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On Sunday, Kobe Bryant announced this season would be final one via a poem written for The Players Tribune. That same day, the Lakers played a home game against the Pacers. Those who attended the game were given a special souvenir. Upon entering …
Kobe Bryant made his retirement announcement in seemingly unique and original form. Bryant wrote a poem published at The Players’ Tribune that served as his love letter to basketball. It was creative, heartfelt, and got across his point well …
Kobe Bryant has made it official: He is retiring after the season. Bryant wrote a love letter of sorts to the sport of basketball for The Players Tribune. He talked about falling in love with the game when he was six years old and how he spent so …
Kobe Bryant’s role won’t be getting scaled back anytime soon, at least according to Byron Scott. “I would never, never, never do that,” the Lakers coach told ESPN’s Baxter Holmes on Friday about the possibility of …
Even when you take into consideration how badly he has struggled this season, Kobe Bryant was still far worse than expected in Tuesday night’s loss to the Golden State Warriors. The tape says it all. Kobe tied a career-worst shooting mark by …
Nick Young seemed to take a shot at Kobe Bryant after the Los Angeles Lakers were blown out 111-77 in a loss to the Golden State Warriors on Tuesday night. Kobe led the Lakers in attempts but just was 1-of-14 from the field in the defeat. Young …
The Golden State Warriors are rolling. The Los Angeles Lakers? Not so much. So we all know what is going to happen when the two teams get together Tuesday night, right? Kobe Bryant isn’t willing to concede just yet. After the Lakers fell to …
Byron Scott is under fire again, this time for leaving Kobe Bryant in for 37 minutes in another Lakers loss Friday night. With the Lakers down 13 and seven minutes left, Bryant had already logged 31 minutes. Scott left him in anyway, and he ended up …
Kobe Bryant has not ruled out playing another season beyond the current one, but it would take a significant change for him to not retire this summer. Whatever that means. On Thursday, Kobe said on Mike Krzyzewski’s SiriusXM Radio show that he …
Kobe Bryant is very much nearing the end of the road. If you want further evidence of that, just ask the five-time NBA champion how he felt after Sunday’s win over the Detroit Pistons. Bryant played a season-high 36 minutes after logging 32 in …
The Los Angeles Lakers lost to the New York Knicks 99-95 on Sunday, but the defeat didn’t keep Kobe Bryant from having some fun with the MSG crowd. In fact, he was captured on video talking some trash to none other than Spike Lee. At one point …
Kobe Bryant admitted on Saturday that he’s currently looking at this season as his last, but left the door open for him to change his mind. Bryant told reporters that at the moment, he figures this is his final season in the NBA, but he …
Kobe Bryant asserted that he wouldn’t play for any team but the Lakers, disputing comments made by Phil Jackson. “I’ve said it so many times. I’m here, I’m a Laker for life,” Bryant told reporters on Friday night, …
Kobe Bryant appears very much washed up through the first four games of the regular season, and even he knows it. But if the internet has taught us one thing, it’s that being hard on yourself isn’t going to stop you from being taunted in …
Metta World Peace opened up about the Lamar Odom situation in a recent interview in which he shared his and Kobe Bryant’s reaction to hearing the news of their ex-teammate’s overdose at a brothel in Nevada. Metta and Odom go way back to …
Opening up the 2015-16 season with averages of 15.8 points per game, 32.3 percent shooting from the field, 20.6 percent shooting on 8.5 attempts per game from deep, and a minus-15.7 net rating through four games, it looks like Father Time has finally …
