Kobe Bryant

Metta World Peace never misses an opportunity to tell it like it is. Sometimes, he elects to tell it like it isn’t too, when he’s feeling particularly spunky. Mostly, he’s a source of incorruptible honesty, someone who isn’t afraid to say what everyone else is. And that hasn’t changed. Appearing on Fox Sports 1’s Crowd [...]

Magic Johnson would like to respectfully disagree with LeBron James. In an interview with Fox Sports’ Bill Reiter, The King was asked to name his top three NBA players of all time. Michael Jordan, Larry Bird and Julius Erving—that’s who he picked. And he also named Magic, after saying it was too difficult to select [...]

Kobe Bryant is shattering the timetable behind his recovery so the Lakers are going to give him a new one. Per Kevin Ding of the Orange County Register, the Black Mamba is going to be re-examined in a few weeks, at which point an updated timetable for his return will be created. For any player [...]

When he began his NBA career, Kobe Bryant had an adidas sneaker endorsement which led to some of the most unique-looking basketball sneakers ever. One of the more memorable kicks was the ones he wore during the adidas EQT Elevation, being re-released for the first time in the ‘1997 Dunk Contest’ colorway worn by Kobe [...]

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Not only are people waiting for Kobe Bryant to get 100% better from his achilles injury from April, but the ninth version of his Nike signature sneaker series are also anticipated. Just because this pair is made with Engineered Mesh doesn’t mean that there won’t be a Flyknit version, this is labeled EM Low leaving [...]

There’s only one time of year Kobe Bryant’s future with the Los Angeles Lakers is scrutinized more than it is during the regular season—the offseason. When basketball is actually being played, Kobe’s retirement plans remain a hot debate, but there’s also other things to talk about. Like how many shots he took the night before. [...]

Turns out the Los Angeles Lakers don’t take too kindly to being slighted. Dwight Howard is more than a month removed from choosing the Houston Rockets over the Lakers and his decision is still making headlines. It will probably stay that way through next season or until Howard gets bored and becomes indecisive about another [...]

At what point is Kobe Bryant no longer an underdog? To be sure, we’re not saying he’s been undervalued or anything like that his entire career. Upon being drafted out of high school and then joining the Los Angeles Lakers almost immediately, doubters rose to the surface. And it’s been that way ever since. The [...]

Were Dr. Jerry Buss still alive, his daughter, Jeanie, believes that Dwight Howard would still be a member of the Los Angeles Lakers. Speaking with Mark Willard and Mychal Thompson on ESPNLA 710, Buss said that things would have been different had Dwight been wooed by her father, as transcribed by Ramona Shelburne of ESPN [...]