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Vanessa Bryant took Michael Jordan’s hand and walked down from the stage, a familiar chant breaking out throughout the arena as she made her way back to her seat. “Kobe! Kobe! Kobe!” the crowd shouted. With that, he was — officially, finally — a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Kobe Bryant is in the Hall now,…

The Los Angeles Lakers will not schedule a stop at the White House during their upcoming road trip. The reigning NBA Champions head out on Wednesday for a three-city, five-game road trip with stops in Dallas, Orlando and Washington, D.C.

Michael Jordan will present Kobe Bryant for induction into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame next month.

In 2013, Indiana Pacers head coach Frank Vogel had his team one win away from reaching the NBA Finals. Instead, he was thwarted by then-Miami Heat forward LeBron James and never reached his dream of coaching in the Finals. Seven years later, Vogel is now the head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers, and instead of staying up all night…

The Los Angeles Lakers defeated the Miami Heat, 106-93, in Game 6 of the NBA Finals to claim their record-tying 17th NBA Championship in team history.

One year after a tragic helicopter crash took the lives of Kobe Bryant, his daughter, Gianna, and seven other people on board, we reflect back on the year that was and the legacy he leaves behind.

Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving wants the NBA to change its logo to honor Kobe Bryant

During the fourth quarter, James got into a brief verbal confrontation with a female fan who pulled down her mask to make a point.

The Los Angeles Lakers are continuing to recognize Kobe Bryant’s role in inspiring the team’s special season by incorporating his memory into the design of their championship rings.

The Los Angeles Lakers defeated the Miami Heat Sunday, giving them their 17th championship title.

The matchup is set, with the Miami Heat and the Los Angeles Lakers emerging as the last two teams standing in the chase to be crowned champions of the most tumultuous season in NBA history. The Heat won the Eastern Conference title Sunday night, finishing off Boston a day after the Lakers won the Western Conference crown.

LeBron James keeps hearing the same questions. How’s it going? How’s the bubble?

The Southern California sports academy previously co-owned by the late Kobe Bryant has retired his “Mamba” nickname and rebranded itself nearly four months after the basketball icon’s death in a helicopter crash.

The brother of the pilot who was at the helm in the helicopter crash in January that killed Kobe Bryant and seven other passengers, including Bryant’s 13-year-old daughter Gianna, claimed in court documents filed Monday that the pilot shouldn’t be held responsible for the incident. The pilot, Ara George Zobayan, was also also killed in the Jan. 26 crash in...

The Los Angeles Lakers qualified for and received approximately $4.6 million from the government’s Paycheck Protection Program, which was established to provide relief to small businesses suffering during the coronavirus pandemic. The Lakers eventually returned the money, according to NBC News.

Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant has been posthumously inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame according to an official announcement by the organization on Saturday. Bryant played 20 seasons in the NBA, all with the Los Angeles Lakers. Over those 20 years, he was an 18-time NBA All-Star, the 2007 NBA MVP, a two-time NBA Finals MVP,…

The latest installment in Kobe Bryant’s “The Wizenard” book series was released on Tuesday, the late NBA player’s widow revealed in an Instagram post, NBC News reports.

The number of known coronavirus cases within the NBA has doubled to 14.

Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James changed his tune a few days after saying he would never play without fans in the arena. The NBA has been discussing possible changes with the growing concern over the coronavirus.

Kobe Bryant was one of eight finalists announced as candidates for enshrinement into the Basketball Hall of Fame later this year, a decision that came as absolutely no surprise in his first year of eligibility