Jim Jackson opened up about what led to Kobe Bryant's decision to essentially remove himself from the offense after halftime ...

Smush Parker responded at length to Kobe Bryant on Thursday, defending his credentials as a basketball player while saying that Kobe was a bad teammate who never made him feel welcome on the Lakers.

Smush Parker walked into the home of his agent, Billy Ceisler, the morning after the NBA Draft and began to weep. “He was really down,” said Rodney Parker, a long-time friend of Smush’s ...

Smush Parker played for the Lakers from 2005-2007, a small fraction of Kobe Bryant’s 20-year run with the team. While Parker went on to play for the Miami Heat and Los Angeles Clippers before ...

On a crisp, gray morning the Sunday before Easter, Smush Parker is standing on the corner of Utica Avenue and Beverly Road in East Flatbush, Brooklyn, with his hand out. A decade removed from a ...

Smush Parker has never been afraid of overcoming long odds. After going undrafted out of Fordham University, he carved out a 16-year professional career. That included five years in the NBA, most ...

Smush Parker defied the odds making the NBA. He’s trying to do it again — as a referee By . Howie Kussoy. Published May 2, 2023, 2:00 p.m. ET.

Smush Parker referees a New York Corporate League basketball game at the High School of Art and Design in midtown Manhattan, New York on Monday, October 21, 2019. Expand.

Smush Parker explains what it's like to have an NBA Draft party where he went undrafted: "The disappointment was at the highest of my life at that point. Embarrassment, a little confused because I ...

Smush Parker, a former undrafted free agent guard out of Fordham, is working on making his way back to the NBA hardwood. Parker played six seasons in the NBA, including two seasons as the starting ...

Smush Parker explains what it's like to have an NBA Draft party where he went undrafted: "The disappointment was at the highest of my life at that point. Embarrassment, a little confused because I ...