug rehabilitation facility.
Speaker 5: Well hm wow, well, well that's all the boys down there,
Speaker 5: baby Wayne master p new cast was businessmen.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, Slim Slim.
Speaker 5: Had them boys together, man them boys down in the end. Oh,
Speaker 5: they broke free before anybody.
Speaker 4: They showed them all what.
Speaker 2: To do fresh.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yep.
Speaker 3: Everything is legit because he won't be messing up his
Speaker 3: Super Bowl performances right now.
Speaker 1: We'll see because the Small Business Administration is in the
Speaker 1: process of monitoring all recipients of those loans, So we'll
Speaker 1: see how this one comes out.
Speaker 4: The next Super Bowl. I predict Taylor Swift.
Speaker 2: In New Orleans coming up twenty.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you keep saying that. Yeah, that could very well
Speaker 1: happen too. Yeah, that could very well happen. And is
Speaker 1: that who you want to see you keep predicting.
Speaker 4: I don't know one Taylor Swift song.
Speaker 3: Yes you do, you remember she used to seeing it
Speaker 3: when she was little.
Speaker 2: We are never ever ever.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be hard to follow usher though. Don't you
Speaker 1: think it's gonna be real hard to find?
Speaker 4: Yeah, well no, because it's a year later.
Speaker 5: But you know, they say it was gonna be hard
Speaker 5: to follow Michael, they said about Prince, they said about Beyonce.
Speaker 2: It's a year Yeah, people forget if.
Speaker 5: You next that night, yeah, I don't you go out there?
Speaker 2: But a year later result.
Speaker 4: At night.
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