“My homeboy, it was my birthday, so he made a cake with Kobe dunking on me,” he recalled. Howard joked that he became ...

LeBron James and Kobe Bryant did the same dunk on the same basket 19 years apart. In a game against Houston on Thursday, James jumped off his left foot, gripped the ball with both hands and swept it ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- The Golden State Warriors on Saturday honored Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna and the seven other victims of last month's helicopter crash in Calabasas, California, but after the ...

Kobe Bryant was one of the best NBA players that’s ever played the game of basketball. He was also one of the most popular players the game has ever seen. One of the reasons why Kobe became not only a ...

Although basketball is a highly physical sport, the mental aspect is just as important. Psychological domination of opponents ...

LOS ANGELES -- NBA legend Kobe Bryant is now an Oscar winner! The five-time NBA champion won the Academy Award for his animated short "Dear Basketball" along with animator Glen Keane. "As basketball ...

(AP) — Kobe Bryant is taking a pass on the slam dunk contest, no matter what Shaquille O'Neal has in mind. Bryant nearly burst out laughing Thursday when asked about O'Neal's idea that the Lakers ...

Tracy McGrady was part of one of the most memorable dunk contests in NBA history when his teammate and cousin Vince Carter ...

The funny thing about basketball is that it's one of the few sports where players take moves from older generations. And why not? If it worked for them, it's smart to take what you can learn from them ...

The All-Star Weekend's Slam Dunk Contest used to be one of the event's crown jewels, a platform where the league's best players and high flyers converged to thrill fans with their eye-popping slam ...

Kobe Bryant once explained how trash talk was part of his competitive mindset, revealing that even courtside fans weren’t ...