It was the first time he visited the Kobe and Gigi Bryant statues outside Crypto Arena. Irving made the visit during pregame. "It meant everything to me. I needed that before game," Irving said. "I ...

Five years after the death of Kobe Bryant in a helicopter crash, six members of his Mamba Basketball Academy team are finishing up their first season of college basketball ...

Arutyun Gozukuchikyan's new mural of Kobe Bryant and Luka Doncic captures them embracing each other at a Lakers game in December 2019, a month before Bryant died in a helicopter crash.

while Kobe, ever the Laker, is shown in his iconic team colors. Get top local stories in Southern California delivered to you every morning. Sign up for NBC LA's News Headlines newsletter.

And he's never wanted for anything." "He's not a stereotypical black kid from an urban setting," he continued. "We live in a five-bedroom house in a Philadelphia suburb. He's got both parents together ...