Kobe Bryant Comments on Retirement, Speculation About Playing Overseas and More

November 20th, 2015 by Danny Webster Leave a reply »
Given the quality of his play, age and the direction of the Los Angeles Lakers, it seems logical Kobe Bryant will call it a career after this season.

It would make sense for Bryant to retire in April when the Los Angeles Lakers' season, his 20th in the NBA, will likely come to an end. Bryant is non-committal about retirement, though when ESPN.com's Marc Stein brought up the possibility of playing overseas after his time in the NBA, Bryant said it's not in his plans:

Kobe Bryant has made it clear he doesn't know for sure yet if this is going to be his final NBA season, even if it sure looked that way on his recent stops in Brooklyn, New York and Dallas, when Bryant seemed to be soaking in every last ounce of the experience in his potential last stop in each of those cities.

What does seem clear, though, is that the oft-floated idea of Kobe playing in, say, Italy for a season after leaving the NBA is not in his thinking at the moment. In a brief chat after his recent Dallas visit, Bryant told me that, at this point, he doesn't have plans to play abroad when he finally sheds the purple and gold, be it after this season or beyond.

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