It seems the “sources” might have led adoring NBA fans astray. Last week there were several reports that Kobe Bryant played a pickup game with Carmelo Anthony while Melo was in LA to be wooed by the Lakers. According to Kobe, the sources are delusional and none of that ever happened.
Bryant made the statement during a news conference at UC Santa Barbara on Wednesday … when a reporter asked the L.A. Lakers superstar if he could talk about the game that allegedly took place at UCLA last weekend.
“What pickup game are you referring to?” Kobe asked the reporter … before shaking his head and denying the game ever took place.
“It seems like if I want to get sports source now, I have to — accurate sports source — I have to go to TMZ.”
Bryant explained he was in Orange County at the time of the alleged game — “I wasn’t even [at UCLA].”
It’s nice that at least one NBA superstar doesn’t mind giving us the facts.
[h/t TMZ]