Kobe Bryant Strived to Win at Everything, but Even His Mamba Mentality Couldn’t Get Him on a Popular Reality TV Series: ‘Don’t Dance’ David Wysong
Kobe Bryant Shocked Dwight Howard After His Achilles Injury by Getting the Big Man Hooked on an Unexpected Movie: ‘I Ended up Liking the Movie Myself’ David Wysong
Michael Jordan Taught Kobe Bryant a Lesson During the 1998 All-Star Game and Isiah Thomas Loved Every Second of It: ‘Not Tonight, Young Fella, Uh-Uh, Kobe, I Got Some More Tricks Left in My Bag’ Ashish Mathur
Kobe Bryant Used His Dog’s Name to Prove His Love for a Specific Film and Then Later Had Fans Try to Guess It for a Free Pair of Shoes: ‘They Threw out Like 15 Names’ David Wysong
Kobe Bryant Dominated the Mavericks Immediately After Mark Cuban Said the Lakers Should Cut Him: ‘Amnesty THAT’ Martin Fenn
Kobe Bryant’s Most Trusted Workout Partner Was Intensely Private About Their Friendship Scott Jenkins
Shaquille O’Neal Shares Emotional Kobe Bryant Memory: ‘One Day People Are Going to Fear You Taking the Last Shot’ Phil Watson
Mark Jackson Says Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant Possessed a Winning Attribute No Other Player in NBA History Could Match Jack Dougherty
Kobe Bryant Refused to Pass to Shaquille O’Neal Despite His Persistent Demand for the Ball: ‘Get It Off the Rebound If I Miss’ Bob Garcia IV
Kobe Bryant Made Headlines for All the Wrong Reasons When He Jumped Straight From High School to the NBA: ‘I’d Been Around Michael Jordan, I’d Been Around Charles Barkley, but I’d Never Seen Anything so Show-Offish’ Andrew Hanlon
Kobe Bryant Used 1 Email to Prove His Fiery Competitiveness After Suffering a Brutal Season-Ending Injury: ‘I Feel They Are Forgetting How Good I Was’ David Wysong
Kobe Bryant Once Refused to Interview With a Reporter Unless They Took off Their Adidas Sweatsuit First: ‘I’m Serious Because I’m Not Doing It’ David Wysong
A Teenage Kobe Bryant Had ‘Tunnel Vision’ When Playing With Pros, According to Jerry Stackhouse: ‘Man, You Gotta Pass the Ball!’ Bob Garcia IV
Kobe Bryant Silenced Michael Jordan’s Trash Talk With a Cold-Blooded Response: ‘Remember Who You Are Talking to’ Bob Garcia IV
Kobe Bryant Gave a Young Russell Westbrook a Ruthless Taste of the Mamba Mentality by Destroying Him in a Friendly Pick-Up Game: ‘He Was Competing Like It Was the Finals’ Jack Dougherty
Kobe Bryant is 1 of the All-Time Greats, but He Was Taken Down by a Former Undrafted Minor Leaguer: ‘I Hit Him With the Two-Piece and a Biscuit’ Tim van Straten
Kobe Bryant Revealed the Creative Career He Would Have Pursued if the NBA Had Not Come Knocking Produced by Digital Editors
Kobe Bryant’s 1 Phone Call Kept a Notable NBA Role Player From Joining LeBron James on the Miami Heat and Persuaded Them to Sign With the Lakers Instead David Wysong
Allen Iverson Knew Kobe Bryant Was ‘Going to Be a Legend’ the First Time He Watched the 18-Year-Old Go Straight at Michael Jordan Andrew Hanlon
Kobe Bryant’s Respect for Michael Jordan Was ‘Forged’ After He Went Scoreless in 25 Straight Games and Nearly Quit Basketball Andrew Hanlon
Phil Jackson Revealed How Badly Kobe Bryant’s Teammates Wanted Him Gone From the Lakers: ‘Kobe Was a Juvenile Narcissist’ Tim van Straten
Lakers Are Honoring Pau Gasol With the Perfect Retirement Gift Kobe Bryant Once Predicted Bob Garcia IV
Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O’Neal’s Former NBA Finals Foe Thinks They Would’ve Only Won 2 Championships Together Instead of 3 Had It Not Been for Some ‘Unstoppable’ Performances: ‘We Shoulda Won’ David Wysong
Kobe Bryant Fancied Himself an Epic Storyteller Like Walt Disney and Harry Potter Author J.K. Rowling Produced by Digital Editors
Shaquille O’Neal Recalls the Moment He Knew the Los Angeles Lakers Were Choosing Kobe Bryant Over Him: ‘It Was a Clear Signal That We Were Done’ Tim van Straten
Kobe Bryant Just Couldn’t Ignore The Mamba Mentality, Even When He Decided to Learn Piano in Secret: ‘Sitting Down and Taking Lessons Would Be Too Easy, so I Taught Myself’ Andrew Hanlon
Kobe Bryant Showed Zero Sympathy For Andrew Bynum’s Injury Woes During the Lakers’ 2010 NBA Championship Season: ‘Welcome to the Club’ Martin Fenn
Kobe Bryant Vowed to ‘Cut’ the Philadelphia 76ers ‘Hearts out’ Before Winning the 2001 NBA Finals Andrew Hanlon
Shaquille O’Neal’s Famous Lob From Kobe Bryant In the 2000 Western Conference Finals Meant More to Him Than Just a Win: ‘That was the defining moment of our dominant run’ Andrew Hanlon
Kobe Bryant’s High School Teammates Witnessed the Early Stages of Mamba Mentality: ‘He Bordered on Psychotic’ Tim van Straten
Larry Bird Chose Kobe Bryant over a Prime LeBron James for 1 Simple Reason: ‘If You Want to Win and Win and Win, It’s Kobe’ Bob Garcia IV
Jerry West Changed the Course of NBA History and Created the Shaquille O’Neal-Kobe Bryant Lakers With a Single Move Andrew Hanlon
Kobe Bryant Soaked up Celtics Legend Bill Russell’s Heartfelt Compliment: ‘I Couldn’t Be More Proud of You Even If You Were My Own Son’ Bob Garcia IV
Kobe Bryant Went 1-on-1 With Pros and Proved He Was NBA-Ready as a High School Junior: ‘There Was No Question in My Mind, He Was the Best Player’ Tim van Straten
Kobe Bryant Had Intense Battles With a Fellow Hoops Star but Used 1 Shot to Leave the Player Completely Bewildered: ‘Don’t Do That Again’ David Wysong
Kobe Bryant Apologized for Not Winning MVP at a High School Basketball Camp: ‘At That Moment I Knew He’d Be Great’ Tim van Straten
Kobe Bryant Once Told an Olympic Gold Medalist That He Would Sometimes ‘Just Chuck the Ball’ Toward ‘the Basket’ and Get Surprised Whenever It Went In: ‘It Plays On “SportsCenter” for a Week’ David Wysong
Kobe Bryant Was Part of an Elevator Fight During NBA All-Star Weekend That Involved Donald Trump: ‘Get out of Here, Quickly’ Tim van Straten
A Kobe Bryant Rookie Card Sold for More Money Than What the Black Mamba Made in Each of His First Three Seasons: ‘One of the Rarest in Existence’ Tim van Straten
Michael Jordan Taught Kobe Bryant How to Contain Bigger Players in the Post on Defense: ‘Speaking to MJ Was Like Getting My Own College Education at the Highest Level’ Ashish Mathur
Kobe Bryant Admitted He Seemed ‘Psychotic’ When He Confessed a Fictional Serial Killer Played a Role in His Pregame Ritual Mike Thomas
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Once Compared Kobe Bryant’s Iconic 81-Point Game to Stephen Curry’s Style of Play: ‘Wherever He Was, He Was Going up and the Ball Was Going In’ David Wysong
Kobe Bryant Taught Chris Bosh an Invaluable Lesson He’ll Cherish Forever Without Saying 1 Word Jack Dougherty
Kobe Bryant Once Received Childhood Advice From Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Who Told Him Not to Model His Game After a Specific Player He Thought Spent Too Much Time ‘Being a Clown’ David Wysong
Kobe Bryant Promptly Refused a Bone-Chilling Offer From a Self-Proclaimed Russian Mobster to Have His Rape Accuser Murdered for $3 Million Jack Dougherty
Kobe Bryant Once Tore a Paul Pierce Photo out of a Newspaper and Then Used 1 Word to Foreshadow His Eventual Revenge David Wysong
Kobe Bryant Gave Jeanie Buss a Crucial Piece of Advice Before She and the Lakers Seriously Pursued LeBron James David Wysong
Gilbert Arenas Says He Had a ‘Horrible’ 1st Game Against Kobe Bryant, and That a Lakers Legend Scared Him so Bad He ‘Fell’: ‘They All Laughing’ David Wysong
Kobe Bryant Admitted That Some of His Most Legendary Qualities Were Big Problems, but ‘the Things That Make a Person Average Are Also Problems’ David Wysong
Kobe Bryant Was Nearly a New Jersey Net Until Head Coach John Calipari Got Cold Feet: ‘We’re Not Winning With a High School Kid’ Tim van Straten
Allen Iverson Has No Doubt That His and Kobe Bryant’s 1996 NBA Draft Class Is the Best in League History: ‘Ask Anybody That Knows About Basketball’ Jake Elman
