It's not official until they make a T-shirt

Kobe Bryant's name is barely etched on the 2007-08 NBA regular-season MVP trophy, which probably means the transfer is still warm on these yellow T-shirts that people will be grabbing up to buy around town and the Team L.A. Store at Staples Center prior to Wednesday's Game 2 of the Western Conference semifinals.

Today, the Kobe MVP T-shirt made its debut for $19.95 on the NBA Store site (Item No. 3120314, if they need to restock). Can't find it yet on the Team L.A. Store site, unless you're looking for some other kinda goofy Kobe apparel that says nothing about MVP on it but is still celebrating his 81-point game ... when was it, a couple years ago now? Ask Joel Meyers.

This new MVP shirt replaces the one that Adidas put out in recent months -- and the NBA Store apparently stopped selling, but is still available on Amazon.com.

And this is much different than what's been selling on eBay from a shop in, no less, Denver. Or this other one from something called Zazzle that's far more understated.