A Mexican Banda Group starts playing songs dedicated to Kobe outside the Staples Center.
Haynes Los Angeles Lakers guard Russell Westbrook will come off the bench tonight in Minnesota
Physically if I could change one thing...the one thing that Michael Jordan had, some of the other players (I played with) had, is massive hands. I have big hands but their hands were huge Kobe Bryant
Mark Cuban says that the Mavericks were very close to trading for Kobe Bryant in 2007 with a package of Josh Howard Jason Terry and draft picks so close that he thought the deal was done However Lakers GM Mitch Kupchak was able to talk Kobe out of his trade request