“If Kobe tells you you can play defense, you can play defense," she quipped. Five years after Bryant, 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven others were killed in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, ...

Before she entered the league, she helped generate an immense amount of interest in NCAA women's hoops, as the 2024 national ... reflects on Kobe Bryant's impact on women's basketball ...

Women’s basketball matters. Girls’ basketball matters.” It was a touching moment, one orchestrated by Vanessa Bryant ... that devolved Kobe from Lakers hero to national villain.

The players have priceless reactions to opening their gifts from the wife of the late Los Angeles Lakers legend.

The late Kobe Bryant joins a list of other prominent figures in American history getting their own statue in the National ...

FILE - Former Los Angeles Laker Kobe ... with the women’s game. After his 20-year playing career ended, Bryant turned his focus to the next generation, mentoring some of women’s basketball ...

Sunday, Jan. 26, was the fifth anniversary of the tragic death of Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe ... on women’s basketball as something to invest in.” Among other things, the elder Bryant ...

Dearica Hamby still smiles at the memory of Kobe ... women’s game. After his 20-year playing career ended, Bryant turned his focus to the next generation, mentoring some of women’s basketball ...