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

Throughout his storied 20-year NBA career, late Los Angeles Lakers great Kobe Bryant had countless highlight plays, which included some iconic poster dunks. They have become fused together over the ...

The All-Star Weekend's Slam Dunk Contest used to be one of the event's crown jewels, a platform where the league's best players and high flyers converged to thrill fans with their eye-popping slam ...

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 -- 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 ...

The NBA is well aware the public perception of its dunk contest is floundering, but the league's efforts to revive superstar interest in the contest have not gone well thus far. Vince Carter, whose ...

Mac McClung. Dominque Wilkins. Vince Carter. Kobe Bryant. Michael Jordan. For all of NBA history, these five names will be linked in one very specific way: all five, along with several other players ...

LOS ANGELES — Kobe Bryant tore his right rotator cuff in the Los Angeles Lakers’ latest defeat, the club announced Thursday. Bryant injured his right shoulder in the second half of the Lakers’ loss at ...

After another NBA All-Star Weekend, the conversation remains the same as it has for years. The league needs to figure out a way to infuse life into what has become a relatively mundane weekend of ...