Tennis star shared sweet pic of herself as a baby for birthday No. 24, referring to mentor Bryant and calling it her “Kobe year.” Tennis star Naomi Osaka shared a sweet photo of herself as a baby to ...

Tennis star Naomi Osaka during a recent U.S. Open press conference shared the reason behind why she wore NBA legend Kobe Bryant's Los Angeles Lakers jersey while speaking to reporters. The conference ...

"I didn't text him that 'cause I didn't wanna feel like a loser, and now I'll never have the chance to talk to him again," Naomi Osaka said of not reaching out to Kobe Bryant Naomi Osaka is opening up ...

"It's so amazing how one person can, like, touch the hearts of so many people. I've been walking around and there's so many people with Bryant jerseys on," Osaka says of the late Bryant. Viewers may ...

The tennis pro recalled that Kobe Bryant "would text me positive things and tell me to learn from it" Benjamin VanHoose is a Staff Editor on the Movies team at PEOPLE. He has written about ...

The photo is of Osaka holding up the trophy while wearing a black No. 8 Los Angeles Lakers jersey in an empty Arthur Ashe Stadium at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. She captioned it: ...

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Following her first top-10 win in four years, Naomi Osaka honored one of the biggest influences in her career during her post-match press conference. The former world No. 1 women’s tennis star wore a ...

The conference followed Osaka's first-round win at the Grand Slam tournament in Flushing, Queens, after she bested Latvia's Jelena Ostapenko at the Louis Armstrong Stadium, marking her first win ...