Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Warner Bros. is producing With the 8th Pick, a film about Kobe Bryant’s near selection by the New Jersey Nets in 1996. The story ...

Shaquille O’Neal has never done things small, not on the basketball court, not in his garage, and certainly not when paying tribute to his late friend and teammate Kobe Bryant. Back in August, the ...

The Brooklyn Nets have had plenty of great players play for the franchise whether the team has been playing in New Jersey or entertaining fans in Brooklyn. Brooklyn is currently in the midst of ...

A new film centered around Kobe Bryant is coming from Warner Brothers. The movie will center around the late NBA star's draft-day journey that landed him with the Los Angeles Lakers in 1996, The ...

In the spring of 1996, the Los Angeles Clippers were looking for their next superstar, particularly one who would turn the franchise around given all the issues they were dealing with on and off the ...

'With the 8th Pick' tells the story of the New Jersey franchise trying to make moves to draft Bryant in the 1996 NBA Draft Warner Bros. Pictures has picked up the rights to the script of With the 8th ...

"What I recall is [Kobe] said 'absolutely,' and then smiled with that big million-dollar smile and said something to the effect that the [Nets would have been] good, and it wouldn't be like it is now ...

One month before the 1996 NBA Draft, the biggest decision of Kobe Bryant’s young life wasn’t made in a gym, a boardroom, or in front of television cameras. It was quietly confessed to a classmate ...

Warner Bros. is producing With the 8th Pick, a film about Kobe Bryant’s near selection by the New Jersey Nets in 1996. The story is told from the perspective of Nets general manager John Nash and ...