Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Warner Bros. is producing With the 8th Pick, a film about Kobe Bryant’s near selection by the New Jersey Nets in 1996. The story ...

Kobe Bryant is one of the greatest basketball players that ever lived. A five-time NBA champion, four-time All Star Game MVP, ...

Famed sports commentator Jim Gray recalls some of his favorite memories of Kobe Bryant during tonight's NBA on NBC broadcast.

The Brooklyn Nets have had plenty of great players play for the franchise whether the team has been playing in New Jersey or entertaining fans in Brooklyn. Brooklyn is currently in the midst of ...

Shaquille O’Neal has never done things small, not on the basketball court, not in his garage, and certainly not when paying tribute to his late friend and teammate Kobe Bryant. Back in August, the ...

'With the 8th Pick' tells the story of the New Jersey franchise trying to make moves to draft Bryant in the 1996 NBA Draft Warner Bros. Pictures has picked up the rights to the script of With the 8th ...

"What I recall is [Kobe] said 'absolutely,' and then smiled with that big million-dollar smile and said something to the effect that the [Nets would have been] good, and it wouldn't be like it is now ...

*Shaquille O’Neal honored his late friend Kobe Bryant in a deeply personal way, gifting Kobe’s mother, Pam Bryant, a fully restored 1996 Toyota Land Cruiser—the same vehicle Kobe drove during his high ...

Magic Johnson had the opportunity to play with Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O’Neal on the LA Lakers. Few “what if” scenarios in NBA history are as fascinating as the one involving Magic Johnson’s 1996 ...