Kobe Bryant's 2000 NBA Championship ring has been sold for a record price of $927,200 at the Goldin auction. The ring, which Bryant had gifted to his father, Joe "Jellybean" Bryant, broke the ...

John W. McDonough /Sports Illustrated via Getty A replica of Kobe Bryant's 2000 Los Angeles Lakers NBA championship ring, which he had gifted to his father, Joe “Jellybean” Bryant, is up for ...

After Kobe Bryant won his fifth NBA championship with the Los Angeles Lakers in 2010, Dwyane Wade felt the pressure to compete. He called LeBron James and convinced him to join the Miami Heat.

"Kobe's 5th ring pushed LeBron to make that call," Wade says, crediting Bryant for sparking a seismic shift in the league. The rest, as they say, is history: James won two of his four rings in ...