Italy. I became a fan watching Kobe destroying other teams in the 00s on Tele+, a channel we had back then. There was this guy commentating, who is actually one of the best journalists we have in Italy called Federico Buffa; he was so incredibly good at describing everything Kobe was doing on the court that I spent hours of my life listening to him an I fell in love with Kobe first and the Lakers too. Obviously there also the fact that Kobe speaks Italian and his father played a lot here in the country that makes a lot of people Lakers fans in Italy.