LOS ANGELES, Calif. — NBA star Kobe Bryant, who has won five championships with the Los Angeles Lakers, is having a rough year. After a tumultuous regular season, his Lakers got swept by the San Antonio Spurs in the first round of the playoffs as he watched hopelessly from the sidelines with a ruptured Achilles tendon, which he suffered in a late-season win against the Golden State Warriors.

Despite his woes, it&rquo;s highly unlikely that Bryant will seek solace from his mother. In fact, Pamela Bryant is another thorn in his side. Without his permission – or so Bryant claims – she is trying to sell some of his memorabilia through Goldin Auctions, an auction house which recently sold a Honus Wagner baseball card for more than $2 million.

“The Bryant Collection” is worth approximately $1.5 million and features hundreds of items, including Kobe&rquo;s 1996 Pennsylvania high school championship ring, the sweats he wore in athletics at Lower Merion High School, his 1999 Teen Choice Award, a Lakers championship ring from when they won the title in 2000, and high school jerseys bearing the numbers 24 and 33.

According to the Goldin press release, the No. 24 jersey is the only game-worn No. 24 Kobe Bryant LMHS jersey in existence.

“The next time he wore a No. 24 jersey was when he switched his NBA number to it after the 2005-06 NBA season,” according to the Goldin press release. “When he finally removes No. 24 from his back, it will hang in the rafters alongside Wilt, Kareem, Magic, and Shaq.”

When Pamela Bryant cosigned for the auction items earlier this year, her son immediately had his lawyers file a cease-and-desist order as he claimed the memorabilia was not hers to sell. Goldin Auctions, which gave Pamela a $450,000 advance on the auction, filed a lawsuit to go forward with the sale. Striking back, Kobe filed a suit of his own.

In the filing, Kobe wrote: “I said to her, &rquo;Mom, you know I never told you that you could have the memorabilia.&rquo; Her response was, &rquo;Yes, but you never said you wanted it, either.&rquo; Of course, this is untrue, since my wife and I requested that she return my memorabilia several years earlier.”

Pamela claims that the items belong to her and that she&rquo;s been paying $1,500 per month to store them.

If the family and Goldin Auctions, which, as of this writing, still features “The Bryant Collection” on its website, can&rquo;t settle the feud out of court, the matter will go to trial June 17.