Kobe Bryant on the 2008 Redeem Team and its 'Avengers' identity: "I can't speak for the rest of the guys but it was certainly mineI wanted to look at all the guards that we had a hard time playing againstand said 'you guys had fun playing when I wasn't he

if you cut Kobes all star selections all nba first team selections and all nba defensive selections in half he would still have more selections than Curry in each category Curry is no where close to passing Kobe all time

Richard Jefferson: "Somebody was saying "Man we're not gonna get Kobes Hall of Fame speech" and I was like he might have wrote that speech when he was 9 years old because that's the type of person he was, the type of focus he had."

Lakers fool the Hornets on the inbound play. Leads to a Kobe Bryant dunk in the clutch.

In their last ever meeting, Kobe Bryant hits Lebron James with a really nice pump fake and lays it in over the outstretched arms of JR Smith. (March 10, 2016)