Thousands of Kobe and Gianna Bryant mourners are just hours away from packing Staples Center for a ceremony celebrating the Mamba and Mambacita's lives ... and TMZ Sports will livestream all of it.
The event is expected to be incredibly moving and emotional. As we reported, the demand to attend the memorial was unprecedented.
THOUSANDS of people applied for tickets -- more than 88,000 just in the first 5 hours.
The Staples Center only holds 20,000 ... and many of those tickets had already been accounted for with Kobe's family, friends and the NBA community.