Kobe Bryant will retire after tonight’s Lakers – Jazz game. Before he was a fading star on a sinking ship, he was an awesome basketball player whose signature move appears to be the 360-degree dunk.

Kobe Bryant once revealed that his first true poster dunk came in his second year, when he tomahawked over Ben Wallace.

It's not often that you see LeBron James miss a wide-open dunk. He's done it on several occasions in the past. But for the most part, LeBron usually finishes when he gets an uncontested look at the ...

With everything most people know about Kobe Bryant, it is still a little-known fact that Bean comes from a basketball family. Kobe’s father, Joe ‘Jellybean’ Bryant, played eight seasons in the NBA ...

LOS ANGELES -- Kobe Bryant is a five-time NBA champion, and now he's also an Oscar nominee thanks to a film he made with animator Glen Keane. Bryant is hoping to make a slam dunk at the Oscars with ...

Among the highlights of NBA great Kobe Bryant's career was winning the slam dunk contest as a rookie. But before Bryant was impressing fans with high-flying, mid-air moves, he was doing the same as a ...

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 ...