However, in a revealing account from Lakers chronicler Jeff Pearlman, it became clear that the true essence of the team's ...

Kobe Bryant once spoke on AAU basketball while sharing why he wasn't a fan of the product and impact it has on the youth.

"It wasn't two minutes" - Jerry West on how long he watched Kobe Bryant's pre-draft workout before deciding to pick him ...

"That’s the thing that I saw" - Kobe Bryant revealed the greatest aspect of Michael Jordan's game originally appeared on ...

"Just be careful out here, Paul" - Pierce recalls Kobe cautioning him to keep his guard up in L.A., not knowing he grew up in ...

The Los Angeles Lakers icon named his top five picks for the NBA's best players of all-time, leaving out Shaquille O'Neal and ...

At just 17, Bryant wasn't physically ready for the bruising, hand-check-heavy NBA of the late 1990s. This was an era of hard ...