Valentina Martinez is a Newsweek contributor based in Los Angeles. Her focus is reporting on sports, with an expertise in baseball. She has in depth knowledge of the Los Angeles sports community ...

Retirement is a daunting prospect for every professional athlete, but Kobe Bryant went on to be a successful filmmaker and ...

Kobe Bryant's wife Vanessa Bryant reacted to a nostalgic video shared on the NBA's Instagram account on Tuesday.

Five years after Bryant, 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven others were killed in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, California, several women's basketball players reflected on what he meant to their ...

The Lakers did not put out a formal statement but shared a photograph of Bryant sitting courtside of a basketball game with his arm around his Gianna. A statue of Kobe and Gianna together in front ...

Although Sunday marked a difficult anniversary, the basketball world has been contemplating Kobe Bryant's legacy throughout ...

Many WNBA players believe Kobe Bryant would be pleased with the overall progress of women’s sports, which have skyrocketed in popularity and reach in recent years.

alongside his 13-year-old daughter Gianna Bryant and seven others. The tragic death of the Los Angeles Lakers icon, who was posthumously inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of ...

basketball legend Kobe Bryant and daughter Gianna “Gigi” Bryant this summer. Mamba & Mambacita Forever (MCD) is set to hit shelves on August 19, 2025, a few days before August 24, a day ...

Hall of Fame basketball legend Kobe Bryant may be gone, but his signature "Mamba Mentality" lives on. Bryant died in a helicopter crash in Los Angeles on Jan. 26, 2020, at age 41, alongside his ...