Oklahoma City Thunder head coach Mike Daigneault's calculated approach to basketball is perfectly summed up by the concept of ...

Baseball fans might read “Casey at the Bat.” Runners have “To an Athlete Dying Young.” Basketball star Kobe Bryant wrote an ...

For his work on the short film “Dear Basketball” based on Kobe Bryant’s retirement poem in The Players’ Tribune, he and Bryant received an Oscar for Best Animated Short Film in 2018.

by penning an emotional poem about his passion for the sport. The letter, titled "Dear Basketball," was published in The Players' Tribune. "Dear Basketball, From the moment I started rolling my ...

Bryant's animated short film "Dear Basketball" is based on the poem he wrote in 2015 when he announced his retirement from the NBA. The film was directed by Glen Keane, who created the hand-drawn ...

“Dear Basketball” is based on a poem he wrote in November 2015 to announce his retirement. The poem was published by the Players’ Tribune, a website that features first-person accounts ...

An elementary and middle school teacher in Atlanta used Bryant's "Dear Basketball" poem as a classroom assignment and a lesson on perseverance. Michael Bonner said he could tell on Monday that his ...