Kobe Bryant

Kobe Bryant -- 17-time NBA All-Star, five-time NBA champion, two-time Olympic gold medalist, 11-time all-NBA first teamer and a surefire Hall-of-Famer -- announced this season will be his last in a poem on The Players' Tribune.

Kobe Bryant announced he will retire from the NBA at the end of this season

Barkley during a TNT conference call on Monday said this about the Lakers "The Lakers are the fourth-best team in California. They lucky the Sparks ain't playing, they'd be the fifth."

Derrick Rose was unwilling to return in a time of need last season for the Chicago Bulls, throughout the season's final month and into the postseason. Medically cleared to play back in March from his reconstructive ACL surgery, Rose chose not to return to the lineup even though doctors had given him the ok...

Kobe Bryant says in a court filing that he never gave his mother permission to sell mementos from his high school days and early professional basketball career.

Kobe Bryant is in a court battle to try to keep his mother from auctioning off mementoes from his high school days in Pennsylvania and his early NBA career.

As a result of Kobe Bryant going down with an Achilles tear, a former member of the Sioux Falls Skyforce gets a call-up. The Los Angeles Lakers signed Rio Grande Valley Vipers guard Andrew Goudelock to fill the "Black Mamba's" roster spot.

http://youtu.be/cBYVyrTiCJg The Lakers currently hold a 1 game lead on the Utah Jazz for the final playoff spot in the Western Conference. However, what does that really mean in the context of things considering their leader and former MVP Kobe Bryant will be out indefinitely due to a probable torn Achilles...

The NBA has come out and said that during Wednesday Nights game between the Timberwolves and the Lakers had a missed call at the end of the game. The Wolves were down by 3 with a little over 3 seconds left in the game with Kobe Bryant at the line with a chance to ice the game...

Kobe Bryant had 31 points and seven assists in his first game filling in for the injured Metta World Peace to lead the Los Angeles Lakers to a 120-117 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves on Wednesday night, extending the longest active winning streak against one team in the NBA.