On August 24, fans of the late great Kobe Bryant pause to the remembers the man's contirbutions to the game of basketball, and to Southern California, as the date 8/24 combines the jersey numbers Bryant wore during his career with the Los Angeles Lakers.

Frank Buckley sat down with Kobe Bryant for a conversation a year before his death. In this podcast, we revisit that conversation, along with a conversation Frank had in 2018 with Andrew Bernstein. Andrew is the NBA Hall of Fame photographer and longtime official photographer of the Lakers. He and Kobe Bryant collaborated on a book titled: The Mamba Mentality-How I Play.

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