As a rookie with the Lakers, Larry Nance Jr. learned quickly what it meant to share a locker room with Kobe Bryant.

This story was originally published on April 13, 2016. LOS ANGELES -- The clock ticked toward midnight Wednesday. The sold-out stands had emptied hours earlier. Now, ushers, security guards and ...

LOS ANGELES -- On April 13, 2016, in his last game as a professional basketball player, Kobe Bryant scored 60 points. It was a basketball masterpiece made all the more astonishing by the fact that the ...

LOS ANGELES -- A Twitter outage hit the Los Angeles area during Lakers great Kobe Bryant's final NBA game on Wednesday. Many who took to Twitter during the game were surprised when they couldn't tweet ...

A piece of the Staples Center game floor specially made for Kobe Bryant's last game sold for $179,100. The piece, four panels measuring four feet by eight feet each, had Kobe's former number 8 on it ...

Those who watched Kobe Bryant’s final game soon won’t forget the show he put on at Staples Center against the Jazz. It wasn’t just fans who enjoyed what they witnessed, though; Bryant’s teammates did ...

— -- TORONTO -- "Ko-be! Ko-be! Ko-be!" the crowd chanted as Kobe Bryant stepped through the entryway onto a stage filled with smoke and dancing spotlights, the final player to be introduced ...

Bryant's 2013 torn Achilles officially ended the dream of a King James/Black Mamba NBA Finals. Most people consider LeBron to ...