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# Kobe Bryant not planning to play in BIG3 league next year
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/kobe-bryant-not-planning-to-play-in-big3-league-next-year/
- Published: 2018-08-22T12:00:55.000Z
- Updated: 2024-12-04T14:05:58.000Z
- Author: Associated Press
- Tags: Community, briefs, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-11-06 12:50

Kobe Bryant won't be coming out of retirement to play in the BIG3 next year.

A spokesperson for the longtime Los Angeles Lakers star said Tuesday that Bryant isn't playing next season in the 3-on-3 league of former NBA players.

Speculation that Bryant would play had heated up earlier in the day when league co-founder and entertainment executive Jeff Kwatinetz said during the league's weekly conference call that he "did hear from a credible source yesterday that Kobe says he's playing next year."

But Molly Carter, chief marketing officer of Kobe Inc., says the NBA's No. 3 career scorer has no plans to do so.

The BIG3 wraps up its second season with the championship game on Friday in Brooklyn's Barclays Center.

Associated Press