"If you’re not a Lakers fan yet, I hope you watch this, and it makes you want to be," Bryant tells PEOPLE Natasha Dye is a writer-reporter for PEOPLE covering sports. Her previous work appears in The ...

Natalia Bryant at the 2025 Vanity Fair Oscar Party Hosted By Radhika Jones held at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on March 02, 2025 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Chad ...

Lakers legend Kobe Bryant won an Oscar Sunday night for best animated short film for his "Dear Basketball." The short was based on a poem Bryant wrote when he announced his retirement from the game.

American Basketball legend Kobe Bean Bryant is known for a successful two-decade career in the court but that may have changed after he wrote history in the film industry at the heart of Los Angeles.

LOS ANGELES (AP) Kobe Bryant's farewell poem to basketball is getting the short film treatment with some high profile talent behind it. Entitled ''Dear Basketball,'' the animated short film will be ...

Update 1/28/20: Unfortunately “Dear Basketball” was taken offline from the source where it had been shared. We will update this article when a new source becomes available. In the meantime, you can ...

Natalia Bryant is making her debut as a creative director with a short film for the Los Angeles Lakers, shared exclusively with PEOPLE Natalia included a thoughtful nod to her late father, Kobe Bryant ...

Natalia Bryant has made her debut as a creative director with a short film that features a subject matter with which she's very familiar. The 70-second piece is called "Forever Iconic: Purple and Gold ...