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Snoop Dogg joined HBO's Winning Time Podcast on Monday (April 11) where he explored all avenues of his Laker fandom including the time he gifted Kobe Bryant a Lakers car.

Snoop Dogg is one of the most famous celebrity Los Angeles Lakers fans in all of pop culture. During his rise to stardom in Hip Hop throughout the 90s, it happened to coincide with the blossoming of Kobe Bryant who Snoop ended up cultivating a close friendship with. Snoop joined HBOs Winning Time Podcast on Monday (April 11) where he explored all avenues of his Laker fandom, including the time he gifted Kobe Bryant a Lakers car when the late NBA legend retired in 2016. A post shared by snoopdogg (@snoopdogg) What I did was I had built a Laker car, yes, he said. And I built it in his name and I was like, damn, what could I give him as a gift for retirement? Everybodys gonna give him a basketball or some regular shit, a tie. Im like, Im trying to get thisThats gonna be memorable that when he sees it, he aint gonna understand it. But hes gonna know what it means. So I built the car all the way upWhite interior, yellow purple had all the OG Lakers, the Showtime Lakers on the front spray painted chickWow. Read more