“They didn’t know him as Kobe Bryant, Los Angeles Lakers superstar.” Bryant had a complicated relationship with the City of Brotherly Love. His father, Joe, played for the Philadelphia ...

72nd Street in the Overbrook Park neighborhood, this residence was home to boxing icon Muhammad Ali in the early 1970s and later to the grandparents of NBA superstar Kobe Bryant. In 1970 ...

“Kobe: The Making of a Legend,” a new three-part docuseries from the CNN Originals department, is not hagiography. It is a clear-eyed look at Kobe Bryant the basketball player driven by ...

The NBA awards expansion franchises to Milwaukee and Phoenix. 1973 — George Foreman knocks out Joe Frazier in the second round in Kingston, Jamaica, to win the world heavyweight title. 1983 — Houston ...