Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter, was filled with sobbing emojis today as Chinese netizens paid tribute to Kobe Bryant’s last NBA game with mournful tweets and nostalgic messages. Hashtags like “It’s not just a game” (不只是比赛) and “I was alive during the time of Kobe” (...
Bryant is enjoying this gig, even if he's not much of a thespian. "Acting isn't for me," Bryant admits. "They can make you look pretty, but you still have to act. You can't just smile for the camera. I don't like being in front of the camera in general." But it sure beat...
Vanessa Bryant: (01:03:58) We had always talked about how we'd be the fun grandparents to our daughters' children. He would have been the coolest grandpa. Kobe was the MVP of girl dads or MVD. He never left the toilet seat up. He always told the girls how beautiful and sma...
No disrespect to the plucky performances this seasons team had churned out to keep the team hovering around .500 as they awaited Bryant's return, but the Lakers are about sizzle, not steak. The noble underdog narrative is fun for a while, but it doesn't exactly pack the house. The ...
Kobe Bryant:I knew that storytelling was where I wanted to go, and I wanted to build a company where the fabric of the company was stories. I had this kind of pipe dream of turning “Dear Basketball” into an animated short film and to go out and get Glen Keane and John Williams to...
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of course. it’s the morning of january 29—72 hours after bryant’s shocking death. somehow, in my head, being out here under the limitless unfamiliar sky and rocky alien tundra has made the already unimaginable kobe tragedy seem even less real. still, it was a thoughtless question. i...
As I understand it, the fact that Kobe Bryant drinksbone brothis your fault, is that right? Yes. I would have to take responsibility for that one. That and the awesome chef at the Lakers facility who makes it for him. Abel:That’s great. For whatever reason,bone brothis taking off ...
Kobe Bryant was the sort of legendary athlete that other legendary athletes spoke about with pure reverence. Reflecting back on the first time he was face-to-face with the five-time NBA champ, Lakers star LeBron James told the story of tracking him down at Philadelphia's InterContinental...
Kobe Bryant never felt a need to figure out what people liked. He had a glamour that made people eager to pleasehim. The prime cliché of Laker reporting was that Shaq had never become an adult, while Kobe had never been a child. Prior to each game, a telling moment validated this sup...