In 2015, at the outset of what would be his final NBA season, Kobe Bryant penned a deeply personal poem about his lifelong love affair with his sport — and his decision to retire. The piece, titled ...

Kobe Bryant’s studio has released his Oscar-winning short, “Dear Basketball” for free following his death on Sunday. Granity Studio, Bryant’s multimedia production company, made the short film ...

Bryant wrote "Dear Basketball" as a love letter to the sport. Kobe Bryant is inspiring young kids even after his death Sunday in a tragic helicopter crash that also killed his 13-year-old daughter, ...

On Thanksgiving weekend in 2015, Basketball fans received a letter from Kobe Bryant. The letter, titled “Dear Basketball,” was addressed to the game. He explained how after two decades, neither his ...

At Sunday night's 90th annual Academy Awards, Kobe Bryant won another trophy, this one for the Oscar in the animated short category. Bryant, the retired Los Angeles Lakers star, brought home the ...

Entering the fourth quarter of their last game of the season, the Lakers were down, again. But inside Los Angeles’s Staples Center on April 13, 2016, that didn’t really matter. Fans in the seats and ...

On November 29, 2015, NBA superstar Kobe Bryant would see Dear Basketball be published in the Players’ Tribune. The poem was an ode to the sport of basketball, to the game that afforded him so many ...

A memorial service for the NBA star and his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, was held Monday in Los Angeles. Kobe Bryant may be gone, but never forgotten. The NBA star and his 13-year-old daughter, ...

1:25 p.m. Jan. 28, 2020In an earlier version of this post, animator Glen Keane’s first name was incorrectly given as Greg. Don’t be surprised if you can’t find Kobe Bryant’s Oscar-winning animated ...

The late Kobe Bryant with his 2018 Oscar for Best Animated Short Film at the 90th Annual Academy Awards in Hollywood, Calif. Getty Images Kobe Bryant ruled royally on more than one court: The ...

Kobe Bryant will finally get his jersey retired tonight. Correction: Kobe Bryant will get *two* jerseys retired tonight. That’s right, No. 8 and No. 24—numbers the Black Mamba wore during his ...