“For a lot of writers at the time, Kobe was the one individual athlete that we worried about the most, about what was going to happen to his career after basketball was over,” sports ...

(CNN) — Retirement is a daunting prospect for every professional athlete. It’s even more panic-inducing if you’ve devoted 20-plus years of your life to little else but perfecting your craft ...

That seemed to be the case for Kobe Bryant in the final years of his trophy-laden NBA career, his body ravaged by a series of injuries. For a player who, by his own admission, had given full-blooded, ...

The shoes that basketball legend Kobe Bryant wore when he tore his Achilles tendon during an iconic 2013 game have sold at auction for $660,000 (£532,000). Playing for the Los Angeles Lakers ...

Senior forward Kobe Johnson was a top-three leading scorer for USC in his last two seasons with the program and was a two-time All-Pac-12 Defense honoree. But this year, Johnson is averaging ...