Kobe Bryant is one of the most inspirational figures in professional sports history, with his impact spanning well beyond the Los Angeles Lakers and NBA as a whole. There also are ties between ...

That Diggins-Smith refers to Kobe Bryant the same as the rest of the world, by his first name, no additional identifiers ... the Seahawks didn’t wait to draw the obvious connection.

Some people think she shouldn’t be drawing parallels between ... that immortalizes Lakers legend Kobe Bryant after his 81-point game in 2006 misspelled the names of two players and one word.