According to Bryant's friend and former Temple University athletic department staff Anthony Gilbert, young Kobe faced a double standard as many believed he "never really had that 'Black experience.'" ...

Bryant's Nike Kobe 9 Elite Low "Beethoven" shoe is set to receive a Protro (performance retro) update in 2025. Originally launched in August 2014, the Flyknit-based white, black and wolf gray ...

Kobe Bryant's nickname is "The Black Mamba," a name he gave himself. But for Bryant, the moniker was more than a nickname. It was an alter-ego he created to get through the lowest point of his career.

So when I came out I saw smoke on the hill but it wasn't like a big, black cloud of smoke, it was just grey," he said. Site where basketball legend Kobe Bryant was killed in a helicopter crash ...

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UPDATE (09/12): Sneaker leaker account @Kicksdong on Instagram has shared a first look at a second "Kobe Bryant" Air Force 1 Low colorway. This latest version dons a black-based makeup ...