The former Lakers was widely regarded as one of the toughest players in the league. Kobe Bryant was a basketball prodigy whose physical gifts were off the chart, and that was one of the big reasons ...

He’s still Kobe Bryant.’” Samuels adds that “people ... the Black Mamba up close quite like Jalen Rose. On January 22, 2006, while playing for the Raptors, Rose was given the unenviable ...

Bryant honed his killer instinct ... During his career, Kobe scored 33,643 points, with 81 of those daggers coming on January 22, 2006 in a game against the Toronto Raptors.