Kobe Bryant and legendary Disney animator ... a five-minute animated movie based on his retirement announcement poem, Dear Basketball, which was originally published in 2015.

Editor’s Note: A new series “Kobe ... creative outlet. “Dear Basketball” had only taken him a matter of moments to write, but it took months of work before the poem’s final form was ...

Kobe Bryant became an Oscar winner in ... an Oscar in 2018 for Best Animated Short for his sweet film Dear Basketball, based on a poem he wrote about the sport when announcing his retirement ...