Struggling Kobe Bryant wants to play for Team USA.
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From Tim Reynolds of NBA.com
MIAMI (AP) — Kobe Bryant sounds like someone who wants to
play beyond this season -- if only for a few months.
Bryant said Monday that he still wants to be part of the
team that USA Basketball will send to the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, a
tournament that theoretically could mark the end of his competitive basketball
career if he retires at the conclusion of this NBA season. Bryant helped the
U.S. win gold at the 2008 Beijing Games and 2012 London Games.
"It would mean the world to me to be around those
guys," Bryant said in an interview with The Associated Press. "I
think to be able to have a chance to continue the relationship that I already
have with most of those guys, talking and just kind of being around each other
and understanding that this is it, it's just us being together, that would be
fun."
Bryant is in his 20th season with the Lakers, and questions
have been rampant for some time whether this NBA year will be his last. Bryant
has suggested that he's leaning in that direction, though has stopped short of
making a true retirement announcement.
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