By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 23:07 EST, 3 May 2013 | UPDATED: 23:24 EST, 3 May 2013 Kobe Bryant is in a court battle to try to keep his mother from auctioning off personal mementos worth upwards of $1.5 million from his high school days in Pennsylvania and his early years with the Los Angeles Lakers. A New Jersey auction house filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Camden on Thursday for the right to sell the items after the NBA star's lawyers wrote the firm telling it to cancel a planned June auction. According to court filings, Pamela Bryant struck a deal with Goldin Auctions in Berlin and received $450,000 up front which she intended to use for a new home in Nevada.
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Auction house has filed a lawsuit after basketball great ordered them to stop
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Court documents: Pamela Bryant struck deal in January with Goldin Auctions and received $450,000 up front toward a new house
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Memorabilia includes high school clothing, gear, trophies and rings
'Kobe Bryant indicated to @placeholder that the items belonged to her and that he had no interest in them,' the auction house's attorneys wrote.