It is a clear-eyed look at Kobe Bryant the basketball player driven by championship dreams and the pursuit of greatness, his fractured relationship with his parents, his sexual assault arrest ...

Dearica Hamby still smiles at the memory of Kobe Bryant sitting courtside at WNBA games. She had met him years ago. He came to see her old team, the Las Vegas Aces, play all the time.

The influence of the late Kobe Bryant clearly doesn't stop with the game's youngest players. The 21-year-old of the Houston Rockets, Amen Thompson, paid tribute to Bryant after defeating a bitter ...