When he scored 60 points in his final game as a Laker in 2016 and capped his post-game speech with an emphatic “Mamba out” and mic drop, Kobe Bryant provided fans with a dramatic end befitting 20 years of blissful Staples Center memories — something many fans have held onto through a week of grief. On Friday night, Staples Center…

The Los Angeles Lakers continued to incrementally break their silence following the death of Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven others.

In Philadelphia, Joel Embiid paid tribute to Kobe Bryant by wearing one of his jersey numbers.

The pilot of the helicopter that crashed near Los Angeles, killing former NBA superstar Kobe Bryant and eight others, told air traffic controllers in his last radio message that he was climbing to avoid a cloud layer before plunging more than 1,000 feet (305 meters) into a hillside, an accident investigator said.

Video captured by a Glendale, California, resident appears to show the helicopter carrying Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna and six other passengers circling above Glendale half an hour before the fatal crash. David Lyudnirsky, who lives below the known flight path of the helicopter, said he started filming because of the noise of the chopper circling above his house.

A basketball icon, young players who shared his passion for the game and their family members were among those killed Sunday when a helicopter crashed into a hillside northwest of Los Angeles. Lakers legend Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter and seven others were apparently on their way to a girls basketball tournament at the Mamba Sports Academy in Newbury Park….

As reports broke of the death of retired Los Angeles Laker Kobe Bryant, tributes began pouring in on social media. Bryant, along with his 13-year-old daughter Gianna, were among nine people killed in a fiery helicopter crash Sunday morning outside of Los Angeles, officials confirmed. Initial reports from the sheriff’s department indicated five people were on the aircraft. The...

A 2007 portrait of Kobe Bryant is on display at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. Bryant died on Sunday in a helicopter crash.

Landmarks across the country lit up purple and gold, the colors of the Los Angeles Lakers, to remember Kobe Bryant. A helicopter crash killed Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven others on Sunday.

Kobe Bryant inspired a generation of basketball players worldwide with both his sublime skills and his unquenchable competitive fire.

LaVar Ball often gets heat for the things he says, but now he’s getting dinged for his business dealings.

Lakers legend Magic Johnson has been named president of basketball operations in a major front office restructuring for the storied franchise.

Former Los Angeles Laker and ex-New York Knicks head coach Derek Fisher was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving after his vehicle overturned Sunday on the Ventura (101) Freeway. His lone passenger, former “Basketball Wives” reality star Gloria Govan, escaped injury. The crash was a little after 3 a.m. on the westbound freeway, approaching the San Diego (405) Freeway interchange....

The gang members start their days in the impoverished neighborhoods of South Los Angeles, but their real work begins in some of the city’s wealthiest enclaves. Each day, the gang hand-picks teams of burglars, who ditch their usual attire for button-down shirts and hop into shiny luxury sedans to blend in as they search for prime targets: homes with no...

Three men who foiled a terrorist attack on a train in Paris in August were to be honored at Staples Center Sunday night during the Lakers versus Detroit Pistons game.