While Samaki Walker only played two seasons with the late, great Kobe Bryant, that time was more than enough for him to know the legendary shooting guard at a deeper level. In July 2001, after joining ...

Samaki Walker first thought his son had a chance to make good on his basketball dreams during his senior year of high school in 2019-20. After watching three years of underwhelming development at a ...

Dirk Nowitzki was one of the most unconventional superstars in NBA history. A 7-foot big man who arrived in the league in 1998 as a 19-year-old phenom from Germany, he raised a lot of eyebrows, not ...

Every year we are blessed with a fresh crop of college and international prospects who sit around diligently waiting for their lives to change forever. But let's be honest, that's not the fun part of ...

LOS ANGELES - MAY 7: Samaki Walker #52 of the Los Angeles Lakers goes up against Malik Rose #31 of the San Antonio Spurs during game two of the Western Conference Semifinals during the 2002 NBA ...

The Los Angeles Lakers are keeping it all in the family as they look ahead to next season. Ryan Ward of Lakers Nation reported on Tuesday that former University of Colorado forward Jabari Walker is ...

It’s all fun and games until someone doesn’t fork over a Benjamin. Journeyman forward Samaki Walker, who spent two seasons in Los Angeles from 2001 to 2003, said superstar Kobe Bryant once ...

It didn't take much for young Kobe Bryant to give you the mitts. Standing in stark contrast to the poem-penning, sensei-meditating-amid-the-bamboo aura of Vino Bryant, the younger, dumber Kobe was ...