LA Times: Kobe spent the weekend working out at the Lakers’ practice facility in El Segundo. But don’t start pulling Bryant’s retired jersey down from the Staples Center rafters just yet. Kobe King-Hawea is a sharp-shooting 18-year-old guard from Victoria, Australia, who grew up in a household in which most of the kids were named after NBA All-Stars.

The Athletic: As the basketball has become an international game, the NBA has continued to find ways to identify the best talent. One of the critical events in that mission every year is Basketball Without Borders, an All-Star weekend event that brings together about some of the best teenagers the world has to offer.

The NBA wrapped up another successful iteration of its Basketball Without Borders Global Camp over the weekend, bringing together many of the world’s top teenage prospects and mixing them together into a development-oriented setting. A whole host of scouts and executives from all 30 NBA teams attended the three-day event, which moves each year with All-Star weekend and has become a must-scout opportunity, also including elite international girls prospects for the WNBA to evaluate.

ESPN: Last weekend’s Basketball Without Borders Global Camp in Los Angeles gave NBA executives an opportunity to evaluate 43 players from 30 countries, continuing the camp’s emergence as one of the top scouting events on the calendar thanks to the impressive talent assembled.

ESPN: The future of international basketball will come together next week in Los Angeles during All-Star Weekend as part of the fourth annual Basketball Without Borders Global Camp (BWB), a joint venture of the NBA and FIBA.