Former Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant-- yeah, "former" still sounds weird -- is making his poem into an animated short film. "Dear Basketball," which doubled as a love letter to the sport and ...

It's a vivid memory that kids who grew up playing basketball in the Kobe Bryant era know. They have the ball in their hands, ready to shoot, they take a step back and exclaim, "Kobe!" Fans of the NBA ...

Los Angeles Lakers superstar Kobe Bryant has formally announced his retirement plans with a poem in the Players’ Tribune on Sunday afternoon. In a poem titled “Dear Basketball”, Bryant expresses his ...

"This season is all I have left to give." So there it is. End the speculation: Kobe Bryant is going to retire — after this season. The Lakers guard wrote a poem entitled "Dear Basketball" on The ...

NBA legend Kobe Bryant died on Sunday when a helicopter he was riding in crashed and burst into flames in thick fog, killing all nine people on board including his teenage daughter and plunging the ...

Basketball has been described by some as "poetry in motion." The world of high school basketball is shared through poetry itself in the latest collection by nationally-recognized poet Jack Ridl, ...

Watch Kobe Bryant's poem entitled 'Dear Basketball' as the five-time NBA champion is set to retire at the end of the season. Read reaction to Bryant's retirement here. Goodbye my love basketball - ...

NPR wants to read how sports has touched your life — in poetry form. Maybe a home run is like getting your dream job – or asking your sweetheart for a first date felt like a Hail Mary pass. Maybe you ...

Kobe Bryant made an appearance on stage at the Hollywood Bowl with the famed composer John Williams to read "Dear Basketball," which is a poem he wrote to say farewell to basketball when he retired ...

GREENVILLE, S.C. – Kim Mulkey's trip back to Baton Rouge from Greenville will be much more comfortable this time around than it was three weeks ago. This time, the LSU women's basketball coach, in ...