Patrick Green was

born and raised as a "hard core Lakers fan", a proud East Los Angeles citizen who understood life in parallel with the tale of a prodigy,

Kobe Bryant

.

"I witnessed his exploits, from his 17-year-old arrival in the city until the last day, when he said goodbye scoring 60 points at the Staples Center. It's the kind of fairy tale that you can't invent, friend," he says of passionate way.

His memoirs are part of the collective imagination of Angelenos.

"This is why his death was so devastating to me."

A year after his fatal helicopter crash,

Los Angeles still mourns

its emptiness.

"The city will always be sad."

After months of thinking about it, Green found a way to honor his idol.

"Sincerely, Los Angeles", a documentary about the muralists who proliferated in the days after their death, will be released in a few days as part of the tribute that is expected to be paid to Bryant and

his daughter Gianna

from various parts of the city .

The Lakers, however, have preferred to distance themselves from that spirit.

According to

ESPN

, there will be no formal tribute to the legend nor will the players wear the

Black Mamba

uniform

for their next two games, against the

Cleveland Cavaliers

-in the early hours of this Tuesday- and against the

Philadelphia Sixers

on Wednesday.

Nor will it be possible to carry out mass tributes, since the pandemic, rampant in the city, has meant that, for example, patients with few possibilities of living are not even transferred to hospitals, saturated to the extreme.

"I definitely don't want to relive that day again,"

Lebron James

said

a few days ago.

"There are many things that die in this world, but legends don't die, and that's exactly what it was. It's about representing that."

Coach

Frank Vogel

, for his part, feels like "it was a million years ago, yet at the same time it seems like it happened yesterday."

POPULAR TRIBUTE

Thus, the tribute will be in the hands of the people, of people like

Melany Meza-Dierks

, responsible for one of the murals to Bryant in

El Sereno

, a neighborhood in East Los Angeles, "pushed by a force much greater than money" who They paid him $ 2,000 to do it.

Meza-Dierks, of Venezuelan origin, confesses that he does not watch sports on television or follow the Lakers, but that Bryant's death affected him to the point of feeling the need to illuminate a wall that he now believes has come to life own.

"It's my perspective on his death, on the bright light behind his figure," he

explains.

Meza-Dierks is part of the documentary about Kobe and the street art it inspired, the story of how Kobe connected people through the murals.

Also a love letter from the city that he carried on his shoulders in so many apotheosis afternoons.

According to Green, Bryant's death served to illuminate forgotten areas of the great city, neighborhoods without art, streets without life that revived with the memory of his pantocrator.

The thorny part of the anniversary remains the pending lawsuits to be resolved over the accident itself.

Vanessa Bryant

was the first to accuse the helicopter company that transported her husband and daughter that cloudy Sunday morning of negligence.

In a 72-page legal document, it blames the pilot,

Ara Zobayan

, for the deaths of the

Bryants

and the seven other passengers who were traveling with them.

LEGAL CONFLICT

The player's widow maintains that the Island Express Helipcopters pilot was negligent in his decision to fly that morning and that he should have canceled the trip due to the situation, a tragedy for which they also hold the company responsible for not having a flight cancellation policy under adverse weather circumstances.

The

Altobelli

,

Chester

and

Mausers

joined Bryant's lawsuit

for a total of nine open cases related to the accident between state and federal courts.

There is a pending O even from Vanessa Bryant's mother, who is demanding financial compensation from her daughter for unpaid work as a personal assistant for years and babysitting her grandchildren.

Part of the eyes will be focused on the idol's widow during the anniversary.

A few days ago she asked the press to be "considerate" and avoid showing images of the accident scene or the helicopter when remembering the death of her daughter 'Gigi' and her husband.

"Our year has been traumatic enough," he wrote on social media.

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